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ESX is different from all other industry conferences and shows because it’s owned by the Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA) and Electronic Security Association (ESA). The revenue generated by the conference will remain within the industry to be used for programming, education, legislative activities and public relations to benefit your company.
The ESX Crawl Heads to Charlotte
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The annual event, where ESX attendees go to a number of local bars in one night, all started during a site visit for the first ESX in Nashville, TN. A team from CSAA, ESA and AE Ventures visited Nashville to check out the Nashville Convention Center, headquarters hotel and venues for special off-site functions hosted by CSAA and ESA. As night fell on that cold January day, a few brave souls from this reconnaissance party, led by proud Tennessean John Knox, ventured out to the honky tonks of lower Broadway in Nashville. As the group made its way from one establishment to the next, taking in awesome live country and country rock music (along with other forms of inspiration) at every stop, it became clear ESX needed to leverage the unique benefits of Nashville’s entertainment scene. The concept for the ESX Crawl was born, and planning and promotions began soon after recovery from the field research. The first ESX Crawl featured stops at Legends Corner, Tootsie’s World Famous Orchid Lounge, The Stage and Cadillac Ranch. We know this because there are T-shirts (now a bit washed out) to help us remember. Highlights of the inaugural crawl included a celebrity sighting of Cher at Tootsies and mechanical bull riding at Cadillac Ranch (no riders’ names will be mentioned to protect the innocent). The 2009 ESX Crawl is best known for the Vector Security team’s karaoke performance (we think it was Frankie Vale and the Four Seasons’ “I Love You, Baby”) at Tir Na Nog – a waterside Irish pub at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor – the introduction of glow-in-the-dark necklaces and bracelets as ESX Crawl identifiers and the famous glow-in-the-dark necklace ring toss contest initiated by ESX Chair George De Marco at the expense of a mounted elk head at the same fine Irish establishment. 2010 Crawl highlights included finding an appropriate security camera for ring toss at the second Crawl stop, a lot of dancing at the final stop and an appearance by Videofied’s Motion Viewer Man at a karaoke sing-off.
“Down time, casual connection and plain old fun has always been a part of the ESX concept,” says John Knox, president of Knox Integrated Systems, vice president of ESA and unofficial social chair of ESX. “It sounds silly, but it’s so important to provide a way for people to connect on a personal level away from the booths and the product displays, away from the closed shirt collars and suit coats. The ESX Crawl creates the opportunity for those connections and creates a lot of fun memories in the process.” What inanimate or animate object will be the target of this year’s glow-in-the-dark ring toss? What unexpected twist in the proceedings or celebrity sighting will pop up this year? Who will you make a new connection with during the festivities that will help you improve your business or develop professionally? Join the Crawl and find out! Click here for more information about this year’s Crawl. Check out the highlight video from the 2010 Crawl:
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The origin of the ESX Crawl hasn’t been shared with many people … until now.
So what does the ESX 2011 Crawl, sponsored by Interlogix, have up its sleeve in Charlotte? For one thing, we’ve minimized the actual footsteps for the Crawl by focusing exclusively on a single entertainment complex known as the EpiCenter in downtown Charlotte.
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