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2006 Speakers 3VR.com Against All Odds Productions Artificial Muscle Inc. Avago Technologies, Inc. Avago Technologies Inc. AVA Mobile CAP-XX, Pty Ltd CDM Optics / OmniVision Technologies Consultant Clear Channel Clix Marketing CNET Networks Inc. CNET CogniSign Corel Dblur Technologies Digital Railroad Digital Youth Program Digital Youth Program Jean-Claude Rosichini DxO Labs George Eastman House, Exclaim FilmLoopDr. Flextronics Frost & Sullivan Fusionspark Media, Inc. Future Image Inc. Future Image, Inc. Future Image Inc. GfK Marketing Services Hewlett-Packard Company Hewlett-Packard Company i3A Imerge Group InvenSenseKelly iStockphoto LifeSize Communications Logicalis USA Lyra Research Inc. Mayfield Fund Windows Media Photo Microsoft Corporation Seadragon and Photosynth Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Corporation Mohr, Davidow Ventures Nanomotion Ltd. Nethra Imaging New Enterprise Associates Newforth Partners LLC New Media Consortium Board New Scale Technologies PerkinElmer Photo Marketing Photo Marketing PIXIM Inc Qualcomm CDMA Technologies Santa Clara University School of Law Scalado Scoopt Sharpcast ShoZu ShoZu Simple Star, Inc Soquel Group Splash News Sprint Visual Communication Sprint Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab Varioptic Wainhouse Research
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Paul is a forecaster and strategist with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its impact on business and society. Paul is a Consulting Associate Professor in Stanford’s School of Engineering and The Roy Amara Fellow at IFTF. He is Chairman of the Samsung Science Board, and serves on a variety of other boards including the Long Now Foundation, and the Singapore National Research Foundation Science Advisory Board, as well as the boards of companies in the US and abroad. Paul has served as an advisor and Forum Fellow to the World Economic Forum, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Paul's essays have appeared in several publications, including Business 2.0, Fortune, The Harvard Business Review, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New York Times, the Washington Post and Wired. Paul holds degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. A seasoned entrepreneur, Tim Ross is dedicated to applying proven technology to real-world needs with a special focus on how technology can improve physical security for more effective protection of critical assets and people. A Silicon Valley veteran, Tim has provided marketing strategy, product acceleration and business development consulting for several Fortune 500 companies, including Walgreens, Adobe, Intuit, Seagate, AOL, Sun Microsystems, and Williams Sonoma. He was most recently the founder and CEO of V2 Group, a high-end product strategy and development firm serving leading companies. Tim was also the co-founder of Networkers, which was acquired by USWeb, where he then served as a partner. Tim previously held product development positions at SGI, Hewlett-Packard, and GO Corporation. Tim is the Executive Vice-President and Co-Founder of 3VR Security, Inc. a privately-held physical security company in San Francisco which was founded in 2002. A former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer, Rick Smolan created best-selling 'DAY IN THE LIFE' and 'AMERICA 24/7' photography series and is CEO of Against All Odds Productions, which specializes in the design and execution of large-scale global photographic projects that combine compelling story-telling with state-of-the-art technology. Eight of his projects have been featured on the covers of Fortune, Time, Newsweek and US News & World Report. AMERICA 24/7 represented the first mass customized New York Times best-seller. Smolan and his partner David Cohen dispatched more than 25,000 stringers, students and amateurs plus 1,000 top photojournalists (including 36 Pulitzer Prize winners )across the United States for a week to create an extraordinary snapshot of American life. The Wall Street Journal featured AMERICA 24/7 because over 21% of all book buyers uploaded digital photos of their families, friends and pets to customize the book covers. www.America24-7.com. Against All Odds' next project will be SIXTEEN IN AMERICA, a one-month project taking place in the Spring of 2007, involving ten thousand 16-year-olds using handicams, digital cameras, cell phones, and web sites to capture what its like to be "coming of age" in America at the dawn of the Millennium. Against All Odds Productions is located in Sausalito, CA.
Charlie joined AMI shortly after its founding in 2004 and has been the lead commercial executive and most recently, the interim CEO, for Artificial Muscle Inc (AMI). AMI is a high technology company that designs and manufactures actuator and sensing components based on the new technology platform called electroactive polymer artificial muscle (EPAM). AMI's EPAM technology offers rugged, lightweight, battery-friendly features that have made it a logical alternative to conventional electromagnetic solutions such as stepper motors and voice-coils for lens positioning. Prior to AMI Mr. Duncheon was Executive VP of Marketing and Sales at Adept Technology, Inc., a leading industrial robotics manufacturer where he joined at inception. Prior to Adept he had several commercial and technical management roles including Monsanto Corporate Engineering. Charlie served as president of the Robotics Industries Association (RIA) and Chairman of the Board for RIA's parent organization, The Automation Council.
