HTSA Tech Director Doherty Spearheads Colorado Training Event Before CEDIA Expo
The Home Technology Specialists of America tacked on a two-day training opportunity to participating integrators’ CEDIA Expo week schedules with the optional Tommapalooza, headed by Director-New Technology Initiatives Tom Doherty. HTSA scheduled the training events -- for lighting, power management…
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and health and wellness technology systems -- at Xssential’s Parker, Colorado, facility, using spaces originally designed for the ill-fated HAUS (Home Automation University) project (see 1603160041). HAUS, an offshoot of the Xssentials’ electronics integration company, opened doors in March 2016 with a splashy event to show off its 25,000-square-foot educational facility. The building, adjacent to Xssentials’ operations, includes classrooms, meeting and social areas, labs and a video production room and was built for vendor-sponsored training events for dealers from the security, AV and HVAC industries to give them skills to succeed in the home automation space. HAUS shut down five months later, but the facility remains. HTSA is paying a nominal fee to use the space for the training, which is free to HTSA integrators, he said. Lighting training classes begin Sept. 10, with some 68 attendees signed up by Thursday, along with classes by Delos, which developed the “Well Building Standard," a set of standards and best practices for the development of healthier interior spaces, Doherty said. Delos trainers will teach installers about its Darwin Premier Home Wellness Intelligence platform “so they can talk intelligently to their clients, architects and developers about the well-building standard and wellness as it relates to the luxury residential market opportunity.” Doherty and product trainers from companies including Crestron, Vantage, Rosewater Energy, Tech Element and DMX will teach Wednesday classes, he said. Overall, integrators will be offered more than 60 hours of training over the two days, he said. Doherty is dubbing the event Tommapalooza I, and based on interest, “I think there will be II, III and IV,” he said.