AVIXA has announced that Lightapalooza, a residential lighting event that the association purchased earlier this year, will be joined by a new event for the custom integration community called RESIDE at InfoComm 2027, taking place June 16-18 in Orlando, Florida.
RESIDE is being launched through a joint venture between AVIXA, Home Technology Specialists of America (HTSA), and ProSource to create a new purpose-built event for the residential channel. Together, HTSA and ProSource represent more than 750 of North America’s leading residential integration firms.
At a reception held at InfoComm 2026 in Las Vegas, representatives from each group addressed a crowd of interested attendees.
“We spend a lot of time trying to figure out what it is about us that makes us different and special,” said AVIXA CEO David Labuskes. “And it’s the community. You can put together an event, but you can’t just slap together a community. Community grows and evolves, and what it needs is a campfire to gather around. What it needs is an opportunity to share learnings, to pass on traditions, to create new futures together, none of which can be done without being in the same room as each other.
“When we were introduced to Lightapalooza, HTSA, and Pro Source, the first question was, ‘Is there a community behind this?’ Because without that, it’s just another event. It is my deep joy to watch the community that I’ve been a part of for so long begin to grow and expand. And thank you for being a part of that and for entrusting us. We look forward to having you as part of the family.”
“We sat down with Jenn [Heinold, SVP, Expositions Americas, AVIXA] and it took all of about three minutes to realize the synergy of what was there,” said Jon Robbins, HTSA executive director, “because the first thing we touched on was education, and that that has to be a critical part of what we do and how we maintain Lightapalooza and how we get to something new.”
“I think that this new show can connect commercial and residential differently here in the United States,” said Jim Pearse, CEO of ProSource. “I think that there’s an efficiency for our vendors having a single show for them to go to and there’s an efficiency for the dealers in the custom installation industry to have one show to go to. My hope is that we can begin to create more of a community between the commercial part of the business and the residential part of the business.
“My hope is that this show turns into something very, very special, and it turns into a show, when we look out in five years, that has new traditions and new ideas and new productivity and a place for all of us to come to and really share ideas, find new business opportunities, and continue to grow the consumer electronics industry that I very much love in my heart.”
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