Top 5 Reasons to Attend Avid Connect & Join the Avid Customer Association

Avid Blogs by Keli Callaghan

This is the fourth of a seven-part blog series about the Avid Customer Association (ACA), a comprehensive initiative designed to provide essential strategic leadership to the media industry, and Avid Connect, the inaugural event of the ACA.

With Avid Connect only five weeks away, we’re busy putting the final details into place for this inaugural event of the Avid Customer Association (ACA). Taking place April 4-6 (prior to NAB) at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Avid Connect has something to offer everyone in the media industry, no matter your profession?with a packed agenda, engaging educational sessions and celebrity entertainment, you won’t want to miss this truly memorable event.

Regardless of your background, industry segment, and business model, there will be unique takeaways for all attendees.

Here’s a quick breakdown of just a few of the top reasons you’ll want to join us at Avid Connect.

1 - First Time for Everything
You only have one chance to be part of something the very first time it happens! This year, the inaugural year for the ACA’s Avid Connect event, will be one of a kind. Industry experts and leaders from more than 40 countries are joining us in setting the stage for the ACA, focusing on industry issues, understanding where we stand as an industry, and sharing in a vision for where we can and should be in the future. Regardless of your background, industry segment and business model, there will be unique takeaways for all attendees.

2 - Industry Insights and Best Practices
Networking, keynote speakers and Vegas-style entertainment aside, valuable learning sessions will take place throughout Avid Connect. Independent research firms will share their industry insight and teachings, technology partners will showcase their latest plug-ins, and Avid and partners will cover large scale deployment success stories. The most anticipated educational sessions we’ve announced are Video Everywhere, Audio Everywhere and Broadcast Everywhere. Here are some highlights of what you’ll learn at those sessions: read more...