When I was named a Women in Consumer Technology Woman to Watch in 2021, I was the Director of Business Development and Sales at Admit One Home Systems. I had only been in the consumer technology industry for a few years and was still learning where I could make the biggest impact. At the time,…
By Kat Wheeler I went to my first CEDIA in 2005. I am still going. That should tell you everything you need to know about what this show is. It is not just a trade show. It is a reunion, a classroom, a design showroom, and a very good reason to be in Denver in…
I have known Joaquin Rivera for twenty years. Twenty years of him telling me, with complete confidence and zero doubt, that you could have a legitimate movie theater in your own home. Twenty years of me nodding politely and thinking, sure, buddy. I finally believe him. This week I flew out to Gardena for a…
SEO to GEO: A Case Study in What Shapes Your Content Strategy For twenty years, “are we visible” meant one thing: where do we rank on Google. That question hasn’t gone away, but it’s no longer the only one that matters. Buyers are increasingly asking AI platforms directly, and AI answers get built from an…
From Building Relationships to Creating Experiences Reflections from a 2023 Women in Consumer Technology Woman to Watch on growth, listening, and leading beyond recognition. JoAnn Arcenal | Director, Customer Experience, Crestron If you had asked me three years ago what fulfillment looked like in my career, I probably would have described a packed travel schedule,…
What the World Cup Taught Us About Sponsorship, Strategy, and Getting Remembered You might look at the World Cup and think it has nothing to do with your business. Fair enough. But strip away the soccer, the stadiums, and the billions of global viewers, and what you have is an event. A very large, very…
Every year, the same thing happens. The calendar flips to July and a collective shrug ripples through the business world. Inboxes go quiet. Out-of-office replies stack up. Decision-makers disappear to somewhere with better weather and worse WiFi. The general consensus is that nothing meaningful gets done until September. That consensus is wrong. And if you’re…
InfoComm 2026: Vegas, Verified, and Very Worth It Carol Campbell, Co-Publisher, Technology Designer Magazine Let’s just get this out of the way: Las Vegas in June is not for the faint of heart. The heat is aggressively personal. The convention center is enormous. And yet, every year, somewhere between the moment I land and the…
Care More: Lessons from My Career in Consumer Tech Four lessons that have shaped my career and the thread that runs through all of them. By Danielle Karr, Executive Vice President of Marketing, Origin Acoustics In 2020, when I was named a Women in Consumer Technology Woman to Watch, I thought my career was about…
InfoComm 2026 is a week away. Which means right now, somewhere in this industry, someone is booking flights, confirming booth details, sending seventeen Slack messages about logistics, and absolutely not thinking about the fact that they are going to walk 40,000 steps across a convention center floor and will have zero places to sit. That…
