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Schedule October 23 Opening Reception Day 1 October 24 Welcome Remarks You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. Farewell Information - It's a Media Age. Break State of the Mobile Imaging Industry. Financial Roundtable The Future of the Lens - Showcase 1. Announcements Lunch Analyst Pick The Future of the Lens - Showcase 2. The Future of the Lens - Downstream Perspective. Break LightBulb Moment Smart Pictures, Smart Devices. Initiative Announcement Mobile Imaging The Global Video Evening Dinner Reception Day 2 - October 25 Announcements Welcome to Day Two Content is Still King Innovative Announcement - CCN Democratizing Visual Eloquence. I See What You Mean Break Persuading with Pictures New Tech Showcase Lunch Special Lunch for Media/Analysts: HD For All The Visual Conversation Microsoft Photon Privacy, Future Tense Eyeballs Everywhere Monetizing Pictures in the Tracking a New Course for the Photo Icon Break Building the Analyst Pick Analyst Roundtable Wrapup |
Welcome Reception - OCTOBER 23 On the evening prior to the event, come and meet and greet your fellow attendees over a glass of wine or beer and receive your badge and Welcome Bag. DAY ONE - OCTOBER 24 Welcome Remarks Joe Byrd, VP of Conferences, Future Image You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. Future Image President Alexis Gerard and Dr. John Meyer, head of Digital Imaging and Printing research at HP Labs take an interactive "tour" of the future of imaging, discussing and demonstrating a range of advanced research directions and projects. Dr. John Meyer, Director, Digital Printing and Imaging Lab, HP Labs Farewell Information - It's a Media Age. Paul Saffo will discuss how the shift to an economy of creators is erasing the distinction between product and service, and the implications for companies in the imaging market. Break State of the Mobile Imaging Industry. Tony Henning, Editor of The Mobile Imaging Report, will present his annual review of the latest market forecasts for image capture devices including film cameras, digital still cameras, and camera-phones; the latest developments in Mobile Imaging; and his outlook for the coming year. Financial Roundtable: Where are the profits in the Imaging ecosystem ? How have M&A targets been monetized? Where and when will Venture Capitalists place their bets? This session has garnered top ratings from past attendees, with its panel of financiers who share their no-holds-barred perspective on who will or won’t “Show them the Money.” Panel Session. Mark Kalow, Managing Director, Soquel Group
The Future of the Lens - Showcase 1. The camera-phone market is driving the development of miniaturized, rugged, low-cost, low-power, high-performance lenses that will eventually find their way into all cameras. The latest and most promising innovations -- liquid lenses, specialized software-enhanced optics and more -- will be demonstrated live, in ten-minute slots. John Barton, Member of The Board of Directors, Dblur Technologies Ltd Announcements Lunch Analyst Pick. Microsoft Photosynth David Gedye, Group Manager, Microsoft Live Labs The Future of the Lens - Showcase 2. More Ten- minute presentations on the latest and most promising innovations that are redefining the lens. Ilan Hader, President and CEO, Nanomotion Ltd. The Future of the Lens - Downstream Perspective. The firms who decide whether and when to adopt these new technologies evaluate the technologies presented, explain their requirements for transitioning, and describe how they approach the process. Panel Session. Tony Henning, Sr. Analyst, Mobile Imaging, Future Image Break
LightBulb Moment - Creating Change Through a Billion Cameras Rick Smolan, CEO, Against All Odds Productions Smart Pictures, Smart Devices. Embedding a camera in another product shouldn't mean just having two separate products in the same form factor. Image capture and display should be tightly integrated with the device's other functions -such as entertainment or productivity - to deliver superior customer value. What's happening at the leading edge? Panel Session. Paul Worthington, Editor, The Future Image Report, Future Image Initiative Announcement - 6Sight Innovation Framework Jean Barda Mobile Imaging & Bandwidth. Frost & Sullivan VP & Chief Analyst for Mobile & Wireless J. Gerry Purdy, PhD, will discuss how and when carrier roadmaps and back-end infrastructure implementation will enable high-res mobile imaging and visual communication, how the competition between cellular and municipal Wi-Fi networks will play into that, and the applications that will drive the need for more bandwidth to support high resolution mobile imaging. J. Gerry Purdy, Ph. D., VP & Chief Analyst, Mobile & Wireless, Frost & Sullivan The Global Video Revolution. At last, and all of a sudden, consumer video has become mainstream –and it’s in the form of the “clip.” What's Up with That? Panel Session. Paul Worthington, Editor, The Future Image Report, Future Image Download Global Video PDF (1.3 MB) Evening Dinner Reception, including New Tech Fair and 6Sight Theater. Private Reception at the Monterey Bay Aquarium featuring a unique ‘future snapshot’ of where imaging is headed in a spectacular world-famous locale along with a program of visual entertainment in the movie theater, gourmet food, refreshments and conversation facilities..
