BOGOTA, Colombia --- September 13, 2012 --- SMART Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: SMT) (TSX: SMA), a leading provider of collaboration solutions, announces the opening of the first SMART Experience and Innovation Center in Latin America. The Center highlights the company’s commitment to Colombia and Latin America with a showroom of SMART products and solutions for customers, distributors and resellers across the region. The Center delivers a complete experience on the use of collaborative technologies and applications, as well as offering guided tours and hands-on training for education and business customers to gain a greater understanding of SMART collaborative solutions and products.
The new SMART Experience and Innovation Center includes solutions designed for educational institutions, businesses, government offices and military organizations. Visitors will view and experience interactive whiteboards and integrated flat panels along with a variety of other hardware and software products including the SMART Table™ interactive learning center for early education, SMART Bridgit™ collaboration software, SMART Meeting Pro™ collaboration software, SMART interactive projectors, and SMART Podium™ interactive pen displays. For business customers in particular, the Center will exhibit a variety of work environments that demonstrate how SMART solutions encourage the exchange of ideas and information, increase productivity, and generate effective interactions while providing multiple options for participation and collaboration in the same room or at a distance. For educators, the Center offers a variety of technology solutions for all grade levels, including higher education. Educators will have the opportunity to interact with SMART’s latest innovations, aimed at creating technology-enhanced school environments and improving learning outcomes.
“Colombia is an important reference point in Latin America in terms of technology implementations and a strategic location for SMART as we further develop business opportunities in countries such as Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, among others,” says Luis Ortiz, SMART’s Regional Manager, Caribbean and Latin America. “The SMART Experience and Innovation Center offers an inspiring collaborative experience for business and education customers – where organizations can understand what is available from SMART and how these solutions meet their comprehensive technology needs.”
“It is very important for Nexsys de Colombia to be part of this experience center that brings the full range of interactive whiteboards and other SMART products to a broad market of users,” says Alain Chalem, Vice President for Operations and Finance, Andina Region for Nexsys de Colombia, a SMART distributor for the region. “Customers will receive first-hand information to better understand the benefits of this type of collaborative technology.”
The SMART Experience and Innovation Center in Latin America represents yet another global location where SMART can offer a setting for in-depth learning about business and education solutions with combinations of interactive displays, software, services and support. SMART’s comprehensive solutions can help turn workplaces into interactive collaboration spaces and ensure education settings are offering long-term improvements in teaching and learning. The Bogota location complements SMART’s Briefing Centers already established in Paris, Bonn, Shanghai, Dubai, New York, Chicago, Washington DC and Calgary, Canada.
About SMART
SMART Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of collaboration solutions that change the way the world works and learns. As the global leader in interactive whiteboards, our focus is on developing a variety of easy-to-use, integrated solutions that free people from their desks and computer screens, making collaboration and learning with digital resources more natural. Our products have transformed teaching and learning in more than two million classrooms worldwide, reaching over 40 million students and their teachers. In business, our Freestorm™ visual collaboration solutions improve the way that people work and collaborate, enabling them to be more productive and reduce costs.
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Marina Geronazzo
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SMART Technologies Inc.
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MarinaGeronazzo@smarttech.com
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