Steve Greenblatt

From the world of AV programming and control with James King, I'm Steve Greenblatt, and this is Ask the Programmer.

James, how are you today?

And I'm looking forward to our fun conversation.

We have a returning guest that we all know and we all enjoy speaking with.

On a podcast.

Well, that voice, if you don't recognize and if you didn't listen to our previous episode, he is none other than Joe Way.

He is the executive director of digital spaces at UCLA and also co-founder of HEPMA and also many other things, a podcaster and award-winning AV professional.

So welcome back, Joe.

Thanks for being here.

And if you didn't catch our last episode, please do because this one is going to be kind of part two and continuing the conversation a bit.

In episode 257, Joe spoke about what he's doing at UCLA and had

truly where the difference between a server-based cloud system and a, and a genuine cloud system and, and some of the really creative solutions that he is providing in taking, going from an AV system to more of a smart campus.

So we'll, we'll kind of pick it up there.

And yeah,

Some of the things that Joe shared was that they're unifying a lot of the systems on campus.

It really is elevating what we think of when we think of programming and an AV solution.

And this is really revolutionary and something that we know hasn't been done to this extent.

Others have done more things.

things that are creative and less standardized from what you think of in an AV system.

Joe, let's just start by talking about what are some of the things that you learned in going through this process?