Mobile Imaging Summit Agenda Topics, Monterey 2005

Ø       State of the Industry. Presented by Tony Henning, Managing Editor of the Future Image Mobile Imaging Report

Ø       Visionary Roundtable. What’s the “killer app” for mobile imaging? Moderated by Alexis Gerard, President, Future Image: Ben Nelson, VP & GM Snapfish, HP/Snapfish; Dave Geary, Senior Vice President, Mobile Imaging, Kodak Gallery; Lisa Walker, President of I3A; David Watkins, Director of Imaging Business NAM, Nokia; and Pierre Barbeau, General Manager Picture Mail, Sprint

Ø       Goodbye Camera? Will camera phones become the primary picture taking device? We’ll look at the considerable advances in camera-phone usability and image quality and discuss whether they can achieve mainstream acceptance as our primary picture-taking devices, all but displacing “traditional” cameras. Moderated by Tony Henning, Managing Editor, Mobile Imaging Report; Chuck Westfall, Director Media & Customer Relationship, Canon; Laurent Samama, Vice President Mobile Imaging, DxO Labs; Shane Thomas, Director Business Development, Imaging, Micron Technology: Brian Krasavage, Director, Mobile Devices Business Planning, Motorola

Ø       The Imaging Living Room. As home entertainment systems become digital, networked, and more complex, how will they work with the portable capture and playback devices everyone has now — and the ones they will be buying in the near future? Who will drive this combination — or are there in fact already too many would-be drivers on a collision course? Moderated by Paul Worthington, Managing Editor, Future Image Report; Wilf Russell, Group Manager, Microsoft; Chad Richard, CEO, Simple Star

Ø       Storage and Management: Gold Mine or Loss Leader? There are opportunities to monetize mobile images beyond printing them. In this session we’ll discuss whether offering storage, archiving, and management services to mobile photographers can become a profitable business or will always be a loss leader or enabler for other downstream uses. Moderated by Tony Henning, Managing Editor, Mobile Imaging Report; Dr. Bill Sequeira, Chief Operating Officer, ACD Systems; Hoyet Andrews, Director, Technical Marketing, Digimarc; Chris Wu, Vice President, Mobile, HP/Snapfish; Lisa Walker, President, I3A

Ø       Print: Beyond the 4x6. While printing of digital images is on the rise, there are reasons to expect customer behavior will gradually shift away from products whose value proposition is rooted in conventional photography. What forms of photo display will offer compelling value to the new breed of purely digital snapshooters and photographers? Moderated by Paul Worthington, Managing Editor, Future Image Report; Dean Schiller, President & Founder, Ceiva Logic; Aaron Weiss, Director of Business Development, HP; Philippe Sanchez, President, PhotoWorks; Ulf Claesson, CEO, Silverwire

Ø       The Future of Bandwidth: 3G networks are going live all across the globe. Meanwhile vendors of WiMAX, UMTS TDD, Flash-OFDM, and various flavors of Wi-Fi are gearing up to offer fatter pipes for transferring images, video, music and games. Which is the future of Mobile Imaging? And how will customers pay for it? Moderated by Tony Henning, Managing Editor, Mobile Imaging Report; Andy Tiller, VP, Product Marketing, Cognima; Vipul Mehrotra, Director of Technology and Portfolio Management, Nokia USA; Francisco Kattan, Director of Product Marketing, Openwave; Mark Frankel, VP, Product Management, QUALCOMM

Ø       New Technology Showcase: Be among the first to preview new camera-phone based technologies from David McDonell, Co-founder and CEO, Imagenomic; Danny Yu, VP, Business Development, Lumileds Lighting; Murty Bhavana, Vice President & co-Founder, Nethra Imaging; Dr. Hartmut Neven, President, Neven Vision; John Chaffee, CEO, SplashData; Alan Phillips, Co-founder & VP of Business Development, uLocate; John Barber, Vice President Business Development, Varioptic; Michael Toutonghi, President & CEO, Vizrea  

Ø       Mobile Imaging Metrics: This is a presentation of mobile imaging research data by GfK Retail & Technology Division, the global market leader in imaging market research. Presented by Tom Daily, Managing Director, Gfk Equity Research

Ø       Video - Mainstream At Last, or Still a Niche? With full-screen/full-motion video capture capabilities coming to low-cost digital cameras and camera-phones, it will be widely available, but will it take off in any significant way? This panel will examine what obstacles have held video back for so long; what new products and technologies overcome these issues; what monetization strategies are coming into place; and the new ways in which consumers will begin to use video capture, playback, and even real-time transmission. Moderated by Paul Worthington, Managing Editor, Future Image Report; JP Wollersheim, Business Development Manager, Microsoft; Cole Mottram, Senior Manager, Collaborations, Imaging Business, Nokia; Philippe Poutonnet, Strategic Market Analyst, Qpass; Gail Redmond, President & CEO, SozoTek

Ø       Social Imaging: Where’s the Beef? As demonstrated vividly during the London bombings, camera-phones are becoming a social force. In addition to simple photo diaries and sharing sites, moblogs are now being used as citizen watchdog and crime prevention tools, as travel guides to “annotate” the physical world, and more. Mobile dating applications that combine imaging, presence, and opt-in are reshaping courtship and family values. Is there money to be made in these applications? Moderated by Tony Henning, Managing Editor, Mobile Imaging Report; Evan Nisselson, CEO, Digital Railroad; Glenn Paul, CEO, dotPhoto; Bradden Wondra, Digital Imaging Services, North Asia, Kodak Gallery; Myron Kassaraba, Principal, MJK Partners; Alan Gershenfeld, co-CEO, Netomat; Calin Turcanu, Senior Manager, Multimedia Solutions, Nokia

Ø       Opportunities in Business Imaging – Grassroots or IT? In the business world new technology must clear the hurdle of corporate IT departments who most often frown on anything new and unproven — or not easily integrated into their existing systems. Should mobile imaging vendors follow the path of the first personal computers that snuck in through the “back door”? Or can the imaging and information technology industries work together quickly — and smoothly? Moderated by Paul Worthington, Managing Editor, Future Image Report; Bob Goldstein, co-Author, “Going Visual;” Nasir Sheikh, VP, Sales & Bus Dev, ACD Systems; Mark Bole, President, Cognima; Phil McKinney, VP & CTO, Network & Service Providers Business Unit, HP

Ø       Financial Roundtable: Show me the Money! How will the various players in the Mobile Imaging ecosystem make money? Will it be minutes or services that drive innovation? How will the traffic be monetized? How have the M&A targets been monetized? Where and when will Venture Capitalists place their bets? Moderated by Mark Kalow, Managing Director, Soquel Group; Shanda Bahles, General Partner, El Dorado Ventures; Scott Chou, General Partner, Gabriel Venture Partners; Raj Kapoor, Managing Director, Mayfield; Ben Black, Principal, Maveron LLC; Rudy Burger, CEO and Founder, US Development Partners