"The digital photography industry's main research body." - Forbes.com
Future Image is the leading independent center of expertise focused on the convergence of imaging, technology and business. It publishes two continuous information services: The Future Image Executive Information Service, and the Future Image Mobile Imaging Report (MIR), focused on the intersection of imaging and wireless technology. 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. Future Image is the co-host of Mobile Imaging Summit conferences.
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Alexis Gerard
Alexis Gerard is Founder and President, Future Image Inc. For the past fourteen years, Gerard's visionary thinking about the
convergence of photography and information technology has had a major influence on business leaders both inside and outside the imaging industry. He is the co-author (with Robert Goldstein) of “Going Visual – Using Images to Enhance Productivity, Decision Making and Profits”, published by John Wiley and Sons.
A passionate photographer since his twenties, Gerard founded his imaging think-tank, Future Image Inc. in 1991, after holding executive positions in new technologies marketing with Apple Computer. Today Future Image is the
acknowledged leading independent center of expertise on the convergence of imaging, technology and business. Executives, entrepreneurs and investors worldwide rely for their decision-making on its continuous information services (the Future Image Executive Information Service, and the Future Image Mobile Imaging Report), its research studies, and the advice of its consultants. The company is the official information and research partner of
the international Imaging Industry Association (I3A).
Most recently he launched the Mobile Imaging Summit, an executive conference
held three times yearly (Americas, Europe, Asia) which has the unique
distinction of gathering senior executives from the imaging, information
processing, telecommunications and entertainment industries.
Gerard’s opinions have been quoted at various times in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, International Herald Tribune, USA Today, Financial Times, Newsweek, Business Week, and many others. His has given speeches to the Society for Information Science and Technology, Agfa, Apple, Conexant, Hewlett-Packard,
Intel, Minolta, Polaroid, Procter and Gamble and others worldwide. He chaired the inaugural conference of the Digital Imaging Marketing Association in 1995, and delivered one of two keynotes (the other being Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab.) In 2002 he chaired the Future Image/Forbes Visual Communication Executive Summit.
Gerard is a member of the International Advisory Council of the George Eastman House. From 1997 to 1998, he held the positions of President and Executive Director of the Digital Imaging Group (DIG), an open non-profit industry consortium founded by Adobe, Canon, Eastman Kodak, Fuji, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Live Picture and Microsoft to promote the growth of digital imaging into mainstream markets. The DIG is now merged into the I3A (International Imaging Industry Association).
Contact:
Agerard@Futureimage.com
Tony Henning
Tony Henning
is
Future Image's Senior
Analyst for Mobile Imaging
and the Editor of the Future
Image MIR (Mobile Imaging
Report) continuous
information service covering
the convergence of digital
imaging and wireless
communications. He has
authored nine key studies on
Mobile Imaging, including,
most recently, “Megapixel
Camera-Phones North America
– A Comparative Overview,”
“Mobile Imaging and the
Future of Bandwidth – The
Battle for Network Control,”
and “The Language of Mobile
Imaging – A Glossary of
1,405 Technical & Business
Terms.” He is a frequent
speaker at industry
conferences, and widely
quoted in the media. Mr.
Henning's client list
includes: 20th Century
Plastics, Adobe Systems,
Aryya Communications,
Eastman Kodak, Equilibrium
Technologies, Internet
Pictures, IPAC, MediaBin,
LightSurf Technologies,
Olympus, Scene7, Sony
Electronics, Sprint PCS, The
Bulldog Group, Triformix,
TriWorks, TrueSpectra,
Wright Technologies, and
various venture capital
groups. He attended Yale Law
School and holds a B.A. from
Stanford University.
Contact: THenning@FutureImage.com
Paul Worthington
Paul Worthington is Future Image’s lead analyst for consumer digital photography for since 1998. He is Managing Editor of Future Image’s Executive Information Service, with subscribers in more than fifty countries worldwide, and has authored noted research studies including “Still and Video Camera Convergence – Pervasive Motion Capture and the Future of Consumer Imaging”, “Kiosks and Print Services for Consumer Digital Photography”, “Digital Cameras – Strategies to Reach the Late Majority”, “Digital Cameras – The Battle for the Emerging Consumer Market” and “Web Photo Services – A Competitive Analysis”. He has consulted with many top companies in the imaging industry. Worthington was previously a technology correspondent and magazine editor covering imaging, multimedia, and digital video for more than a decade,. He is the former Editor in Chief of MacHome, and has worked at InfoWorld, Publish, and Multimedia World magazines.
Contact: PWorthington@futureimage.com
Joseph M. Byrd
Joe Byrd brings to Future Image a wealth of management, marketing and sales experience in the imaging and technology industries.
His role includes the
development and
management of Future
Image's highly respected
conferences including
the Mobile Imaging
Summit Europe, Mobile
Imaging Summit North
America, Mobile Imaging
Perspectives at CTIA
Wireless and Mobile
Imaging Learning Center
at PMA. He also manages
the relationships with
the many conference
organizers like I3A,
CTIA, and PMA as well
with the event speakers
and sponsors both
corporate and
association.
His previous endeavor was founding PhotoHighway.com, a digital photography web portal where he was COO, with responsibility for the overall management of operations, development, finance, marketing and sales. Byrd matured the Photohighway concept over more than a decade. He discovered the power of online communications and community building while creating the first online support service for a software company utilizing CompuServe and the Source in 1983. In 1996 while working for a division of Softbank he extended that concept to vertical market portals for PC OEMs. This concept was then adapted for use as a Windows 98 upgrade program approved by Microsoft and implemented worldwide for Compaq, Toshiba, Packard Bell and other PC OEMs. Byrd presented the next generation of his program at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) trade show in February 1999, as a vertical portal for digital photography. He received overwhelming industry acceptance, assembled a development team and brought PhotoHighway.com to the market in the space of four months.
Byrd's extensive involvement in the technology industry includes developing and launching dozens of software products and Internet programs with such companies as Digital Research, Softbank and Borland over a period of
22 years. His education includes a master's degree in Communications Management and Marketing and a bachelor's degree in Journalism. He is the author of two books on computer technology and the Future Image section on the Emerging Trends in Digital Photography that was published in the February 2001 issue of Red Herring magazine.
Contact: JByrd@FutureImage.com
