Shure Distribution’s Tuomo Tolonen with the PLASA Award for Innovation for the Shure Axient Wireless Manager, which the judges deemed was worthy of Gold Award Status. Total Solutions’ Chris Cronin stands in front of the PLASA Award for Innovation Video Tech Truss, which is designed to support video walls and to allow a technician to have safe access to the back of the video display. Peter Skytte with the PLASA Award for Innovation for Martin Professional’s new MAC Aura luminaire, which provides a new types of visual effects creating unique eye-candy. Silvio Cibien in the ELC Lighting stand next to the PLASA Award for Innovation for the ELC Green-Go digital show communications system. Ed Pagett presents the PLASA Award for Innovation to Hannes Gerriets for the innovative G-Quick by Gerriets, a method of quickly and easily fastening soft goods to battens. Antoine Latapie along side the PLASA Award for Innovation for Chromlech’s Gleamer DMX-controlled low voltage dimmer. Paul Bauman and Brian Pickowitz with the PLASA Award for Innovation for the Harman HiQnet Performance Manager that systematically takes a sound engineer through the set-up process. GDS’ Matt Lloyd and Richard Cuthbert with the double-winning Award for Innovation and special PLASA Sustainability Award for its ARCSystem of LED auditorium lighting fixtures. PLASA National Rigging Certificates (Nordic), Level 3, were awarded by PLASA’s European Chair, Ed Pagett, to Roger Mansson (Sweden), Pontus Friberg (Sweden), Soren Durango (Sweden), Martin Svane (Denmark), Jonas Ritz (Denmark), and Bjorn Storvik (Norway). PHO T O COUR TESY : CHRIST OPHER T OULMIN PHO T O COUR TESY : CHRIST OPHER T OULMIN PHO T O COUR TESY : MAR TIN PROFESSIONAL FALL 2011 81 PROTOCOL