Podcast appearances and mentions of aria hotel

In this week's episode I brought back an old favorite. I preview a single hotel breaking down its restaurant, nightlife and hotel room offering and explain why I love it or hate it. Today I previewed the Aria Hotel & Casino and my opinion might surprise you. 

Did you go? If not…these were the themes, of the 3-day event, between apartment operators, investors, investment sales brokers and lenders. This nationwide conference had optimism in multifamily for the long term…but continued challenges (higher interest rates, higher cap rates, and the lack of distressed assets coming to the market) for the shorter term. 1. NMHC Meeting Overview: The meeting was held at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas, attended by around 10-12,000 people from various sectors of the multifamily industry. 2. Market Sentiment: Despite challenges, there is optimism about the fundamentals of apartment ownership and investing improving. The sentiment among brokers is more optimistic than among operators. 3. Class A and C Properties: Class A properties are in high demand, while Class C properties are currently out of favor. There is limited availability of properties on the market, and the bid-ask spread remains wide. 4. Interest Rates and Financing: Interest rates are expected to stay higher, but there is some expectation of rate cuts in the future. Banks are starting to open up to lending again after a period of tightening. 5. Distressed Properties: There is some distress in the market, particularly among properties financed with bridge loans. However, the overall percentage of distressed properties is relatively small. 6. Dallas-Fort Worth Market: The Dallas-Fort Worth market is highly favored, with strong fundamentals and high demand. 7. Future Outlook: Michael & James believe that the market will improve, with rent growth expected to return and supply issues easing. They suggest that now might be a good time to consider buying multifamily properties. New apartment supply is coming down rapidly and rental growth is coming back after 138 consecutive weeks of year-over-year decline. 8. Events and Networking: The Old Capital Bus Tour is on March 28th and a virtual Old Capital speaker series on February 5th are upcoming events for networking and learning more about the multifamily market. RSVP to OldCapitalPodcast.com Overall, the discussion highlights cautious optimism in the multifamily housing market, with a focus on strategic buying and navigating current challenges. Are you interested in learning more about how Multifamily Syndications work? Please visit SPIADVISORY.COM to understand more about Michael Becker's Real Estate Syndication business.

The BanterThe Guys talk about the 20th anniversary of the wine film Sideways and its impact on the industry. The ConversationThe Restaurant Guys talk with chef and television personality Judy Joo. Judy strives to make Korean food accessible and educates the naive on the wonders of the cuisine. and marvels at its metamorphosis.  The Inside TrackThe Guys get acquainted with Judy and find they all share a passion for their life's work.“Just like with you guys, if you're in this industry it's absolutely crazy! You have to inherently love it cause it's tough. It's really tough,” Judy Joo on The Restaurant Guys Podcast 2024BioJudy Joo grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Columbia University. After some time in banking, she switched careers and attended The French Culinary Institute for Pastry Arts. Later, she moved to London where she worked at several of Gordon Ramsey's restaurants. In 2015, Joo opened up her own restaurant in London called Jinjuu in Soho, London, which expanded to three locations. She left the Jinjuu brand in 2019 and then opened a fast casual concept, Seoul Bird in 2020 in London. In 2021 she opened another location in Canary Wharf and then in the Aria Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas in 2022 and in Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York in 2023.Joo was one of the four Iron Chefs on the cooking show Iron Chef UK, making her the first female Iron Chef in the United Kingdom and the second globally. She was a resident judge on season four of the Food Network show The Next Iron Chef, and Kitchen Inferno. She hosted Korean Food Made Simple. InfoJudy Joohttps://www.judyjoo.com/Judy's latest book (available for pre-order)K-Quick: Korean Food in 30 Minutes or LessJudy Joo's home kitchenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1ADfkG4yrMThe New Zoo Review (TV show from Mark's childhood)https://youtu.be/dwJQ6G7Z_II?feature=sharedOur Sponsors The Heldrich Hotel & Conference Centerhttps://www.theheldrich.com/ Magyar Bankhttps://www.magbank.com/ Withum Accountinghttps://www.withum.com/ Our Places Stage Left Steakhttps://www.stageleft.com/ Catherine Lombardi Restauranthttps://www.catherinelombardi.com/ Stage Left Wineshophttps://www.stageleftwineshop.com/ To hear more about food, wine and the finer things in life:https://www.instagram.com/restaurantguyspodcast/https://www.facebook.com/restaurantguysReach Out to The Guys!TheGuys@restaurantguyspodcast.com**Become a Restaurant Guys Regular and get two bonus episodes per month, bonus content and Regulars Only events.**Click Below! https://www.buzzsprout.com/2401692/subscribe

Fort Alexandra Budapest új dívája, aki az Aria Hotel közönségkedvenc fellépője. Alexandra nemrég mutatta be debütáló dalát, amely a “Reach for The Stars” címet viseli. Ez az alkotás egy önismereti utazás betetőzése, amelyben az énekesnő hitvallása és a zene iránti szenvedélye tükröződik. Alexandra mesél a pesti éjszakák varázsáról, a belvárosi közönségről és arról az útról, amely egy álomból valósággá formálta az énekesi karrierjét.A Sláger FM-en minden este 22 órakor a kultúráé a főszerep S. Miller András az egyik oldalon, a másikon pedig a térség kiemelkedő színházi kulturális, zenei szcena résztvevői Egy óra Budapest és Pest megye aktuális kult történeteivel. Sláger KULT – A természetes emberi hangok műsora.

Send us a textWe interview the WWE undisputed champion Cody Rhodes, who shares his excitement about WrestleMania 41 coming to Las Vegas in April. Plus, LIV Las Vegas at Fontainebleau is expanding already! We also have the New Year's lineup of DJs and information about 2025's casting call auditions. Plus, an adults-only mini-golf club at Mandalay Bay opens in November, we have more details about "Swingers." And, the Delano is changing over to the W Hotel. Details about a free interactive exhibit by Mercedes at the Aria Hotel. David Blaine adds more shows at Wynn Las Vegas. Boyz II Men singing Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix National Anthem.Call LevelUp Law at 855-LevelUp or visit  LevelUpLaw.comVegasNearMe AppIf it's fun to do or see, it's on VegasNearMe. The only app you'll need to navigate Las Vegas. Support the showFollow us on Instagram: @vegas.revealedFollow us on Twitter: @vegasrevealedFollow us on TikTok: @vegas.revealedWebsite: Vegas-Revealed.com

On this episode of The Unafraid Show, George Wrighster welcomes viewers from Las Vegas, Nevada, the site of Super Bowl LVIII. Speaking of Las Vegas, George weighs in on the Raiders decision to give Antonio Pierce the full time gig as head coach of the Silver and Black, and dubs Pierce "Death Row Dan Campbell." In this week's interview segment, George welcomes former Pro Bowl defensive lineman, former ESPN and Fox Sports commentator, and current host of Never Shut Up on Brinx.TV, Marcellus Wiley @marcelluswileydatdude ). Wiley talks to George about his decision to leave traditional sports talk TV behind, why he doesn't feel qualified to criticize elite athletes like Justin Herbert, his experience and aims as a father in a blended family, his wife's casting on Real Housewives, and more! After a Lunch Break at Proper Eats at the Aria Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, George welcomes Marcellus Wiley back for a round of Wrighster or Wrong. With the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, and sports betting officially hitting the mainstream, George welcomes Stormy Buonantony, Las Vegas native, ESPN/XFL sideline reporter, and host of Lombardi Line on  @VSiNLive  to The Unafraid Show. George talks to Stormy about her deep roots in the sports betting and handicapping scene, a beginner's guide to wagering and prop bets, and what it's like to be a woman on the sports handicapping beat. In this week's Let That Sink In segment, George uses Black History Month to teach viewers a lesson on the surprisingly recent history of black Quarterbacks, who did the heavy lifting to create opportunities for today's black quarterbacks to just be... quarterbacks. #superbowl #marcelluswiley #lasvegasraiders #raidernation #sportsbetting #blackquarterbacks #blackhistorymonth #lasvegas #speakforyourself #antoniopierce See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An embezzlement scheme at Aria Hotel costs MGM $770,000, an accounting firm apologizes for paying a staffer below minimum wage, problems with Workday ERP implementations for state and local governments, a spike in accounting enrollment at Purdue University, and tax migration trends between high-tax and low-tax states.SponsorsOnPay - http://accountingpodcast.promo/onpay Zoho - http://accountingpodcast.promo/zoho Keeper - https://cloudaccountingpodcast.promo/keeperChapters (00:59) - Clarence Thomas and a questionable RV loan (07:03) - Trump trial updates (10:35) - Allen Weisselberg accused of perjury by Forbes (12:38) - Earmark presents a "Federal Tax Updates" webinar on the IRS withdrawal process for ERC claims (14:08) - The complicated way the IRS wants you to complete this process (17:32) - Do Millenials use voice assistants to pay bills? (19:33) - We got a new 5-star review! (21:39) - Roblox and forcing remote workers back to the office (24:58) - Checking in on the live chat (26:07) - Data shows people are relocating to states with lower taxes (29:48) - Liberty Tax loses suit against Better Call Saul (32:27) - All your bank feeds are about to break (33:06) - $770,000 embezzlement at the Aria in Vegas (36:18) - Maryland Department of Health lost track of over $1 billion in COVID funds (37:38) - The City of Baltimore blames Worday for AR problem (42:27) - Grant Thornton apologizes for paying trainee below minimum wage (46:31) - Latest AICPA MAP survey shows no gain in starting accountants' salaries (50:51) - Purdue University sees spike in accounting enrollment (55:02) - Seton Hall launches new master's program in accounting and analytics (57:13) - Thanks for listening!  Show NotesClarence Thomas Didn't Fully Repay $267,230 Loan for Luxury Motor Home, Senate Report Says - WSJhttps://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/clarence-thomas-didnt-fully-repay-267-230-loan-for-luxury-motor-home-senate-report-says-4651d23f?st=3z9ga4dwlcgci2c Accounting firm apologises for paying trainee below minimum wagehttps://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2023/10/pay-for-trainee-accountants Audit of Maryland Health Department finds $1.4 billion accounting lapse - The Washington Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/10/25/maryland-health-department-audit-accounting-lapse/ Justice Thomas's R.V. 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We had to jump in with all the cocktail waitresses and nightclub hosts and finally try the Las Vegas staple... Catch at the Aria Hotel & Casino. The night that Ed Sheeran was suppose to perform at Allegiant Stadium me and some friends made a last minute decision to try out Catch and see what the fuss was all about. Give it a listen and see what I thought for my first time at the Hollywood export. You can see what I had at the social channels below: Instagram: @conciegeconfidential_lv TikTok: @KeystoVegas Youtube: Concierge Confidential Twitter: @KeystoVegas

