Tag: PERS Summit
PERS Summit 2017 updates
September 25, 2017Spencer Ives
PARK CITY, Utah—AvantGuard recently held its fourth PERS Summit here. Included here is a day-by-day overview from Security Systems News' managing editor, Spencer Ives, who attended the event.
Tuesday, Sept. 26
To kick off this year's PERS Summit, AvantGuard hosted a tour of its recently remodeled Ogden, Utah, headquarters. Small groups of about eight people each were shown each department. Veronica Smith, account executive with AvantGuard, led my tour group.
The remodel was...
PERS Summit lines up 2017 speakers
July 26, 2017Spencer Ives
PARK CITY, Utah—AvantGuard has several speakers lined up for its upcoming PERS Summit, to be held here Sept. 26-28, as well as some of the events.
This year's PERS Summit will start with a tour of AvantGuard's recently remodeled facility. “We've got about 25,000 square feet and three levels, and the building will be completely remodeled, inside and out, by the time the event starts. So, people will really get to see—hands on—how that monitoring of the PERS devices...
PERS features debated at AvantGuard summit
October 7, 2015Spencer Ives
PARK CITY, Utah— Attendees debated the demand for “fall detection” in PERS devices at AvantGuard's third PERS Summit, held here last week.The conference featured a panel discussion on fall detection, titled “Fall Detection… Is it the 'Holy Grail' of PERS?” Representatives from PERS manufacturers Climax, Mytrex and Numera led the presentation.Josh Garner, AvantGuard's CEO, summarized the opinions shared in the session: “Dealers need to have it in their repertoire...
AvantGuard PERS Summit looks at fall detection, other trends
July 29, 2015Spencer Ives
AvantGuard's PERS Summit is coming up at the end of September in Park City, Utah, and the company recently released the event's itinerary. This event is held every two years now, with the last being in 2013.
While MAMA is also hosting its annual meeting this fall, the two cover different areas of PERS monitoring, even complementing each other. “We've created this conference for specific PERS dealers. It's apples and oranges different from MAMA, where they're more focused on the government aspect,”...
NFL's Steve Young will keynote PERS Summit 2015
June 4, 2015SSN Staff
PARK CITY, Utah—Former NFL player and Hall-of-Famer Steve Young will be the keynote speaker for the 2015 PERS Summit, taking place here Sept. 29-Oct. 1, AvantGuard Monitoring announced June 2.
Young will share the inspiration behind his success and meet with conference guests. Apart from his NFL career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the San Francisco '49ers, Young is a licensed attorney and managing director of Huntsman Global Capital. He also founded the Forever Young Foundation...