Advance registration up 40% for NEW MEDIA EXPO; show executive predicts record crowds, "hot show".NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 1995--With advance registration up more than 40 percent from year-ago levels, executives for the sponsoring Interface Group's NEW MEDIA EXPO, March 14-16, Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. , predicted record crowds of more than 25,000 and "a very hot show." NEW MEDIA EXPO, only in its second year, is beginning to show the kind of growth potential associated with other Interface Group conferences and expositions, most notably the company's COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). events. The show's technology director, Robert Berkowitz, emphasizes that NEW MEDIA EXPO is focused firmly on "business opportunities in interactive information. That's why the show is based in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , where there is a growing community of film and video producers, commercial art directors and others working with new (digital) media." The NEW MEDIA EXPO Conference program kicks off Tuesday, March 14, at 9 a.m., with a keynote from Jim Clark Jim Clark - Dr. James H. Clark , chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. for Netscape Communications, a leading Internet browser See Web browser. company. Earlier in his career, Dr. Clark founded a leading workstation vendor, Silicon Graphics. On Wednesday, March 15, also at 9 a.m., a second keynote will be delivered by Kenneth D. Van Meter Van Meter may refer to:
In addition to the two keynoters, the event's conference program will present more than 40 sessions and tutorials, featuring more than 150 leading experts in the emerging business of creating and delivering new media content. Writers Guild of America/West is a major participant in NEW MEDIA EXPO, with a daily Interactive Forum session featuring top creative teams and, from their booth on the exhibit floor, interactive video conferencing between Hollywood writers and artists and their counterparts in Paris gathered at the Electronic Cafe International. The NEW MEDIA exhibit floor will present about 150 exhibiting companies with a broad range of systems, products, and on-line services. Special features on the exhibit floor include Internet demonstrations and training, the Digital Production Lab with systems and tools for digital video and special effects, and a pavilion featuring prize-winning finalists in the annual Interactive Media and Marketing Awards Program, sponsored by Advertising Age and Newsweek magazines and the Interface Group. Highlighting the exhibitors roster are such leading companies as Apple Computer, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Creative Labs, JVC JVC Victor Company of Japan (or Japan's Victor Company) JVC Jewelers Vigilance Committee JVC Jesuit Volunteer Corps JVC Jet Vane Control (directs VLS-launched missiles) JVC Jonker-Volgenant-Castanon Information Products, Prodigy Services, Compuserve and the Discovery Channel. In addition to NEW MEDIA EXPO, The Interface Group produces COMDEX and WINDOWS WORLD events for the global computer-communications industry. The company recently announced the sale of its Trade Show Division to SOFTBANK Corporation; the transaction is expected to close in mid-April. WINDOWS WORLD events are produced in cooperation with Microsoft Corp. CONTACT: The Interface Group Sue Lonergan or Peter B. Young, 617/449-6600 |
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