Fall 2024 | Volume 7
Canadian Audio Visual Providers Association | Association Canadienne des fournisseurs de services audiovisuels
President’s Report Dear Members, I hope everyone enjoyed a relaxing summer, caught up on those inventory and maintenance projects, and is now in the full swing of the busy fall season. Despite most of our board and members taking a much needed break over the summer, we did manage to make some solid progress on several initiatives. Following up on our very productive engagement with the competition bureau in June, we provided the them with a national conference venue listing, which includes who the inhouse AV supplier is, to help demonstrate the magnitude of Encore’s monopoly position, as well as a CAVPA member contact list. I have heard back now a few companies who have had calls, or have calls scheduled. Please let us know if you have had a call and ideally a brief summary of how it went so we can try to keep track of how many members that have spoken to so far. We also understand the bureau is also actively speaking to venues and event producers, so certainly very encouraging to see some progress.
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Along that same theme, CAVPA had a booth at the Canadian Meeting & Events Expo (CMEE) in Toronto Aug 13 & 14, where we spoke to many event planners about our mission, competition specifically, and how they could protect their freedom to choose the AV supplier of their choice at the venue contracting phase by having any costs related to using an external supplier included in the upfront price negotiation. The support and encouragement from event planners was not only universal, but also very encouraging as we work through the slow wheels of bureaucracy. We also spoke to several AV suppliers who are not currently members to encourage them to join CAVPA and help support our mission. Following CMEE on Aug 14, we conducted our 2nd annual summer town hall from the BB Blanc studio, followed by a CAVPA group dinner. A big thanks to Rennie and BB Blanc for all the support both at CMEE and the Town Hall, as well as TKNL who took care of all our graphics and presentations for both. Our next event will be the AGM (via Zoom) in January and I hope to see you all online then. Have a great fall! Tim Lang, President 2800 - 14th Ave., Suite 310, Markham, ON L3R 0E4 | T: 416-491-2886 | www.cavpa.ca