Today, we're taking you on an exciting journey to the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas for the highly anticipated second annual Jolt Financial Advisor Marketing Conference by Snappy Kraken, from May 3 - 5, 2023.This episode is extra special because it's divided into two parts. In the first half, we'll treat you to a series of live, on-the-spot interviews from the conference's opening party, co-sponsored by Intention.ly, a growth marketing consultancy for Fintech and Fiserv companies.  The second half features a replay from our personal branding panel.  Part 1: Live Interviews Aaron Klein, NitrogenSteph Bogan, Limitless AdvisorGibson Bosworth, RFG AdvisoryDiana Cabrices, Diana Cabrices ConsultingFrancesca McLin, Snappy KrakenSheryl Hickerson, Females & FinanceJulie Johnson, XY CommunicationsMary Kay Glick, Carson GroupJohnny Swift, Impact CommunicationsDominic DeAndrea, Dandara Wealth ManagementDavid Coyle, AdvisorEngineJohnny Sanquist, Three Crowns MarketingPart 2: Personal Branding Panel (Replay)The lively and engaging discussion focuses on how to make authentic, genuine, and profitable connections on social media. The panelists include: Sheryl Hickerson, CEO of Females & FinanceLindsay Gladstone, VP of Marketing at Snappy KrakenKian Salehizadeh, VP of Finance at LPL Financial Tina Powell, Chief Growth Officer, Intention.ly

Jan Korta, director of sales and marketing for the Aria Hotel in Prague's Lesser Town, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report about his unique boutique property located just below Prague Castle and steps from the famed Charles Bridge. Korta details how each suite in the hotel has a musical theme ranging from classical to jazz and beyond. He also showcases the hotel's great restaurant and its rooftop. For more information, visit www.ariahotel.net. If interested, the original video of this podcast can be found on the Insider Travel Report Youtube channel or by searching for the podcast's title on Youtube.

We had a chance to sit down with the dynamic duo Dustin & Kimmi Robertson, the Brand Manager and Creative Director at Realty ONE Group.  We shed some light on what it takes to plan and brand an entire event like ONE Summit, but also the inspiration behind the incredible designs and projects they create.

We're talking all things Summit, Realty ONE Group's annual event at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, NV.  Get insider information and start building your excitement for what is guaranteed to be ONE unforgettable event!

Part 2 starts with a bang with Berkley and Liv telling us that Berkley's date comes to the hotel room and ignores them at first and starts slamming doors and then texts them that the private jet is NOT going to stop in Dallas in the morning anymore. The girls say that they are outraged by his P...Y Behavior and Berkley goes to handle the situation in person which only leads him to have a total and complete meltdown, screaming, cussing and throwing things at her. They absolutely will not be treated this way and Liv arranges to get one of the beautiful Sky Suites at Aria Hotel through their great friend Brandon who comes to their rescue. They are living their best life when Berkley's date suddenly texts and calls to beg them to come back but they had more fun without him and refuse. The next morning he texts them trying to do the right thing and take them back on the private jet to Dallas since he brought them there but they want nothing to do with him. They really did not appreciate how he treated them at all.They decide to stay another night in Las Vegas and party it up some more. They buy their own plane tickets home and refuse to take his money. They decide to get chaotically housewives day drunk which leads Berkley to get on Instagram Live and blast him and some other Dallas guys naming names and everything. She has what she calls a spiral and she was letting loose. She blasts him about leaving her in Vegas, her other ex for locking her in a garage etc. etc. She has no filter at this time. When the guy sees the live he panics and starts sending them voice notes for 2 hours thinking that those go undetected not realizing that they are screen recording everything. Then they start singing the song "MONEY CAN'T BUY YOU CLASS" by the beautiful Housewife of New York Countess Luann De Lesseps. That sent him over the edge.They happily took their Southwest flight back to Dallas and never spoke to him again. They still cannot believe how mean he was to them and say he is lucky that they did not retaliate. We talk about different subjects and learn what time traveling is in the party scene.Then the girls say that going on the private jet, the suites, dinners, clubs etc isn't as glamourous as it looks and sometimes you have to sell your soul to ride on that private jet. We talk about the new trend Dudes wearing pearl necklaces and what does it mean. We discuss that swingers use upside down pineapples as their sign to attract other like minded individuals. And to end the show with a bang Gino has some major crazy tea about Marcella and Berkley's ex boyfriend. You definitley do not want to miss this show. WOW

Guest: Elijah Langston with Aria Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas | Ted's Hospitality Minute with Ted Kelly of Interserv Maintenance Management Solutions

It's all about kings in this week's episode. From King Charles III to The King (Elvis) performing at Elizabeth's vow renewal ceremony in Las Vegas, we're talking royalty. And Sin City.Radiant BadassChris Martin, Creativity CoachThe Aria, Las VegasArea 15The Graceland ChapelTaylor Hawkins Tribute Concert - Wembley

Zoodealio is taking a trip to Vegas! Join us at Inman Connect Las Vegas 2021 at the Aria Hotel. Meet us at booth #115 and get to know the Zoodealio team and what we're all about! From October 26 - 28. Come along as Kala pitched Zoodealio at the 2021 Inman Pitch Battle & joins a panel to talk technology and advancements in the real estate industry and space.

Eugene Remm is the co-founder of Catch Hospitality Group, which owns and operates several high-end restaurants based in New York, LA, Las Vegas, and Playa Del Carmen. In 2016, Eugene co-founded Rumble Boxing which has quickly become one of the fastest-growing fitness concepts in America with 14 locations nationwide.During our conversation, we talk about everything from Eugene’s upbringing and moving to New York at age 2 from the former Soviet Union, his college days and early career and the valuable lessons he’s picked up along the way, his thoughts on management vs. leadership, the founding stories of Catch and Rumble, what advice he would give his 18-year-old self if he was just getting his career started, and much more.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER & STAY UPDATED > http://bit.ly/tfh-newsletterFOLLOW TFH ON INSTAGRAM > http://www.instagram.com/thefounderhourFOLLOW TFH ON TWITTER > http://www.twitter.com/thefounderhourINTERESTED IN BECOMING A SPONSOR? EMAIL US > partnerships@thefounderhour.com

