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Worthington University is an all-encompassing 4-day system integration and home automation training. This training is also available as single-day sessions, which allows dealers to attend for any combination of the four-days. The syllabus focuses on:

• Structured Wiring
• CCTV
• Distributed Audio
• Lighting
• HAI
• Business Sales and Marketing

Learn to profit and differentiate your company by selling stand-alone and fully integrated product solutions from industry leading companies. Students gain hands-on experience installing, configuring, and programming HAI systems as well as products from connectivity partners Russound, Leviton, Philips, CentraLite and others. In addition to standard full-day training, students are offered sponsored evening sessions from manufacturers ensuring the Worthington University is an exceptional education investment.

Each class section is led by the award-winning Worthington Distribution technical support staff. They not only know the products they are teaching, they live with them. This ensures unparalleled product knowledge and the ability to teach from personal experience. Each system covered is fully functional in the room, offering students the opportunity to install, configure, and alter programming in personal displays.

For class descriptions, times, and dates and free on-line Webinars, please visit www.worthingtonu.com.

Presented by Home Controls, RIS is an intense week-long training course that teaches you the five phases of selling, designing, costing, installation and customer training necessary to sell and install a typical HAI automation and networking project. In addition, you will build an HAI automation system from the ground up using HAI controllers and other popular automation products that work with HAI. By the end of this class, you will have a very good overview and specific training on how to sell and physically install select automation, networking and entertainment systems.

The instructors are very professional presenters with field experience, independent, highly knowledgeable experts in our field. RIS has been awarded the Mark of Excellence Best Training Program and the OTTO Best Vendor-Provided Home Tech Training. RIS is a CEDIA Professional Certification Provider, offering up to 15 CEU credits.

For class descriptions, times and dates, just log on to www.homecontrols.com/ris.

Bedrock Learning solves your training needs with online curriculum for the connected home industry. Developed by industry experts, courses deliver the principles of technology systems and installation in the home:

• Structured Wiring
• Multi-Room Audio
• Home Theater
• Lighting Control
• Home Networking
• Project Management

Online courses are convenient and available 24/7, allowing students to work at their own pace. Most courses can be completed within four to eight hours. Installers, salespeople, customer support and other professionals learn while quizzes and a final course test provide knowledge verification. Students completing online courses can earn CEUs, RUs, and Contact Hours for CEDIA, InfoComm, Electronic Security Association (ESA) and ETA International.

For over 20 years, companies have come to rely on Bedrock Learning because of student success and their ability to help drive business performance.

For more information visit bedrocklearning.com or call 616.355.1418.

To address the skills gap facing the digital home industry, CompTIA partnered with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) to develop the CEA-CompTIA DHTI+ certification. Combining CEA’s market expertise and CompTIA’s certification development expertise has given the industry an effective way to validate the skills of home network integrators.

CEA-CompTIA DHTI+ is the first credential that certifies the necessary knowledge to work with electronic and digital home systems. CEA-CompTIA DHTI+ ensures that technology integrators, security system technicians, cable, satellite, telecommunications and A/V installers, electricians and network administrators have the right skills to complete the job.

For more information visit http://certification.comptia.org/dhti/about.aspx.

Hometech El Hogar Digital Training Center in Medellín, Colombia, offers a complete program of 4 days of training. This course focuses on the planning, design, and programming of the HAI automation control systems. The atendants who particiapte in this program will obtain the capacity to install these systems on their own as well as the ability to integrate with other connectivity partners' products such as Russound, Leviton, Philips, Denon and others.

The training center has interactive on-hand labs equiped with the different automation systems with qualified personel that are experienced with the HAI systems. Atendees will also be able to simulate programing, testing, and installation of different solutions in automation, which include lighting, temperature, audio distribution, cameras, security, access controls, and many other different integrations which the HAI automated control system can perform.

The description for the trainings, dates, and times can be found here: http://www.homeautola.com/capacitacion.php.

HAI is proud to support the Integrator community by helping to sponsor a new training program developed by the Cisco Learning Institute. This turnkey training program is designed to cover the topics tested on the CompTIA HTI+ exam.

For more information visit hti.ciscolearning.org.