Feisal Mosleh is worldwide head of marketing, business development and support engineering for the mobile imaging business that supplies CMOS sensors and image processors to many of the world’s top handset manufacturers. Prior to Avago, Feisal led marketing and business development for Agilent Technologies’ mobile imaging business and prior to that he held vice president of marketing and product management positions at Vernier Networks, Agiliti, and Jamcracker. He also co-founded and ran Juldee, a consulting firm serving major technology customers in enterprise infrastructure and mobility solutions. Feisal's experience includes several years of growing B2B start-up businesses at Hewlett-Packard. Until 1999, he led HP's worldwide new business ventures efforts focused on Internet business and developed the HP E-Services Venture Fund which invested in B2C and web, security, mobility companies. Before that, he managed marketing and business development for HP's Internet Software Business Unit. Feisal’s cross-functional experience spans managing sales teams, leading major software development projects to developing business strategies and executing market plans for high growth businesses. Before HP, Feisal managed sales and marketing for IBM UK's Distributed Transaction Processing business. He began his career at IBM's Hursley Labs in the UK where he developed mission-critical software, such as CICS and MQ. Feisal received his bachelor's degree (Honours) in physics from Imperial College, University of London and a master's degree in electronics engineering from Durham University, England. Sanjeev has over 18 years of industry experience. From 1987 – 95, Sanjeev held engineering and engineering management positions at Encore Computer Corporation, Hewlett Packard Co. Sanjeev is credited with designing and implementing the first Internet printing solutions while working at HP. In 1995 Sanjeev moved to marketing and held marketing and marketing management positions at HP, Agilent, and Avago. In 1999 he co-founded a venture funded GloPex Inc – a Internet infrastructure company that build the first online market place for Automotive aftermarket. He served as President of GloPex Inc from 1999 – 2000. For the past three years he has led the mobile imaging Product-Marketing team at Agilent and Avago. Sanjeev received an MBA in marketing and strategy from Wharton School; he received an M.S in Computer Science from OSU, and an electrical engineering degree from I.I.T, Kanpur. Goldstein this year launched AVA Mobile, a provider of secure media delivery and collaboration software and services. Goldstein is co-author with Alexis Gerard of "Going Visual: Using Images to Enhance Productivity, Decision Making, and Profits." The book focuses on how businesses are using new technology in the form of digital cameras; camera-phones and video to communicate instantly and precisely to better manage project teams and communicate with clients. Goldstein began his digital imaging career in 1990 as president and founder of ZZYZX Visual Systems in Los Angeles, where he developed businesses in high volume image scanning, digital retouching, stock photo databases and digital distribution networks, fine art digital printing, interactive media projects, web site design, and digital photography studios. He then became president of the Altamira Group, which produced the Genuine Fractals line of digital image scaling and compression software. As a digital imaging consultant, his corporate clients have included Kodak, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard. He is a senior analyst for The Future Image Report, for whom he authored a study of Internet visual search engines. Goldstein has appeared as a speaker at many conferences including PMA, DIMA, MacWorld, Siggraph, Seybold, PhotoPlus, and the Mobile Imaging Summit. He has been quoted in Forbes.com and WashingtonPost.com and appeared on CNN and NPR. Goldstein has a business degree from the University of Southern California.
Mars has over 25 years of hardware and embedded software design experience. He has been with CAP-XX for 5 years where he is responsible for development of new supercapacitor applications, circuit design with supercapacitors, and development of supercapacitor models for circuit designers. Prior to joining CAP-XX he held senior technical positions with Racal Defence Electronics (Principal Engineer), Chubb Electronic Security (R&D Manager, Australia), CAE Pty Ltd who design and manufacture flight simulators (Technical Director, Australia), and Honeywell Industrial Control (Manager of AssetMax business unit for Asia Pacific). Mars has a B.E. Electrical (1st class hons) and M. Eng. Sc. from the University of NSW, Australia, and an MBA from INSEAD, France. Edward Dowski is a joint inventor of Wavefront Coding technology and co-founded CDM Optics, Inc. in 1995. Dr. Dowski is currently President of CDM Optics and was instrumental in the merging of CDM Optics and OmniVision Technologies in 2005. Dr Dowski has a broad range of technical experience ranging from radar systems to digital signal processing to imaging systems. He has been deeply involved in applying Wavefront Coding to a wide variety of applications areas including bar-code scanning, microscopy, endoscopy, biometrics, and miniature cameras. CDM Optics and Omnivision Technologies are developing the next generations of imaging technologies that use novel optics and innovative algorithms to transform the essential task of forming images from an opto-mechanical process to one of optical encoding and signal processing. By eliminating motors and actuators, the technology significantly reduces the size and complexity of the auto-focus function on a camera module. Dr. Dowski has been widely published and holds over 60 granted and pending patents. He has been invited to speak at national and international optical design conferences including SPIE Defense and Security, International Congress of Imaging Science, and Imaging Science and Technology. After more than 40 years in the imaging domain (created UNITEL, AVELEM and NETIMAGE), Jean is one of those lucky engineers who went through a number of technology revolution, from Vacuum tubes to VLSIs, from one bit to full colour images, from hardware design to software innovations, from long and heavy CRTs to flat screens etc... He has always been interested in anticipating the future, taking part in ISO Standards as the Head of the French Delegation for more than ten years, seating at the Board of Directors of DIG then I3A, leading a number of R&D European Projects, giving talks in many a specialised Conference. As a hardware engineer, he registered more than ten Patents, some of which are still used in TV production, in the popular "Minitel" (the French ancestor of Internet) and in coding processes. His career started with the French Administration of Civil Aviation, where he was responsible for all sorts of visual displays and systems (TV, Radar, texts and graphics), then came the hardware design era, migrating slowly to all software innovations, like the patent filed in 1992 for the pyramidal image organisation (JTIP), still in use as of today. His latest works concerned Protection and Management systems for Intellectual Property Rights (IPR and DRMs). Co-author of two reference books ("Dictionnary for Multimedia" , AFNOR, Paris and "Standards for Multimedia", Dunod, Paris), Jean retired in 2005, but is still active as a consultant and technical advisor. Clear Channel Outdoor is one of the world's largest outdoor advertising companies with 54 offices in the U.S., and a presence in 66 countries with over 750,000 display faces around the world. In 1991 Mason initiated the company's digital media effort by digitizing its billboard inventory images and creating an archive, which has since grown to nearly 1,000,000 images. Mason has been a key player in the creation of a digital information workflow in which images are used extensively throughout the enterprise: from sales through marketing, operations, IT and accounting.
David Szetela is a recognized leader in the field of paid search advertising. Szetela began his career as VP of Operations at MindCraft Inc., one of the earliest successful publishers of PC magazines, software and books. His experience managing hundreds of direct mail campaigns provided a firm foundation in the fundamentals of direct response advertising. Next was a seven-year stint with Apple Computer, building and managing Apple's Evangelism department, the Worldwide Developer Conference series, Developer University and several award-winning print and multimedia publications. Szetela's Apple career included 3 years at Apple's European headquarters, based in Paris, where his responsibilities included management of European Developer operations and Apple's online services business. He then became European General Manager for a Ziff-Davis Publishing division. Returning to the U.S., Szetela presided over several companies, including his first two start-ups, Paperless Technologies and docsonfile.com. In 2003 Szetela founded Clix Marketing, an internet marketing agency that specializes in the management of clients' paid search advertising campaigns. Clix employees are certified as Yahoo Search Marketing Ambassadors and Google AdWords Professionals. Clix also owns and operates two web sites with resources for paid search advertisers: adCenter Insider (http://www.adcenter-insider.com) for MSN adCenter advertisers, and AdWords Insider (http://www.adwords-insider.com - launching November 2006) for Google AdWords advertisers. Szetela has been a regularly featured speaker at PC industry conferences like MacWorld, and Search industry conferences like SES. James Park, director of product development at Webshots, is responsible for leading product management, design, and production for Webshots. Most recently, he was instrumental in the launch of “Webshots CollegeLive,” a social networking site on Webshots solely for college students. He is also the key driver in determining Webshots product strategy and upcoming features. Earlier, James served as the President and Co-Founder of Windup Labs which was sold to CNET Networks in 2005. Windup Labs developed the HeyPix! photosharing community and desktop photo organizer for Windows. After the acquisition, HeyPix! enabled Webshots to deliver advanced photo management, social networking, and blogging capabilities. James also served as CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, where he directed technology strategy and implemented the networking protocols for Epesi's distributed datastore product. Prior to Epesi, James was a technologist at Morgan Stanley, developing financial analytical applications for quantitative trading. He has also held development positions at KPMG in their datamining consulting group and at BCL Computers, developing software for intelligent document routing systems. Based in CNET Networks' San Francisco headquarters, James pursued an A.B. in Computer Science at Harvard College.
