2004 Storage Visions/Home Gateway Conference Announces CES Partnership; Conference to Relocate to Las Vegas Convention Center; New Sponsors Announced; Awards Signup Has Started.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 2004 International CES SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2003 Speaker Signup to Close Soon The Storage Visions Conference and Home Gateway Summit (SV/HG) announces that it has agreed to be a partner program to the 2004 International CES, the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow, and to relocate the conference to the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. January 6 & 7, 2004. This move will greatly increase the exposure of the conference to CES attendees (the 2004 International CES will be held January 8-11, 2004), provide new exhibiting opportunities for storage-oriented vendors, and bring broader attention to how storage technology impacts the overall consumer electronics industry. According to Tom Coughlin, founder and organizer of the Storage Visions Conference, "We think moving the Storage Visions conference and exhibits to the CES provides compelling new opportunities and added synergy for participants." The 2004 SV/HG Conference addresses critical technology and market issues for the implementation of a completely digital entertainment industry. Issues for the 2004 conference include requirements for creating, storing, transmitting and distributing multimedia content. Corporate Sponsors (to date) include Hitachi Global Storage Technology (Platinum) Maxtor (Platinum), Seagate (Platinum), and Cornice cornice (kôr`nĭs), molded or decorated projection that forms the crowning feature at the top of a building wall or other architectural element; specifically, the uppermost of the three principal members of the classic entablature, hence by (Silver). Media/analyst and organization sponsors include: Coughlin Associates, Data Storage Review, Engage Capital, Entertainment Technology Alliance, eWeek, FCIA FCIA See: Foreign Credit Insurance Association , Horison Information Strategies, jobstor.com, MPEG Industry Forum The MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF) is a non-profit consortium dedicated to "further the adoption of MPEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted and widely used standards among creators of content, developers, manufacturers, providers of services, and end users. , MRG MRG Merge MRG Minority Rights Group International MRG Mad River Glen (Vermont) MRG Mouvement des Radicaux de Gauche (French: Left Radical Movement) MRG Manyetik Rezonans Görüntüleme Inc., PBI PBI protein-bound iodine. PBI abbr. protein-bound iodine PBI, n See iodine, protein-bound. PBI protein-bound iodine. Media, SCSI Trade Association The SCSI Trade Association, or SCSITA, is an industry trade group which exists to promote the use SCSI technology. It was formed in 1996 [1]. As of 2006, major members include Adaptec, HP, Intel, LSI Logic, Seagate, and IBM [1]. , STORAGEsearch.com, West World Productions Inc., and 2nd Story Media. Speakers confirmed for the 2004 Storage Visions conference come from companies such as Sony, Silicon Graphics, Seagate Technology, SanDisk, Maxtor, Intel, Hitachi GST GST abbr. Greenwich sidereal time GST (in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) Goods and Services Tax , Cornice, and Avid Technology. The newly announced Storage Visions awards program is now open for submissions (please go to www.storagevisions.com for a copy of the awards brochure). Award categories will include Best Consumer Storage Device, Most Innovative Product, Hottest Start-up and other categories. This program is sponsored by Engage Capital. The Storage and Content Industry Advisory Committee for the 2004 Storage Visions Conference includes Jeff Joseph (Consumer Electronics Association), Jim Porter (DiskTrend), Scott Kipp (All Digital), Gerry Nicklas (Nicklas Associates), David Takata (Engage Capital), Stephen DiFranco (Maxtor), Peter Fasciano (Avid Technology), Mark Gray (Kasenna), Rob Koenen (MPEG-4 Industry Forum), Ken Morse (PowerTV), Rob Pait (Seagate) and Lowell Moulton (Sony). The 2004 conference is now soliciting additional speakers, exhibitors and sponsors. Deadlines for speaker submissions is September 12, 2003. Companies interested in participating in the 2004 conference should check out the conference speaker, exhibitor and sponsor brochure and sign up forms that are available on the conference web site: www.storagevisions.com. Interested parties can also call Storage Visions (Tom Coughlin) at 408-978-8184 or Multimedia Research Group, Inc. at 408-524-9779. |
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