Quite a few Barco products and projects have been award winners in the past and we're extremely proud about every award we get. Yet this most recent one is that extra bit special: the '15 years of Excellence Award' by Installation. The renowned international magazine and online resource for AV systems integration decided to grant the award to Barco: "on account of its continued and consistent innovation in display and other technologies, across numerous markets."

Valued contribution to the AV installation world
Installation celebrates its 15th anniversary, this year, hence its decision to start the InstallAwards - a series of awards recognizing great achievement and excellence across a wide variety of application sectors. The cherry on the cake is the exclusive '15 Years of Excellence Award', for a company or organization that has made a major contribution to the AV installation world, through technology, industry education or leadership. Barco was the perfect candidate.

Inspiring interview with Dirk Hendrickx
On the occasion of the award, Installation had an interesting chat with Dirk Hendrickx, our vice-president strategic marketing programs who'll receive the award at a formal ceremony in London, on 12 June next. In the interview, Dirk underlines how exciting the past 15 years have been for Barco. "As a generic highlight, I think we were one of the first companies that could call themselves an AV manufacturer," he explained. When asked about one of the developments that proves Barco's frontrunner position, he pointed to networking: "Since 1999, I think we've seen the light about the importance of networking. For instance, in our control room business, in 2001 we anticipated that by 2015 the majority of control rooms would be network-centric rather than AV-centric and that has since come true." 

Read the full interview to discover more about Barco's acquisition strategy and the future of AV equipment, as well as Dirk's inspiring advice to AV installers.

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