Martin is a senor vice president who has been with CNET Networks since 1996 and currently oversees the Community group, which was formed in October, 2005 and is comprised of Webshots, Chow, UrbanBaby and Consumating. As head of CNET Networks' Community business, Martin is focused on helping the company expand its footprint in the lifestyle category, through the acquisition and incubation of businesses that support CNET Networks' strategy to build brands for people and the things they are passionate about. Martin's contributions over the years include working with CNET Networks' shopping services to pioneer the CPC business model in 1997; managing the financial and operating planning process for the company's U.S. business units; running yield management for CNET Networks' online advertising inventory; and advising the CEO, the CFO, and the COO on resource allocation. Martin has also led the integration process for several acquisitions, including mySimon, ZDNet, CNET Channel, and Webshots. Prior to joining CNET Networks, Martin was with Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking group in New York and Menlo Park. He earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen's University, Canada. He also spent a year in Japan at Kwansei Gakuin University, where he learned to speak Japanese. Martin likes delicious food and riding his bike. He lives with his wife, two kids, and a yellow dog in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bryan Calkins brings 20 years of business experience to CogniSign, from previous management roles in applied technology, enterprise software and services, and ecommerce. He has managed software development teams directly, served as a business liaison to R&D divisions, provided product management leadership to drive company strategy, and held key account management positions for companies providing enterprise software and services to Fortune 1000 companies. Mr. Calkins began his career at the Advanced Engineering Staff at General Motors, turning pure technology from the GM Research Labs into software applications to be used throughout GM. Projects included advanced surface modeling software used for vehicle design and tooling development, statistics-based reliability analysis software, and computer simulation software used to predict the effect of manufacturing variability on mass-produced parts and assemblies. When GM acquired Electronic Data Systems, he stepped up to a management role at EDS, leading software development teams to further develop emerging technologies for GM. More recently, Mr. Calkins worked in the Internet space, for companies providing emerging Internet-based software systems to Fortune 1000 companies. Mr. Calkins joined Dr. Lenny Kontsevich in early 2003 to found CogniSign. He holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from Michigan Technological University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
As the General Manager of Corel's Paint Shop family of digital imaging and photography products, Mathieu is responsible for overseeing Corel's business in these fast-growing markets on a global basis. During his three years at Corel, Mathieu has developed and led a number of key groups including Corel's first-ever Market Strategy and Intelligence team; Corel's eMarketing team, combining global database marketing, web publishing, and eStores; and Integrated Marketing, driving all demand generation and channel marketing in the Americas. Prior to joining Corel, Mathieu was closely involved with strategic and product planning at Adobe Systems in San Jose as a leader in its Worldwide Research and Planning group, where he built a significant part of the foundation for Adobe's understanding of its current and emerging markets. Before that, Mathieu was a senior analyst and consultant at GartnerGroup, specializing in e-commerce and the Internet. He has been interviewed and quoted as a technology expert by media such as Time, CNN, Business 2.0, BusinessWeek, Interactive Week, PC World, and many others and has been published in numerous technology and trade publications. Mathieu holds an MBA from Athabasca University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta, both in Canada.
John Barton possesses almost 20 years of experience in the optical component industry. John is currently serving as a member of the board of directors of Dblur. Most recently, John was VP and GM of Flextronics Photonics, the optoelectronic manufacturing division of Flextronics. Before that, he served as president and CEO of Wave-Optics. John holds B.S. Degrees in Physics and Mathematics from University of California, Irvine
Nisselson has worked in the photography industry for 16 years and has focused on digital imaging applications since 1996. Additionally, he has been a photo editor, software developer, lecturer, moderator, contest judge, published photographer, and digital imaging consultant. In 2003, Nisselson was a digital imaging consultant to Virgilio, the number-one Italian Internet portal, and its parent company, Telecom Italia. He created their new consumer digital imaging channel strategy, financial plan and product roadmap. Virgilio launched their phase 1 channel in March 2004. Six years ago at Eyetide Media, Nisselson collaborated with the founders to secure $2M in funding, hire senior management, and create a new business model for an image-based marketing business delivered via the Internet. In 1997, he conceived and managed the first broadband Internet photography portal for Excite@Home, which became a multimillion-dollar joint venture with Intel. Nisselson has also worked as a photo editor at SABA Press Photos and as an assignment editor on photo book projects. He continues to work on documentary photography projects.
Akili Lee is the Director of the Digital Youth Program, a research initiative of The University of Chicago's Center for Urban School Improvement. Supported through a generous grant from the MacArthur Foundation, Digital Youth is focused on creating a framework for an after school program to build youth new media literacy skills. The program is challenged with developing a curriculum and framework that can immediately scale. Starting with one middle school in its pilot year, Digital Youth will expand to 3 schools in '06-'07 and approximately ten middle schools and high schools by 2010. Prior to joining Digital Youth, Akili served as the Associate Director for New Media and Technology for a sizeable Chicago not for profit. He worked to leverage IT and new media resources to support the organization's infrastructure as well as their marketing and communication goals. As the Director of the Digital Youth Program, Akili aims to support youth perspective and skill development that they similarly will be able to leverage for their own personal, academic, and professional advancement. Akili received a B.A. in Computing and Information Systems from Northwestern University and is currently completing as masters in Business Information Technology at Depaul University.
