The latest exhibitors to sign up include Robe, Neutrik USA, Navigator Systems, Event Safety Alliance, Harrington Hoists, Cosmic Truss, Absen American, Rental Pointe Software, LSC Lighting Systems, and Luminex.
Five new sessions have been added to the PLASA Focus: Nashville 2014 Professional Development Program, a two-day programme of free educational seminars and workshops running alongside the event.
Access Anywhere: Rope Access, Fall Protection and Rescue will be presented by Impact Access and TES Inc. Hugh Biggle will explain how modern rope access equipment, techniques, and training can be combined to produce an exceptionally safe, versatile, efficient and cost effective way to solve vertical access problems.
In To Led or not LED? That is the Question representatives from the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas will explore LED options and discuss the methods that can be used to integrate solid-state lighting with existing equipment and infrastructures, and hands on orientation will be on offer.
In Remote Device Management (RDM) for the Busy Technician, Richard Cadena, technical editor for Lighting&Sound America, Protocol and Lighting&Sound International, will give an update on the developments in Remote Device Management and explain how it can make your job easier, quicker and safer.
Representatives from Electronic Theatre Controls will discuss and demonstrate their approach to LEDs, specifically as a tool for stage and studio lighting, in Layers of Light. The session will include a comparison between ETC's seven-colour LED arrays and more common RGB arrays, and the latest white light LEDs and colour-variable white light LED arrays will also be demonstrated.
In Exploring LED Lighting Tom Stanziano, regional sales manager for Philips Entertainment will explore the current LED offerings of the Vari-Lite, Showline and Selecon brands.
For further information on these sessions and the others taking place, visitors should go to the PLASA Focus: Nashville website; www.plasafocus.com/nashville/seminars. Visitors need to register for their free ticket in order to sign up for the sessions they wish to attend.
All show visitors are eligible to receive a discounted admission price to the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum, one of the top attractions in the heart of downtown Nashville. To take up this offer visitors need to show their PLASA Focus: Nashville visitor badge upon arrival.
(Jim Evans)
