Weekly

DSS ISE 2025: Topics, Speakers, and Everything You Need to Know

In three weeks, this year’s first Digital Signage Summit will come to ISE in Barcelona, presenting discussions around AI, Workspace, Cyber Security, and Managed Services. Here is all the information on the program, speakers, and tickets.

invidis is once again bringing some of the most successful digital signage market players to the stage during ISE in Barcelona: the Digital Signage Summit (DSS) ISE will take place on Wednesday, February 5. The event kind of serves as a big half-day briefing for the coming business year, but it’s also an excellent opportunity for networking within the industry. As every year, we’ve carefully selected the speakers and topics in order to offer participants a dense and valuable program in exchange for a slot in their busy trade show schedules.

Following last year’s premiere, we’ll also be hosting another Retail Track right after DSS, which focuses specifically on digital signage in retail and will be bringing in a crowd of end customers. More on this soon!

Tickets & prices for DSS and Retail Track

The regular ticket price for the DSS conference is €440. Early bird tickets with a 30% discount are still available up to and including January 17. After that, use our readers code BBVUAMNT to secure your discounted ticket.

If you’re planning on attending the Retail Track afterwards, you can get a Day Pass for €440, which is valid for both events. There is also an early-bird discount for the Day Pass.

The tickets can be added to the shopping cart on the ISE website after the initial registration.

The DSS ISE 2025 program revolves around the primary disruptors that are turning the roles and rules in digital signage upside down: AI, Cyber Security, Managed Services, and Sustainability. Here is the entire program:

10:30 invidis keynote “Managing Signage: Breaking the Rules of Digital Signage”

  • Florian Rotberg, Managing Director – invidis
  • Stefan Schieker, Partner – invidis

In the digital signage industry, old power balances are shifting in several areas: from hardware to software, from perpetual licenses to subscriptions, and from silos to platforms. These role shifts go hand in hand with the growing importance of digital signage as a business-critical tool that is no longer just “nice to have”.

11:20 Presentation “The Next Frontier – Digital Humans and Generative AI in Retail Digital Signage”

  • Ivan Lau, Co-Founder and CEO – Pantheon Lab Limited

Ivan Lau will demonstrate to DSS guests real examples of GenAI applications such as virtual shopping assistants, personalized product recommendations, and interactive brand ambassadors.

11:40 Panel discussion “Prompting Signage – How AI is disrupting Digital Signage”

  • Christina Tse, Co-Founder and Advisor – Pantheon Lab Limited
  • Craig Francis, Digital Signage Partner Manager – Google ChromeOS
  • George Pappas, CEO – i5LED
  • Stefan Schieker, Partner – invidis

The DSS AI panel features experts from across the industry and the globe to discuss opportunities and the impact of AI on digital signage.

12:00 Expert talk “ISE Highlights through a Digital Signage Lens”

  • Florian Rotberg, Managing Director – invidis
  • Stefan Schieker, Partner – invidis
  • Dave Haynes, Publisher/Editor – SixteenNine

Together with Dave Haynes, publisher of Sixteen-Nine, Florian Rotberg and Stefan Schieker will be talking about the digital signage highlights of ISE 2025.

12:20 Panel discussion “Cyber Security – Navigating Cyber Security Risks in Digital Signage”

  • Jason Cremins, Founder and CEO – Signagelive
  • Jeff Hastings, Chief Technology Officer – Brightsign
  • Christopher Timmins, Director of Marketing & Partnerships – Intel Corporation
  • Florian Rotberg, Managing Director – invidis

In the cyber security panel, experts will discuss how operating systems, hardware, and third-party tools enable integrators to develop and deploy secure solutions.

12:40 Panel discussion “Workplace meets future – Digital Signage and Effective Workplace Strategies”

  • Joe Giebel, Senior Vice President Digital Signage – Poppulo, formerly Four Winds Interactive
  • Thomas Philippart de Foy, Chief Innovation Officer – Appspace
  • Ankur Ahlowalia, CEO – Korbyt
  • Johannes Tröger, Senior Vice President – Ameria
  • Stefan Schieker, Partner – invidis

The three global digital signage providers Appspace, Korbyt and Poppulo all focus on Workplace Experience Platforms (WEX) that accompany employees everywhere in the office and their remote workplace. The Workplace Panel will discuss how digital signage can complement mobile solutions and touch on the challenges of WEX platforms as well as the role of screens in public spaces.

13:00 Panel discussion: “Managing Signage: Is Digital Signage ready for Managed Services?”

  • Stan Richter, CEO – SignageOS
  • Francis Williams, Technical and Commercial Director (Media) EMEA – Diversified
  • Kris Hogg, Head of Global Accounts – Samsung Electronics
  • Stefan Schieker, Partner – invidis

Experts along the digital signage value chain discuss the potential of managed services for digital signage, the role of integrators, and what it takes to become a managed service provider.

13:20 Global Panel “The State of the Global Digital Signage Industry”

  • Sanket Rambhia, Director – Xtreme Media
  • Mohannad Mousa, Head of Projects – Maktabitech
  • Dave Haynes, Publisher/Editor – Sixteen-Nine
  • Bradley Hanrahan, Business Development – Global Alliances – Sony
  • Stefan Schieker, Partner – invidis

The Global Roundtable brings together digital signage market players from around the world. We will discuss trends and drivers in the Americas, APAC, Middle East and Europe. Especially how global deals are shaping the industry, changing requirements of digital signage deliverability. This panel brings some of the brightest and successful digital signage market players to ISE 2025.

13:40 E-Paper Panel

  • Ian French, CTO (Taiwan) – E Ink
  • Magdalena Bogatinovska, Sales and Marketing Project Manager – Visionect
  • Martin Lienau, Product Manager Large Format Displays – Sharp/NEC
  • Dmitry Rizol, Senior Sales Engineer – Samsung Electronics
  • Florian Rotberg, Managing Director – invidis

For us, e-paper is the display technology of the year – extremely energy-saving, high-contrast, but not capable of displaying moving images. The potential of e-paper displays is huge, customers are starting to love them, and visitors to ISE 2025 will find them everywhere on the showfloor. This panel will give an outlook on how the e-paper display of the future will look like.

14:00 Wrap-up

Click here to register!