Dante Certification Workshops
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Audio Engineering in Detroit – Workshops
Beginning Feb. 17, 2025
Dante Certification Level 1: Foundations of Dante Protocol
Date: Monday, April 28, 2025
Time: 9am-5pm
Dante Certification Level 1 Cost: $125.00
Dante Certification Level 1 focuses on the skills to design, set up and operate a Dante audio/video system on a single network switch. This class will establish fundamental skills in audio, video and networking, and offer an introduction to the main tools used in a Dante network. Demonstrations offer attendees a practical feel for Dante’s breadth, reach and simplicity.
This second edition class is significantly enhanced from the original Dante Certification. This class adds significant educational content on video, making sense of Dante devices with multiple network ports on them, as well as deeper tours of Dante Controller’s screens.
Dante Certification Level 2: Advanced Dante Networks
Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Time: 9am-5pm
Dante Certification Level 2 Cost: $125.00
Dante Certification Level 2 builds the necessary skillset to confidently design, set up, operate and troubleshoot Dante systems that span multiple network switches. A combination of live and pre-recorded demonstrations (due to required scale or elapsed time) will bring these features to life.
This second edition class is significantly enhanced from the original Dante Certification. It builds a much stronger understanding of networking, traffic management and troubleshooting. This greatly helps technicians manage systems at this level, and it prepares them well for Level 3.
Dante Certification Level 3: Fundamentals of Enterprise Networks and Converged Networks.
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Time: 9am-5pm
Dante Certification Level 3 Cost: $125.00
Dante Certification Level 3 tackles the fundamentals of Layer 3 enterprise networks and operating on converged networks. Dante Domain Manager™ is a key piece of this puzzle – this class explains the role Dante Domain Manager plays, how it enables more network capability and offers a view of the server itself.
This second edition class is significantly different than the original version. This new version brings the challenges to life in a more relatable way that is useful from system design, installation and troubleshooting. This class also offers demonstrations of Dante Domain Manager, showing its purpose and basic operation. This class builds upon the new content added in the Dante Certification Level 2 (Second Edition). If you have not taken and passed the new Level 2 class, then you should do so before taking this one.
Meet your instructor
Ed Willock has worked in live event production for over 25 years, with experience in live music, high profile Corporate event AV, theater, and broadcast/streaming. Ed serves as Director of Audio Education for AV Educate, a 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to EQUIP, ENABLE, and EMPOWER the future of the audio-visual workforce, and formerly hosted AV Tech Talks presented by AV Educate. Over the last decade Ed has designed, implemented, and utilized Dante networks on hundreds of live events. During that time Ed earned Dante Levels 1, 2, & 3 (both 1st & 2nd Ed.) and Dante Mastery Technician Certifications before becoming a Certified Dante Instructor. Ed has a firm belief that learning happens best when it’s hands-on. This led him to develop hands-on exercises to accompany the Dante Level 1 – 3 curriculum, and to develop his own fully hands-on course called Dante Troubleshooting and Practical Workflows
