Everything’s relative. That’s how a humongous affair such as the NAB Show New York can come off like an intimate dinner party. It’s practically a pop-up compared with the National Association of Broadcasters’s older expo for media, entertainment and telecom professionals, the NAB Show in Las Vegas every April.
Held six months apart, New York’s version (October 18-19) nonetheless packs nearly 9,000 attendees and 362 exhibitors in the Jacob Javitz Convention Center for two days of educational workshops, technology sneak peeks and idea swaps with industry trendsetters. NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith justly boasts it’s “one of the fastest growing trade shows in the country.”
Topics range from television, film and satellite to online video, live events and advertising, with corporate A/V, production and post rounding out the lineup. This year NAB NY shares its digs with the Audio Engineering Society’s East Coast convention (October 18-21), giving gearheads a chance to delve deeper into audio recording and post-production. Continue reading here:
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