Malik Franklin Coburn is a 13 year old 8th grade student at North Kenwood/Oakland middle school. A Chicago native, Coburn was an active participant in the pilot year of the Digital Youth Program. Taking interest and excelling in robotics, video game design, digital video production and music production, Malik is the ideal student to participate in the conference. Malik is an active athlete, playing soccer, basketball, football and baseball. His interest in sports has carried over to the digital realm, as he is an avid video gamer. While he spends a good amount of his free time challenging himself through sports games on his PS2, Malik is developing a strong passion for creating video productions. While most comfortable with iMovie on his laptop, he looks forward to learning FinalCut Pro this year. Malik plans to be a sports agent when he grows up, as well as own his own clothing store and sports apparel line.
Jean-Claude Rosichini is Executive VP for Embedded Imaging Solutions dedicated to Consumer Electronics and Industry, and as such is the promoter of DxO Labs’ new paradigm “Silicon Powered Optics ™” driving applied mathematics algorithms and architectures deeper into devices - hardware modules or silicon chips. Jean-Claude, a seasoned high tech executive, held previously various executive-level general management and international business development positions at Motorola, Nortel Networks, VLSI Technology, Intel Corporation. After starting a career in 1981 in chip design at Intel Corp, he joins VLSI Technology, the pioneer in silicon systems, in the very early phase of its European presence. He quickly establishes the ASIC activity on the territory and, as an intrapreneur, founds the company’s Wireless Division. In the early 90’s, as Managing Director of Cellular Infrastructure for Motorola in South Europe, he sets up the operations and contributes to the explosion of the GSM wave throughout Europe. Jean Claude then joins Nortel Networks as Vice-President EMEA. Also serving as Nortel France’s General Manager, he restructures the activities, driving an high-paced market expansion that materializes into a remarkable profitable business. In 2001 he enters Venture Capital becoming President, International of RazaFoundries, a Silicon Valley fund. Returning to Europe, he founds Aventia, a venture partner firm dedicated to the operational monitoring and development of IT companies, with a specific focus on Telecoms, Semiconductors and Video. Concurrently, Jean-Claude has been a Business Angel for several years, he serves on the Boards of innovative technology companies, and acts as a senior advisor to several Venture Capital funds. He is also a Professor of Entrepreneurship & Management of Innovation at prominent European Universities and a co-founder of SiliconFrench a global network of hi-tech European executives. Jean-Claude Rosichini holds an MSc in Electronics from Ecole Centrale, a PhD in Computer Science from Sup’Aero as well as an Executive MBA from HEC Paris management school. Anthony Bannon is the seventh director of George Eastman House, the International Museum of Photography and Film. Prior to his appointment in 1996, Bannon was Assistant Vice President of Cultural Affairs at the State University of New York College at Buffalo, the largest college in the State University System, and Director of its Burchfield Penney Art Center. Bannon presently serves on the Executive Committee of the New York State Council for the Humanities, and the boards of High Falls Film Festival, Santa Fe Center for Photography, and the Rochester School for the Deaf. He has served on art councils in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Jiren holds P&L responsibility for Exclaim's wireless operations, including carrier relationships, program and product management and strategic and content partnerships. He has more than 15 years of experience launching startups, new business units and developing revenue globally for technology businesses in senior sales, marketing, general management and consulting roles. Prior to joining to Exclaim, Jiren was head of his own firm, MAP Management, a consulting and interim management practice helping technology companies with business strategy, planning and funding, sales and marketing management, and business development. The firm's many clients included JP Mobile (now Good Technology), Pulse Entertainment, Teltier (now Cisco), Sun Microsystems and Cingular Interactive. Jiren has also held executive roles at Broadbeam as VP of Strategic Accounts and VP of International Operations, at Infonautics (now ProQuest on the NYSE) as director of the International Group and at Elektroson B.V as general manager. An avid outdoorsman, Jiren enjoys fly fishing, kayaking, skiing and technical climbing. He lives in downtown Philadelphia with his dog Trango.
Mashima was general manager for Adobe¹s Consumer Software Division, where he was responsible for coordinating the development and shipment of more than 30 million copies of PhotoDeluxe. He then moved on to become Adobe¹s Vice President for Strategic Development, where he drove corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions and alliances. Prior to Adobe, Mashima worked at Apple, Claris and several other start ups, for a total of more than 22 years of desktop software experience. Ellen Cargill has over 20 years experience in the design and development of imaging systems. Cargill is currently Vice President of Optics Technologies at Flextronics where she specializes in the development and evaluation of optics and imaging solutions for miniature camera modules. She leads a team of 25 scientists and engineers located in Westwood, MA at a facility that offers vertically integrated design, metrology, and precision optical prototyping capability as well as image evaluation. Before joining Flextronics, Cargill led product development at EndPoints, and was a co-founder of SiPix Imaging. Prior to that she spent 12 years at Polaroid leading the development of digital and instant film cameras and medical laser imagers. She has a Ph.D. in Optical Science from the University of Arizona. She is an avid photographer and has received several national awards for her commercial photography. She also received the bronze medal from the Society of Nuclear Medicine for a scientific exhibit based on her research. She holds several US and European patents and over 40 publications.
J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D. is the VP and Chief Analyst with the Frost & Sullivan North American Information & Communication Technologies Practice. As a nationally recognized industry authority, he focuses on monitoring and analyzing emerging trends, technologies and market behavior in the mobile computing and wireless data communications industry in North America. Since joining Frost & Sullivan in June 2006, Dr. Purdy is specializing in mobile and wireless devices, wireless data communications and connection to the infrastructure that powers the data in the wireless handheld. Prior to this, Dr. Purdy was Principal Analyst at MobileTrax. He also spent five years as a Venture Advisor for Diamondhead Ventures in Menlo Park where he identified, attracted and recommended investments in emerging companies in the mobile and wireless. For more than 16 years, Dr. Purdy has been consulting, speaking, researching, networking, writing and developing state-of-the-art concepts that challenge people's mind-sets and developing new ways of thinking and forecasting in the mobile computing and wireless data arenas. Often quoted, his ideas and opinions are followed closely by industry watchers who read his insightful column, “Inside Mobile & Wireless.” Dr. Purdy has a B.S., Engineering Physics, University of Tennessee, M.S., Computer Science, UCLA and a Ph.D., Computer Science and Exercise Physiology, Stanford University. Russell Sparkman has been a Visual Communications professional for more than 20 years. As a photographer in early 1992 Russell recognized that the impact that computers and graphics software were having on desktop publishing would impact photography, too. Russell became an early adaptor of the emerging trend of digital photography. Throughout the ‘90s, in addition to his ongoing photography and imaging projects, Russell authored books about digital imaging and provided digital imaging training and consulting. Much of this work took place in Japan, where his two largest clients were Epson and Toyota. In 1998, Russell perceived another emerging trend, one that involved the use of the Internet to deliver the kind of emotion-generating storytelling normally associated with quality TV, radio and print journalism. In 1999, Sparkman co-founded Fusionspark Media, Inc., a company focused on the creation of inspiring digital storytelling in support of communications needs and objectives.