Johanna tells us about her experience coaching JLo for the movie Hustlers and Super Bowl. She coached JLo for the famous pole dancing scenes in Hustlers and she also choreographed the Super Bowl pole dancing section. Joanna and Johanna met years ago. When Joanna hosted her first dance showcase, Johanna performed at her show. And now they have come together after 20+ years to talk about everything they have been working on since then. In this episode you will learn about:The steps that Johanna took to become the spectacular dancer she is.How things come full circle in life.How you can be happier by taking away the word “perfection” from your self development.The behind the scenes experiences working with JLo and traveling to multiple locations non stop.Embracing every experience and people you meet throughout your dance journey. Favorite Quote: “Perfection is a unicorn, it’s not real” Johanna gives you the behind the scenes of teaching a pop artist and how much traveling she had to do to be present at all times with her client. About Johanna:Johanna Sapakie’s passion for dance and love for choreography have always played animportant role in her life. Her diligent work ethic and dedication to the craft have gotten her far in the ever-expanding world of entertainment. While coming from a strong ballet background, Johanna is an athletic aerialist and dancer schooled in a variety of forms including contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, tap, modern, partnering, point work and aerial & pole acrobatics. She was trained from a very young age and has worked with such master teachers as Joe Tremaine, Debbie Allen, Liz Imperio, Marguerite Derricks, Wade Robson and Savion Glover. More recently, on the performance side of her career, Johanna has been involved in many projects on stage and on camera including the newest Cirque Du Soleil shows in Las Vegas Michael Jackson ONE with Jamie King and Viva ELVIS with Vincent Paterson, Super Bowl LIV with Jennifer Lopez, Dancing With the Stars, the Arabesque Festival at the Kennedy Center, "One Love..." with Franco Dragone, Songs of Soul and Inspiration with, among others, Debbie Allen, Queen Latifah and Chaka Khan, MEIFF with Otis Salid, The Mexican Billboard Awards with Liz Imperio, Miss USA, The MTV Movie Awards, New Year’s Eve Live at Mandalay Bay, the first animated ringtone for "Boom di Boom di", the lead female pole acrobat in That Rogue Romeo’s music video "Domino", Jazz Dance World Congress, The Professional Dancers’ Society Benefit with Dick Van Dyke, Steps In Time for Disney’s California Adventure, Mental Head Circus with Terry Beeman, the Hysterica Dance Company with Bubba Carr, NY’s Performance Outlet with Dee Caspary, Gucci, Redken, Volvo and Tarbell Realty industrials, a featured female aerialist in Argentum Silvereye, photography for the Dance Resource Center and much more. Johanna has been a member of Liz Imperio’s Instincts Live Media Dance Company which has toured throughout the U.S. and Europe and Mark Meismer‘s Evolution Dance Company. As an artistic director and choreographer, Ms. Sapakie has worked on the re-release of Michael Jackson’s “Blood on the Dance Floor” music video, So You Think You Can Dance, Splendor for Franco Dragone, the major motion picture Hustlers and the music video “Medicine” for Jennifer Lopez, Miley Cyrus: Live in Concert, A Choreographers’ Showcase for Cirque Du Soleil, The Gioi Tinh Yeu with ASIA Music Group, Michael Jackson: A Tribute to the King of Pop and Michael Jackson at B.B. King’s Club, Jean Ann Ryan cruise lines, Viva Los Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium with the cast of tv’s Q’viva, the Upper Manhattan Lounge, Jazz Dance L.A., promotional showcases for EMI recording artists, choreography for professional dance companies, studios and schools around the world and much more. Also, Johanna has been an associate choreographer for Madonna: The Confessions Tour and Madonna: The Reinvention Tour, the Michael Jackson ONE birthday celebration for Cirque Du Soleil, Q'Viva: The Chosen with Jamie King for Fox and Univision, Latin on Ice for NBC, Your Mama Don't Dance for Lifetime Television, Filippa Giordano: The Prima Donna Tour, Premio Lo Nuestro, the Latin Grammy Awards, the feature film Dus, industrials, burlesque shows, animated ringtones, showcases and performances for recording artists Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Sheryl Crow, Olga Tañon, Aventura, Jenni Rivera, Los Tigres Del Norte and routines for the Los Angeles Clippers, to name a few. Along with performing and choreographing, Johanna takes much pride in her teaching. While always trying to expand her horizons, she teaches all forms of dance including contemporary, jazz, lyrical, ballet, hip-hop and tap. She has taught at studios all around the world for children and adults of all levels and abilities. Johanna also enjoyed teaching as part of the LADF family for many years and has guest taught at many other conventions. She has shared her knowledge and love for dance often at Edge Performing Arts Center and The Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Los Angeles and The Rock Center for Dance in Las Vegas, as well as many other places.  Johanna is also an accomplished aerial acrobat and performs on many different apparatus including tissú, lyra, spans, hammock, acro pole, and cube. Additionally, Ms. Sapakie performs a one-of-a-kind aerial dance act on an apparatus specially conceptualized and designed by Johanna herself called a double helix. She has performed and taught her aerial skills all over North and South America and the Middle East. She also was an integral member of the creation team of female acrobats for a unique spin pole act in Viva ELVIS and a one of a kind solo curved acro pole act in Michael Jackson ONE, both by Cirque Du Soleil. Follow Johanna:InstagramFacebookPole Reel 5 2018Helix 2017 Pro ShowForget Her Text: ANNIVERSARY to (323) 524-9857 to view our WATCH PARTY for our 20th Anniversary Maxt Out Dance Competition online! Follow us:Learn more: Dance Your LifeLearn more: Maxt Out Dance CompetitionInstagram @maxtoutdanceMaxt Out on FacebookTikTok @maxtoutdanceSign-up for our FREE Maxt Out at Home Dance Classes!Follow Joanna:Learn more The Get Up GirlJoanna Vargas on InstagramJoanna Vargas on FacebookTikTok @joannavargasofficialOperation Underground Railroad – OURRescue.org SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST ON iTUNES, SPOTIFY AND STITCHER! You like what you hear? Leave a 5 star rating and write a review. We want to know how much you love listening to our guests.

Dos Marcos sat on bench outside the Aria Hotel and Casino to record this podcast. Yes, they were offered drugs by a passerby. In this episode, they talk about how summertime Las Vegas Market is different than winter market. What are smart retailers doing in the desert during this unique market? How can you use this time strategically to grow your business? Thank you to our headline sponsor Nationwide Marketing Group. Nationwide serves more than 5,500 retail members with tools, resources, training and technology to help their businesses grow. Be sure to sign up for Nationwide Primetime, coming up August 17-20 in New Orleans. Dos Marcos will be speaking. This event is one of the best ways to invest in your business. You will walk away inspired and ready to go big! Also, thanks to our sponsor, PureCare. PureCare designs essential elements necessary to create a healthy sleep environment. PureCare manufactures the official mattress and pillow protectors of both the National Sleep Foundation and the Woman’s Choice Award. Watch the live video of most episodes at Facebook.com/DosMarcosPodcast. Make sure and subscribe to our email to get a direct dose of Dos Marcos.

