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As Industry Convergence Continues, Xplor International and ISA Colocate Events

The convergence continues: the International Sign Association and Xplor International have announced that in April 2019, the Sign Expo 2019 and XPLOR19 will colocate.  

Monday, December 03, 2018

(See the original press release here.)

Attendees to the upcoming International Sign Expo in Las Vegas (April 23–26, 2019, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center) will have an additional slate of sessions to add to their schedules: Xplor International’s XPLOR19 conference. Announced last week, the alliance between the International Sign Association and Xplor had been in the works for some time.

“We’ve been working together with ISA for about two and a half years, and were part of their conference program the last time they were in Las Vegas [Sign Expo 2017],” said Skip Henk, president and CEO of Xplor. “The reception that we received from attendees at the session we put on was overwhelming. I was a bit shocked at the time, and then we started talking about what different synergies we could have with each other.”


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Richard Romano is Managing Editor of WhatTheyThink.  He curates the Wide Format section on WhatTheyThink.com. He has been writing about the graphic communications industry for more than 25 years. He is the author or coauthor of more than half a dozen books on printing technology and business. His most recent book is “Beyond Paper: An Interactive Guide to Wide-Format and Specialty Printing.

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