Gerard founded Future Image in 1991, after holding executive positions in new technologies and software marketing with Apple Computer since 1983. For the past fourteen years leaders inside and outside the imaging industry have relied on his visionary thinking about the convergence of imaging with information and telecommunications technology. He is the co-author (with Bob Goldstein) of "Going Visual - Using Images to Enhance Productivity, Decision Making and Profits", (John Wiley and Sons, 2005). His 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, American Photo, and many others. He chaired the inaugural conference of the Digital Imaging Marketing Association in 1995, the Future Image/Forbes Visual Communication Executive Summit in 2002, and Future Image’s Mobile Imaging Summit since 2003. Gerard is a member of the International Advisory Council of the George Eastman House. From 1997 to 1998, he was 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, now merged into the I3A. 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. Paul is Future Image's lead analyst for consumer digital photography since 1998. He is 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 of MacHome, and has worked at InfoWorld, Publish, and Multimedia World magazines. With GfK since 1979, Knoche is now the Division Manager for marketing services in Nuremberg, Germany. Knoche is in charge of international service to worldwide imaging clients, product development, and worldwide data homogenization. She is responsible for the world wide Imaging Retail Audit, as well as the optical product groups, healthcare area, and ad hoc research at GfK Marketing Services. She has studied international market research, psychology, economics, geography, and history at Oxford college and French colleges.
Dr. John Meyer is Director of the Digital Printing and Imaging Laboratory (DPIL) at HP Labs in Palo Alto. DPIL's research areas include digital photography, colour science, scanning, advanced ink research for Ink Jet, Liquid Electrophotographic processes, display technologies, electronics on plastic substrates and a range of emerging technologies such as Fuel Cells, Nano Imprinting and Printed Electronics. DPIL also has several projects on the merging of printing and information technology such as brand authentication and anti-counterfeiting, variable data document creation and closed loop marketing campaigns. As lab director, John’s research interests embrace all elements of imaging systems, from image capture to the development of colour image processing algorithms and colour data standards, pre-press processes and document preparation, variable data print and workflow to all aspects of output technologies both printed and electronic. Dr. Meyer holds a PhD in experimental low-temperature physics at the University of Southern California. He has served on the board of directors of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) and completed a term as president in June 2001. He is also a member of the Faculty Advisory Board for the Center of Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology. John is an inventor on one patent and a co-inventor on six others.
Aaron Weiss is the General Manager for Mobile Imaging within Hewlett-Packard’s Digital Photography and Entertainment (DPE) global business unit. The Mobile Imaging organization is responsible for developing and marketing consumer solutions that enable sharing and printing of images from camera phones. Aaron’s organization also has responsibility for HP’s participation in a number of key industry consortia and standards organizations such as the Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium, the I3A, Pictbridge and CIPA. Aaron joined HP in 1989 and has held a variety of positions in marketing, business development and strategic planning. He has worked in several organizations within HP, including its test and measurement, telecom and imaging and printing businesses. Aaron holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from Arizona State University and a MBA from Santa Clara University. As the President of the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A), Ms. Walker plays a key role in leading the imaging industry on collaborative initiatives focused on driving market growth. Ms. Walker was instrumental in the creation of I3A as the product of the merger of the Digital Imaging Group (DIG) and the Photographic and Imaging Manufacturers Association (PIMA). Prior to her current role, Ms. Walker served as President and Executive Director of the DIG.. During Ms. Walker's tenure, the DIG grew from its original 9 founding companies to an impressive worldwide consortium of more than 70 corporate members. Ms. Walker's background includes more than 20 years of product management and marketing in high tech environments, including responsibility for both strategic planning and execution for numerous new product innovations and marketing programs. Prior to joining the DIG, Ms. Walker played a key role at Canon to identify future growth markets and opportunities, conduct technology and feasibility assessment of new product ideas and evaluation of partner opportunities. Ms. Walker holds a BS in marketing and a Master of Business Administration from San Diego State University.
Tussy's expertise includes the IT, imaging, and wireless industries, and he has over 23 years of executive experience. His specific expertise is in NAND flash, imaging sensors CMOS and CCD for consumer, automotive, security and medical applications, multimedia handsets, micro and large display technologies including small-molecule-based OLED, P-OLED, thick film dielectric, handset components and process chips, manufacturing, digital printing, channel dynamics, and digital cameras. Prior to founding Imerge in 1996, Tussy was an executive analyst at International Data Corporation, where he pioneered and built IDC's digital cameras and scanners research programs. Prior to IDC, he was a WW product line manager at Apple, and was on the team that delivered the world¹s first consumer digital cameras to market in 1994. Imerge provides decision support to more than 550 institutional investors, VC¹s and fund managers whose portfolios exceed $2B. Some of its largest clients include Salomon Smith Barney, Goldman Sachs, Bain, Fidelity Investments and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Tussy has been a guest speaker at PMA/DIMA, Lyra's Digital Photography Conference, KioskCom, Seybold SF and other events. He is quoted frequently in main stream media including the Wall Street Journal, NY Times and SF Chronicle, and has made radio and television appearances. Tussy conceived and published a NY Times Best Selling photo book, "15 Seconds: the Great California Earthquake of 1989," setting speed publishing records and establishing the first usage of desktop four color digital separations, and prepress.
Steve Nasiri founded InvenSense in June 2003 while working on his miniature dual-axis gyroscope design for mobile handsets. The company secured Series A funding in April 2004 and this year began volume production of the gyroscope for the camera phone and DSC image stabilization markets. Mr. Nasiri is a veteran of the MEMS industry with expertise in fabrication and packaging of various types of MEMS product. His extensive knowledge of MEMS fabrication technologies was instrumental in his ability to conceive the design of the “Nasiri-Platform” and creation of a unique mirror design for Transparent Networks where he served as Vice President of Operation and MEMS Development. Mr. Nasiri has been an early stage executive and cofounder of several successful Silicon Valley MEMS startup companies. He has served as Vice President of Operations, Engineering, and Business Development with companies including Sensym, NovaSensor, Integrated Sensor Solutions (ISS), ISS-Nagano GmbH, Intelligent MicroSensors and most recently Transparent Networks. Mr. Nasiri was the main driver and Managing Director for the successful startup ISS-Nagano GmbH in Germany purchased by Texas Instruments in 1999. There he designed and developed an innovative high pressure sensor package for under-the-hood automotive applications. These products are being sold worldwide with volumes in excess of 20 million units annually. Mr. Nasiri holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, a MSME from San Jose State and a BSME from UC-Berkeley. He has 30 patents filed with 15 issued.
