FREE Audio Visual Training for professionals

Award winning training from the CIE AV experts...

CIE provides a wide range of FREE technical training academies for AV professionals at our Nottingham-based training facility and at venues througout the UK.

Our AV experts deliver these free one-day academies for professional installers and integrators, many of which are certified by professional bodies including AVIXA, CEDIA, Infocomm and the HDBaseT Alliance.

We have delivered more than 50 free Academies to over 400 AV professionals and continue to grow and improve our academies by adding more and more each year.

CIE and HowToAV announce UK-wide tour of free IP Academies

CIE's brand new I.P. Academies UK Tour is coming to a town near you! Bringing together some of the UK's leading experts in AV and technology-over-IP, we'll be taking to the roads to present our biggest program of FREE professional AV training academies ever!

With a full program of new academies to choose from  -  Video-over-IP, Audio-over-IP, IP Intercom Essentials, Induction Loops and Lockdown Security Systems - we'll be presenting a series of 3 day training programs at locations throughout the UK.

Choose any or all of the sessions over the 3 days - all completely free of charge! - as we present, discuss and investigate the AV industry's rapid migration from analogue to network-based signal distribution and control.

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Tailored training for our customers

Our team of AV and technology experts can also provide a custom training session to meet your needs at our new training facility in Nottingham. Contact your CIE account manager to discuss your needs and we'll tailor a specific training programme designed around you.

Whether it be hands-on training on any of our products, technical training on the lastest signal distribution technologies or an introductory course for your trainee installers, the CIE AV experts will deliver high quality, informative but informal training customised just for you and your team.

HowToAV.tv - the industry's leading AV training channel

CIE is proud to bring HowToAV.tv - the first and only free AV training channel - to the audio visual industry, our award-winning online training initiative for AV professionals and end users.

HowToAV is an online channel delivering free technical videocasts on all the lastest AV technologies, installation techniques, jargon-busters and industry news from trade expos from around the world.

Presented by the CIE team of AV experts, plus a whole host of independent AV industry thought leaders, HowToAV.tv provides free to view training videocasts on hundreds of technology subjects including HDCP, HDMI, HDBaseT, EDID, HDR, professional audio and more - and it's all brought to you free of charge, courtesy of CIE!