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Gunnar Kyvik
Business Segment Lead – Meeting & Conferencing, EMEA, Sharp / NEC

Gunnar is focused on developing both hardware and software solutions alongside commercial strategies surrounding Sharp/NEC’s portfolio of products in the EMEA region. One of the major challenges that Gunnar is addressing is the rapidly evolving demand for workflow digitisation in the corporate space, a trend which has been accelerated by the Coronavirus crisis.
Before taking the Business Segment Lead role, Gunnar worked as Business Development Manager for NEC across EMEA, and prior to this as part of the NEC Nordic team as Channel Sales Manager.

Session:
Human, not machine: as workflow patterns shift, how do we balance productivity with well-being?

Jayne Cox
Director of human wellbeing and free-range consultancy, Fusion Spaces span>

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Human, not machine: as workflow patterns shift, how do we balance productivity with well-being?

Fraser Park
VP Strategic Alliances, UK&I and APAC, Huddly

Session:
Human, not machine: as workflow patterns shift, how do we balance productivity with well-being?

Greg Jeffreys
Director & Consultant, Visual Displays Limited

Greg is director of Visual Displays Limited (VDL), experts in displays and all aspects of projection, including projection in high ambient light. The VDL team originates from Paradigm AV (founded 1988). Greg was founder and CEO of Simulation Displays Ltd, until its sale 2014.
Greg is a specialist consultant: on AV and related standards; projection and projected displays; immersive displays; meeting room and VC lighting; integrated meeting room design. He measures, certifies and troubleshoots systems against standards, including AVIXA/ANSI PISCR (projected image quality) and DISCAS (image size, resolution, viewing distances and angles, content size guidance).
In 2002 Greg was appointed as visiting lecturer to UMIST, writing the module on projected displays for a post-graduate MSc. He sat on the InfoComm board 2008 - 2013, serving as President in 2012. Greg is active in the Standards movement; serving as lead writer on PISCR ANSI Standard on projected images and moderator for the ANSI/InfoComm Standard DISCAS task group. He is currently engaged in AVIXA’s forthcoming UX standard and developing meeting room design IP. Since 2020 Greg chairs AVIXA’s Standards Steering Committee.
In 2015, Greg received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Installation magazine and in 2020 the Outstanding Contribution Award in the AV Technology Awards, particularly for his webinars teaching standards since the pandemic lockdown began. He teaches and presents internationally.

Session:
Standards 101

Chris Jay
Training and Curriculum Development, Crestron Europe

Chris Has worked in AV his entire working life, working for an AV installation company for 15 years before joining Crestron as technical support and trainer 16 years ago, he is now a full-time trainer for Crestron Europe based in the UK.

Session:
Introduction to Networking for AV

Alberto Herrero
Head of International Sales, DENEVA

Alberto Herrero is Head of International Development at DENEVA, a Digital Signage company based in Spain, with more than 25 years in the industry.
Alberto is a specialist in the development of digital experiences, providing consulting and advisory services and accompanying clients in the implementation of the solutions that best suit the client's needs.

Session:
How to Create Immersive Experiences Through Digital Signage

Lieven Bertier
Segment Marketing Director Workplace, Barco

An experienced B2B marketer, Lieven has worked across multiple marketing disciplines in the technology industry. Since 2014 he has been part of Barco’s ClickShare team, responsible for all strategic marketing activities. He strongly believes in user experience, and is convinced that the way people work together is the number one competitive advantage for companies in today’s dynamic world. Lieven loves a good story, and always starts from user research to reflect on the role of technology and collaboration in the workplace.

Session:
The true meaning of Hybrid: a massive power shift in the workplace

Laura Mills
Segment Marketing Manager Workplace, Barco

Laura has held a variety of marketing roles in the technology industry and brings experience from both B2B and B2C practices. Having recently joined Barco’s ClickShare team, she focuses on customer demands and regional market trends within EMEA. Laura has an insatiable interest in workplace cultural change and draws on a decade of personal hybrid and remote working best-practice. She is constantly curious about the future of work and derives inspiration from collaborating with teams that transcend “cultures, time-zones and departments” to deliver customers with the experiences that fuel competitive advantage.

