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President and CEO Bill Bozeman talks PSA TEC, industry trends and new technology
WESTMINSTER, Colo.-As the PSA Security Network-one of the largest electronic security cooperatives-gets ready for its annual security conference, TEC 2017 in Westminster, Colo., May 7-11, Security Systems News caught up with the organization's president and CEO, Bill Bozeman, and director of marketing, Kim Garcia, to get their thoughts on the show, the network and the integrator community as a whole.
The PSA Security Network is owned by integrators throughout North America, and combined, PSA members boast more than 300 branch locations, employ nearly 6,000 security industry professionals and are responsible for more than $3.5 billion annually in security, fire and life safety installations.
In addition to a comprehensive education lineup and training and certification opportunities, PSA TEC will showcase more than 100 leading security and audio-visual product manufacturers at the exhibit hall, open for one day only on May 10.
SSN: How is PSA TEC 2017 shaping up? What are some the highlights of this year's conference?
BOZEMAN: PSA TEC is shaping up really well, and we are excited about the show. In terms of numbers, we do a fairly sophisticated job of comparing years, and one thing we will not have trouble with is head count. We have about a thousand people coming, but we don't want this show to be like ISC or ASIS-that is not the point. This is a different type of show-a truly unique event-that is really more of an education and networking conference than a trade show. It says a lot about the historic success of the show that we don't have to beg people to come, and I am speaking Kim Garcia of integrators, as well as industry leaders and manufacturers.
One misnomer about the show that 1 would like to clear up is that people think the show is only for PSA members, but actually the show is open to everyone-we have been open for almost 10 years now.
And we have a fabulous education program planned this year for integrators. One area that we are really focused on is cybersecurity, which will be prominent at our show and we have taken a leading position on that. In addition, the traditional physical security...