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SEYBOLD
SEMINARS SAN FRANCISCO 2000
This is the line-up for one of the typical seminars we organised for Seybold in the US
Full-day
special interest session
Monday
August 28, 2000
9:00am-1:30pm and 2:30pm-6:00pm
SEYBOLD
DIGITAL IMAGING DAY
Seybold
digital photography special interest sessions are
designed to put you in the know about the latest hardware
and software tools for digital imaging, bringing you
face-to-face with key developers and
users.
Digital imaging is
one of the fastest-growing fields, with changes occurring
every few weeks. It's essential to keep up to date with
the very latest trends, the reasons behind them and their
implications for future investment and profitability.
Many new digital cameras have been among the products
first announced to the world at our special interest day,
making it THE place to find out about cutting-edge
developments in digital imaging.
IMPORTANT
NOTE: Seybold
Seminars aims to bring you the very latest in new
technology and techniques, to empower your imaging
decisions. Details of this session are therefore subject
to change as the future unfolds. (Latest update:
08/22/00)
John
Henshall
Organizer and Presenter of the Seybold Digital
Imaging Day
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John
Henshall has unmatched technical and
creative experience in all branches of
photography -- still and moving image;
silver halide and digital. He worked for
BBC Television for fifteen years and was
director of photography for major network
television productions and MTV Europe. His
digital imaging website at
www.epi-centre.com contains a wealth of
information about all aspects of digital
photography.
John is Digital Photography Contributor to
the Seybold Reports and organizer of the
Seybold Digital Imaging Day. He is a
Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society
of Great Britain (FRPS) and a Fellow and
Past President of the British Institute of
Professional Photography
(FBIPP).
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9:00am
- 10:30am · Moscone Room
133
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Photography
and the Web - part one
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Images
transformed the text-only internet into the World
Wide Web. What George Eastman did for film, many
are now trying to do for digital imaging on the
web. What are these companies, other than on-line
repositories for digital images? Who are the main
players? What's in it for photography and
photographers? Could this be the very future of
photography?
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Ron
Tussy
Analyst, Imerge Consulting Group LLC
DIGITAL
PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE INTERNET
A
top imaging analyst explains why the online photo
industry is at the precipice of one of greatest
consumer paradigm transformations since the color
desktop publishing revolution of the 1980s. What
are the drivers behind this tranformation? Where
have we been? Where are we going, Casualties and
survivors?
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Ron
Tussy has over 21 years professional
experience in the imaging industry and is
president and principal analyst of Imerge
Consulting Group, an innovative custom
market research and business development
firm serving the imaging industry. He has
been a widely respected imaging industry
analyst and speaker on future trends in
imaging since 1996.
Previously, Ron was an analyst at
International Data Corporation (IDC),
where he founded IDC's Digital Cameras and
Scanners Research Programs. He has also
been WW Scanner Product Line Manager at
Apple Computer, a National Sales Manager
for Phase One, a digital book publisher
and a Newsweek photographer.
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James
Joaquin
CEO and President, Ofoto Inc
ONLINE
PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER
Not
since the introduction of the Brownie camera in
1900 has there been a product or service that has
had such a profound impact on the photography
industry as the Internet and online photography.
Online photo processing provides greater
convenience and control for the professional
photographer, but is online photography a threat or
an opportunity for professionals?
James Joaquin will address:
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How online photography is challenging traditional
professional photography and changing the
photography industry for the better.
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Which business models will dominate in the new
wired world.
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How online photography will lead to more
opportunities for professional photographers to
network, get assignments, increase revenues and
promote their photography.
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Prior
to joining Ofoto, Mr. Joaquin co-founded
When.com, the leading Web based calendar
and events service. As Vice President of
Business Development, he and his team
drove the content, e-commerce, and
distribution deals that fuelled When.com's
rapid success. In less than one year from
incorporation, When.com was acquired by
America Online and now powers the AOL 5.0
calendar used by millions.
While studying Computer Science at Brown
University, he co-founded Clearview
Software, which was later acquired by
Apple Computer's Claris division. Mr.
Joaquin also held marketing management
roles at Apple Computer and Diamond
Multimedia.
