ISC West to Provide New Educational Opportunities, Peeks at Technology
The conference portion opens Tuesday, March 23, and has been broken into six tracks, providing focused areas for dealers and integrators, central stations and IT/IP professionals, among other segments of the security industry. Featured courses include the new Signature Series, a collection of high-profile, hot-topic presentations; PSA-TEC@ISC, two technical sessions provided by PSA Security Network and PSA-TEC; and the IP Institute, two day-long sessions providing in-depth IP convergence training on complete integrated security solutions — video, access control, storage and more.
Part of the Signature Series is the State of the Industry presentation, a two-part session to be held Wednesday and open to all attendees and exhibitors. The first part, a roundtable discussion featuring key industry leaders, will analyze current and future industry trends and describe what they mean for the many demographics of the security industry. Sandy Jones, principle consultant of Sandra Jones and Company moderates. Speakers include Ed Bonifas, vice president of Aurora, Ill.-based Alarm Detection Systems Inc. and president of the CSAA; Bill Bozeman, president and CEO of PSA Security Network; Richard Chace, CEO and executive director of the Security Industry Association, and Lynn Mattice, chairman of the executive board of advisors for the Security Executive Council. The discussion begins at 9 a.m.