Amazon plans to split HQ2 to two cities Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities (WSJ) Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Between Long Island City, N.Y., and Arlington, Va. (NY Times) GroceryShop Recap GroceryShop is the first year of a new show focused on disruptive trends, technologies and business models in grocery & CPG that includes both established and startup CPG brands, supermarkets, c-stores, drug stores, discount stores, ecommerce players, warehouse clubs, grocerants and non-traditional grocery retailers.  The show took place October 28-31 in Las Vegas, at the Aria Hotel and Convention Center. Jason's Activities Jason interviewed Sanjiv Mehra, co-founder and CEO EOS products for a keynote fireside chat Jason moderated a panel "Evolving CPG Retailer relationships" with Constellation Brands, e.l.f. Beauty, and Fairway Market Jason moderated a panel "Using product content to build brands" with Boston Beer Company, Chobani, and The Wonderful Company Keynotes Yael Cosset, Chief Digital Officer, The Kroger Co. Andy Katz-Mayfield, Co-Founder & CEO, Harry's Sanjiv Mehra, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, eos Products Apoorva Mehta, Founder & CEO, Instacart Chieh Huang, CEO, Boxed Nina Barton, President, Global Growth, Kraft Heinz Luke Jensen, CEO, Ocado Solutions Narayan Iyengar, SVP, Digital & eCommerce, Albertsons Companies Nick Green, Co-Founder & CEO, Thrive Market Key Themes Digital Disruption of Grocery Store picking vs. Dedicated Fulfillment Center   Startup Brands vs. New products from established Companies Private Label/Owned Brands Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 150 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday, November 5th, 2018. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 150 being recorded on Monday November 5th 2018 I'm your host Jason retailgeek host Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:41] Jason welcome back Jason Scott show listeners. Jason you just recently got back from sunny and blazing hot Las Vegas Nevada for the first annual grocery store. And that's what really to see what today show is going to be is a grocery shop recap but before we jump into that we did want to cover some breaking. [1:03] Amazon news your margin is there a opportunity alright well we've been talking about this on the chauffeur about a year ago Amazon announced that they are going to look for a second headquarters that would has 50000 employees. I am if it was kind of this huge process and we're coming down to the end of it and there's two I'm confirmed reports out today, one from the Washington Post one from your times and it looks like Amazon is first of all going to split this is also not confirmed us the Wall Street Journal says Amazon's actually going to do two cities instead of one so it's kind of like HQ one and a half and hq2 and they're splitting the jobs pretty even Lisa 25,000 jobs in to eat City. The two cities that seem to be most rumored are Crystal City which is a suburb of the DC area and Northern Virginia. The other one is a suburb of New York City called Long Island City Jason what do you think about this result if it's true and how true do you think it is. Jason: [2:17] Yeah well it does sound pretty true there's a lot of rumors earlier in the week and it seem like Amazon was actively. In some cases refuting them and or scolding the leakers and they they seem completely silent about this which makes me feel like. It is on the markings pretty credible news organizations that are setting multiple sources so seems pretty credible and if it's true it. It reaffirms a lot of people's hypothesis that this was, sort of largely a marketing stunt in it it makes me feel like Seattle is actually the big winner because. Like these this would definitely would not be co-equal headquarters now that they're dividing up the jobs and I'm going to assume that that the center of gravity and most of the senior leadership are going to continue to put on in Italy live in the, in the Seattle area in this scenario. Scot: [3:18] Yeah yeah it's my Logic on this was. It never made sense to me that they could hire 50,000 people cuz to my logic is the retail part of Amazon is pretty stacked up in packs you know robots replacing humans a lot of times in the, Commerce part of Amazon so this feels like largely AWS engineers and you know it's very hard to go find 5000 much less 2000 50,000 folks that can work on AWS so so I think they started kind of come to that same conclusion the dust splitting them up and I imagine those 25,000 10 years or something. You could possibly hired that mud many AWS qualified people even in those dense text cities to to work on stuff so it'll be interesting to see how this lands. So we just wanted to cover that really quickly because it's been the source of so much speculation but we want to spend the bulk of our time tonight on grocery shop so it's Jason. I was not able to go but you went on for so how was House Las Vegas did you end up making money losing money. Jason: [4:31] I go to Las Vegas too often so I am no longer much of a wager or so I I did lose some money but I lost it spending a week in Las Vegas not at the table. Scot: [4:43] Visit your favorite Starbucks. Jason: [4:46] I did not so dedicated listeners or remember I spent like 18 days in a row in Las Vegas at the Venetian earlier this year which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy this show was at the Aria so I did not make it to the Venetian Starbucks but I I did get to reacquaint myself with a several Starbucks in the vicinity of the Aria. Scot: [5:10] Awesome so so for the the grocery shop show maybe Orient for listeners you know how this show came to be who puts it on and how did this compare to kind of shot Talk Money 20/20. Jason: [5:25] So that the show did the first year of the show is put on by the same folks. It started shoptalk and money 20/20 as you mention money 20/20 was their first show and it started at the Aria as well. And then it eventually it it felt like the show doubled in size every year and it eventually outgrew the Aria Convention Center and then had to move to the Venetian. I'm in after 3 years of growth. They actually sold the show to another event company and they started simultaneously they started the second show shop talk and Shop talk also started. At the Aria and it also doubled every year last year it outgrew the Aria and moved to the Venetian. And they this year they started to new shows or show I don't know a lot about this in the healthcare ligori and they started this show grocery shop which is all about digital grocery. [6:19] And the show started the Aria it. It felt very similar to the first year of money 20/20 or shoptalk and I mean that in a good way I feel like these guys have. Have built a pretty good template for an event so they they do a really good job of recruiting. Interesting speakers that people want to hear from and they're great digital marketers and they Market the heck out of their speakers which causes other people to want to go in network with those folks. And you know at this point kind of three or four shows into their their progression. I feel like they have a a really solid template eyes execution, did they run and you know they invite me to speak at all of them because they use caricatures of you and I feel like I'm just cost-effective because they already paid to have my character children. Scot: [7:10] I'm sure that's what it is. Jason: [7:12] Yeah I think that's my main value-add a fun fact for speakers is that they. Send you a coffee mugs with your charger on it so I have a complete collection of shop talk, money 20/20 and now grocery shop mugs that my mother-in-law has claimed so if you ever get coffee at my mother-in-law's house be prepared for the jarring image of my face and this year they upped the ante they sent us a cookie with my my characterture on the front of the cookie in frosting. Scot: [7:48] I remember I had jokingly asked one of the folks at shoptalk who does the character in the show that's her that's her most closely held Secret. Jason: [7:58] Yeah so you know what's funny about that I I believe they did say that to you if you went to an early money2020 that guy was working in a a shop a money 20/20 booth and you could stand in line to get your own character children. And eventually apparently he became so so popular and beneficial to them that they they hit him behind the scenes but like there were attendees from those first money2020 is that actually got there, their characters are drawn while they were attending the show but the big controversy among the speakers on Twitter earlier this year when the cookies went out was. Can you infect eat your own face like is that is that weird. And you know there was a lot of talk about that and I defended we solve the The Dilemma when I tweeted out a picture of my three-year-old gleefully. Diving into my face to eat it. Scot: [8:48] Eaton Trinidad face. Jason: [8:53] So more than listeners want to know about the logistics from the show but I feel like at a high level they picked a really good topic for a show I think they were hoping like a thousand people would attend in the show and they sold out the show at 2200 people which is the capacity for the the convention center they had so already. Don't be surprised if you see the show move from the Aria to the Venetian next year or I guess there is a rumor that the Aria is expanding their. Their facility so maybe maybe I'll stay in this expanded facility but it definitely felt like there there was unmet demand for folks in this industry to be able to get together and share some ideas and best practices and I feel like, a lot of people were we're excited to come people are super engaged and all the feedback I got from people on the way out of town or from from my own team after we got back was was super favorable that it was a good event and everyone wants to have a, a bigger participation next year so congratulations to the the folks at grocery shop on on doing a great job for the first year. Scot: [10:02] Awesome. Let's dig into some content first of all as mentioned you were quite busy so that I kind of thought they should have called it Jason talk so you gave the keynote and you led to panel so it was kind of go through those and sequencing and not good to some highlights of what you learned there I'll start with a keynote I saw on Twitter that a lot of people took this one picture where it looks like you were putting some lipstick on tell us about that one. Jason: [10:29] Yeah I'm a very Metropolitan dude what can I say so I feel like you're being slightly generous and calling into keynote so that it it it it was a keynote but I'm not sure I gave it so what this was a fireside chat format so I was interviewing, gentleman named Sanjeev who was one of the founders, I have this cool company that that listeners are probably familiar with that may not know called EOS products and it cos it actually is a acronym for the evolution of smooth. [11:04] And, little over 10 years ago they invented a new lip balm for women that was in this sort of round egg-shaped format in there now ubiquitous in super popular, but anyways go sort of, invented or was an early Pioneer in influencer marketing they they started out with her than affiliate program where you could earn credit and free product by getting your friends, to share EOS products on social media and back then sponsored social media was not a thing, and a bunch of celebrities sort of got in on the ACT in organically started promoting this product and so you know today the the the sort of early eye doctors of this product it was like Miley Cyrus and Kim Kardashian and and all these these people that would today would cost millions of dollars that they got to sort of endorse the product early which caused this product to, completely take off in Skyrocket so one of the the very first sort of. [12:15] Influencer viral product out there so it's interesting to talk to sanjiv about his. His experiences with that and you know I just got a chance to interview him and I I did in fact apply some some EOS lip balm during during the talk so I think that's maybe the tweet that you saw. Scot: [12:33] I can't right now in Las Vegas I never really need like chapstick type stuff but in Vegas I do the kisses so during dry out there. Jason: [12:41] I'm 100% with you I normally would not use lip balm but I do always bring ChapStick and like to Saint jeans credit like. Part of the genius of this product is whip-whip Bomb is predominately bought by women and all of the products were not very women-centric right and so they're all convenient form factors for you and I to put in our pocket but a lot of women's apparel doesn't have pockets and so these things go in purses and so they designed a product that was very well intentioned to live in a woman's purse which ironically makes it super inconvenient for guys until I had to smuggle it onto the stage because it would have look silly in my pocket. Scot: [13:20] Now that's kind of a healthcare item not something you'd find in a grocery store symbol surprise that's so am I done for this kind of had also kind of the drug stores in the whole thing and the healthcare are the the beauty category as well. Jason: [13:37] Yes I think they would characterize this is more Beauty than then Healthcare and it's it's sort of. Affordable impulse Beauty and so it is so like actually at the cash wrap and a lot of grocery stores and also drug stores and convenience stores and I do think there was some overlap I think that the show is primarily targeted at grocery which meant, a lot of the retailers that attended where Grocers but then equal or more attendees were brands that View Grocery as a super important Channel, and it just so happens that a lot of those brands also sell in, mass and and the convenience and Drug so you had a lot of the the Wakulla food and non-food cpgs and so yeah I definitely think that that many of the conversations and takeaways expanded Beyond pure grocery but grocery was sort of the epicenter. Scot: [14:42] Cool and then you're so you let that keynote you Fireside chatted that up and then you had a panel called a balding cpg retailer relationships that sounds pretty intense. Jason: [14:53] And so that panel was we had three panelists and they're talking all about the Dynamics of retailers and Brands and how they work together in a lot of the challenges in in the new world of digital marketing. You know how there's there's a lot of frustration on both sides retailers generally feel like. The brands are behind and aren't really ready to partner with the retailers digitally and retailers are asking for like a lot of support for e-commerce initiatives that Brands aren't always. Well prepared to meet so there was a lot of talk from the retail side about Heather they expire for the brands to sort of catch up. And on the brand side there's a lot of talk about like the lack of. Of data and transparency and and you know it it not feeling like an equal partnership on the part of retailers to this panel was a lot about best practices and started making that relationship work and so we had. Wingo on who's the VP of e-commerce at constellation Brands which is a well-known alcohol. [16:00] Manufacturer