Aug 26, 2026 · 48 min · 12 segments
CEDIA Expo 2026 is almost here, and Rich Green & Michael Heiss are back with their pre-show rundown! These CEDIA legends break down everything you need to see, hear, and do at CEDIA Expo in Denver…
Michael HeissHostRich GreenHost
And I got the idea to do a pre-game and post-game show, like a baseball game or a football game or a basketball game.
But the goal of this presentation, the pre-game show and the post-game show, is Rich and I, you know, have been to way too many of these things, and every year when I go to Expo, especially there was one year towards the end of the, the show, Rich came up to me and he said, "Yo, Mike, did you see..." It happened to be just as Power.
It was the first year that they were at the show, and he said, "Did you see those guys?" I go, "No, who the Sam Hill are they?" He says, "You gotta run back in there and see that." And based on that, what the two of us decided is we didn't want that to happen to anybody else.
So the goal of the pre-game show is for us to sort of set the landscape and say, "These are the things that we kinda know or we got some inside information.
This is the stuff that you're gonna wanna see, and we recommend that you see it." And Rich's got, you know, the stuff that he's into, and I've got the stuff that I'm into, and we'll take some, you know, comments from the peanut gallery.
But the other part is the post-game show, which really is the day before the show closes.
And we'll go through the same set of, of slides, but we're gonna ask you, the attendees, what did you see, and what do you want your colleagues to the left and the right of you to know about that they might have missed? Because the last thing it, that can happen is you come home and you spent all this money, and you had a great time walking down 16th, 16th Street, but they said, "Did you see?" Fill in the blank.
And we don't want anybody to have holes, you know, palm prints in the top of their head 'cause you forgot to do that.
You know, and back in the early days, Mike and I both served on the Technology Council with, which was Mikey's brainchild, and I chaired for many years, and we built a very strong Technology Council for looking into the future, looking at technology trends globally.
We now call that, by the way, the Industry Foresight Council, and I'm gonna mention some things about that a little bit later in the podcast.
But our insights from the Technology Council, which was a global entity, we had representatives from all over the world, were pretty darn interesting.
And the stuff that I find interesting is somewhat different from what Mikey finds interesting, which is why-
And I got the idea to do a pre-game and post-game show, like a baseball game or a football game or a basketball game.
But the goal of this presentation, the pre-game show and the post-game show, is Rich and I, you know, have been to way too many of these things, and every year when I go to Expo, especially there was one year towards the end of the, the show, Rich came up to me and he said, "Yo, Mike, did you see..." It happened to be just as Power.
It was the first year that they were at the show, and he said, "Did you see those guys?" I go, "No, who the Sam Hill are they?" He says, "You gotta run back in there and see that." And based on that, what the two of us decided is we didn't want that to happen to anybody else.
So the goal of the pre-game show is for us to sort of set the landscape and say, "These are the things that we kinda know or we got some inside information.
This is the stuff that you're gonna wanna see, and we recommend that you see it." And Rich's got, you know, the stuff that he's into, and I've got the stuff that I'm into, and we'll take some, you know, comments from the peanut gallery.
But the other part is the post-game show, which really is the day before the show closes.
And we'll go through the same set of, of slides, but we're gonna ask you, the attendees, what did you see, and what do you want your colleagues to the left and the right of you to know about that they might have missed? Because the last thing it, that can happen is you come home and you spent all this money, and you had a great time walking down 16th, 16th Street, but they said, "Did you see?" Fill in the blank.
And we don't want anybody to have holes, you know, palm prints in the top of their head 'cause you forgot to do that.
You know, and back in the early days, Mike and I both served on the Technology Council with, which was Mikey's brainchild, and I chaired for many years, and we built a very strong Technology Council for looking into the future, looking at technology trends globally.
We now call that, by the way, the Industry Foresight Council, and I'm gonna mention some things about that a little bit later in the podcast.
But our insights from the Technology Council, which was a global entity, we had representatives from all over the world, were pretty darn interesting.
And the stuff that I find interesting is somewhat different from what Mikey finds interesting, which is why-
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