For more than 35 years, PSA Security Network has brought the security industry the annual PSA-TEC conference. This year’s event will take place at The Westin in Westminster, Colo., May 6 to 10, 2013. This year, PSA-TEC is expanding its educational offerings by adding new classes and bringing back favorites by popular demand.

During the December 2012 IQ Certification annual membership meeting, executive director, Dale Eller, announced the election results for the 2013 IQ Board of Directors. Tim Creenan, Lynn Comer and Dave Currie each were elected to a two-year term, which began Jan. 1, 2013.

SAFE Security, San Ramon, Calif., has been making headlines ever since it was acquired by ICV Partners in early December of last year with its two-part acquisition of Pinnacle Security accounts, the launch of a monitored do-it-yourself (DIY) offering and expansion of its dealer program.

The Electronic Security Expo (ESX) announced its welcome of Roy Spence, co-founder and chairman of GSD&M — an Austin, Texas-based marketing and advertising agency — as its 2013 keynote speaker.

Custom Alarm/Custom Communications Inc., Rochester, Minn., was named a Blue Ribbon Small Business Award® winner by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for the fourth straight year.

Canada, which boasts the eleventh-largest economy in the world, was chosen for Lutron’s first International Experience Center, located in Markham, Ontario, just outside Toronto.

Free to qualified participants, the iSecurity 2013 virtual tradeshow provides an in-office tradeshow experience.