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Industry Veterans Guide Visual Communication Advocacy EffortsBoth authors of this Visual Communication Advocacy Program - Alexis Gerard and Bob Goldstein - are recognized thought leaders and independent experts in the imaging field, and have had extensive exposure for the past ten years in popular and business media, both audiovisual and print. See biographies below. Future Image Inc.Since 1991, Future Image Inc is the premier advisor to imaging industry executives, investors and entrepreneurs on emerging trends in the digital imaging field. Its flagship publication, The Future Image Executive Information Service, is an essential business intelligence tool for these constituencies in over fifty countries. Future Image’s primary research focuses on emerging trends in Internet photo imaging. Recent studies published include "Wireless Imaging 2001 - Overcoming The Challenges – Infrastructure and Players," "Funding Trends in the Digital Imaging Industry," "Web Photo Services 2000 - A Competitive Analysis," "Wedding and Event Photos Online - New Content Strategies to Drive Consumer Traffic and Revenues," "Protecting Visual Assets on the Internet - Turning Pictures into Profits," “Imaging Drives eCommerce and Enterprise Profits,” and "Worth 1,000 URLs - Visual Strategies for eCommerce." Future Image also produces a series of supplements on the Digital Imaging industry jointly with the Red Herring magazine. Web:
www.futureimage.com . Alexis Gerard
Alexis Gerard is President of Future Image
Inc.(www.futureimage.com ),
the leading publisher of business-to-business information and analysis
for the digital imaging industry, which
In 1993, Mr. Gerard produced and chaired "Photography in the Digital Age", the first executive conference focused on the digital photography industry. In 1995, he directed and chaired the inaugural conference of DIMA. He is a past President 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. His involvement in the imaging industry spans over 20 years, during which he has authored or directed ground-breaking studies forecasting the impact and adoption patterns on the imaging industries of new technologies such as Photo CD, Royalty-Free Stock Images, Digital Cameras, the Internet, Visual Search, Wireless Communications and more. He writes a syndicated column, is a dynamic public speaker with numerous conference and television appearances, and is frequently quoted in the mainstream business press as well as technology publications. A native of Switzerland, Mr. Gerard holds an MA from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland). His client list includes: Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Computer Inc., Cadence Design Systems, California Historical Society, Canon Australia Pty Ltd, Canon Computer Systems Inc., Canon Information Systems Inc., Conexant Corp., Digital Dynamics Company, Ditto.com, Dycam Corp., Eastman Kodak Company, Eveready Battery, Focus Graphics Inc., Foveon Inc., Glunz & Jensen A/S, Hewlett Packard Company, HMR Inc., IBM Microelecronics Division, Intel Corp., Internet Pictures (iPIX), Irvine Sensors, Leaf Systems, LightSurf Technologies, Minolta Corporation, National Semiconductor, NeXT Inc., Peerless Systems, Photo Access Corporation, PictureWorks Technology Inc., Polaroid Corp., The Procter & Gamble Company, Quebecor Litho Plus, Savitar Inc., Signature Color, Sony Electronics, Sprint PCS, Teralogic Inc., Trellix Corp, Visioneer Inc. Contact: Agerard@Futureimage.com
Bob Goldstein Contact: bob@bobgoldstein.com
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Internet imaging and eCommerce executive. He recently completed
a tour of duty as President of the Altamira Group, which produced the
Genuine Fractals line of digital image scaling and compression
software. In the summer of 2001, Mr. Goldstein negotiated the
sale of the Altamira Group assets to Seattle based LizardTech, home of
the MrSid and DjVu image and document software products. Mr.
Goldstein’s history in the imaging business began in 1990 when he
founded ZZYZX Visual Systems in Los Angeles, California. ZZYZX
was the first site of Eastman Kodak's PhotoCD image digitizing system
and Mr. Goldstein worked closely with Kodak to make PhotoCD a viable
product in the professional market. He developed businesses in high
volume image scanning, digital retouching, stock photo data-bases and
CDROMS, large format IRIS fine art digital printing, interactive media
projects, QuickTime VR services, web site design, and digital photo
studios. In 1997 he opened a consulting practice whose clients
included: Eastman Kodak, Apple Computer, Oracle Corp, Live Picture and
Hewlett-Packard, on the applications of imaging for electronic
commerce. He is an analyst for The Future Image Report for whom he
authored an industry study of Internet visual search engines. He
has been a featured speaker at many conferences including: Seybold,
PMA, DIMA, MacWorld, Siggraph, PhotoPlus, the Lyra Summit, and has
appeared on CNNfn. Mr. Goldstein has a business degree from the
University of Southern California.