Future Image and I3A Announce Mobile Imaging North America Summit Sponsors and Format.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2003 Future Image, the leading provider of digital imaging information and analysis, and the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A I3A International Imaging Industry Association I3A Installation Information Infrastructure Architecture I3A Iterative Image Interpolation Algorithm ), the leading global imaging industry association, today announced the sponsorship lineup for their upcoming Mobile Imaging Executive Summit, to be held November 3rd and 4th at the Monterey Plaza Hotel The Plaza Hotel in New York City is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel with a height of 250 feet (76 m) and length of 400 feet that (122 m) occupies the west side of Grand Army Plaza, from which it derives its name, and extends along Central Park South in Manhattan. and Spa in Monterey, California For other uses, see Monterey (disambiguation). The City of Monterey is located on Monterey Bay along the Pacific coast in central California. As of 2005, the city population was 30,641. . The list of leading companies backing the event includes Hewlett Packard, Lightsurf, Nokia, SanDisk, Webshots, Kodak, and DO Labs. With sales of camera-phones projected to exceed the combined total of both film and digital cameras as soon as this year, the Mobile Imaging Summit will highlight the explosive trend toward using mobile imaging as a tool for enhanced business and personal communication. "Cameras integrated into cell phones offer the possibility of communicating visual information from anywhere-to-anywhere instantly, a capability that will revolutionize the way we communicate, said Lisa Walker, president, International Imaging Industry Association. "Meeting with industry leaders and their business clients will provide a forum to discuss ways in which the industry as a whole can champion the growth of this new market opportunity." "We are delighted to have the quality of sponsors and participants that we have assembled for our Summit," said Alexis Gerard, president of Future Image Inc. "These are thought-leading companies and individuals who like us believe the Mobile Imaging phenomenon will rapidly result in hundreds of millions of people equipped with image capture devices they have with them at all times -- and that are network-enabled. Future Image is delighted to ally itself with Forbes magazine, our media sponsor, and the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A), to deliver a high-value forum to analyze the business challenges and opportunities raised by this convergence." The Summit will host a select group of visionaries whose views are shaping the development of the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Mobile Imaging market. It will feature sessions covering: -- A technology roadmap The context of product management The existence of product managers in the product software industry indicates that software is becoming more and more commercialized as a standard product. for mobile imaging over the next 12, 24, and 36 months -- bandwidth, resolution and other key capabilities at both the front and back ends of the technology chain -- Projected changes in the expectations, behaviors, and requirements of users in both the business and consumer markets as a result of these new capabilities -- New revenue streams for suppliers and users, and strategies to tap into them. The event will be conducted in a highly interactive fashion, providing attendees the opportunity to engage and interact, in sessions and on the golf course, with such industry luminaries as Vyomesh (VJ) Joshi, Executive VP, Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard Company; Philippe Kahn Philippe Kahn (born March 16, 1952)[1] is an American technology innovator and entrepreneur, French-born, known as the founder of Borland, a producer of software development tools for as well as Starfish Software, the creator of the first wireless synchronization , founder 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. , LightSurf Technologies; Randy Roberts, GM, Imaging Business Unit of Nokia; and Nelson Chan, Sr. VP of Marketing with Sandisk. The range of topics covered will include: -- Camera-phone sensors (Jason Hartlove, Vice President and General Manager, Sensor Solutions Division, Agilent Technologies) -- Image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished (Jerome Meniere, Founder, Chairman and CEO, DO Labs) -- Infrastructure for picture-mail and content delivery (Robin Nijor, Vice President Marketing & Sales, LightSurf Technologies) -- Image sharing services (Narendra Rocherolle, co-CEO and Founder, Webshots) -- Infrastructures for retail photofinishing pho·to·fin·ish·ing n. The act or business of developing camera films and printing photographs for customers. pho of camera-phone images (Ulf Clasesson, CEO, Silverwire; Yuval Yashiv, CEO, Pixology) -- Print opportunities (Venkat Purushotham, President and CEO, NextPress) -- Behavioral changes and new business opportunities in the consumer market (Chip Novick, Vice President of Consumer Marketing, Sprint) -- Opportunities in security and surveillance (Don Strickland, President, iPIX), -- Commercial content delivery to camera-phones (Phil O'Brien, CEO, EMPICS) This year's event is the second edition of Future Image's annual Visual Communication Summit. For more information please contact Joe Byrd, Future Image VP of Business Development, at jbyrd@futureimage.com. Businesses need a tool that drives down costs, improves efficiency and increases revenue. Mobile Imaging is just such a tool for many leading firms. Future Image, in association with Forbes, is continuing its series of special advertising sections designed to deliver a high-value information link between the leaders of the imaging industry and the leaders of the business world. Visual Communication: Mobile Imaging Connections will help 4.5 million Forbes readers -- tech-savvy senior decision makers -- around the world better understand the financial value of mobile imaging technologies and how they are helping leading companies cut costs, enrich the communication experience and achieve competitive advantage in their respective fields. About Future Image Future Image (www.futureimage.com) is the leading independent center of expertise focused on the convergence of imaging, technology, and business. It publishes two continuous information services See Information Systems. : The Future Image Executive Information Service, and the Future Image WIRE (Wireless Imaging - Research Edition). In addition, Future Image underwrites and publishes numerous research studies on the impact of emerging, imaging-focused technologies or business trends. Future Image is the official information and research partner of the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A), and the managing partner of the Visual Communication initiative (www.visualcommunication.info) supported by Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. , Eastman Kodak, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, 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) , LightSurf, Microsoft, Nikon, and Sprint PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. . About the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A) I3A is the leading global imaging industry association, driving growth of and setting standards for the photographic and information imaging markets. As the industry focal point focal point n. See focus. , I3A offers a framework and environment where members can quickly find resources to solve critical issues and develop market solutions. Members of I3A work together to find common ground for advancing the industry and to enable better products and services for their customers. I3A is the product of the merger of the Digital Imaging Group (DIG) and the Photographic and Imaging Manufacturers Association The Photographic and Imaging Manufacturers Association, or PIMA, was founded in 1946 under the name National Association of Photographic Manufacturers (NAPM). In 1997 the name was changed to PIMA. (PIMA). Information about I3A can be found on the World Wide Web at www.i3a.org. All product and company names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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