AVI-SPL Dubai has welcomed Abhijit Dutta as procurement manager, bringing more than 19 years of industry experience in the UAE, with more than a decade focused on AV systems integration.

Following the appointment of Tom Anstey and Aurora Harrington in June this year, event production and AV installation company Spotlight Sound is expanding again with a new hire. It means the team has increased by 50% this year as demand for its services grows.

LG Electronics has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ricoh to collaborate on technology for office environments.

Urânia Fulldome, a Brazilian company in educational technology, is transforming the way students across the country learn about astronomy through its project, “O planetário móvel vai às escolas” (The planetarium goes to schools).

Communications system specialist Clear-Com has supported the Rise Academy Summer School 2024, a series of workshops designed to immerse students in TV studio builds and live broadcast production.

Christian Czimny, industry product director from Absen, explains the benefits of the lightweight Saturn Series of LED panels, which weighs only 19kg per square metre. The high-spec panels are aimed for usage in broadcast, virtual production and XR applications.

John Halksworth, senior product manager from Adder Technology, gives a demonstration of a new plug-and-play product called AdderView Matrix. The product has been designed to make the installation of KVM as easy as possible for system integrators.

Tom Griffiths and Robert Morgan-Males from Audio-Technica detail the features of the BP3600 immersive audio microphone. It is an eight-channel mic compatible with the the MPEG-H 3D Audio codec, and is capable of capturing 3D sound at live events,on film sets and more.

Inavate EMEA editor Paul Milligan stops by the AJA Video booth to chat with Barry Goch about the launch of several new products at IBC 2024. The three products making their debut include the openGear OG-C10DA 1x9 analog distribution amplifier, a v3.0 update to openGear OG-ColorBox and a KONA IP25 I/O Card with uncompressed bi-directional SMPTE 2110 support.

Paul Milligan from Inavate chats to Chris McLendon from Vizrt on the launch of the TriCaster Vizion, the biggest and most powerful TriCaster that Vizrt has ever produced, and the launch of the TriCaster Mini S.