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On 27th April The Confederation of Aerial Industries (CAI) will be holding its annual show at Birmingham's National Motorcycle Museum.
Evolving Connectivity 2016 will be unlocking a number of secrets this year: vital information for facilities management companies and those responsible for designing the systems within buildings - single homes or multi-occupancy dwellings like apartment blocks, care homes, hospitals and commercial premises - that involve the distribution of moving pictures, audio and data.
Tim Jenks, CAI senior executive, said: 'The big issues under discussion will be how we cope with the sell-off of more TV spectrum and the impact on viewers aerial installations, plus the latest devices on which TV is being watched and how we make signal arrive at those devices.'
According to the CAI at least 100,000 homes will need an aerial change when existing services migrate to new spectrum area. How the affected viewers will be helped through this 'switchover' will doubtless involve CAI members.
The keynote speaker this year will be Richard Lindsay-Davies, chief executive officer of the Digital Television Group. Richard will present a broad overview of where this now extremely diverse industry is heading as TV and audio spread across even more platforms of delivery.
The show will round off with a first-time visit from CEDIA's education director Simon Buddle. Simon has a wide, experienced overview of the custom installation trade - an area more and more CAI installers are finding themselves involved in.
Training milestone
The end of January saw another milestone reached in the history of the CAI. A visit from a City & Guilds delegation to the confederation's Watford HQ led to confirmation that a major percentage of the CAI's education and skills programmes would be carrying the City & Guilds logo on its certificates.
The CAI's education and skills co-ordinator Amanda Ward had been working alongside senior executive Tim Jenks to piece together the necessary criteria needed for accreditation by one of the best know qualification brands in the UK. The main, demanding requirements of City & Guilds were the provision of assessment and administration systems within a specified, tested framework.
The CAI team dedicated to providing bespoke training for the industry proved itself to be robust enough to come under close scrutiny. With some fine tuning, the application documenting CAI's training management system passed all the required verification and the CAI signed a contract with City & Guilds for the use of their accredited logo on a raft of its courses.
Tim Jenks commented: 'This is a major step forward in the future of the CAI. As the industry leader providing the educational backbone for the signal reception and distribution industry, the courses offered by the UK's trade body are now given the recognition they deserve.'
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