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MEET EVAN WILLIAMS CEO, RIVERVIEW SYSTEMS GROUP WHAT’S THE FOCUS FOR RIVERVIEW SYSTEMS GROUP IN 2016? Riverview’s focus in 2016 is to further our creative services offerings in the medical devices live event markets. WHAT’S A FUN FACT ABOUT RIVERVIEW SYSTEMS GROUP? Riverview’s CEO, Evan Williams, is a friend of our current President, Barack Obama, and graduated from high school with him in 1979. WHAT ARE SOME TRENDS RIVERVIEW SYSTEMS GROUP IS SEEING AND HOW DO THEY AFFECT YOUR INDUSTRY? Here are a few trends that we’re seeing. LED technology: As LED light sources get brighter and more consistent, it won’t be long before our lighting inventory, both automated and conventional, will all be LED-based. ETC just released their retrofit LED engine for the Source 4 Ellipsoidal spotlight, the industry standard in conventional profile fixtures, and while it’s not as bright as we would all like it to be, yet, it’s a welcome solution to convert our vast inventory of Source 4’s to LED technology sooner than later. I expect that by 2018 sometime, our entire lighting inventory, numbering some 800 units, will all be LED driven. While the price of admission to upgrade the inventory to all-LED is still quite expensive, there is a tremendous economy for the exhibitor when using these sources. Event Execution: For clients, great concepts are one thing but executing is quite another. More and more, we are welcoming clients to the Riverview fold who have been referred to us by their colleagues because of our reputation for extreme execution and event satisfaction. Regularly we will get a call or an email from someone we don’t know who wants to talk about their client’s needs and how we can help them be successful.

High fiber media diet: Up until recently, the use of fiber technology to distribute signal paths has been primarily used in the IT and video disciplines, and often for permanent installation and systems integration solutions. In the last year or two at most, it has become an almost ubiquitous technology for distributing high resolution video signals long distances to projectors and LED walls, as well as transmitting hundreds of pristine audio channels via the Dante protocol and enabled hardware. Now in 2016 we see regular use of fiber networks to distribute production lighting system protocols across a whole venue to support multiple universes of DMX, RDM, and Artnet protocols. All of the disciplines use fast, efficient light pipe networks, and we now provide it all. These are just some of the trends we are seeing, but there are certainly more that have the potential to drive our business in new and exciting ways in 2016, such as increased use of mobile apps that tie into events, multi-channel live streaming to global audiences and increasingly more conceptual/ creative service demands. HOW DOES RIVERVIEW SYSTEMS GROUP’S MISSION ALIGN WITH HCEA? We support HCEA members’ desire to produce impactful events and trade shows in the most costeffective manner possible. HOW IS RIVERVIEW SYSTEMS GROUP INVOLVED WITH HCEA? We have been members for a number of years, and have presented along with our customer members in breakout tracks at the annual meeting.