On September 14&15 Scala welcomed 322 attendees from 42 countries to its 11th annual International Scala Conference. This is a new attendance record. All attendees were dedicated Digital Signage professionals, either through their link to Scala, their own business operations or their experience in publishing on digital signage.
During this 2 day event visitors gathered valuable signage insights by listening to a wealth of top industry speakers and experienced the versatility of the Scala software during presentations on 17 top digital signage installations.
The Digital Signage Arena was another key feature of ISC 2011, offering the opportunity to view the latest product developments of the following leading companies in the digital signage arena: HP, Intel, NEC, Adder, AOpen, Christie, Datapath, DOBIT, Canvys, IAdea, iBASE, Mdina Media, mediaVue, Nexcom, Panphonics, Peerless, Pufferfish Step4Media and StreamAlot.
An important part of the conference is the announcement of 4 prestigious awards. At the end of day 1 Scala announced the winners of the 2010-2011 Scala Partner Awards:
SEEN MEDIA (Germany) won the award for “Most Scala Players Deployed”,
DOBIT (Belgium) won the award for “Best Newcomer”,
and JBTec Digital Signage (Brazil) won the award for attracting the “Most New Customers”.
During the entire event, content of pre-selected content providers was displayed and all conference attendees could vote once for selecting the best content of their choice. At the end of day 2 it was announced that Newroom Media gathered the most votes and they received the award for Best Content 2010-2011.