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Nancy
Carr
Eastman Kodak Company
KODAK
AND INTERNET PHOTOGRAPHY
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As
director of Worldwide Marketing
Communications and Vice President of
Digital & Applied Imaging of Eastman
Kodak Company, Nancy Carr manages the
communications for Kodak's digital
products.
Previously, Nancy Carr was general manager
of Nikon, Inc., responsible for launching
the consumer digital camera business, as
well as managing Nikon's 35mm and Advanced
Photo System compact camera business.
Earlier, at Apple Computer, she was
manager of Marketing for the Publishing
Group where she directed the marketing
activities targeted toward large and small
publishing firms and was an early advocate
and speaker on Internet publishing. Prior,
Ms. Carr spent eight years at Linotype.
While there, she helped to lead the launch
of desktop publishing and to create a
whole new line of business for the
company.
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10:30am
- 11:00am - Coffee
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11:00am
- 12:15pm · Moscone Room
133
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Photography
and the Web - part two
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Alain
Chesnais
(replaces Sasa Radulovic)
VP Engineering, TrueSpectra Inc
MERCHANDISING
ON THE WEB: THE KEY TO ONLINE SUCCESS
In
a very short period of time, electronic commerce
has redefined the rules of the retail industry.
Today, as Internet infrastructure, systems, and
business processes rapidly become more
sophisticated, e-commerce is poised to reach a much
higher level of penetration and sales potential in
the retail industry. New and improved mechanisms
for searching, personalization, and direct selling
are creating more satisfying online shopping
experiences. Online shoppers are now presented with
opportunities to capitalize on the Internet's key
strengths - immediacy, depth, and interactivity.
Retailers are paying increasing attention to
merchandising on the Web, striving to further
enhance the customer experience. Retailers
recognize that an engaging and intuitive
presentation of detailed product information is
critical for selling successfully online. This
presentation looks at the necessities of effective
merchandising for retailers.
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Alain
Chesnais has over thirty years programming
experience and a strong background in
digital imaging, networking and Internet
infrastructure, rendering technologies and
managing research development. Chesnais
was formerly with IBM Europe and Apple
France. Most recently, he was the director
of engineering and business manager for
design visualization solutions at
Alias/Wavefront. Chesnais was recently
elected chair of the ACM SIG governing
board and serves as the international
relations chair for the SIGGRAPH 2001
conference. Chesnais is responsible for
managing TrueSpectra's team of developers,
programmers and quality assurance
professionals and for leading the
company's R&D in server-based
technologies.
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Mark
Platshon
CEO Zing Network Inc
ON-LINE
PHOTO SHARING
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Mark
Platshon brings over 10 years of CEO
experience to the Zing executive team.
Most recently, Platshon was
entrepreneur-in-residence at Asset
Management Associates, a leading venture
capital firm in Palo Alto, CA. Prior to
that, Platshon held the position of
President & CEO at Idetek, a high
technology diagnostics company, and
EloTouch Systems, a Raychem subsidiary and
a pioneer in interactive touch-screen
technology. He holds a BS in engineering
from the University of Michigan and MBA
from Stanford University.
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James
West
CEO Alamy.Com
A
NEW TOTALLY WEB BASED IMAGE LIBRARY
Alamy.com
is a new, totally web-based, image library - the
new place to buy and sell images. Alamy aims to
break down the barriers to make the process of
buying and selling images as efficient and as fair
as possible. Groundbreaking technology makes
Alamy.com the most advanced, exciting and
profitable outlet for work in the global image
markets. Offering new ways to search for the right
image, the Alamy mission is simple -- to build the
fastest growing and most sophisticated image
collection on the web. James West explains how's it
done and how will it work for you - whether
photographer or buyer of images.
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Formerly
a diver and underwater expedition
photographer, and later an Internet
developer for an Oxford University
research group, James West developed a
system for sharing research data between
international laboratories via the web. He
started his own venture in 1998,
developing web site creation tools for a
non-technical audience. Motivated by
passion for developing sophisticated
internet applications that are easy to
use. Much of this earlier work is central
to his vision for the future of commercial
photography and his latest project --
alamy.com -- seeks to change the way
photographers trade their intellectual
property on the web.
