Training & education: Hitting the books

• Features

• 07/06/2017

Hurrairah bin Sohail examines the merits of training and education in the Asia Pacific region and what steps can be taken to ensure that AV professionals continue devoting time to improve their qualifications.

The speed at which technology moves forward means that you have to be pro-active in staying up-to-date with the latest product developments.

Kaushik Mukhopadhyay, managing director and CEO of IAV in India, says: “Training is a very integral part of our organisation and we run a comprehensive internal training program for all our employees.”

InfoComm International is one of the bodies that provides a wide range of business and technical training and education to the AV community. Jonathan Seller, senior director of development, Asia Pacific at InfoComm International, says: “InfoComm started offering training in the Asia Pacific region in Sydney, Australia in 1997. In 2001, we held our fi rst classes in Asia in Singapore. Since then we’ve trained thousands of people through our traditional three day classroom format focusing on the essentials of AV, AV system design and installation and more recently networking for AV professionals.”

The training and education offerings have continued to evolve. Seller adds: “In recent times, however, it’s been difficult to get access to AV professionals for three days at a time, and this has driven the creation of very successful short format programs on a broad spectrum of topics. Our one-day classes on install skills and design principles have proved very popular. More recently we have introduced our ‘FlashTrack’ programs at InfoComm trade shows [ISE in the Netherlands and Integrate in Australia]. These have proven to be highly effective and effi cient. In 20 minutes, you can come and learn industry insight from respected subject matter experts and be on your way to the next meeting.”

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