A pile of charred rubble? A high-stakes card game? A floating baseball? A stampede of gazelle? Coffee and.. butterflies? It was all under one roof in Frederick, Maryland, at the Noventri Show 2009 on October 29th.

High profile attendees enjoyed lively seminars were presented by William Clemm II, Assistant Director of Operations at Morgan State University; Bud O’Connor, Director of Engineering at Newseum, and Jim Oehler, Product Manager for Harris Punctuate. Also presenting was our very own Vice President, Andrew Hoffman, who spoke on Simple Signage.

The showroom floor was aglow with brilliant and creative digital signage deployments and offered hands-on demonstrations that addressed a wide range of industries. Attendees could enter various themed exhibits, including a Zoo-based exhibit complete with bamboo, tree frogs, and tribal music, a World-War II themed museum exhibit with shrapnel, sandbags and on-screen dropping bombs, a casino-themed exhibit showcasing our touch-screen interactive Noventri Commander, and a miniature hotel room exhibit with an interactive Innview screen. There was even a fire alarm pull that attendees could use at any time to change every single display in the room to an emergency screen! We were disappointed to see that nobody screamed and ran out of the room.

For those of you that missed our show, we’ve uploaded some photos below so you can get a look at the show exhibits. You can also click here to view the NBC 25 story covering our show!

Finally, we’d like to thank Marilyn Orsinger with the Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center for being incredibly pleasant. We could not have asked fora more helpful and friendly person!

In our first video interview, Andrew Hoffman talks with Lyle Bunn of BUNN Co. about Harris Punctuate. Harris announced Punctuate at the Digital Signage Expo 2009 in Las Vegas.

Developed by Harris Corp., Punctuate is a suite of flexible, Web-based tools that enable automatic targeting of precise messages to specific signs across a multipoint out-of-home network. Punctuate can tag signs with attributes and point a message directly to a group of displays based on similar attributes across the network.

Contact Wil Conklin or Andrew Hoffman at Noventri for more information about Punctuate.

Lyle Bunn is widely recognized as a leading figure in North America’s Dynamic Digital Signage industry. Lyle has contributed to the planning of many of the largest signage networks in North America.