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12:15pm
- 12.30pm - Comfort break
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12:30pm
- 1:30pm · (Move to) Moscone Room
134
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THIS
SESSION IS OPEN TO ALL SEYBOLD
ATTENDEES
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Keynote
Address
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DAN
CARP
President and CEO, Eastman Kodak
Company
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Dan
Carp took over at the helm of Eastman Kodak on the
first day of the new millennium - a hundred years
after George Eastman's revolutionary vision of
photography for everyone. In Eastman's mold, Dan
Carp is also a man of inspiration and vision for
photography in the twenty first century. Timed just
before the bi-annual Photokina trade fair in
Cologne, Germany - the world's biggest - this
keynote could be Kodak's most important
announcement in years. DON'T MISS IT.
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2:30pm
- 4:30pm · (Return to) Moscone Room
133
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Digital
Imaging State of the Art
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Top
designers of the most important and
up-to-the-minute hardware and software share the
secrets of their new features and design philosophy
and functionality. The latest. Here first. In
person. In depth.
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Karen
Gauthier
Product Manager, Imaging Products, Adobe
Inc
SOMETHING
NEW AND IMPORTANT FROM
ADOBE
It's so hot we can't mention it in advance but we
can promise you that the publishers of the world's
benchmark photo-editing application have something
you won't want to miss. Karen Gauthier from Adobe
will be here to give you a first glimpse of this
new product that will be announced and shown for
the first time today.
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Karen
Gauthier is the Photoshop Product Manager
at Adobe Systems. She has spent almost
three years at Adobe guiding the
development and marketing of Adobe
Photoshop, the world standard image
editing solution. Karen has eight years of
experience in the computer software
industry and previously held the position
of Group Product Manager at
Corel.
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Chad
Munce
Photo Marketing Association
2000
DIMA CONSUMER DIGITAL IMAGING SURVEY
Highlights
of the Digital Imaging Marketing Association's
report detailing the latest trends in consumer
adoption of digital imaging.
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Chad
Munce has been involved in the digital
imaging business since 1994 when he
started selling wide-format graphics. He
has been with PMA (Photo Marketing
Association International) for a year and
a half and is presently in charge of DIMA
(Digital Imaging Marketing Association).
DIMA publishes several industry trends
reports annually, and has recently
released the DIMA Digital Imaging Consumer
Survey which shows the latest trends in
consumer adoption of digital
imaging.
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Carl
Jürg Koch
Sinar
A
DIGITAL BUILDING BLOCK SYSTEM FOR PROFESSIONAL
APPLICATIONS
An
insight into one of the projects on the Sinar
drawing boards which promises to make life easier
for the photographer who is on the quest for the
ultimate image outside the studio.
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Carl
Koch was born in Pacifica CA in 1966. His
family returned to Switzerland where his
father was busy changing Sinar from a
small operation into a factory with its
own production facilities. Carl went to
school in Switzerland but returned to the
US where he obtained an MBA from the
University of South Carolina in 1991. Back
in Switzerland he joined the family
business, taking over responsibility for
marketing and sales. He took the Swiss
government theoretical test for
professional photographers and enjoyed
challenging commercial photographic
assignments before taking over as Joint
Managing Director of the
company.
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Brian
Benamati
Eastman Kodak Company
A
16 MILLION PIXEL FULL-FRAME COLOR IMAGE SENSOR FOR
PERFORMANCE IMAGING
APPLICATIONS
Big news for professional photographers from
Eastman Kodak.This paper describes a 16 million
pixel full-frame color CCD image sensor that has
been designed for photographic digital still camera
applications. Technological implementations are
presented which address key performance
requirements of image sensors for the high
performance imaging market. Specifically,
performance from advanced high resolution Kodak
Digital Science Blue Plus Color CCD image
sensors are presented. This 16 million pixel image
sensor is within a family of full-frame color CCDs
based on Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) gate electrode
technology. In conclusion, the paper addresses
options to meet the future requirements of digital
still camera applications.
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Brian
L. Benamati received BS and MS degrees in
Electrical Engineering from Rochester
Institute of Technology, Rochester NY. He
joined Eastman Kodak Company in 1980
through 1991 and has worked as a Process
Engineer and Process Integrator involved
with the development of CCD image sensors.
