LG Business Solutions USA recently hosted a day-long partner and customer event at its Chicago Business Innovation Center (BIC). The LG “Innovember Fest” brought together over 120 attendees from a broad range of vertical channels to experience LG’s latest business solutions across an array of product categories and hear directly from technology partners about how their solutions interface with and complement LG’s expanding solutions portfolio.
Dave Bacher, marketing head, LG Business Solutions USA, said: “The Chicago LG Business Innovation Center (BIC), like our BICs in California and New Jersey, is designed for precisely this kind of customer and partner experience. The Innovember Fest may be the first time we brought together so many customers and partners from across all the verticals we serve for a productive day of education, connection and entertainment at a BIC, but it certainly won’t be the last time we do. Everyone who participated came away from the experience better informed about each other’s technologies and, more importantly, how their offerings complement those by LG.”
Featured LG ecosystem partners included Balance Box, BrightSign, ChromeOS, Crestron, Jabra, Kokomo24/7, Legrand AV, Logitech, Mago, Melitron, Navori Labs, Peerless-AV, Q-SYS, rp Visual Solutions, Salamander Designs, SAVI Controls, TSI Touch, Uniguest, Userful, and Vizetto.
Featured speakers included Richard Vecchiarello, senior pre-sales engineer at Uniguest; David Zindler, sales manager at Uniguest; Peter Freudenberger, Global ChromeOS Flex customer engineering lead; Collin Boggs, national solutions manager at Legrand; Gina Schneider, regional sales manager at Peerless AV; Justin Rosado, solutions liaison, consultants-architects at Peerless AV, and Jason Baez, director, Central Region at Q-SYS.
Presentations included rp Visual Solutions on “Stabilised ADA Compliance,” Kokomo24/7 on “Integrated Technology Solutions for School Safety,” Uniguest on “Delivering IPTV + Digital Signage Solutions Across All Verticals,” Google ChromeOS on “Google ChromeOS and LG: Better Together,” Legrand AV on “Legrand AV Solutions,” Peerless AV on “Foundation First: How Mounting Solutions Shape Superior Digital Display Performance,” and Q-Sys on “Q-Sys Vision Suite – Intelligent Presenter Tracking.”
Dozens of end-user customers, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, from many of the vertical markets served by LG Business Solutions attended and participated in the event.
Bacher said: “It was thrilling to see so many retail, hospitality, higher education, K-12, corporate, sports and entertainment, systems integration, distribution, banking, tradeshows and marketing customers all come together to share their stories with one another and with the LG team. We all learned a great deal that will help us to better serve our customers in the future.”
Enhanced and expanded in the past year, the 5,500sqft Chicago LG BIC showcases more than 100 of LG’s latest commercial products and serves as the epicentre of business solutions customer engagement in the Midwest and for partners across the country.
