North American Agenda & Speakers

October 10th

5-30-7:00 Welcome Reception
7:30-9:30 VIP Dinner

October 11th

7:30 AM Breakfast

8:30 AM Alexis Gerard: Welcome Remarks

8:40 AM State of the Industry
Presented by Tony Henning, Managing Editor of the Future Image Mobile Imaging Report

9:00 AM Visionary Roundtable
Moderated by Alexis Gerard, President, Future Image: What’s the “killer app” for mobile imaging?

10:00 AM Break

10:30 AM Session 1 – 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.

11:15 AM Session 2 – 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?

12:00 Noon Lunch

1:30 PM Session 3 - 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.

2:15 PM Session 4 – 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?

3:00 PM Session 5 - 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?

3:45 PM Break

4:15 PM Session 6 - New Technology Showcase
Be among the first to preview new camera-phone based technologies from Lumileds, Neven Vision, Nethra Imaging and others that will reshape the Mobile Imaging industry

7:30 – 10:00 PM Summit Dinner at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

October 12th

7:30 AM Breakfast

8:30 AM Mobile Imaging Metrics
Presented by Tom Dailey, Managing Director, GfK Equity Research. GfK Group is the Global Market Leader in imaging research in the world in more than 60 Countries.

9:00 AM Session 7 – 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.

9:45 AM Session 8 - 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?

10:30 AM Break

11:00 AM Session 9 – 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?

11:45 AM Session 10 – 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?

12:30 PM Keynote Luncheon