From 1991 through 1997 he was the
Fabrication Manager in the
Microelectronics Technology Division and
in 1998, he became a Product Engineer for
Full Frame Color CCD imager sensors. He is
presently a Product Marketing Engineer for
Kodak's Image Sensor Solutions division,
concentrating on applications for digital
still cameras.
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Stephen
Johnson
Photographer
BIG
PIGMENT PRINTERS
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A
landscape photographer for twenty five
years and a passionate advocate of digital
photography's revolutionary quality,
Stephen Johnson's books include At Mono
Lake, The Great Central Valley:
California's Heartland, and Making a
Digital Book. Extensive magazines features
include Life, Communication Arts, Publish,
View Camera, American Photo and PDN/PIX.
His digital photography work began in 1989
and has included fine-art books,
calendars, posters and electronic
media.His groundbreaking all digital
national parks project, With A New Eye, is
nearing completion. He operates a digital
studio and gallery in Pacifica,
California, near San Francisco.
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5:00pm
- 6:00pm · Moscone Room
133
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Top
Ten Products in Sixty Minutes
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Which
digital camera? Which scanner? Which software?
Which printer?
With new products every week, it's almost
impossible to keep up to date. In an exciting
quick-fire presentation, we sort out some of the
very best and tell you what makes them stand out.
The informed independent view, by these top
industry experts, analysts and
consultants.
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Presenters
include:
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Dave
Etchells
Publisher, Imaging Resource
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David
Etchells is the Publisher of the Imaging
Resource, at www.imaging-resource.com The
Imaging Resource is widely regarded as one
of the most authoritative sources for
information on digital cameras and
imaging. It is the home of the unique
"Comparometer(tm)" on-line image
comparison tool, and source of the largest
library of standardized digital camera
reference images in the world. Serving
hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors
and widely syndicated across the internet,
the Imaging Resource is arguably the
most-read source of digital camera reviews
and consumer imaging information in the
world.
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John
Henshall
Digital
Imaging Consultant
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John
Larish
Co-publisher,
Electronic Photography News
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A
principal in Jonrel Imaging Consultants,
an entrepreneurial firm specializing in
product development and consulting in
electronic imaging and hybrid systems,
John Larish he has written many articles
for popular and technical publications.
Author of a number of books, "Fun With
Digital Photography", his most recent
book, was published under the Kodak book
trademark by Silver Pixel
Press.
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Fred
Shippey
Electronic
imaging consultant
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Fred
Shippey worked for Eastman Kodak in
Rochester, NY, for twenty two years and
was involved in a wide variety of
conventional photography and digital
imaging projects. He is now a consultant
on electronic imaging technology and
applications and is the New Products
Editor for PDN-PIX and the Senior Editor
of the Future Image Report. He makes
worldwide presentations on the impact of
electronic imaging on the photographic
business as well as lecturing and teaching
extensively on digital imaging since 1987.
His consulting clients have included
Kodak, Canon, Foveon, Nikon, Management
Graphics, and the Mayo Clinic.
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Brian
Whitehead
Lecturer
in Graphic Design & New Media
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Brian
Whitehead studied Fine Art painting,
printmaking and photography at the
Johannesburg School of Art, South Africa.
He has run Brian Whitehead &
Associates, a cross-discipline design
consultancy working on design and
advertising for print and exhibition, for
many years. He was formerly the design and
picture editor of The Photographer
magazine, published by The British
Institute of Professional Photography,
with which he holds a Fellowship (FBIPP)
in digital imaging. He is currently
lecturing at the Surrey Institute of Art
& Design University College on the
Graphic Design BA(Hons) course and also on
the Graphic Design New Media BA(Hons)
course.
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Mark
Williford
President,
ProRental
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Mark
Williford, President of Pro Rental, has
experience in every aspect of the
commercial photography marketplace. He is
a leading digital photography evangelist
who founded and moderates the Prorental
mailing list, a vigorous discussion group
and melting pot for all aspects of
high-end digital photography.
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ELECTRONIC PHOTO-IMAGING
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