with a bunch of popular brands. The Wayne also had formerly been on the e-commerce team at Walgreens so he kind of talked about his experience at both places. We had that the VP of brand from Elf Cosmetics which is another affordable Beauty brand that kind of represented the brands perspective in this. In this a dynamic and elf 10 years ago started out as a direct-to-consumer brand then they they sort of got really popular and became like 90%. Wholesale and now they're starting to shift the balance again and then we had a retailer whose. A well-known Market in New York City called Fairway Market. Well known local chain with a bunch of like really high-end Gourmet products as well as a full. Call grocery store and so Jason is work there long time and talk about their overall perspective but today the portfolio he mainly owns is. Private brands for Fairway and so he talked about some of the unique Dynamics with partnering with brands on on exclusive products so that was. A good set of conversation in the audience that seem engaged and we got some nice feedback about that panel. Scot: [17:18] Did you get to the so we talked up private label then you started using the term owned products have to have you as a cut on what's what's what's the difference between the two. Jason: [17:31] Yeah they question if it's definitely one one of the themes at the show maybe we'll talk a little bit more about later but. [17:38] In general I call private label sort of this hundred-year-old practice of a retailer offering a a, more value oriented version of a national Brand Products what has the exact same product attributes as the national brand it just sold at a lower price point without the brand name on it, generally a hundred percent of the marketing for the product is simply the fact that it's on the Shelf next to the National brand so you get a headache you go to Walgreens to get Advil and on the Shelf next to Advil as well bupropion. [18:11] And it says right on the package compared to the active ingredient in Advil and it's a little cheaper right so to me that's private label and there's this show there's a lot of talk about private label and it's an important part of the mix for retailers in it obviously has an impact on profitability and there's there's a bunch of good reasons why private label is important but to me, the thing is getting more traction is this evolution of that idea, where retailers actually wants their own unique products that are different from the national brands in most cases the retailers using their intimacy with the customer to design a product that's in a gap that's not well met by the national Brands and in most cases retailers, have to learn all of the skills that the brands have in terms of building a brand and marketing and advertising it and so to me owned brands are these, all brands that just happened to be owned by a retailer versus private label are these sort of value-oriented alternatives to the National brand and there's a lot of talk about both of those at the show. Scot: [19:13] And then your last panel was called using product content to build brands. Jason: [19:20] Inside, what you're not getting a lot of practitioners at the show so there a lot of like directors and VPS that are trying to learn best practices and I'm both sides of the fence like one of the primary areas were Brands and retailers really have to work together is on this digital Shelf. [19:37] And so you know one of the ways this comes up most often is oh my god Amazon didn't used to be relevant in this category and now it's super relevant and. You know increasingly searches are shifting from Google the Amazon and so how are we going to get our products to show up in the Amazon search engine like they used to show up in the Google search engine. And once people find our products how are we going to get them to learn enough to decide to buy a product and send it alternative instead of the the that what we in e-commerce called that product detail page. You know brands are thinking of is the digital equivalent of their retail shelf and so there's a lot of conversation amongst friends about what the best practices are in content. For that digital shelf in the overwhelming majority of cases Brands create that content and then they syndicated to the retailer. To show up on all these various e-commerce sites and so there's. [20:32] Different retailers have different request and criterias and preferences about how to execute that content different brands have different philosophies about how much to invest in and what the best practices are so we had a really good rub us conversation about. Like what what some of the the best practices are and what some of the new ideas are and what some of the pros and cons are tough. The various approaches in investing in. This content to you notes or to build a brand in a in a world in which a lot of purchase decisions are are substantially digitally influence. Scot: [21:09] Are these guys struggle with just basic digital assets cuz you know in the traditional grocery store model them really had to provide much chaga tea or short long title or, all that kind of stuff. Jason: [21:24] Almost all of them have followed this way great like slow progression of maturity so when you're selling Oreos to Walmart like you you if it at the base level needed to provide about six attributes about the about the Oreos bike how many cookies were in the bag with the net weight of the bag was like what you know a basic description that could show up in ER P&B printing on the on the Shelf label in the store, it's always super simple and every brand new how to provide the six attributes that Walmart wanted as e-commerce really took off. You know Amazon Walmart ask for for 60 and increasingly more attributes about the product is a gluten-free is it you know does it have any allergens in it. You know what's all the nutrition information in the in the old world they just provided a picture of Ninja trition label to the store, now they have to provide all this data and is you alluded to a super important attribute is images and how many to take and what should they be pictures of, and is there any rich media going with that and you know any any comparison copy and they're off all of these. [22:29] Evolutions of best practices and so you know his you kind of alluded to, early on you know that's a Walmart sales guy like you know filling out an Excel spreadsheet and emailing it to his buyer at Walmart. And frankly in the early days not caring very much because. 99.9% of sales were happening through the the Walmart by owner in Bentonville and only you know .1% of the sales were happening on walmart.com and so you know. It's in the walmart.com guy with what he needs to go away. You know that rapidly evolved and you became a very meaningful part of sales very quickly and eventually retailers you know sort of used the, their store volume is leverage and said hey we're going to give you a shelf face in the store if you're not complying with all the the new digital content requirements we have and we want you to send the Kate ratings and reviews and want you to do all these other things inside of the kind of like. Sales guy hiring some company to fill out a spreadsheet turned into. These internal teams and centers of expertise creating all that content and and you know, buying or building the kind of tools that they would use for product information management in content syndication in all that and if I'm not mistaken I think Channel advisor plays this pretty significant role in in parts of that echo system for a lot of Brands as well. Scot: [23:51] Yep yep you know we talked about the capability to take your eCommerce products and, push me around and under the hood it's very similar to a set of capabilities 2 so those were the things you got to speak about and then did you tell if you were super busy between Starbucks runs applying lip balm and in all the stuff did you get a chance to go to any other talks or can you summarize some other things that we should know about. Jason: [24:26] I did I think I made it to all the Keynotes and I made it to as many of the other breakout sessions as I could and then of course there we're a couple of friends of the show former guess that were also with the show by tweeting a lot of the sessions and so is pretty funny a lot of times I was in one session you know trying to consume the content myself and I'm following like Michelle who's been on the show from euromonitor who is doing a fabulous job of what I've tweeting the. The session she was at and so so I feel like I got a pretty good feel for the overall show despite the fact that that. There and she'll like this there is a fair amount of fear of missing out that you're going to go to one session and it's going to. Not be what you hoped and and you'll miss some really good content in another. Scot: [25:14] Yeah, so what were the highlights. Jason: [25:17] So high level I kind of broke the show up into these for big themes and the biggest Theme by far is this overall digital disruption of grocery. That essentially you know grocery ad in pretty stagnant for. For a long time and that now digital shopping for groceries digital influencer sales in grocery and increasingly. Delivery and curbside pickup of grocery is gaining huge traction it's going to be a meaningful part of grocery I think emarketer publishing data that it's like. 1.3% of grocery sales right now or digital the grocery same stories e-commerce groceries growing at like 2%. But digital grocery is growing at like a 20% K Garceau. You in the next five years that 1.3% is going to be more like 3 or 4% of all Grocery and it's the overwhelming majority about growth in the grocery category so you know all the other themes and most of the content in the show is all about how Brands and retailers and consumers are responding to this, this digital disruption of the traditional grocery model. [26:34] So then the three sub themes under that that I felt like came up a lot is there's a lot of conversation and opinion and evolution of, the idea of how you get all the groceries into the grocery bag right so there's a lot of traditional grocers that own a bunch of stores. That you know feel like. [26:59] Sending professional employees to pick groceries off the shelf and put them in the bag is the most cost-effective model because it leverages all this fixed assets that the retail already have it leverages all their existing inventory it shares the inventory between, in-store customers and digital customers you know it's it's the Leverage is all these fixed assets that that that retailer already has and so you think about like what Walmart curbside pickup and Kroger curbside pickup are both. [27:30] Are both sort of in store picking models and you know most notably instacart which is now past like 3 billion dollars in sales is all sort of in-store picking in so a lot of traditional grocery all feel like that's the preferred model but then there's a lot of digital startups that have said actually that's super inefficient in the unit economics are really challenging there because in a traditional general merchandise e-commerce site you know an average you're lucky if you sell two or three items per order and so the amount of picking her order is pretty small but a typical grocery order might have 30 to 60 items in it and so the cost per item to pick is is a much bigger part of the overall cost. [28:19] Of an e-commerce order and paying people to walk around stores that are not efficiently assorted for Pickers but instead are designed for Discovery and browsing is really inefficient and so you you have dedicated digital Grocers like Fresh Direct or Peapod or a super successful digital Grocer in the UK called or Colorado that all have this model where they use dedicated automated. Grocery up fulfillment centers that are much more optimized for picking costs and in one interesting case ocado which is based in the UK is partnered with Kroger and they're there. [29:03] Opening fulfillment center using okada's technology and software in the US so Kroger is both doing store picking and there now piloting these microfilaments centers Albertsons which is like the second largest. Dedicated Grocer in the u.s. made a big announcement that they were launching micro fulfillment centers and they felt that that was a superior more cost-effective model in the long run so they're like, it's still early days but there's a lot of pros and cons on both sides in this whole whole conundrum of what's the efficient supply chain. You know when you're dealing with perishables and fresh and and you know cold chain and all these these products that have to be kept at. A particular temperature so that it was an interesting pros and cons from various practitioners around those picking models. So that was kind of something one sub theme to is this whole debate about. [30:02] New start-up Brands versus new products from existing brands in so you think about like a Harrys Razor which would be appear startup brand. Or a new product being launched by Kraft. And you know a lot of the buzz in the industry is all about these new digital native startup Brands we talked about a lot of them in general but there are also a lot of them that are in the grocery space. And get a lot of buzz but also in the grocery space are more products. That our new products that are either launched by big companies or. New products that are launched by companies that are intended to be sold through wholesale versus. Direct-to-consumer so you think about like Chobani yogurt for example like that emerged in quickly disrupted the industry and took a huge chunk of Dan and sales because, Dan and didn't you know jump on the Greek yogurt trans quick enough in Chobani like became a very big company. Shivani doesn't really focus on selling yogurt direct they sell it through all these grocery wholesalers. It's a lot of interesting discussions about the pros and cons there and like my big takeaway is. [31:16] All of these dedicated startups that are focused on direct to Consumer are making more Innovative products and they're iterating them faster and they're getting them out in the market and getting initial customer adoption much quicker. Then that the big brands are or than the wholesale distributed products are but all of them seem to hit this plateau and really struggled the scale. So I'm calling the the direct to Consumer startups really good at Innovation and product development and early launches, but the really challenging to scale in on the big side the products that they get to Market are doing much better and scaling and becoming much more significant in the marketplace, but in general are there's far fewer of them in there they're much slower to come to Market and there's in general that's innovation in them and so there's kind of this interesting thing that you had these two models that he. Each have their pros and cons and you know how do you kind of get the best of both worlds and is is that. Harry's launching is a direct-to-consumer brand and once they hit that plateau. You know they they shifted to today the majority of their sales are now wholesale then and so you know there's kind of some of those those conversations. Internet the third big trend is this whole