Llanor Alleyne

VentureBeat • July 22 2022

Intuit and Canva: How Custom Bots and Workflows Help Employees be More Productive

Properly connecting data and people can exponentially improve how meaningful work is done. A custom bot that made a service team 36% faster and saved agents over 9,000 hours of work did so for Intuit because the right data was used to create it. Canva’s finance team built a workflow that saves it over 64 hours of work each week. This video chat between Llanor Alleyne and Slack's Steve Wood shares best practices for using data to approach automation in ways that are designed to scale human interaction and organizations to empower people to turn noise into productivity.

VentureBeat • July 22 2022

Walgreens Boots Alliance: Using data and insights to transform the customer experience

In a video chat between Llanor Alleyne, executive editor at VentureBeat, and Mike Maresca, chief technology officer at WBA, during VentureBeat’s Transform 2022 virtual conference, Maresca describes how WBA relies heavily on its extensive global presence in the retail, pharmacy and healthcare sectors.

IT Business Edge • July 30 2021

Crestron and the Equity of Experience in New Workplace Models

As we emerge from the life- and business-altering COVID-19 pandemic, how and where we work has also undergone rapid transformation, we spoke with Crestron’s Vice President of UC Enterprise Andrew Gross about how the company approached product development in the face of accelerated digital transformation.

AVNation • July 6 2020

Integrator Interview: Cory's AV's Brad Poarch

The CEO of the OKC production firm opens up about how the AV integration arm of the business has grown and how he and his team plan to emerge stronger than ever after the pandemic.

AVNation • June 26 2020

In Conversation with Sony’s Rich Ventura

The new Vice President of B2B at Sony’s Imaging Products and Solutions Professional Division talks new job, the evolution of digital signage and the role of our industry organizations to keep AV thriving.

AVNation • June 22 2020

Mike Blackman confident in live staging of ISE 2021

The managing director of Integrated Systems Europe tells AVNation that careful planning and shared experiences with AVIXA and other industry trade show organizations support a successful live staging of ISE 2021 in Barcelona.

AVNation • June 11 2020

Dave Labuskes: IC20 is the time to bring virtual engagement into the physical space

In the run up to InfoComm 2020 Connected, AVIXA’s CEO talks with AVNation about how the virtual show underscores what AV integration is all about.

AVNation • May 19 2020

Steve Durkee's First Day as Legrand AV President

Steve Durkee sits down with AVNation a few hours into his new tenure to outline his vision for the company.

AVNation • May 8 2020

Integrator Interview: Southtown AV’s Heather Sidorowicz

The president and owner of the Hamburg, New York, integration company takes us down her road to success.

Digital Signage Magazine • March 19 2019

Road to DSE 2019: Interview with Andrea Varrone

Digital Signage Expo is one of the highlights of the digital signage calendar year. Taking place at the Las Vegas Center from March 26-29 this year, show organizers have been keen to highlight the more than 250 vendors that are scheduled to unveil new products and programs as well as the impressive lineup of education events geared toward digital signage experts and customers. We spoke with DSE’s Show Director Andrea Varrone about how the show has developed over its 16-year history.

Installation Europe • October 24 2018

Staying One Step Ahead of the AV Competition

RGB Spectrum is leading a renaissance in visual information management. The company’s CEO talks to Llanor Alleyne about the industry evolutions that keep innovation at the top of its priorities.

HIddenWires • September 13 2016

Interview: Vin Bruno, CEO of CEDIA

CEDIA CEO Vin Bruno has been on the job for one year and will see the fruits of some his labor at this week's upcoming CEDIA Expo in Dallas. Bruno talks with HiddenWires about his role in shaping this year's theme and what we should expect on the show floor.

HIddenWires • September 8 2016

Brand Focus on Control4 with Paul Williams

Paul Williams, Vice President of solutions for Control4, joined the company nearly 13 years ago when it was just in its infancy. Starting out as Control4’s Vice President of Operations in 2004, Williams is currently charged with heading up product management and R&D efforts for the brand’s lighting, HVAC, AV, security, and communications product lines and solutions.

HIddenWires • August 2 2016

ISE's Mike Blackman on the Marriage of AV and IT

Last year, Integrated Systems Europe’s Managing Director Mike Blackman predicted even bigger things for ISE 2016, including more space, more exhibitors, and an attendance to surpass the 50,000 that walked the RAI in 2015.

HIddenWires • February 19 2016

Brand Focus: Mitchell Klein of The Z-Wave Alliance

Mitchell Klein joined the Z-Wave Alliance as executive director in September 2015 with more than 30 years of experience in the CE and smart home industries. As the director of business development for Universal Remote Control for eight years, Klein was a key member of the senior team that grew URC from a remote control company to a smart home integration system supplier to the CEDIA channel.

HIddenWires • January 22 2016

Brand Focus: Beale Street Audio's Mark Cichowski

Beale Street Audio’s Executive Director Mark Cichowski, whose career is approaching 40 years in the AV industry, talks with HiddenWires about the company’s unique go-to market strategy, the technology driving Beale Street’s audio design, and why it is was important to burst out of the gate at world-record speed.

HIddenWires • January 22 2016

Brand Focus: Origin Acoustics's Jeremy Burkhardt

Previously the creative brain behind the popular SpeakerCraft brand, Burkhardt “retired” in 2012, but few of us thought he would remain so for long.

HIddenWires • January 22 2016

Brand Focus: Steve Muccini of Ihij

Steve Muccini, director of marketing for remote management services company Ihiji, has more than 20 years experience driving strategy and marketing initiatives for technology-based B2B companies.

HIddenWires • January 22 2016

Brand Focus: Pulse Eight's Martin Ellis

Based in Poole, Dorset, in the south of England, Pulse Eight is a relatively new brand on the custom home integration scene. Headed by Martin Ellis, the company initially launched to sell a remote control and has evolved over the past five years to manufacturing video matrix solutions.

HIddenWires • January 22 2016

In the Field: Nick Caripis of BNC Technology

HiddenWires talks with Nick Caripis, Founder and Managing Director of BNC Technology in Johannesburg, South Africa.

HIddenWires • December 3 2015

Brand Focus: CEDIA EMEA's Chairman Kris Hogg

Kris Hogg, Chairman of CEDIA EMEA, will tell you himself that his approach to business is both pragmatic and no-nonsense.An integrator that moved from installing Sun Microsystems in the early ‘00s to stepping into custom integration by using his home as a test bed, Hogg is a familiar and respected figure in our industry.

HIddenWires • March 12 2015

In the Field: Stuart Burgess of Just Add Popcorn

HiddenWires talks with Stuart Burgess of UK-based integration firm Just Add Popcorn.

HIddenWires • February 19 2015

Deutsche Telekom's Jon Carter Believes the Connected Home is Nigh

Jon Carter, Deutsche Telekom’s UK Head of Business Development, Connected Home, comes from a background filled with innovation. In 2001, while at mobile phone company, Orange he led an R&D initiative to build a demonstrable vision of a future home. The successful project was ahead of its time with connected bath taps, curtains and door locks as well as a voice-activated control system. Fourteen years on, Carter is working to bring that once radical concept to full and widespread fruition.

Residential Systems • August 29 2013

Chris McLaughlin Sees Customer Service as the Saving Grace of Custom Integration

One of 15 children, Chris McLaughlin spent his childhood between Greenwich, CT, and North Carolina. Excited about model building, drawing, and taking things apart, he would often spend hours alone in his room with Legos or a book.