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DESERT WILLOW CONFERENCE CENTER, BY SODEXHO
Permanent Audio/Visual Solution

From hotel conference rooms to conference centers, we’ve all been there – many times.  An audio/visual rental company piles equipment into the room: there’s the draped cart with the projector, a laptop perched nearby, power cords taped to the floor, crackling speakers, screeching microphone feedback, a teetering screen.  Invariably, the meeting kicks off with either an apology for malfunctioning A/V equipment or there’s an impromptu reorganization of the room to compensate for visual and/or audio problems.

In building the Desert Willow Conference Center in Phoenix, Arizona, Sodexho set out to create a new standard and a new experience for conference attendees. Built from the ground up to comfortably handle nine simultaneous meetings of 70-600 people each – the Center features tightly integrated, state-of-the-art audio/visual technology and capabilities that you just won’t find at your next meeting – regardless of where it is held.

The Center is comprised of eleven meeting rooms.  Each is fully equipped with the latest presentation technology, including ceiling mounted Hitachi projectors, motor-driven screens that deploy from the ceiling, 42-inch LG LCD monitors, microphones, speakers, and much more, all ready to go – just waiting for you and your password.

You see, at the Desert Willow Conference Center, it takes just a password to be in complete control of the whole show. 

The three largest meeting rooms feature wireless touch panels, which are housed in wall-mounted docking stations.  These docking stations feature a layer of security which locks the panel in place until you enter your assigned password.  Once unlocked, you can wirelessly control all of the audio/visual components in the room from anywhere in the room.

Whether wireless or hardwired, every meeting room has these innovative touch panels which are also used to set up a room for a client’s specific audio/visual needs.  Usually, such work requires two technicians – one in the meeting room and one in the audio/visual equipment closet, making adjustments.  But, with the touch panels, that work is not only done more quickly, but it’s done using just one technician.

Some of the Center’s rooms can double in size by the opening of air walls. In most facilities, this creates a furor of activity involving moving the audio/visual equipment so as to fit into the room’s new configuration. But, by simply entering an assigned password into a Center’s touch panel, all of the audio/visual equipment in the combined spaces is coordinated so that it all operates as one. Instantly.

This extraordinary level of integration is achieved through the use of nearly ten miles of cabling, routing virtually every piece of equipment in every room through special digital signal processing equipment.  This enables presentations and information to be displayed and heard through the use of any combination of equipment throughout the facility. 

At the Desert Willow Conference Center, long gone are the projector carts and calls for technicians and the need for apologies.  Through the state-of-the-art audio/visual technology available from Troxell Communications and the design, engineering, and implementation know-how of ExhibitOne, whether a room is set up as a theater, a classroom, a conference center, or in rounds, everyone will have the “best seat in the house.”

And it is all seamlessly controlled by…you!

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