private label owned Brands thing that we discussed earlier. [32:40] But I would say both of those Trends are becoming increasingly prominent in so you think about like all the Keynotes at the show and like Kroger, I have a huge private label it's the most successful, organic food brand in the US called Simple Truth and Kroger's grocery store in the US but in China Kroger's a brand because they're selling simple truth on Alibaba, in China we've talked a lot about boxed on this show which is an Innovative a retailer that started out selling wholesale Goods today a big chunk of all their sales are own products that they're developing. One of the founders of Thrive Market which is sort of a online version of Whole Foods in a way talked about. The overwhelming success of their own products and how you know they were differentiated in the marketplace so that that was a big Trend in those. You know I think of you up there all the key notes in a lot of the breakouts you did see them like pretty neatly fall into those three big trim. Scot: [33:43] How how do you nod out on jobs pick one so we talked a lot about delivery versus curbside was there any conclusive evidence on either of those. Jason: [33:55] No I think the jury is still out I will say like I have in a pretty flippantly run around saying hey the big winner is going to be curbside that the unit economics really don't work. For for home delivery for grocery in perishable and kind of the Reader's Digest on my Logic for that is. [34:16] General merchandise e-commerce is generally what we call a route based delivery like you get 300 orders you put them all in the UPS truck the guy drives to 300 addresses, and deliver them all and so you know each one of those delivery is paying for one 300 that trip. And the UPS driver could show up at your house or work any place within kind of a 10 hour window and deliver the goods and it would be no problem. And fresh and perishable if you order milk or you order ice cream. You need to be home exactly when that delivery arrive so that you can put those products in a refrigerator or freezer. And generally the way that that retailers have to do that for most of the country is that to do a point-based delivery which means a guy drive straight from the store or fulfillment center to your house, and now that delivery has to pay for 100% of that trip instead of one 300th and so, in general because of that the unit economics are much more favorable to curbside pickup. And curbside pickup is good enough from a convenient standpoint like a lot of families fine, super convenient to order their groceries digitally pick them up at their convenience maybe on the way home from soccer practice and they're stored in a climate controlled storage facility and they they get put in your trunk really efficiently. And that's a really high customer satisfaction experience for most consumers so. [35:40] Put all that together and curbside pickup is the big win and I still believe that's true but I got to express that point of you do some really smart operators that a bunch of these grocery stores, and and they're kind of feedback which I do take the heart is hey Jason you're probably mostly right, but you're actually under estimating the fact that the picking is way more expensive than the delivery and so you know that the unit economic problem is more around, if you if you have a really expensive pic of 30 or 60 items you then can't afford to do a point delivery, but that if you have a really efficient fulfillment center and you can get the picking cost down a low enough. You can put those deliveries on a refrigerated truck and you may not be able to do the the 300 deliveries that a UPS driver can make in a day but you still can make multiple deliveries, guarantee tight delivery windows in a climate control truck from a dedicated fulfillment center and so they were arguing that that you know maybe there's more. [36:47] Communities that have enough density to support delivery than I was originally thinking so I'm I'm starting to amend my thought process I think the clear answer is, that the world is going to have all of these delivery modalities sometimes you're going to want to go to the store and pick the stuff out yourself and that's going to be your preference sometimes you're going to want to leverage curbside pickup and other times you were going to want delivery and so you know good good retailers are going to have to figure out a way to support all those modality. Scot: [37:16] And then in the whole kind of digitally native vertical brand startup versus brands from existing companies where where did Jeanette Allen. Jason: [37:27] Yep that that is interesting so the it feels like then the. Digitally native brands have more Tools in their their tool belt to overcome, their deficiencies than the big brands do right now right like so you you go talk to the big cpgs and you talk about what their strategy is to infuse Innovation and have a you know a faster pace of new products and have product that are better suited to the consumer and you frankly get a lot of blank stares and you get a lot of. [38:03] Kind of the same unfulfilling answers that oh we're going to set up an innovation team or we're going to act as a venture capitalist in and go unifund a bunch of projects, but you know these big brands have just not demonstrated the ability to get much faster and get much more Innovative and these big brands that are exclusively selling through wholesale are fundamentally disintermediated from the customer so they do not have the customer preference data to use to design and execute new products very well and I I just haven't seen any of them you know really like, clearly articulated solution to some of those deficiencies whereas the the the native direct to Consumer products have the ability to take advantage of all of the strengths of the direct to Consumer space and when they get to the point where they kind of max out on the scale they can reach direct-to-consumer they they have the option to them in pivot to a a wholesale distribution model or a blended model or they're in a position to establish a reasonable valuation and get acquired by one of these big companies and so it, like you know why there are challenges on both sides it appears there's more ways to overcome the hurdles if you start out as a new digital native brand then there are if you start out inside of one of these these big brands at least least for now that's that's how it seems to me. Scot: [39:33] If I come pull the thread on that so we talked about so some of these grocery stores like Kroger creating their own private label or our own Brands but then if I'm a cpg it it seems like. That's another reason to go direct other than the channels kind of being complicated to navigate without a team so cpgs going director or is that just not happening in grocery. Jason: [39:57] No no no it so it's often discuss there's not a ton of success stories right and so usually when a cpg tells you about their direct-to-consumer 6s they're going to be telling you about a direct-to-consumer brand. [40:10] But they're all talking about it and frankly like I strongly advocated and I think you and I have talked. In general I feel like developing a direct-to-consumer capability and strategy needs to be an important part of every one of these Brands because if yeah. You you sort of look at this at the moment and you've got a bunch of brands, dinner depending on on wholesale retailers and you look at the retailers and they're they're super distressed and have them bunch of head winds their number one tactic for overcoming their head wins is in differentiating themselves from our our friends in Seattle or when I'm soon going to have to say our friends in, Seattle New York Virginia. Is to have exclusive products and have owned Brands and said the retailers and brands that used to be you know super synergistic have are increasingly becoming Frenemies or direct competitors and it and the retailers are frankly having a lot more success with that at the moment then the brands are so a bunch of retailers are becoming super successful at building Brands we talked about a couple in the groceries Facebook like. Yeah oh my God I target has one strike three brands that sold over a billion dollars in their first year none of the digital native brands that we talked about on the show have and have done that right and so retailers are getting successful at making. [41:39] The transition to build products, and in that world there is a left there's less shelf space for the brands in a world that's increasingly becoming have a winner-take-all you kind of imagine some future when. When you know we're all going to get the bulk of our purchases from. In Amazon Monopoly in North America or maybe a Amazon Walmart duopoly there's a lot less points of presents to carry that brand product and so. [42:07] That brand is going to lose all the leverage to the unit few set of aggregators at the top of the echo system on the less. They're also able to sell the wrecked unless they can build a relationship direct with the consumer even if it's not high volume and profitable in the short run. I feel like they need to develop the skills just so that they get some customer intimacy so they can start building more relevant faster, more agile products and I feel like they they need a lab to test and learn all this digital shelf content and all these digital best practices that we. Been talking about on Today Show so when they execute at Walmart, they're not just you know sending an image that they have no way to test and hoping it sells well in Walmart like far better to be able to test all that content on your own direct-to-consumer channel Gatorade it really quickly and then take a hero image that you know work since indicated to Walmart so for a variety of reasons I think that's an important a scale for cpgs to evolve and I would say they are they are doing that cautiously and slowly. Scot: [43:09] We haven't done it wouldn't be a Jason in the sky show that will Amazon and we recovered at the top of the show but I didn't see anyone from Amazon speaking on I may have missed that but sometimes these conferences it's funny people are avoiding talking about it and stay 800-pound gorilla in the room was was there a lot of Amazon talk to at least find the scenes. Jason: [43:31] Yeah so to my knowledge Amazon really didn't have a presence at the show which on the one hand isn't surprising but on the other hand I would say the founders of this show have actually been pretty decent at getting Amazon speakers to their other shows now admittedly the speaker's they get are the ones that you don't have the most vested interest in. In selling their products to the industry so not shocking that pay by Amazon is happy to go to money2020 and talk about their digital wallet right and not shocking that that the Amazon Marketplace when that used to be a separate and into the you know was was happy to go to shop talk and kind of Recruit new Sellers and things like that. [44:18] The but they did have the prime now folks I have spoke at several of the shop talk shows and so you might have thought they would be there, it would have been fascinating to hear from some of the Amazon Fresh people are now that you know that the folks responsible for the Amazon Whole Foods in a graichen in and none of them were publicly there I'm sure Amazon secretly had some people there but. Almost every conversation when you say digital disruption of grocery, everybody points to the same event that like there was a lot of talk about digital disrupting grocery but nobody nobody was personally experiencing it or nobody was very worried about it until the day that Amazon announced today, they purchased Whole Foods and that that really sort of Kick this whole. Disrupt digital disruption of grocery in a high gear and caused by you know almost all the people we saw speaking were people that got hired as a direct result of that acquisition. [45:19] Mom said they were definitely on everyone's mind even if they weren't there in 4 in in person. Scot: [45:26] Put in the other high like showing it. Jason: [45:29] I think those were the big ones it is interesting that this is one of the spaces that I like doesn't feel like Amazon has one yet and they actually, probably have some intrinsic disadvantages versus some of the other players so. I'm by no means prepared to say oh my gosh they're not going to win Amazon on the Rhone you know dabbled in in fresh fresh, for I want to say amazonfresh is like 10 years old right and never really got a ton of traction and then after they bought Whole Foods I've been really impressed by how fast. Amazon's been able to integrate a lot of their digital chops in a Whole Foods and then some test markets like the one I live in they have some really compelling Whole Foods delivery options and Whole Foods curbside pickup options which are great but the reality is Whole Foods is a tiny percentage of the whole grocery market and they've you know implemented these tests in a tiny percentage of the whole food so you know you look at the the folks that Walmart or Kroger is touching with digital grocery versus the amount of customers Amazon's touching and right now. Walmart and Kroger have a head start now I would argue Amazon the way faster more agile company than Walmart or Kroger and so you know I think we can expect to see Amazon continue to make up ground but it is always interesting to see see a market where Amazon probably has to try harder than some other folks if they want to win. [46:58] I don't know. What do you think. Scot: [47:00] It's going to be interesting so you know they are pushing the Whole Foods pretty hard I've noticed in my Prime now recently there they're kind of integrated Whole Foods delivery right in the prime now in her face which is used to separate set of inventory and yeah I think it's too early to call account Amazon out of any fight. Jason: [47:20] No no I I totally agree I'm so in and it's going to be fun to have a ringside seat to watch it all play out I will throw one other teas are out there we did get to talk to several of the friends of the show that have been on the show a number of times before and so shortly after this episodes available will have a couple episodes live from the grocery shop show and we will get some other folks perspectives on the show in the industry and so you know if you're if you're trying to figure out the the digital grocery space I would encourage you to look for those upcoming episodes as well and with that this is going to be a great place to rap because we have used up our allotted time so as always love to continue the conversation on Facebook if you have any questions or feel like we got something wrong we love to hear from you and as always if you love this show we sure would appreciate if you jump on the iTunes and give us that five star review that's the the biggest favor you can do for the show. Scot: [48:24] Awesome thanks everyone for joining us and thanks Jason for being our Jason Scott representative in the field in Las Vegas. Jason: [48:32] It's it's never as fun without you but you were that you were certainly there in spirit so hopefully next year we'll get to do it together and in total next time happy commercing.

