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CEDIA EXPO | Interview
A contingent including Daryl Friedman and the CEDIA
Board went to the nation's capital earlier this year to
advocate for the custom integration industry.
town hall so the industry can
really see what we had been
doing - and what we had
been doing was incredibly
important. State-by-state
work, making sure that the
licensing regime was friendly
to our integrators, that the
electrical industry didn't
push us out of the states because
they thought low-voltage
wires was something
electrician should handle.
That work had been
ongoing for many years. It
wasn't properly championed
and touted the way
it should have been. But
that work was incredibly
important, I would say,
essential in some ways, to
some integrators in certain
states that may not be in
business today had it not
been for the work that
CEDIA had been doing for
the past 20 years.
What I wanted to do
is take that work and,
of course, make it more
known, but also expand
that into some federal
activities. And as you said,
we sort of put fl esh on the
bones on the state work by
going to Lansing in person
and having meetings in the
State Capitol in Michigan.
We also wanted to show
the federal government that
our industry is important,
that we're here. So earlier
this year, we fi led comments
with the FCC about their
new Cyber Trust Mark.
That's a new government
initiative to put a symbol on
device boxes that say these
are compliant with cybersecurity.
We wanted to
make sure that the federal
government knew that the
way to really guarantee
cybersecurity is to have a
professional integrator put
that network in your home
and install those devices.
That was the fi rst time that
the industry was actually on
the record with the United
States federal government.
Then to expand on that,
in March we had our fi rst
CEDIA Day on the Hill, which
was a great success. We had
about 25 industry professionals,
including our Board,
and we went to the Hill and
sat down with members of
Congress in the Capitol and
told them what we do as a
business and how important
it is. It started to plant the
seeds for the next occupational
code change, which we
want to see integrators be
part of that and really be established
as its own industry,
not part of electrician trade;
and also lobby for a workforce
development bill that
I think would bring in more
talent in the industry, which
is certainly something that
every integrator knows they
need very much to increase
that talent pool.
Is there anything you
could share about the
association's roadmap for
the rest of this year, or
some more important
focuses that you're going
to bring to the fore
heading into 2025?
FRIEDMAN: There's some
critical things I think we'll
be doing both internally,
in our own community, as
well as externally. Internally,
we really want to create
that sense of community
that we see at Expo and
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