Handshake To Debut On American Stages

SKIDATA and Tessitura announced their strategic pas de deux last week at the 2004 Tessitura Network User Conference in Seattle. A presentation by SKIDATA representative Martin Kloboucnik on SKIDATA and the handshake™ access solution was attended by over 450 guests, most of them senior marketing, IT, and account managers from Tessitura's high-profile clientele.

The presentation generated a lot of interest among the audience – so much so that during the break-out session, Kloboucnik, SKIDATA's representative for event systems in the US, was approached by another group of around 60 conference attendees requesting information on SKIDATA™ technologies and already discussing the technical specifics of possible future projects.

As usual in the performing arts business, the conference ended on a high note, with the announcement of the “first early adaptors”, whose venues will soon be moving to the tune of handshake™. The list includes famous arts organisations such as the Baltimore Symphony ( www.baltimoresymphony.org ), the San Francisco Symphony ( www.sfsymphony.org ), and the Woodruff Arts Center ( www.woodruffcenter.org ) in Atlanta.