Airbnb Global Head of Trust and Risk, Nick Shapiro, joins Cameron D’Ambrosi on the State of Identity to share how he builds trust between 150 million users on the worlds leading accommodation marketplace. Host: Cameron D’Ambrosi @dambrosi Guest: Nick Shapiro – Global Head of Trust and Risk, Airbnb State of Identity is brought to you by: KNOW 2019 Join us in Las Vegas for KNOW 2019, March 24-27, at the Aria Hotel! For early bird pricing and sponsorship information, visit vegas.knowconf.com. The post Building for Trust at Airbnb appeared first on One World Identity.

Uniken CEO Bimal Gandhi joins State of Identity to discuss REL-ID, Uniken’s scalable, omnichannel security platform offering strong authentication without compromising the user experience. Host: Cameron D’Ambrosi @dambrosi Guest: Bimal Gandhi, Chief Executive Officer – Uniken Links:Uniken State of Identity is brought to you by: KNOW 2019 Join us in Las Vegas for KNOW 2019, March 24-27, at the Aria Hotel! For early bird pricing and sponsorship information, visit vegas.knowconf.com. The post Uniken: Strong Authentication Made Simple appeared first on One World Identity.

Uniken CEO Bimal Gandhi joins State of Identity to discuss REL-ID, Uniken's scalable, omnichannel security platform offering strong authentication without compromising the user experience. Host: Cameron D'Ambrosi @dambrosi Guest: Bimal Gandhi, Chief Executive Officer - Uniken Links: Uniken State of Identity is brought to you by: KNOW 2019 Join us in Las Vegas for KNOW 2019, March 24-27, at the Aria Hotel! For early bird pricing and sponsorship information, visit vegas.knowconf.com.

SecureKey Chief Identity Officer Andre Boysen joins State of Identity to discuss Verified.me, Canada’s first ever digital identity network, built alongside Canada’s leading banks. Host: Cameron D’Ambrosi @dambrosi Guest: Bimal Gandhi, Chief Executive Officer – Uniken Links:Verified.me State of Identity is brought to you by: KNOW 2019 Join us in Las Vegas for KNOW 2019, March 24-27, at the Aria Hotel! For early bird pricing and sponsorship information, visit vegas.knowconf.com. The post Verified.me, Canada’s Digital Identity Network appeared first on One World Identity.

AOTB Top 5 - Episode 24 September 24, 2018 1. Fall 2018 - World Crypto Con to be held in Vegas at the Aria Hotel from October 31 - November 2. Described on their website as "global stage for industry leaders to share their projects and technologies with thousands of investors, experts, developers, businesses and attendees who are using blockchain and cryptocurrency to redefine our everyday lives." Will be a hackathon, eRacing (racetrack and flight simulator competition); "Token Tank," blockchain poker. 10 year anniversary party for release of Satoshi whitepaper. Live gallery experience with crypto artist and filmmaker, Vesa. "Beyond Moon" video clip. Promoted art "Reset to 11" - worth a look. worldcryptocon.com/ https://worldcryptocon.com/more/crypto-art/ 2. August 31, 2018 "CryptoKitties to ‘Bring Blockchain to Life’ in New Art Exhibit" article by Jonathan Kim. September 1, 2018 opening of new exhibit "Bringing Blockchain to Life," at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. Will be using Meural as the display hardware showing some CryptoKitties images. https://cryptoslate.com/cryptokitties-to-bring-blockchain-to-life-in-new-art-exhibit/ http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/cryptokitties-is-bringing-the-blockchain-to-life-using-art-and-cats-692101271.html 3. August 23, 2018 - Multimedia happenings with SingularDTV - in addition to Our Music Festival, which AOTB discussed during interview with Justin Blau, SingularDTV's documentary "Trust Machine" directed by Alex Winter, is in the works. According to SingularDTV's Medium article "Trust Machine will premiere on Oct 26, 2018 at Cinema Village, New York and on Nov 16, 2018 at Laemmle Monica, Los Angeles before hitting the SingularDTV Digital Distribution Platform next year." https://medium.com/singulardtv/singulardtv-august-update-ethervision-trust-machine-our-music-festival-d8723a959f7 4. August 10, 2018 - "Welcome to the weirdly wonderful world of crypto-art" by David Canellis. This article is a good reference for the range of blockchain and crypto endeavors - from jewelry to Vitalik bobbleheads. https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/08/06/cryptocurrency-artist-graffiti/# 5. News to me June 21, 2018 - Article - "Akon to build new city in Senegal with own cryptocurrency called AKoin" This rapper, who is of Senegalize descent, plans to create a city wth cryptocurrency. From the article "He says that the system of cryptocurrency "allows the people to utilise it in ways where they can advance themselves and not allow government to do those things that are keeping them down.""" Will be built on 2000 acres of land that had been given to Akon by the government. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/akon-senegal-city-akoin-cryptocurrency-rapper-plan-a8410501.html AOTB Team news 1. Collaboration with Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts 3-part course - Starting September 17. https://mailchi.mp/9ebccdf5a9ea/introduction-to-cryptocurrencies-crypto-art-and-music-and-blockchain-for-creatives-w-aotb-3-partday-course 2. Will be on the radio! WERA 96.7 FM Arlington Independent Media starting (LIVE!) Sunday, September 30, 2018 5:00-5:30 3. DJ J Scrilla in Atlanta for A3C conference in October. www.a3cfestival.com Twitters @coin_artist @WERANowPlaying @WALADC @AkoinOfficial @SingularDTV @WorldCryptoCon @CryptoKitties Tips welcome BTC: 1D3DYP4nBC5DqTm1g5GeKf1uWeemLipwpY ETH: 0x9Ac7Bc3D3933e83A3544b36A075d2d59fac1c405

Treehouses, peeing statues, and a hat shop wood shop. Enough said.INTRO: (00:00) It's another video companion episode! It's very exciting to pretend to spend lots of money...come join us in dreaming, won't you? Cheap, un-bougie food and beverage is the topic du jour of most of the first five minutes of this episode. OBSESSIONS: (5:48) Lulu is obsessed with this Blender Bottle. It has a snap on container for your protein powder! Alison is (still) obsessed with Vinnie Louise, the boutique our producer took us to while we were in Nashville. Oh, and we are not sponsored by Vinnie Lousie, we just happen to be obsessed and unintentionally be wearing them head to toe in this video. But we are open to being sponsored by them. Wink, wink.WISHLIST: (11:24) Lulu wants a new computer, pretty sure Alison wished for this in a previous episode. Alison might have said this already, but she really wishes she had eyebrows. Somehow we get into a discussion about acupuncture, but we promise, theres a connection there ALISON’S 10K DAY - FALL CITY, WA: (17:15) Finding this city by looking for unique hotels, she is staying at Tree House Point. A classic breakfast at The Egg & Us. A visit to waterfalls and a Bavarian village with Cheryl’s Northwest Tours. On toMunchen Haus for some german food and swag. A stop at The Hat Shop/Wood Shop. Alison indulges at the Cheese Mongers Shop. She gets online poker coaching, so that after dinner at the Salish Lodge, she can head to Snoqualmie Casino and kill it.LULU’S 10K DAY - PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC: (35:52) Alison's face gives away that she has no idea where Prague is. Are you watching this yet? Lulu stays at the Aria Hotel. Breakfast at Cafe Savoy. Then the Alternative Prague Tour, where you make your own graffiti art! Next to U Bílé kuželky for lunch. Now for a tour in a vintage car. Lulu enjoys dinner with a local family. Lastly, Lulu takes in WOW Black Light Theater. CHARITIES: (51:07) Equine AidChance 4 ChildrenFOLLOW US: FacebookInstagramYoutubeTwitterWebsiteApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsSpotifyStitcherSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/10KDollarDay/)

OWI Labs VP Neil Hughes and Senior Analyst Simeon Beal tackle the latest news in the identity and cybersecurity space, including the European Union's $5 billion fine of Google, Microsoft's new identity-focused bug bounty program, financial inclusion in Nigeria, and what the departure of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the U.S. Supreme Court could mean for the future of data privacy laws. Hosts: Neil Hughes @thisisneil Simeon Beal @SimeonBeal State of Identity is brought to you by: KNOW 2019 Join us in Las Vegas for KNOW 2019, March 24-27, at the Aria Hotel! For early bird pricing and sponsorship information, visit vegas.knowconf.com.

