2009 GfK Imaging Summit
Imaging is Your Future: Let's Do It - Explore Tomorrow's Imaging World

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  • Date: 30 November - 01 December 2009
  • Location: Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
  • Conference Language: English
  • Conference Fee: 400 Euros + VAT (GfK clients, GfK retail partners, members of Photoindustrie-Verband and SPECTARIS),  580 Euros + VAT (all other delegates)
  • Who should attend?: Imaging Photo Retailers/ Manufacturers/ Wholesalers/ Media

The Imaging Summit is a biennial conference hosted by GfK Retail and Technology, photokina and SPECTARIS; bringing together leading international experts to present their views on the global imaging market.

Program MONDAY 30th NOVEMBER 

11:00am: Registration

12:00noon: Welcome
Trends in the Imaging Markets

Marion Knoche Marion Knoche, Global Director Imaging/ Photo,
GfK Retail and Technology   

Imaging Trends in Asia: From Compact to Camera Phone

Marion Knoche
Uriell Chabert Uriell Chabert, Regional Account Manager Asia for Consumer Electronics,
GfK Retail and Technology Asia    

The Digital Consumer 2010: moving from the "installed base" to "personal electronics"

Uriell Chabert
Pascal Bollon Pascal Bollon, Global Director IT
GfK Retail and Technology  

Imaging Without Borders – American consumers' pursuit of photography, from attitudes to accessories

Pascal Bollon
Liz Cutting Liz Cutting, Director, Senior Imaging Analyst, Digital Imaging Industry Expert,
The NPD Group  

14:00 Coffee break

14:30 "Faster, more convenient, more personalised – that's how clients want to shop on the Internet!"

Liz Cutting
Joern Taubert Joern Taubert, Director Consumer Electronics,
Amazon.de 

Be different or die – "Creating a hothouse climate for top business performance"

Joern Taubert
Klaus Kobjoll Klaus Kobjoll, Motivational Trainer,
Klaus Kobjoll Seminars 

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Press Conference

(Alternative to press conference: Visit to the Christmas Market or guided tour of the "Plakativ" poster exhibition) 

Klaus Kobjoll
Siegfried Hoegl Guest speaker
Siegfried Högl, Managing Director,
GfK Marktforschung

19:00 Get-together - Nuremberg Castle

 

Program TUESDAY 1st DECEMBER

09:00 Registration and Coffee

09:30 Technology Forum organized by Spectaris:
Image Composition also a Matter of Sensor Size?

Siegfried Hoegl
Peter Karbe Peter Karbe, Head of Development for Optics Products,
Leica Camera

Lenses for Large Format Digital Backs

Peter Karbe
Frank Reissmann Frank Reissmann, Manager Business Unit Photo & Printing,
LINOS Photonics

3D Surface Inspection for Machine Vision

Frank Reissmann
Christoph Wagner Dr. Christoph Wagner, Head of Business Unit Trevista
OBE Ohnmacht & Baumgärtner 

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 The Transformation of the Photographic Print Market

Christoph Wagner
Don Franz Don Franz, Publisher, 
Photo Imaging News, USA

 

12:00 CGI - Computer Generated Imaging

Don Franz
Michael Jostmeier Prof. Michael Jostmeier,
Georg-Simon-Ohm Technical College

 

Imaging Summit 2007:

Download the programme and press releases from the last Imaging Summit, held in December 2007

Michael Jostmeier

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Marion Knoche

M. Knoche Marion Knoche
Imaging Photo

+49 911 395 2294
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Marion Knoche joined GfK in 1979 as a Junior Client Consultant in the Photo retail audit team. After just one year she became responsible for the Photo audit in Germany. Knoche is now responsible for Imaging/ Photo Products, Leather Goods, Healthcare and Ad hoc Research in Germany.

Today Knoche is globally responsible for the co-ordination of Photo/ Imaging audits and the establishment of new product categories within this market, as well as the roll out to new countries. She serves clients across the world in Europe, America and Japan.

Event Partners

photokina, Koelnmesse Website
photokina, Koelnmesse Website
SPECTARIS Website
SPECTARIS Website