Security Products magazine, the only integrated product magazine reaching the entire security market, announced the winners of its 2010 New Product of the Year Award at the publication’s premiere Virtual Event today.
ASIS International presents annual seminar, exhibits in Dallas
More than 20,000 professionals from all vertical industries and government sectors -- from Fortune 100 companies to the Department of Homeland Security -- will gather in Dallas Oct. 12 to 15, for the ASIS International 56th annual seminar and exhibits. For thousands of security management professionals from around the world, and hundreds of product manufacturers and service providers, ASIS 2010 is the best place to meet peers face-to-face, share information and best practices, and discover how others are solving security challenges in today’s complex environment.
SIA, ESA and CSAA have announced this year’s recipients of two of the top honors in the security industry: Leo Guthart is to receive the George R. Lippert Memorial Award and Cecil Hogan is to be honored with the Triton Award at the Nov. 3 Tri-Association Awards Dinner in New York City.
For security practitioners and professionals from across the security industry, the ASIS International Annual Seminar and Exhibits is the one must-attend event each year.
According to findings of the 2010 ASIS International survey of the industry, compensation levels are rebounding despite the tough economy.
The ASIS Foundation, in partnership with the Brownyard Group, has re-established the W.H. Brownyard Meritorious Award. The award, first founded in 1987, is presented to an individual who performed a heroic or meritorious act in the face of adversity.
On Wednesday the Electronic Security Expo (ESX) awarded its Maximum Impact Award Recipients on its largest exhibit show floor ever.
All conference attendees are welcome to attend the NFPA Standards Forum Tuesday, June 8, to hear about the proposed “Re-Engineering of the Codes and Standards Process,” and other future changes and how NFPA is contemplating streamlining and simplifying the process.
On Tuesday, Todd Alford, marketing director - commercial business unit of System Sensor, will present “New Advances in Multi-Criteria Smoke Detection” from 12:15 – 1 p.m. in the Exhibitor Presentation Theatre. The presentation will focus on the progression of fire detection technology and how multi-criteria detection represents the next opportunity to improve fire detection accuracy.
Yes, we have some great tradeshows in the United States; the size and space used for a tradeshow counts. Expo Seguridad was held at the Banamex Center, an enormous tradeshow hall, and if it lacks anything, it has more than made up for it in the number of experienced and qualified attendees who went to the show.
Mission 500, a strictly non-profit organization partnering with World Vision and dedicated to serving the needs of children and communities in crisis, raised another $18,600 at Expo Seguridad Mexico, hosted at the Banamex convention center in Mexico City.
Expo Seguridad is growing, or so says security guru Alan Forman, president and CEO of Altronix. He knows the Expo like one of his children; he’s been at the show all eight years and is making plans for a bigger presence next year..
Security, for all intents and purposes, is a male dominated industry, or as Lucy Rivero puts it, “Mexico is full of machos.” But make no mistake, Lucy is security south of the U.S. border.
Company officials are understandably excited about the news of acquiring analytics manufacturer ioimage earlier this year, but the bigger news of the acquisition is that DVTel will now bring the solution to market in Mexico and Latin America.
Every tradeshow has its unique selling points; some call it the secret sauce. I call it wearing out a pair of shoes while working the floor. Expo Seguridad is no different. It may not be a huge tradeshow floor, but there are plenty of interesting people to talk to. Nevermind the language barrier, selling security products seems to be the common denominator.
I ran across a product here in Mexico City that actually made its debut at ISC West. Digiop, an Indianapolis-based video intelligence software company, introduced a design that was built in collaboration with Dell. That’s right, Dell, the computer giant.
ROC-NFPA LLC, producers of NFPA Mexico Fire Expo have formed an agreement with Giprex Mexico, producers of Expo Seguridad Mexico, to collocate these two important events in 2010 and beyond.
Security Products is trying something new this year: I will be reporting live from Expo Seguridad Mexico in Mexico City, and we’re glad that you will be a part of our first venture into security south of the border.
The inaugural Security 5K/Mission 500 Charity Run in Las Vegas on the second day of ISC West raised more than $30,000 to benefit Mission 500, a charitable organization engaging security professionals to sponsor children in need through the World Vision organization.
A full week after ISC West came to a close, neither my Las Vegas-induced head cold nor the excitement of the tradeshow has receded. The three days were a blur of new products and news announcements, press events and the cramped show floor.