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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Photo Marketing Association to sponsor
Future Image/I3A Mobile Imaging Summit
Jackson, Mich. – August 17, 2005
– Photo Marketing Association
International® (PMA®), the largest
international trade association for the
photo imaging industry with more than
20,000 members in 100-plus countries,
announced today they are sponsoring the
2005 Mobile Imaging Summit SM
North America, in Monterey, CA, on
October 11-12, 2005. The hugely
successful executive event, now in its
fifth edition, is organized by research
firm Future Image Inc., and co-hosted by
the International Imaging Industry
Association (I3A).
The Mobile Imaging Summit conferences
are limited attendance events that bring
together senior executives of the
imaging, information processing and
telecommunications industries to jointly
engage with the convergence trends that
are reshaping their industries, address
emerging revenue opportunities, and
determine any standardization needs. The
content, venue and amenities are
carefully designed to maximize
opportunities for participants to
identify areas of mutual business
advantage, and to make the high-level
connections that enable market
leadership and drive competitive
advantage while fostering global
industry growth. Sessions are conducted
in a highly interactive format, drawing
upon Future Image’s extensive research
and a stellar lineup of industry
speakers to highlight key issues and
promote discussion onstage and off.
In
addition to PMA the Mobile Imaging
Summit conferences are also sponsored by
some of the world’s top imaging and
wireless industry associations –
photokina, MEF (Mobile Entertainment
Forum
www.M-E-F.org) and CTIA – The
Wireless AssociationTM.
Corporate sponsors include Nokia,
dotPhoto, Eastman Kodak,
Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Sprint,
Silverwire, Cognima, Digimarc, DxO Labs,
Lumileds, Nethra Imaging, and Neven
Vision. Media sponsors include CNET and
SymbianOne.
“Future
Image’s unique insights into the future
of the imaging business have been
validated repeatedly over the past
decade” said Chad Munce,
Group
Executive, Digital Imaging Markets,
PMA, “We’ve worked closely with
them since our inaugural DIMA conference
in 1996 to bring the benefits of their
vision and analysis to our audience.
Today we are pleased to extend that
relationship by encouraging our members
to attend the Mobile Imaging Summit. We
will also work with Future Image on our
Mobile Imaging Pavilion at the PMA 2006
in Orlando, FL on February 26 – March 1,
2006.”
Sessions
will include a
State of the Industry
presented by Tony Henning, Managing
Editor of the Future Image Mobile
Imaging Report, a Visionary
Roundtable moderated by Alexis
Gerard, Founder and President of Future
Image, a presentation of research data
by
GfK Retail & Technology Division, the global market leader in
imaging market research, a keynote
speech by
Former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer, Rick Smolan,
author and creator of the best-selling
photography books in history including
the "Day in the Life" and "America 24/7"
books, and
a series of lively discussions on topics
including: Print: Beyond the 4x6; The
Future of Bandwidth; Goodbye Camera -
Will camera phones become the primary
picture taking device?; Video -
Mainstream At Last, or Still a Niche?;
Storage and Management: Gold Mine or
Loss Leader?; The Imaging Living Room;
Opportunities in Business Imaging –
Grassroots or IT?; Social Imaging:
Where’s the Beef?
The event will also feature a New
Technology Showcase where attendees
will be first to preview exciting new
camera-phone based technologies; a
Financial Roundtable where leading
investors and venture capitalists will
discuss the opportunity landscape in
mobile imaging as they seed it, and an
Industry Standards Forum
moderated by Lisa Walker, president,
International Imaging Industry
Association.
Panelists will include senior executives
representing
Nokia,
CNET/Webshots , ACD Systems, Cognima,
Digimarc, dotPhoto, DxO, Eastman Kodak,
Gabriel Ventures, Gfk Equity Research,
Hewlett Packard, HP/Snapfish, the
Mayfield Fund, Lumnileds, Motorola,
Nethra Imaging, Neven Vision,
Samsung, Silverwire, Soquel Group,
SozoTek and Sprint. For an updated list
of speakers, please see the Summit web
site,
www.mobileimagingsummit.com.
. Speaking
opportunities are still available for
some of the panel discussions as
outlined above. Companies wishing
to submit speaker profiles for
consideration should send them to Joe
Byrd, Future Image’s VP of Conferences
at
JByrd@FutureImage.com.
About PMA
For 79 years, PMA has served as an
international trade association for the
changing needs of the expanding photo
imaging industry with more than 20,000
members in 100-plus countries,
headquartered in Jackson, Mich. In
addition to the United States, there are
membership offices in the United
Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia,
Brazil, New Zealand, Italy, France,
Czech Republic and Russia.
PMA membership is open to any firm doing
a substantial portion of its business in
photo imaging retailing, processing
(digital and silver halide) or service
work. Cooperating memberships are held
by firms that manufacture or distribute
products or services for the imaging
industry. PMA provides more than 100
services to its members, and holds the
world's largest annual photo imaging
trade show, typically drawing well over
700 exhibitors and approximately 25,000
to 30,000 attendees.
About Future Image
Future Image Inc. is the leading
independent center of expertise on the
convergence of imaging, technology, and
business, with primary emphasis on
Mobile Imaging. It publishes research
studies on the impact of emerging
imaging-focused technologies or business
trends in three categories:
Infrastructure, Appliances, and
Services. Recent topics include:
Phone-to-phone Picture Mail
interoperability, Print capabilities of
Camera-Phones, and the Convergence of
Still and Video Capture Devices.
Mobile Imaging Summit attendees receive free subscriptions to
Future Image’s two continuous
information services – the Executive
Information Service (EIS) and the Mobile
Imaging Report (MIR) – Executive
Edition.
The EIS
covers the imaging industry as a whole
through the weekly Future Image Weekly
Briefing — a news-oriented summary
delivered by e-mail — and a hard-copy
monthly (The Future Image Report) that
focuses on features – research,
commentary, and analysis. The MIR is
offered in two versions: Enterprise and
Executive Edition. The MIR
Executive Edition is a weekly email
briefing summarizing and commenting on
the week’s key developments, plus the
headline and lead sentence from all the
week’s stories impacting the Mobile
Imaging space — devices, components,
services, content, infrastructure,
deals, and executive moves. For more
information please visit
www.FutureImage.com and
www.mobileimagingreport.com or email
Jbyrd@futureimge.com.
Founded in
1991, the company is headquartered in
San Mateo (CA).
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Press Contacts:
Future Image
520 South El Camino, Suite 206A
San Mateo CA 94402
V: 650.579.0493
F: 650.579.0566
Joe Byrd
JByrd@FutureImage.com
WWW.FUTUREIMAGE.COM
www.MobileImagingSummit.com
PMA Press Contact
CONTACT: TOM CRAWFORD
e-mail:
tcrawford@pmai.org
www.pmai.org
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