About this episode

Colin Birney discusses his journey in the AV industry and the importance of managed services.

James King and Steve Greenblatt welcome Colin Birney, Co-Founder and Manager of Consulting Services at AV MSP and Vice President and Treasurer at AV Trust, to discuss his AV journey and the value of managed services in the AV industry. Colin Birney can be found on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-birney/. He can also be found at AV MSP https://av-msp.com and AV Trust https://avtrust.org. 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, and be sure to include #AskTheProgrammer. The Ask The Programmer podcast can be found at @AVProgrammerPod on X/Twitter or on Bluesky as @asktheprogrammer.

People in this episode

Hosts: James King, Steve Greenblatt

Guest: Colin Birney

Topics covered

• AV industry
• managed services
• consulting
• technology
• audio-visual

Keywords

• AV MSP
• managed services
• Colin Birney
• AV Trust
• Control Concepts

Sponsors

Control Concepts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AV MSP, AV Trust, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Bluesky

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