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AV/IT Amplifier

AV/IT Amplifier

De: Ryan Gray
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Higher education institutions rely on audio-visual (AV) and information technology (IT) solutions as a key backbone for modern teaching and learning. The AV/IT industry plays a critical role in providing these solutions, and it is important to highlight the latest trends, innovations, and perspectives in this sector. The podcast “The AV/IT Amplifier” aims to fill this gap by featuring interviews with people from Higher Education Institutions and the AV/IT Industry who have an idea, concept, perspective, event or product that would be helpful or interesting to the target audience of higher education technology managers. The host of the podcast is Ryan Gray, Assistant Director of IT at Yavapai College.

“The AV/IT Amplifier” podcast will have a bi-monthly schedule with two recordings per month, each being split in half to provide for weekly episodes. Each episode will be targeted for 30 minutes to be about the length of an average commute. The first half of each recording will focus on the primary topic for that guest, while the second half will be a profile of the person.

The podcast will not only focus on technical topics but also on non-technical ones such as effective people management, pedagogy, community building, building a personal brand, career planning, professional development and other similar topics for our audience. The split episode format allows for a dive into the topic and the opportunity to get to know the person and perhaps draw the connections between why that topic is so important to that guest.

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Episodios
  • Special: HETMA Presents... Live Keynote from the HETMA Virtual Conference

    Special: HETMA Presents... Live Keynote from the HETMA Virtual Conference
    Feb 25 2026
    Recorded live as the Friday keynote on Day 3 of the HETMA Virtual Conference, this AV/IT Amplifier crosspost pulls a fast moving hybrid conversation from sister show HETMA Presents, combining #Roadto10K and This Month in Higher Ed AV into one session.

    Host Ryan Gray is joined by Britt Yenser, Tim Van Woeart, and Gina Sansivero to unpack the month’s community theme, Time to Level Up, and get specific about what leveling up actually looks like in real careers, real teams, and real life.

    The first half is personal and practical: leadership shifts, classroom design growth, mentoring, self awareness about learning styles, and the uncomfortable reality that documentation and continuity can feel emotional because it forces us to admit we will not be in the role forever.

    The second half pivots into a timely industry conversation sparked by a UK trade piece that framed education AV spend as wasteful and trend driven, followed by an AVWeek discussion and a HETMA board response op ed. The panel digs into why the framing landed as dismissive, why collapsing K 12 and higher ed into one story produces bad conclusions, and why higher ed AV decisions are shaped by governance, accessibility, security, procurement, and lifecycle realities, not shiny object chasing.


    Articles Discussed:

    Original article: https://www.avinteractive.com/news/systems-design-integration/are-educational-institutions-wasting-their-money-on-av-14-01-2026/

    Discussion on AVWeek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FLQnVhkwlA

    HETMA response op ed: https://www.avnation.tv/2026/02/04/oped-higher-ed-is-not-wasting-money-on-av-but-we-are-tired-of-being-talked-down-to/

    Join the conversation at community.hetma.org

    Host: Ryan Gray
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanagray/

    Panel:

    Britt Yenser
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/britt-yenser/

    Tim Van Woeart
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-van-woeart-cts-45416826/

    Gina Sansivero

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gina-sansivero/

    This show is a production of Higher Ed AV Media. Visit www.HigherEdAV.com for new content every day.
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    58 m
  • 132: The AV Nerd with Tom Segers

    132: The AV Nerd with Tom Segers
    Feb 18 2026
    Ryan is back on the ISE 2026 show floor for Part 2 with Tom Segers, an AV professional supporting Thomas More University of Applied Sciences in Belgium across multiple campuses. Tom shares what it looks like when a hobby becomes a career, and why being detail minded is not just a personality trait, it is survival in higher ed AV.

    From WhatsApp culture in Europe to the very real complexity of LED walls, 4K workflows, and teacher friendly BYOD realities, this episode stays practical and human. It ends on a simple truth that will feel familiar to anyone in our line of work: if nobody is calling, that might be the best news you get all week.

    Topics Discussed
    • Supporting seven campuses with a small AV team
    • When your hobby becomes your job
    • The value and downside of being detail minded
    • Communication habits and coordination in Europe
    • WhatsApp as an operational tool at events
    • What it really takes to make an LED wall succeed in teaching spaces
    • Power, input, and workflow surprises with LED deployments
    • The gap between BYOD policy and BYOD reality
    • Duplicate vs extend mode issues in real classrooms
    • Why lack of complaints can be a success metric in AV
    Connect with Tom Segers:
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-segers-19b89676/

    Connect with Ryan
    @Ryan_A_Gray
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanagray/
    ryan@higheredav.com

    Voiceover by Chris DechterHave feedback or guest ideas? Let us know!

    This show is a production of Higher Ed AV Media. Visit www.HigherEdAV.com for fresh content every day!
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    29 m
  • 131: Work Together To Make Some Difference with Tom Segers

    131: Work Together To Make Some Difference with Tom Segers
    Feb 11 2026
    Recorded live at the HETMA booth on the show floor of ISE 2026, Ryan sits down with Belgium based higher ed AV leader Tom Segers from Thomas More University of Applied Sciences. They talk about what it looks like to support AV at scale with a tiny central team across multiple campuses, and why global community matters when higher education needs a louder voice in an industry that often defaults to corporate assumptions.

    Tom also shares a Europe specific lens that will feel immediately relevant to US listeners: multilingual collaboration, privacy expectations for students on camera, and why audio quality becomes the make or break layer in hybrid learning. The conversation lands on the practical reality we all live in, construction timelines and technology timelines never line up, so staying connected and learning from peers is not a nice to have, it is survival.

    Topics Discussed
    • Running AV services for 20,000 students with a three person expert team
    • Multi campus support challenges, travel time, local support structures
    • Finding HETMA through EDUCAUSE connections and building community infrastructure
    • Why higher ed needs collective leverage with manufacturers
    • English as the shared language at global AV events
    • Talking to R and D on the show floor, why it matters more than sales conversations
    • Hybrid and connected classroom momentum since the pandemic
    • Student privacy expectations in Europe and what that changes operationally
    • Audio as the most important, most expensive layer in hybrid rooms
    • Funding models and lifecycle planning for refresh and replacement

    Connect with Tom Segers
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-segers-19b89676/
    Thomas More: https://thomasmore.be/en

    Connect with Ryan
    @Ryan_A_Gray
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanagray/
    ryan@higheredav.com

    Voiceover by Chris Dechter

    Have feedback or guest ideas? Let us know!

    This show is a production of Higher Ed AV Media. Visit www.HigherEdAV.com for fresh content every day!
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    29 m
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