The Daktronics Experience

When stepping into a space with video and audio that blows you away, there’s intention behind the scenes that give you that feeling you’re experiencing. To hear about those intentions and experiences, Justin and Matt are joined by John Coovert, Solutions Engineer at Dimensional Innovations (DI). This conversation covers John’s background and what he gets to work on at DI. But it also digs into a few projects where Daktronics and DI partnered to bring a space to life and deliver those desired experiences.

Links:

• Dimensional Innovations Website: https://dimin.com/
• Cook Children’s Hospital News Release: https://www.daktronics.com/news/cook-children-s-hospital-adds-digital-element-with-daktronics-led-video-wall
• UCONN Hall of Champions News Release: https://www.daktronics.com/news/daktronics-and-dimensional-innovations-partner-for-successful-led-video-integration
• Naval Academy Project Highlight: https://dimin.com/work/naval-academy-athletic-association
• Daktronics AV Partner Webpage: https://partner.daktronics.com/
• Daktronics Video Wall Webpage: daktronics.com/videowalls

When out and about, digital billboards are increasingly catching your attention. To hear more about the implementation of that technology, Justin and Matt spoke with Doug Muth and Zach Neugebauer, co-owners of Book Your Billboard, another South Dakota-based company. They talk about how they got started, why they went with digital billboards right away, the versatility of those displays, and how they work with customers and advertisers to make an impact.

• Book Your Billboard website: bookyourbillboard.com
• Book Your Billboard online form: https://bookyourbillboard.com/?page_id=70
• Doug’s phone number: 605-201-3958
• Daktronics Digital Billboard Webpage: daktronics.com/billboard

When live events change locations on campus, it can bring to light the need for new technology. This happened at Towson University and to hear about their new video display at their football stadium, Justin and Matt were joined by Davon Robb, Assistant Athletic Director for facilities and event management. Davon shares the process of getting their display up and running, their excitement for ways to use the display in the future, other venues with video displays and much more.

Links:

• Towson Athletics Website: towsontigers.com
• Daktronics Event Production Webpage: daktronics.com/eventproduction

When unveiling their new display at Bo Ryan Court, the University of Wisconsin Platteville unleashed their creativity to make people take notice. Justin and Matt visited with Kristina Navarro, Director of Athletics and Recreation, Assistant Chancellor at UW Platteville, to hear about their fun unveiling video and much more about their LED display installations on campus. 

• UW Platteville Athletics Website: https://letsgopioneers.com/landing/index 
• Daktronics College Webpage: www.daktronics.com/college 
• National Lampoons Spoof Video: https://twitter.com/uwp_pioneers/status/1582070276795224064?s=20&t=0rRyGHT6kf8mabiG3yj5yQ  

The Norfolk Tides upgraded their LED display system in a big way with the second-largest video scoreboard in MiLB in 2022. To talk about this upgrade and the evolution of the display and control system for the team, Justin and Matt are joined by Mike Watkins, Assistant General Manager of Sales, Marketing & Fan Experience, and Mike Zeman, Assistant General Manager of Operations, both with the Norfolk Tides. They talk about being with the team since 2006, the changes they’ve seen in their game-day presentation over the years and much more.

• Norfolk Tides Website: https://milb.com/norfolk
• Daktronics News Release: https://www.daktronics.com/news/norfolk-tides-turn-heads-with-second-largest-video-board-in-the-minor-leagues-from-daktronics

To hear things from a student’s perspective, Justin and Matt are joined by Isabella Holterman, former student event producer at Oak Creek High School in Wisconsin. She shares her experience working with live event productions in high school as well as working with the production team at the Milwaukee Milkmen after graduation.

• Daktronics Crew Connect Webpage: https://www.daktronics.com/en-us/markets/sports/high-schools/crew-connect
• Oak Creek High School Website: https://www.ocfsd.org/oak-creek-high-school
• Milwaukee Milkmen Website: https://www.milwaukeemilkmen.com/

Do you ever wonder what happens behind the scenes of a video wall installation? To hear those details, Justin and Matt are joined by Kyle Kempf, CTS-I Director of Commercial Audio Video for ImageNet Consulting. He shares all about ImageNet, how they started working with Daktronics, a recent install in Texas and much more.

• Daktronics LED Video Wall Webpage: www.daktronics.com/videowalls 
• ImageNet Consulting Website: imagenetconsulting.com
• ImageNet’s AV Solutions Webpage: https://imagenetconsulting.com/products/audio-visual-solutions/
• Kyle’s Email: Kkempf@imagenet.com

When it comes to a video display at your school, there's a lot that goes along with it. To hear how Daktronics prepares schools and students as well as helps to build future careers, Justin and Matt are joined by Kyle Sydow, Daktronics HSPR market manager, and Will Ellerbruch, Daktronics national sales manager. They talk about DakClassroom, what it entails and how it builds skills for the next level.

• DakClassroom Webpage: https://www.daktronics.com/en-us/markets/sports/high-schools/dakclassroom 
• Daktronics High School’s Project Gallery: https://www.daktronics.com/en-us/photos?k=High%20school&f=%7B%22pt%22%3A%5B%22Video%20Displays%22%5D%7D

Ahead of the MLS All-Star Game being hosted at Allianz Field, Justin sat down with Cole Mayer, production engineer for Minnesota United FC, and Chris Johnson, Daktronics product manager, to hear all about the game-day production capabilities being used at the stadium. The conversation covers opening a new soccer-specific stadium, the details of implementing All Sport Pro Soccer at the venue and what it can do, and other interesting bits of information from behind the scenes of the Minnesota United FC game-day production.

• Minnesota United FC Website: https://www.mnufc.com/
• All Sport Pro Webpage: daktronics.com/allsportpro

For a number of years, decades really, Daktronics has been involved with or attended the IDEA – Information Display and Entertainment Association conference. This year is no different. To hear about the show, our involvement and what we will have in the booth, Justin visited with Daktronics representatives Sarah Rose, Diane Gonzalez-Ferranti and Greg Fleischbein.

• Daktronics Webpage for IDEA: https://www.daktronics.com/en-us/events/idea
• IDEA Website: ideaontheweb.org