Session:
The true meaning of Hybrid: a massive power shift in the workplace

Ed Jackson
HARMAN Manager Applications Team, EMEA

Ed Jackson is the manager of the Applications Team and started working for HARMAN in 2013. He specialises in touring equipment supporting the JBL VTX systems and Soundcraft consoles. With Harman, he has been the lead system engineer on shows including Radiohead, Maroon 5, Foo Fighters and Guns and Roses. Before HARMAN, Ed worked as UK National Technical Lead for the Academy Music Group and Live Nation, designing and managing venues, and working on shows including Eminem, Kiss and The Prodigy.

Session:
Understanding Specification Sheets

Steven Ellis
HARMAN Lead Applications Engineer

Steven started his career as a Theatre Sound Technician where he learned all the necessary skills to be successful in the many varied types of theatre production, ranging from small Plays, to large world-class Musical Productions. He worked for many years as a FOH mixing Engineer in London’s West End and on numerous tours, as well as some Broadcast work and DVD productions.
He has worked extensively in the installation industry working as a designer, integrator, and wiring engineer on projects ranging from small classrooms to 90k capacity Football Stadiums. His breadth of industry knowledge in multiple vertical markets has served him well since starting work at Harman in 2015.

Session:
Understanding Specification Sheets

Ross Brett
HARMAN Principal Application Engineer

Ross has worked in the audio industry for 20+ years. He started his career providing sound reinforcement for major European sporting events, and later progressed as an installation and commissioning engineer. He has worked on prolific large venue installation projects such as The O2 Arena and Olympic Velodrome, installing large-scale performance systems that also acted as compliant voice evacuation systems.
Ross joined Harman in 2012 where he now utilises his expertise and knowledge to fulfil his role as a Principal Application Engineer focussed toward large venue installations.

Session:
Understanding Specification Sheets

Christer Lidberg
CTS | HARMAN Senior Applications Engineer

Christer Lidberg has a broad 30+ years’ experience in the Pro AV market, ranging from service & installation technician through various roles in system design and sales as a long time Harman distributor, specializing in professional installed audio systems and networked AV. Joining Harman in 2017 as a part of the EMEA Applications Engineering team, Christer is a certified Harman Professional trainer and an AVIXA CTS badge holder.

Session:
Understanding Specification Sheets

Ben Todd
HARMAN Senior Applications Engineer

Ben Todd is the most recent addition to the Harman EMEA Apps team. Ben joined having spent nearly a decade at Harman’s UK distributor Sound Technology where he headed up the technical team. Ben’s focus on system design found him working across projects of all types, from stadia to music venues and from cathedrals to post-production studios.
Having studied music at university Ben started his professional career installing studio complexes and live sound engineering where an enthusiasm for delivering projects that work optimally for the client is what got him started and is still his primary motivator today.

Session:
Understanding Specification Sheets

Manel Mercadal
HARMAN Senior Applications Engineer

Manel started his early professional career in Barcelona as a Live Sound Engineer and has worked for the main Spanish and UK broadcasters in the Broadcast Engineering industry for 25 years including Operations, Support and Projects engineering.
Manel ran his own consultancy firm until joining Harman 5 years ago as the Studer pre-sales engineer. Manel is now a Harman Professional Senior Applications Engineer.

Session:
Understanding Specification Sheets

Simon Hayes
Meeting Space and Collaboration Specialist, Sharp / NEC

As a specialist in meeting room and collaboration solutions, Simon is pivotal in steering Sharp/NEC’s leading position in this important growing market. Simon is primarily focused on the company’s global enterprise customers where businesses are looking to provide a consistent user experience across their estate.
Before joining Sharp/NEC in February 2020, Simon worked for SMART Technologies where he gained a full understanding of customer need and what is driving demand in the collaboration space.

Session:
Human, not machine: as workflow patterns shift, how do we balance productivity with well-being?