Announcements Joe Byrd, VP of Conferences, Future Image Welcome to Day Two Alexis Gerard, President, Future Image Content is Still King. CNET Networks Senior Vice President Martin Green will unveil the results of a joint Webshots.com/Future Image research project investigating the profiles of the content creators who are driving the explosive audience growth of online picture and video sharing. Martin Green, Senior Vice President, Community, CNET Networks Initiative Announcement - CCN David Szetela, President, Clix Marketing Democratizing Visual Eloquence. Multimedia pioneer Kristina Hooper will demonstrate her successes empowering others to fluently "speak with images." Her goal is to see vast amounts of interesting and compelling content generated at the “grass roots,” to the benefit of the entire imaging ecosystem. Kristina Hooper-Woolsey, Board Member, New Media Consortium LightBulb Moment - I See What You Mean. Skill in written communications has long been acknowledged as an element of career success. As society relies increasingly upon visual communications, what are the essential elements of a visual grammar and visual style for communicating clearly and effectively? Russell Sparkman will present some of the key concepts he's exploring as the basis of a new book about visual communication. Russell Sparkman, President/CEO, FusionSpark Media
New Tech Showcase. Ten-minute demonstrations of innovative imaging technologies - sensors, illumination, processing software and more. Magnus Ingelsten, VP, Marketing, Scalado xenon_LED_comparison_Oct_2006 (640 KB) Lunch Media/Analyst Lunch Reception: HD For All - Why Download HD Imaging PDF (1.8 MB) The Visual Conversation. Remote communication is becoming visual, and it turns out seeing the people at both ends is just a small part of the picture. Panel Session. Paul Worthington, Editor, The Future Image Report, Future Image Analyst Pick - Microsoft Photon Bill Crow, Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft LightBulb Moment - Privacy, Future Tense Dorothy J. Glancy, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University Eyeballs Everywhere. Should we expect that, save for the privacy of our own home, our every action is recorded to video -- and that video is stored, indexed and processed with facial recognition -- creating a permanent searchable record of where everyone is or was at any time? Is this technologically feasible? What about politically possible, and/or morally desirable? Panel Session. Paul Worthington, Editor, The Future Image Report, Future Image Monetizing Pictures in the 21st Century. The amount of pictures and videos generated by non-professionals is exploding. Innovative companies are developing new business models to serve content creators and content consumers, and make money in the process. This session shines the spotlight on their successes, and examines how they work. Panel Session. Tony Henning, Sr. Analyst, Mobile Imaging, Future Image LightBulb Moment - Tracking a New Course for the Photo Icon. Just what is an iconic image, and how is that concept transforming itself in our times? Dr. Anthony Bannon, Director, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film Download Anthony Bannon PDF (1.8 MB) Break
Building the Visual Enterprise. A global Fortune 100 company gains competitive advantage and major cost efficiencies by implementing visual communication systems across all its operations — from sales to maintenance, and from IT to accounting. This "fireside chat" will discuss a combination of in-house applications and innovative uses of off-the-shelf imaging solutions, as well as benefits achieved, implementation strategies, and challenges. Bob Goldstein, Co-Author, Going Visual - Using Images to Enhance Productivity, Decision-making and Profits Analyst Pick: Ultra-high Resolution Imaging Jean Barda Analyst Roundtable: Representatives of major firms measuring and forecasting the imaging market worldwide will discuss their projections, market views, and opinions on what is driving growth, what is holding it back, how global markets will evolve, and what factors will determine competitive success. Panel Session. Tony Henning, Sr. Analyst, Mobile Imaging, Future Image Wrapup Joe Byrd, VP of Conferences, Future Image
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Who will you meet at 6Sight?
Industry leaders from the imaging, Technologists Marketers Futurists Artists Educators Senior executives from large-scale users in business, government and education Members of the technology, business, general interest and imaging media who want first-hand access to the leaders driving one of today’s major trends in technology, business, society and the arts. Previous years participants
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