Garth Johnson has helped grow iStockphoto from a small social network for a few thousand graphic designers with digital cameras, to the world's busiest image market, with more than 1 million registered members, including 23,000 contributing artists, on target to sell 10 million images in 2006. He recently led the sales strategy behind iStock's expansion into member-contributed video clips for as little as $5. It's an aggressive move that's set to shake up the stock video market, and has brought enthusiasm from video professionals, the iStockphoto community, and the media. Garth has a varied background which includes television writing and production, work in copy writing, editing and production, market research and lobbying and running small companies. He was the director of Regina Vineyard and Croydon Vineyard charities and even worked in the evil world of investor relations and stock promotion. Prior to iStockphoto, Garth was vice president of business development for Cinemage Software L.P., part of The ACT Cinemage Group, a group of related technology companies offering innovative software products and services to manage the distribution and commerce of digitized intellectual property on the Internet. Garth holds a B.A. in Religious Education from Alliance University College and an MBA from Regent University.
In the position of Director of Customer Solutions, Ms. McLaughlin is responsible for customer cultivation, corporate branding and communication strategies. Prior to LifeSize she spent over 14 years at various established and start-up high tech companies in senior sales and marketing roles including Tivoli-IBM, TippingPoint (now 3Com), MegaPath Networks and Symantec. Ms. McLaughlin holds a B.S. degree in business administration from San Jose State University and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University Jeff Reed is President and founder of ActiveSymbols, a spin-off of Logicalis Inc. ActiveSymbols is bringing mobile consumers together with brand marketers via a unique and patented brand image database technology. ActiveSymbols Enterprise Server (patent-pending) is an enterprise-class scalable platform enabling image and object recognition (computer vision), text recognition (OCR), biometrics (facial recognition), and linear (1D) and 2D barcode decoding from everyday consumer devices such as camera phones and PDAs. We like to call it "visual searching in the palm of your hand." As CTO for Logicalis, Reed's challenges range from overseeing teams installing enterprise-level computer systems involving hardware and software from vendors like HP, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, and EMC to brain-storming new products to fit market gaps from those vendors and others. Reed's responsibilities include overseeing Logicalis' professional services P&L and the company's extensive R&D efforts across both products and services. Reed helped guide the integration of the three companies and played strategic roles growing the combined businesses from $150M to over $300M. He has managed several key divisions, including software development services, managed services, infrastructure services, product marketing and vendor channel relations, where he managed relationships with key like HP, IBM, Cisco, Sun, Microsoft, Sybase and EMC Reed's technical background is broad, including expertise in the use of wireless data technologies for business process automation. Reed's avocations and parallel careers include his completion of a Ph.D. in ancient history and religion with specialization in early Judaeo-Christian history, artificial intelligence, and linguistics from Sheffield University in England. He has published three books and over 20 articles about ancient history, first century religion and linguistics and has a master's in Greek. “Mr. Hoffenberg is responsible for Lyra's market research in consumer digital imaging products and services, and is the principal analyst for the Consumer Imaging Intelligence advisory service. He has more than a decade of experience in the digital imaging industry, including product management at Leaf Systems (now a division of Eastman Kodak), one of the pioneering companies of the digital camera industry in the early 1990's. He initially joined Lyra in 1996 as founding director of the Digital Photography Advisory Service, and now heads the new Consumer Imaging Intelligence service. Mr. Hoffenberg holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Vermont and a master's degree with a concentration in electronic publishing from the Rochester Institute of Technology.” Internet industry pioneer and entrepreneur Raj Kapoor joined Mayfield in 2005, bringing expertise in online applications, e-commerce, digital imaging and telecommunications. Raj sits on the boards of Tagged and TimeBridge. Most recently, Raj was co-founder and CEO of Snapfish, a leading global online photo service. Raj orchestrated the sale of Snapfish to Hewlett-Packard in March 2005. Prior to Snapfish, Raj was an executive at Excite@Home, where he led the company's e-commerce and broadband applications business, driving new music, entertainment and e-commerce initiatives. Raj also held positions in strategic planning, business development and product management in consumer interactive television services at Bell Atlantic Corporation, which is now Verizon.
Bill Crow is responsible for the overall design and development of Windows Media Photo, a new file format for end-to-end digital imaging. Bill joined Microsoft in 1999, first managing development for digital television projects and digital photography technology for Windows XP. Bill’s 30+ year career includes a diverse background in digital imaging, software architecture, and motion picture production. He has worked as a professional photographer and cinematographer, and was director of technology at a major computer game company. Bill was the chief architect for object oriented software technology at Hewlett-Packard, and he also managed image related research at HP Labs. Bill has authored eight patents and eleven published patent applications for various inventions in software architecture, imaging and other related fields. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1974 with a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Mathematics. In addition to still actively working as a photographer and cinematographer, Bill enjoys rural life with his wife on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula and is an avid private pilot. David Gedye is the Group Manager for Seadragon and Photosynth in Microsoft Live Labs. Before Microsoft acquired Seadragon in February 2006, David was Vice President of Product Development for Seadragon. He is best known as the original founder of the SETI@home project: the biggest distributed computation -- indeed the biggest computation of any kind -- ever performed. He is also an avid photographer.
