We sit down with Jason Turner, VP and co-founder of PowerShades, to recap CEDIA Expo and discuss the company’s first full year as part of Springs Window Fashions. Turner shares how the acquisition has strengthened PowerShades’ supply chain, fabric development, manufacturing resources, and dealer support while opening the door to broader product categories.
The conversation…
In this episode of the Connected Design Podcast, we speak with Todd Katcher, Chief Product Officer for Zoney Digital Signage and Digital Dealership System, about how digital signage can do much more than put content on a screen. Todd explains how signage should be designed around the customer journey, from car dealership service lanes and…
It might feel like AI is advancing at an insane rate right now, but for Alex Capecelatro, CEO of Josh.ai, everything is not what it seems. Sure, models are improving at record rates right now, but for his company, over a decade of work has gone into the platform advancements they've been developing.
Still, as…
On this episode of the Connected Design Podcast, Rob Stott sits down with Architechne Founder and CFO Jeff Cole for a candid conversation about the company’s rapid growth, operator-led expansion model, and people-first approach to custom integration. Cole traces his early love of technology, the career path that led to Architechne, and the operating principles…
To be fair, there’s still time left on the clock for Daryl Friedman’s run as Global President and CEO of CEDIA, the association that works on behalf of the custom integration and smart home industry. With plans to stay on through the selection of his successor, he could still be a few months away from…
Forge – the new name for the combined Emerald Expo-Questex venture – is barely a few weeks old, but CEO Paul Miller is already doing the rounds to check out portions of the new and much-expanded portfolio. That included a stop at CEDIA Expo in Denver, where we had the chance to sit down with…
Jason Ehrlich, business development manager of room acoustics in the home market at Kinetics Noise Control, sits down with us for a conversation about why acoustics deserve a much earlier place in the design process.
Bret Jacob at Phoenix Marketing Group discusses how the company is helping bridge the gap between integrators and the design-build community. The conversation explores why integrators need to be brought into projects earlier, how builders and designers can better understand technology’s role in luxury homes, and the tools Phoenix is building to support those relationships.
With CEDIA Expo 2026 now just weeks away, the residential technology channel is once again preparing for its annual gathering of integrators, manufacturers, designers, builders, and industry partners. For Jason McGraw, group vice president for CEDIA Expo, the final countdown is busy, detailed, and full of momentum.
In a conversation with Connected Design, McGraw said…
Jason Bourg, owner of Bourg Builders + Design in North Central Arkansas, sits down to discuss how technology has become a natural part of his custom homebuilding process.
Bourg shares his path from medicine to construction, how his lifelong interest in building shaped his company, and why home automation has become central to the way…
