Workplace Connect: Recent Episodes
Mersive Technologies
How we connect with those around us is everything – and it’s rapidly changing – particularly in the workplace. Join us as we discuss relevant workplace topics including collaboration, technology, and communication – and take a look at evolving workplace trends and the future of the workplace. Want to make your time at work more meaningful? Tune in.
How will the next generation of classrooms create seamless experiences that enable a more engaging and collaborative workflow for facilitators and students alike? The traditional conferencing systems, with a single camera, viewpoint, and sharing feed limits remote learning interaction, and is far from the dream of tele-present learning. At the same time, students who do join in-person classes are looking for an active, collaborative learning experience. The campus has now become a destination, requiring more thought into fostering an interactive and engaging curriculum students are willing to make a trip to see.
The goal - provide an engaging learning experience for all students, putting everyone on equal footing no matter where they are.
Tune in with Mersive CTO & Founder Christopher Jaynes, PhD, as he breaks down the traditional barriers of complex and expensive AV systems when it comes to flexible learning and flip learning environments. Learn how recent software developments are introducing new solutions that eliminate complex hardware in these environments and bridge the gap between remote and on-site learners.
To access the webinar video or visuals mentioned in this podcast, visit Workplace Connect.
The hybrid workplace has proven to be a highly dynamic and sometimes unpredictable work environment – but being dynamic doesn’t have to mean chaotic. The new workplace will need to be smarter, more responsive to user needs, and embrace the ad hoc nature of the modern workplace.
Tune in with Mersive CTO & Founder Christopher Jaynes, PhD, as he discusses the dynamic nature of the hybrid workplace and the importance of workplace experience. Learn how Solstice can enable organizations to provide a consistent user experience across all room types – with intuitive options for sharing, collaboration, and remote participation – and hear examples of modern room intelligence including new work underway with supportive-AI assistants to rooms that recognize, book, and even start meetings based on the predicted user’s needs.
To access the webinar video or visuals mentioned in this podcast, visit Workplace Connect.
2022 marks a new era for working and learning spaces everywhere. As offices prepare for the return to work, there will still be a greater percentage of people working remotely full or part-time. With the ability to choose when and where to work, how will this hybrid reality impact meetings going forward?
Traditional meetings with no or few remote participants will be replaced by a more complex mix of team members who are spread across multiple onsite meeting rooms, personal offices, and remote locations. This will pose a challenge and opportunity to re-envision how technology can support these types of meetings and hybrid workers. Creating a workplace that is both flexible for employees and productive for business will require tools that support meaningful collaboration between both in-office and remote workers.
Listen to Mersive CTO and Founder Christopher Jaynes, PhD and AVI-SPL Canada to discover how intelligent, flexible meeting room solutions can support user choice and health in the return-to-work era.
The pandemic has been one of the largest disruptions in decades. Disruptions of this magnitude accelerates innovation at astonishing rates and it’s up to technology leaders to explore how to responsibly innovate in response to these types of challenges on behalf of their customers.
As some employees begin to return to the office, their needs for the workplace look very different than before the global pandemic. A Frictionless user experience for both proximate and hybrid employees is a must.
How can the workplace thoughtfully embrace the mobile workforce and personal choice? How can flexible meeting room technology level the playing field between onsite and remote collaborators?
Listen to Mersive CTO and Founder Christopher Jaynes, PhD and Logitech Senior Manager of Collaboration Toby Lewis to learn more.
From the humble beginnings of powerpoint to complete meeting room solutions with intelligent audio and video design, the audio visual (AV) industry has officially made it’s mainstream debut in response to rising customer needs in the hybrid workplace.
Traditionally driven by standalone hardware that sat apart from networks, dedicated AV systems have evolved to become an integral part of meeting and learning spaces by offering additional software capabilities. Is the convergence of hardware AV solutions to sophisticated IT software capabilities complete? Is AV a software-driven industry now or do we have a ways to go?
Your host today is Mersive CTO & Founder Christopher Jaynes, PhD. Joining him is the founder of rAVe [PUBS] and our special guest, Gary Kayye - consultant, writer, and speaker for more than 25 years in the AV Industry.
Join us as they look back at the AV industry, how it’s evolved, what hurdles have been met over the years, and a glimpse of up-and-coming trends that will soon make appearances in workplaces near you.
How can technology best support the hybrid workplace? In this new model of working, personal choice will dictate where and how we work and collaborate with our colleagues and remote participants. What does this mean for our meeting spaces? What will change? Everything.
In this episode, Mersive CTO & Founder Christopher Jaynes, PhD, is joined by Yamaha UC Field Sales Engineer Jason Pavao to explore the hybrid workplace. The evolution of technology has led us to a point where vendor-locked room systems are no longer necessary or practical for how we meet and collaborate. The new era of collaboration will focus on the user experience, including enabling workers to use their own devices to drive and curate their entire meeting experience.
Are you building out your hybrid workplace? Don’t miss this discussion.
To access the webinar video or visuals mentioned in this podcast, visit Workplace Connect.
The workplace is undergoing the biggest change since the Industrial Revolution. Acceleration of innovation always happens during periods of disruption – the compass, the telegraph, and even barbed wire fencing were all invented when the need became great enough to prompt these innovations. Wars have spurred countless innovations.
Today, the massive disruption in the workplace is prompting a renewed look at the technology in the workplace and how people interact with their work environments. So what is the vision for the dream workplace?
Join Mersive CTO & Founder Christopher Jaynes, PhD, as he dives into emerging workplace innovation themes, the development of intelligent on-demand touchless infrastructures, the meaning of a ‘bring your own meeting’ ecosystem, experience analytics, and more.
To access the webinar video or visuals mentioned in this podcast, visit Workplace Connect.
New challenges are being defined by the workplace. Shifting workplace dynamics, including an increase in remote work, a proliferation of video conferencing services, and the development of the hybrid workplace have all contributed to a need to redefine the workplace and its purpose.
In this episode, Mersive CTO and Founder Christopher Jaynes, PhD, is joined by Rob Badenoch, Partner at TAD Associates to discuss how the workplace design of the future – and the present – must focus on human collaboration and how to accommodate a more geographically distributed workforce.
The grand challenge: how do you reinvent video conferencing to ensure all users are on equal footing – regardless of location? Tune in as Chris and Rob discuss how technologists and designers are thinking about room infrastructure, the user experience, and how ‘bring your own meeting’ solutions will shape our meeting spaces.
To access the webinar video or visuals mentioned in this podcast, visit Workplace Connect.