About this episode

The episode discusses the changes in AV programming over the last decade with guest Dan Ferrisi.

James King and Steve Greenblatt welcome back guest moderator Dan Ferrisi, Group Director of Content + Editorial, Industrial + Tech at Emerald, to share his commitment to and investment in the AV industry and pose the question: How has AV programming or a programmer’s job become easier or harder over the last 10 years? Dan Ferrisi can be reached on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-ferrisi-55675a7/), CommercialIntegrator.com, Securitysales.com, CEPro.com, and the Demand Gen report. Be sure to also check out Dan's previous appearances in episodes 269, 253, 254, 237, 236, 212, 213, 200, 199, 182, 181, 173, 174, 124, and 125. This podcast is supported by Control Concepts, the industry leader in AV software development and API integration. Control Concepts develops the building blocks programmers use to seamlessly integrate products or add functionality to their systems. To learn more, visit controlconcepts.net and ccisupported.net. To join the conversation or have your question answered on a future episode, join the Ask The Programmer group on LinkedIn and post a message, leave a comment, or reach out to us @AV_JamesKing or @stevegreenblatt on LinkedIn, X/Twitter, or Bluesky…

People in this episode

Hosts: James King, Steve Greenblatt

Guest: Dan Ferrisi

Topics covered

• AV programming
• technology changes
• industry investment
• programmer's job
• last decade

Keywords

• AV programming
• technology
• Dan Ferrisi
• industry changes
• programmer's job

Sponsors

Control Concepts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CommercialIntegrator.com, Securitysales.com, CEPro.com, Demand Gen report

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