Systems Integration Asia – April-May 2018

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The AV Solutions Major Celebrates 10th Anniversary Amid Pomp and Gaiety

An AVID Connect with Industry Spectrum

Celebraons are not new to industry fraternies. Neither it is for audio-visual industry ranks. However, it was a disnctly different
experience for the AV diaspora that had gathered on a surprisingly rainy evening in mid-March, at the Galaxy Hall of the premium
resort desnaon Clarks Exoca outside Bengaluru.

The 10th Anniversary celebraons of the Bengaluru-headquartered audio-visual soluons major AV Integraon Distribuon (AVID) –
for which the Galaxy Hall played venue – were reflecve of is name in every sense. An 'avid' snapshot.

It was a perfect seng, or so it appeared,

on the mid-March late aernoon me at

the Galaxy Hall on the premises of the

premium resort desnaon Clarks Exoca,

on the outskirts of Bengaluru.

The sunny morning suddenly turned cloudy

that burst into some heavy down pour as if

giving a blessing gesture to the event that

was to unfold on the evening. As the

clouds cleared and opened up the sky, it

gave an illusion of stars descending to their

spots 'in the Galaxy.’Naveen Sridhar, Bharat

Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, AK Harish, Chetan

Patnaik, Puneet Sethi, Chetan N Sanghavi,

Rajesh Mial, Rishubh Nayar, Sanket

Sawant, DV Prakash, Saugato Siddhanta &

Harris Mohammed, and Gaurabh

Majumdar, along with Jonathan Seller...and

more...all came one aer to be part of the

party that had many things to share –

professionally – even as it reveled to

scinllang sound and light that gliered

even brighter on the large screen as well as

the signage displays all over the hall.It was

the seng chosen by Bengaluru-based AV

Integraon Distribuon (India) Private

Limited – popularly known as AVID – to

celebrate its tenth anniversary in front of

such gathering. Everyone thee knew what

the event was about, though. What they

didn't have a clue to, was how it was being

unfolded- thanks to Ankit Piplani, the

metallic voiced anchor from Mumbai –

who claimed having been complimented as

the big A of achoring by none other than

the illustrious Big B – who conducted the

proceedings of the event in a fashion that

kept the guests guessing in curiosity all the

while.

The event, of course began with a prayerful

performance in praise of God of Obstacles

(Ganesha), followed by lighng of the lamp

by Kaushik Mukhopadhyay, MD-CEO of

AVID, Mahua Mukhopadhyay, his wife, and

Co-Founder of AVID, and Avinash Nichani

Senior Vice-President-Sales. The AVIDity

with which the event connected with the

industry spoke many things:

One - it exemplified – by means of a

presentaon – how it made ten successful

years business in AV

Two - it was an occasion that AVID

conceptualised to recognise and reward

the people who made its success so much

fulfilling- its meritorious and industrious,

and benefing employees.

Three - its Partners in the industry, the

OEM galaxy that comprised Asian

Electronics, beyerdynamic, Chrise,

Crestron, Epson, Extron, Kramer, LG, QSC,

Samsung, Sanghavi Impex, and

more...besides distribuon majors like EIS

Techinfra, and Consultants like Invincy

Soluons

Four - the industry channels that

contribute to the common cause with a

larger interest: AViXA, and, of course,

systems integraon Asia (SIA)

Five - projects, that were so presgious to

the AVID experse on a naonal and

internaonal scale.

While the event honoured almost

praccally everyone who contributed to

AVID's success, it popped up - at every

occasion - three names: Kaushik - the chief

architect of the evening programme;

Mahua Mukhopadhyay, Kaushik's "partner"

in life and business; and Avinash Nichani,

the energy, and strength with the two

Mukhopadhyays in everything they do in

AV.

The gliera, and the gathering of the

event had just one unequivocal expression:

“They haven't been to an event of this

nature.” The innuendo was obvious. The

event knew its purpose, mapped it with

precision and executed to perfecon.

It was interlaced with some scinllang

musical performances. Foot tapping could

hardly be resisted.

All the entertainment of the evening was

made resounding with Ankit Piplani, and

the Eventex event management.

The venue of the event shone in the

brilliantly radiang lights while it also

reverberated with defeang BGM.

An outlining video about AVID's journey

through the decade with success stories

also characterised the event.

AVID Honours its partners: (From L - R) Naveen Sridhar-beyerdynamic, Chethan Patnaik-Crestron, Mahesh Kumar-Extron,

Hemendu Sinha-LG, Puneet Sethi-Samsung