{"podcast":{"title":"AV/IT Amplifier","slug":"av-it-amplifier-6369183","podcast_index_feed_id":6369183,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5852785/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/av-it-amplifier--5852785","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/5aef038415b10e89f1ad3f15195eaf45.jpg","author":"Ryan Gray","episode_count":139,"summary":"Higher education institutions rely on audio-visual (AV) and information technology (IT) solutions as a key backbone for modern teaching and learning. The AV/IT industry plays a critical role in providing these solutions, and it is important to highlight the latest trends, innovations, and perspectives in this sector. The podcast “The AV/IT Amplifier” aims to fill this gap by featuring interviews with people from Higher Education Institutions and the AV/IT Industry who have an idea, concept, perspective, event or product that would be helpful or interesting to the target audience of higher education technology managers. The host of the podcast is Ryan Gray, Assistant Director of IT at Yavapai College. “The AV/IT Amplifier” podcast will have a bi-monthly schedule with two recordings per month, each being split in half to provide for weekly episodes. Each episode will be targeted for 30 minutes to be about the length of an average commute. The first half of each recording will focus on the primary topic for that guest, while the second half will be a profile of the person. The podcast will not only focus on technical topics but also on non-technical ones such as effective people mana…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-04T06:21:32.404147+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/av-it-amplifier-6369183"},"episode":{"title":"131: Work Together To Make Some Difference with Tom Segers","slug":"131-work-together-to-make-some-difference-with-tom-segers","published_at":"2026-02-11T11:35:15+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/av-it-amplifier-6369183/131-work-together-to-make-some-difference-with-tom-segers","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/av-it-amplifier-6369183","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/131-work-together-to-make-some-difference-with-tom-segers--69966245","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69966245/episode_131.mp3","summary":"Recorded live at the HETMA booth on the show floor of ISE 2026, Ryan sits down with Belgium based higher ed AV leader Tom Segers from Thomas More University of Applied Sciences. They talk about what it looks like to support AV at scale with a tiny central team across multiple campuses, and why global community matters when higher education needs a louder voice in an industry that often defaults to corporate assumptions. Tom also shares a Europe specific lens that will feel immediately relevant to US listeners: multilingual collaboration, privacy expectations for students on camera, and why audio quality becomes the make or break layer in hybrid learning. The conversation lands on the practical reality we all live in, construction timelines and technology timelines never line up, so staying connected and learning from peers is not a nice to have, it is survival. Topics Discussed • Running AV services for 20,000 students with a three person expert team • Multi campus support challenges, travel time, local support structures • Finding HETMA through EDUCAUSE connections and building community infrastructure • Why higher ed needs collective leverage with manufacturers • English as the shared language at global AV events • Talking to R and D on the show floor, why it matters more than sales conversations • Hybrid and connected classroom momentum since the pandemic • Student privacy expectations in Europe and what that changes operationally • Audio as the most important, most expensive layer in hybrid rooms • Funding models and lifecycle planning for refresh and replacement Connect with Tom Segers LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-segers-19b89676/ Thomas More: https://thomasmore.be/en Connect with Ryan @Ryan_A_Gray https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanagray/ ryan@highereda…","meta_description":"Recorded live at the HETMA booth on the show floor of ISE 2026, Ryan sits down with Belgium based higher ed AV leader Tom Segers from Thomas More Universi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1742,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/av-it-amplifier-6369183/episodes/131-work-together-to-make-some-difference-with-tom-segers/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/av-it-amplifier-6369183/131-work-together-to-make-some-difference-with-tom-segers.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}