ASIS NYC Makes ISC East Look Like ISC West
ASIS NYC 2018 was held this week. Here is what the show floor looked like (embedded video):
More comments inside.
The exhibit area is about 1/3 to 1/2 the size of ISC East. Some exhibitors said it used to be in the same area as ISC East but was moved to the opposite smaller side of the Javits.
Another view of the show floor from the entrance:
It is a bit bigger than ADI Expo, to give another sense of size. However, given it is in midtown Manhattan, it certainly brings larger end users though not a lot to the show floor as exhibitors comments on traffic were, at best, mixed.
The most interesting no-show was Hikivision. No booth, which is surprising since they have recently attended almost every event, even smaller ones than this.
Avigilon, Axis, Genetec, Hanwha, Milestone, Vivotek, and many more were there.
Dahua was there too but no AI marketing, just more conventional Smart H.265 and ePoE.
A number of people were talking about Arecont and their Ch 11...
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This can't be true! I saw so many security manufacturers on LinkedIn talking about what an awesome show they were anticipating. There were more "stop by our booth!" messages than I can recall. You must have filmed this during a lunch break or something, because there is no way this show could have been such a dud, too many manufacturers were clearly counting on it and putting their best people on the show floor.
From an exhibitor/manufacturer perspective, I don't look at it in terms of how many people attend but what type of attendee shows up. In many cases, one or two good quality prospects are all you need to pay for the show.
It comes down to the cost of being there vs not being there.
On a side note, I thing this show should be cut down to one day.

05/18/18 12:55pm
This is it, folks: the meanest headline that John has ever written.
I wonder what happened. I attended ASIS NYC for several years (but not since 2016) and it grew larger every year. ASIS NYC had been growing as fast as ISC East had been shrinking, and I've been wondering for some time when the two shows would merge.
What if instead of ISC East and ASIS NYC competing against each other with similar types of shows in same venue, ASIS opted for a different location? Javits Center is a rather large venue for such a small event. Just my two cents

I had the opportunity to speak with a few end users with real opportunities, so I was happy with my results. As I have said before, you get out of these shows what you put in. I do agree that a venue other than Javits would be nice, and I can confirm that I was also told the plan is to shorten the show to one day instead of two and reduce the booth cost.
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