Tim Grey is recognized as an expert on digital photography and imaging. He has authored or co-authored nine books and hundreds of articles on topics related to digital photography, and frequently speaks at major industry events. He currently works as Director of the Pro Photo Community team at Microsoft Corporation, where he serves as an advocate for professional photographers. Sam Jadallah brings extensive operating, business development and investing experience to his role as general partner. He invests in software and Internet services that power emerging communication networks. Prior to MDV, Jadallah was managing director of ICG where he led the west coast and Asian operations and served as a member of ICG's senior management team and acquisition committee. Jadallah spent 12 years at Microsoft; his final position there was vice president, worldwide enterprise sales. In that position he led worldwide marketing and sales efforts to commercial and academic customers. Jadallah also led Microsoft's service channel efforts. Additionally, he led Microsoft's efforts in distribution, anti-piracy, TechNet, and training and certification. Jadallah also served as general manager of Worldwide Business Strategy directly for Steve Ballmer and general manager of Corporate and Developer Support, where he led the creation of the award-winning customer support service for Microsoft's line of server and developer products. Current investments include Adapt Technologies; Done Right!; InnerWorkings; Medio Systems; Personal Bee; Scalix; and Tiny Pictures. Jadallah also serves on the board of trustees for Case Western Reserve University, and on the board of advisors of the TiE Software SIG. Jadallah studied computer engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.
Ilan has joined Johnson Electric Nanomotion as a president and CEO in 2005. Between 1994-2005, Ilan had served in various Operational, Engineering and Marketing in Kulicke and Soffa (K&S), in Israel and Singapore. In his last position there as been Vice President and general Manager of K&S Materials Business Unit . Dr. Hadar received B.Sc., M.Sc, and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Israel institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Ramesh is a repeat entrepreneur in the semiconductor industry. Prior to co-founding Nethra, he was the vice president of sales at NVIDIA, a graphics and digital media processor company. He joined NVIDIA through the acquisition of MediaQ, Inc., a company he founded and where he served as president and CEO, and vice president of sales. NVIDIA/MediaQ solutions currently are shipping in top tier OEM cell phones. Ramesh helped raise more than $55 million for MediaQ from venture capitalists and corporate partners and has retained excellent relationships with the venture community. Ramesh has extensive worldwide relationships with the top tier handset manufacturers, as well as key industry relationships in Taiwan, China and Japan. Prior to founding MediaQ, Ramesh was the general manager of the Home Products Division (3D graphics products) at S3, Inc. In addition, he has served as sales director for strategic OEM accounts (Dell, Gateway, HP/Compaq and IBM) and worked with all major worldwide OEMs. Ramesh’s 25 plus years in the semiconductor industry also include positions with Chips & Technologies and Rockwell Collins. Ramesh holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University (DSP focus) and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky. Patrick focuses on venture growth equity, consumer, Internet, and mobile investments at NEA. He is a director of Loopt and is actively involved with Xfire, Xoom, and the firm's venture growth activities. Most recently, Patrick helped to grow ZEFER Corporation, an Internet services firm (acquired by NEC) to more than $100 million in annual revenues and more than 700 people across six global offices. The company attracted over $100 million in venture capital financing. Prior to ZEFER, Patrick was with McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in hardware, software, and services companies. Patrick received a joint JD-MBA degree from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, where he was the only candidate in his year to earn honors at both. He served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review and won First Place at Harvard Law School’s Williston Contracts Negotiation Competition. Patrick was one of only nine Canadian citizens to be elected a Commonwealth Scholar to study at Oxford University, where he earned a Master of Science degree and won both class prizes for Best Dissertation and Best Overall Performance. Patrick earned his A.B. degree at Harvard University in Environmental Science. He is a member of the New York and Massachusetts bars.
Salinero has successfully completed 40 technology mergers and acquisitions valued at nearly $4 billion over the past 15 years. With earlier success in banking, operations and organizational development, Salinero helps companies understand transactions as business strategy. Her most recent acquisitions include the sale of SkipJam to NETGEAR and the sale of Eagleware-Elanix to Agilent. During seven years at Broadview International, a global M&A advisor for IT, communications, healthcare technology and media companies, Salinero was instrumental in numerous transactions including the Kingston / SoftBank equity sale, the INS acquisition of VitalSigns, and the SoftBook Press sale to Gemstar. Earlier, Salinero held business development positions at SuperMac, a peripherals company, where she managed the Apple OEM agreement and drove the launch of CinePak, a compression algorithm. As a consultant at Arbor Group, she provided acquisition strategy for Scitex and ATI Technologies.
Woolsey is currently a Co-Principal Investigator on project funded by the MacArthur Foundation on "New Media Literacies." She was an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium, where she continues to consult on projects related to science learning and media including the development of a web site for the Institute for Inquiry. Woolsey is in her second term as a member of the New Media Consortium Board, a consortium of 200 major universities and museums, and one of two designated "visionary board members." From 1998 - 2004 she served as a technology consultant for the James Irvine Foundation on a five-city after school program. Woolsey was Distinguished Scientist at Apple Computer from 1984-1998. Dr. Woolsey received her Ph.D. in cognitive science at UC San Diego, with a focus on visual representations, leading her to a postdoctoral fellowship in architecture and landscape architecture. She was on the faculty of UC Santa Cruz, where she investigated the development of geographic knowledge and the relationship between spatial abilities and mathematical competencies. As a visiting faculty at MIT in 1978, she was a principal on the Aspen Movie Mapping project. She is a co-author, with Scott Kim and Gayle Curtis, of VizAbility, an award winning CD/ book product that provides participants with experiences in seeing, drawing, diagramming and imagination. She was the executive producer of multimedia titles such as Life Story, the Visual Almanac, Animal Pathfinders, Disappearing Ducks, Countdown, and Planetary Taxi, produced when she was Director of the Apple Computer Multimedia Lab. David founded New Scale Technologies in 2002 and has applied the company's innovative SQUIGGLE motor technology to to a wide range of nanopositioning applications including mobile imaging. An experienced business leader and team builder, David has more than 25 years of technology industry experience. As director of positioning products at Burleigh Instruments (now EXFO Burleigh Products Group), he developed innovative nanopositioning products including nano-robots for photonics alignment and microinjection tools for biomedical research. He has prior experience in program management and mechanical engineering with Contraves USA . David has published or presented numerous papers and holds several patents including the patent for the SQUIGGLE motor. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Hermes has spent more than 16 years in sales and marketing leadership positions. His current role at PerkinElmer is to support mobile phone designers and manufacturers with the best lighting and photo sensor solutions. PerkinElmer is the number one provider of xenon flash lamps to the digital still camera market, and is rapidly expanding into the mobile phone market. Hermes is involved in many facets of business development, technology partnerships, sales efforts, and marketing campaigns to grow PerkinElmer's xenon flash lamp and sensor business. Hermes' previous roles at PerkinElmer include flash lamp development team leader for the University of Rochester Omega EP Fusion research laser [the world's most powerful laser], and improving surgical lighting with medical endoscope imaging companies while establishing the Cermax Xenon brand as the xenon lamp market leader. Hermes grew up in Ohio, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Dayton. Since moving to Los Angeles, Hermes completed a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Southern California. Chad Munce is Group Executive of Digital Imaging Markets of Photo Marketing Association International, where he is responsible for all day-to-day operations of PMA’s sub-section, Digital Imaging Marketing Association (DIMA). Munce has an extensive background in digital imaging, having worked prior for Skyline Digital Images (SDI). He specialized in wide-format digital output for three years in the Atlanta and Los Angeles markets. Munce then became affiliated with a digital printing company in Michigan, Photo Magic, where he marketed specialty photo items for consumers. Munce’s responsibilities with DIMA include planning the annual DIMA Conference, DIMA Digital Camera, Digital Printer and Photo Kiosk Shoot-Outs and technical training programs. Munce has spoken on the topic of digital imaging at the Big Picture Conference, Seybold, and for several PMA convention sessions. National Public Radio (NPR) and The Chicago Tribune have also interviewed Munce on the topic of digital imaging.