OWI Labs VP Neil Hughes and Senior Analyst Simeon Beal discuss the latest news in the identity space, including Amazon's $1 billion purchase of Pillpack, Lyft buying the company behind Citibike, credit freezes going free nationwide, and how AT&T's purchase of AppNexus could affect digital identity. Hosts: Neil Hughes @thisisneil Simeon Beal @SimeonBeal State of Identity is brought to you by: KNOW 2019 Join us in Las Vegas for KNOW 2019, March 24-27, at the Aria Hotel! For early bird pricing and sponsorship information, visit vegas.knowconf.com.

Host Cameron D'Ambrosi, Marketplace Risk Founder Jeremy Gottshalk, Sift Science Trust & Safety Architect Jeff Sakasegawa, and Onfido US Commercial Director Parker Crockford discuss the critical importance of trust to the sharing economy, and how firms are leveraging new technologies to meet consumer and regulatory expectations. Host: Cameron D'Ambrosi @dambrosi Guests: Jeremy Gottshalk - Founder, Marketplace Risk Jeff Sakasegawa - Trust & Safety Architect, Sift Science Parker Crockford - Director of Policy & Strategic Accounts, Onfido Links: Marketplace Risk Sift Science Onfido State of Identity is brought to you by: KNOW 2019 Join us in Las Vegas for KNOW 2019, March 24-27, at the Aria Hotel! For early bird pricing and sponsorship information, visit vegas.knowconf.com Trulioo Speed up your KYB due diligence and reduce costs with Trulioo’s Global Business Verification. It no longer has to take 3 to 4 weeks to onboard businesses or create merchant accounts, now it can be done in seconds! Get real-time access to hundreds of government registers from over 80 countries to instantly verify over 250 million companies of all sizes! Verify business entities on-demand, Perform watch list checks, Identify and verify UBOs – all through a single API integration. With Trulioo, it’s simple and swift. Know Your Customers and Businesses around the globe via One Solution, One Contract, One Integration. Check out trulioo.com today.  

Join host Cameron D'Ambrosi and DivvyCloud CEO/Co-Founder Brian Johnson as they discuss the security and compliance challenges facing organizations leveraging cloud computing solutions, and how policy automation can help solve them. Host: Cameron D'Ambrosi @dambrosi Guests: Brian Johnson - CEO/Co-Founder, DivvyCloud @DivvyCloud State of Identity is brought to you by: KNOW 2019 Join us in Las Vegas for KNOW 2019, March 25-27, at the Aria Hotel! For early bird pricing and sponsorship information, visit theknowconference.com  Trulioo Speed up your KYB due diligence and reduce costs with Trulioo’s Global Business Verification. It no longer has to take 3 to 4 weeks to onboard businesses or create merchant accounts, now it can be done in seconds! Get real-time access to hundreds of government registers from over 80 countries to instantly verify over 250 million companies of all sizes! Verify business entities on-demand, Perform watch list checks, Identify and verify UBOs – all through a single API integration. With Trulioo, it’s simple and swift. Know Your Customers and Businesses around the globe via One Solution, One Contract, One Integration. Check out trulioo.com today.  

Episode 247: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast for week ending December 3, 2017 features interviews with Network as a Service expert Ron Victor, CEO and Founder of IoTium, along with Master Systems Integrator Extraordinaire, Jason Houck, CIO of Hepta Systems and The Panel Shoppe. More insights and updates from Functional Devices, Women in HVACR, Honeywell LCBS Connect, Siemens Total Room Automation, KMC’s complete Building Control Solutions, Introducing Niagara’s first Cloud Offering, Ken Sinclair’s December edition #RUIoTReady, and the video announcement of the 2017 ControlTrends Awards finalists. CTN 247 Controltalk Now The SmartBuildings Video Cast from Eric Stromquist on Vimeo. Functional Devices, Inc. Functional Devices, Inc. has been designing and manufacturing quality electronic devices in the United States of America since 1969. Our goal is to provide high quality products for the most reliable and economical solutions to the needs of our customers, along with world-class support from our sales and engineering experts. Functional Devices has established itself as a leader in the HVAC, Building Controls, Energy Management, Energy Savings, Lighting Controls, and Wireless industries. Women in HVACR @ HARDI Annual Conference 2017, Aria Hotel, Las Vegas, Dec 2, 2017. Las Vegas, Nevada at The Aria Resort & Casino RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY! Saturday December 2nd, prior to the HARDI Annual Conference, Women in HVACR will host a workshop and networking event from 2:00pm to 5:30pm. Women in HVACR exists to improve the lives of our members by providing professional avenues to connect with other women growing their careers in the HVACR industry. Happy Thanksgiving ControlTrends Community! We wish everyone a wonderful, relaxing, and peaceful Thanksgiving Holiday. For those that must work or serve through the Holidays, we greatly appreciate your faithful service. The history of Thanksgiving Day from Reference.Com: Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States as a national holiday dedicated to being with family and friends to give thanks for all of the blessings received throughout the previous year. Honeywell LCBS Connect — A Ground Breaking Cloud-Based Light Commercial Control Solution for Service Contracting Professionals. LCBS Connect Cloud-Based Light Commercial Control: Improve service to your customers and grow your business with Honeywell’s LCBS Connect. Remote HVAC system monitoring and diagnostics help you better serve your customers while spending less time in your truck. ControlTalk NOW welcomes our first guest is IoTium’s CEO and Founder, Ron Victor. IoTium provides managed secure network infrastructures for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). IoTium’s extensive experience and success in industrial markets allows IoTium to offer a mature solution offering to the BMS and HVAC markets. Eliminate the need for onsite technicians or costly truck-rolls, CLIs, usernames and passwords, or changes to enterprise proxy and firewall policies. With IoTium Orchestrator, you can automatically authenticate, provision and configure your network infrastructure. Policies define what data needs to be sent where and when. Siemens Total Room Automation — The New Standard for Total Room Control and Cost Savings. Siemens Total Room Automation (TRA) combines room HVAC, lighting and/or shading systems into one, seamless package. As one solution instead of three, Siemens TRA cuts initial product costs, installation costs, and ongoing operating costs, while increasing room energy efficiency and providing optimal comfort for room occupants. ControlTalk NOW’s second guest is Jason Houck, CIO of Hepta Systems and The Panel Shoppe. As one of the top Master Systems Integrators in the business, Jason gives the ControlTrends Community a deep-dive view of the multitude of products, solutions, and services The Panel Shoppe offers. The Panel Shoppe delivers Custom Control Panels, Tech Services, FIN Stack, Parts & Smarts, Software as a Service, Niagara Support, Analytics, Entrocim, and Custom Graphics. Dashboards, Enabling Passive and Active Energy Management. Check out this very informative post about Smart Building Controls Dashboards from our friend Steve Guzelimian, the president of Optergy. You can meet Steve at the 2017 ControlTrends Awards and stop by his booth at the AHR Show. Most building owners and operators struggle to incentivize occupants to change their behavior when it comes to sustainability. KMC’s Complete Building Control Solutions are the Best on the Market: Open, Secure, Scalable, and Easy. We’re the Experts. For nearly 50 years, KMC Controls has provided state-of-the-art building automation and control solutions to a global network of system integrators and distributors. Our products are controlling buildings of all sizes and types all around the world, including the most sustainable office building in North America. KMC is committed to open, secure, scalable, and most importantly, easy building automation solutions. Introducing the First Niagara Cloud Offering — Learn More About Backup as a Service During our Next TridiumTalk. Learn more about Backup as a Service during our next TridiumTalk: December 14, 2017, 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (New York, UTC-05:00). Senior product manager Kapil Sharma will be unveiling Backup as a Service, the first Niagara Cloud offering in a growing suite of services, during our next TridiumTalk. Kapil will offer a first-hand look at how to use Backup as a Service to protect the enterprise from losing valuable Niagara station and configuration data. Congratulations to the 2017 ControlTrends Finalists — Exciting Video Announcement! Congratulations to this year’s well-deserved finalists! Final voting ballots will be emailed in the very near future. ControlTrends is excited to celebrate our sixth annual ControlTrends Awards this year in Chicago, at the Hard Rock Café, located at 93 W. Ontario Street from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM. The Chicago Hard Rock Café nightclub style of venue is especially well-suited for this year’s theme. Ken Sinclair’s Automated Buildings December, 2017 Theme: Are You – IoT Ready? #RUIoTReady. In his December edition of Automated Buildings, owner and editor, Ken Sinclair rewards his readers with the industry’s most current and comprehensive glossary of IoT related terms, definitions, concepts, and related articles (complete with hyperlinks for further exploration). Additionally, Ken writes with unique insight to his December theme #RUIoTReady and then asks a few rather rhetoric questions: What is IoT? Why should I care? What does “Ready” mean? The post Episode 247: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast for Week Ending December 3, 2017 appeared first on ControlTrends.

Welcome to The Vegas Sand Trap! Dennis and Amanda attended the Techcon Golf Executive Conference at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas. Don Rea, Owner/Operator Augusta Ranch Golf Club stopped by to say hello!

Michael Lautenbach of Anaheim Hills Golf Course stopped by to talk with Dennis and Amanda at the Aria Hotel during the Techcon Conference in Las Vegas.

Del Ratcliffe of Ratcliffe Golf Services Inc stopped by to talk with Dennis and Amanda at the Aria Hotel during the Techcon Conference in Las Vegas.

Dennis and Amanda spent some time at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas during the Techcon Conference for golf course executives. Jay Karen stopped by to say howdy!

Welcome to The Vegas Sand Trap! Dennis and Amanda attended the Techcon Golf Executive Conference at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas. David Fram of Cyprian Keyes Golf Club stopped by to say hello!