LAS VEGAS — With an extra hour courtesy of Daylight Saving Time, there’s more than enough extra time this week for anyone who hasn’t yet reserved their seat at the 2013 Parnelli Awards dinner, set for the Mirage in Las Vegas Nov. 23, to do so. But hurry — when all the seats are taken, it will be difficult to persuade anyone to let you sit on their lap for the duration of the show.
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ROZNOV POD RADHOSTEM, Czech Republic — Robe Lighting s.r.o. named industry veteran Bob Schacherl CEO of its U.S.-based operation, Robe Lighting Inc. Schacherl served as a partner at High End Systems from its early days in the mid-1980s through late 2000. After that, he joined Philips Entertainment, serving as global sales director when his retirement from that company was announced in March 2013. Schacherl is pictured here (center) with Robe s.r.o.’s sales director, Harry von den Stemmen (left) and Robe Lighting s.r.o.’s CEO Josef Valchar (right).
Read More »ATLANTA — Backbone International, which worked with SFX Entertainment and ID&T to create an American version of ID&T’s standout Tomorrowland EDM festival in Boom, Belgium, had spent months preparing for the inaugural TomorrowWorld EDM festival to take place in Chattahoochee Hills, GA, outside Atlanta, from Sept. 26-29.
Read More »BURNABY, British Columbia, Canada — Litepanels kicked off its seven-stop Sola and Inca 12 Roadshow on Nov. 1 with a first stop at Whites Digital Sales and Service here. The roadshow will continue at the following cities: Boston, MA (Nov. 5), Alexandria, VA (Nov. 7), Miami, FL (Nov. 14), Burbank, CA (Nov. 18), New York, NY (Nov 25), Toronto, Canada (Nov. 26).
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Laserworld announced that it has released its a new high performance network interface for Phoenix Showcontroller. Laserworld developed the high performance network card, which Laserworld calls MicroNet Slim, in parallel to the enhancements Pangolin has been making to Phoenix Showcontroller, which Pangolin acquired earlier this year.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand — The owners of the luxury yacht Genevieve approached Entertainment Lighting Solutions (ELS), based here, to provide solutions on how to “warm up” their interior lighting and reprogram the current control system on the yacht. An ETC Unison Paradigm system was chosen to handle lighting control.
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LONDON — Foreground, based in Shenzhen, China, named Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire U.K.-based EMTO, headed by Wes Matthews, as a UK and European distributor for LimboLED and MamboLED LED screen displays. The agreement was confirmed at PLASA here last month. Pictured here are, from left, Ko Su Piow, director, Foreground; Wes Matthews, MD of EMTO; and Clifford Rickman, director, Foreground.
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