Gary Pageau joined the Photo Marketing Association International editorial department in December, 1987. Today, he is Publisher, Content Development and Strategic Initiatives. His primary responsibilities include overseeing The PMA editorial department includes the Association’s monthly flagship magazine, Photo Marketing; numerous monthly newsletters; and a daily news update. The PMA marketing research unit conducts both industry and consumer research in the field of photo/imaging. Published reports include the annual Industry Trends Report and the annual Consumer Photo Buying Report. A native of the Detroit area, Pageau graduated from Adrian College in 1985 with degrees in English and Art.
Pixim is a venture-backed, fabless semiconductor company based in Mountain View, California, that develops and sells high performance imaging products for video surveillance. With more than one-hundred camera models in production at over two-dozen OEMs, selling into fifty customers worldwide, Pixim provides the only market accepted CMOS alternative to CCDs in the ultra demanding security market. In early 2000, Ricardo was the first executive to join Pixim and is instrumental in the conception, architecture, development, and successful commercialization of Pixim's multiple generations of award winning products. Prior to Pixim, Ricardo was Chief Imaging Architect at HP, were he worked for twelve years, helping create HP's imaging business by leading the development of many new technologies such as color matching for printers and color standards such as sRGB. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, with BSc and MSc degrees in Photographic and Imaging Science. Ricardo is a past Vice-President of the Society for Imaging Science, a member of the board of advisors of the Munsell Color Science Laboratory, and in 1998 was honored as a Distinguish Alumnus by RIT's College of Science.
Benny joined Qualcomm’s Multimedia team in 2003, with over 20 years of industry experience in Video and Imaging, heading the camera and imaging programs. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Benny was instrumental in the design and development of products such as Digital Still Camera, CMOS image sensors, image processing systems for CMOS sensors, camera module development for mobile applications, Fingerprint recognition systems, video compression techniques, development of non-linear digital video disc recorders and video telephony applications. Qualcomm’s imaging program is providing its customers with state-of-the-art imaging and image processing solutions, embedded in CDMA and UMTS products. Our goal is to identify and solve problems and challenges faced by our customers while bringing digital still camera quality performance into the challenging mobile handset environment. The imaging team at Qualcomm accomplishes this by keeping a close customer relationship at engineering and engineering management level, a powerful and flexible architecture adapting to the needs of the market, a forward-looking development team, a close relationship with CMOS sensor and camera module providers, and a clear understanding of user expectations. Benny holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from North Carolina, lives with his family in Irvine, California and enjoys hiking the local trails.
Professor Dorothy J. Glancy teaches courses in property, intellectual property, privacy, land use and administrative law at Santa Clara University School of Law. Professor Glancy practiced law in Washington, D.C. and was counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights during the time of the Watergate investigations. Professor Glancy has chaired the Association of American Law Schools Sections on Property, on Environmental Law and on Defamation and Privacy. A Life Member of the American Law Institute, Professor Glancy is also a research fellow of the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research. She has worked with Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology and Society on issues related to technology and law. She was a 1974-1975 Fellow in Law and the Humanities at Harvard University. In 2002 the Chief Justice of the State of California appointed her to the State of California Court Technology Advisory Committee.
Magnus Ingelsten has been with several multinational companies such as TetraPak, Atlas Copco, Ericsson and OmniSky in sales and product marketing positions. He was one of the pioneers in starting and setting up Ericsson Asian mobile phones operations in Singapore and Japan were he spend 5 years, heading product management for GSM and 3G. He has been with Scalado since 2001 bringing Scalado successfully into the mobile imaging market, and since had positions managing product management, sales and now marketing. Mr. Ingelsten adds 15 years of experience in bringing out high-technology products on international markets. Scoopt is the world's first commercial 'citizen journalism' agency, set up in July 2005 to bridge the divide between the mainstream media and members of the public who find themselves in the right place at the right time to capture breaking news. The core principle is simple: user-generated content can be valuable so why give it away for free when you can get paid like a professional? Cameraphone technology is core to the opportunity, with millions of people now carrying a device that lets them shoot high resolution images and video of virtually anything that happens, anywhere. Crucially, thanks to MMS, mobile email and 3G file transfer technologies, they can also send that content somewhere useful. Scoopt's role lies in building a trusted business that offers a fast and profitable route to market for user-generated content and aggressively protects people's rights in a rip-off media landscape. Scoopt is currently based in Scotland, still gallantly resisting the lure of Silicon Valley. Prior to founding Scoopt, Kyle was a freelance technology journalist and author. He graduated in 1985 with a degree in philosophy. He's still wondering what to do with it.
Gibu has over 12 years of experience in sales, business development and strategy. At Palm and Handspring he built and managed key wireless carrier relationships, growing sales of Treo devices by over $100 million. Prior to Handspring he oversaw business development for Bluelark Systems, creators of the Blazer browser, until Bluelark's sale to Handspring in December 2000. Gibu has held positions at consulting firms PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Tata Consultancy Services. He has a B.Tech. in computer science from University of Kerala and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. At ShoZu, Bob Morgan is responsible for developing and enhancing partnerships with mobile operators, handset manufacturers, content providers and online communities. Previously the Vice President of Business Development at the Kodak EasyShare Gallery (formerly Ofoto), Morgan was charged with all aspects of business development, 3rd party relations |
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