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Final Agenda
Projection Summit 2007
Anaheim, California, USA June 17 & 18
~ InfoComm follows on June 19-21 ~
Insight Media and McLaughlin Consulting Group are pleased to announce the Final Agenda for Projection Summit to be held June 17-18, 2007, Anaheim, CA, USA, just prior to InfoComm 2007. Register NOW!
This conference, which covers projection as well as flat-panel and display supply chain components, has become a premier event for technology, business and marketing leaders to gather and discuss the leading trends in the display industry. It is a vital source of information for companies making key strategic decisions regarding technology investment, product development, go-to-market options and competitive positioning.
The sixth annual Projection Summit provides a unique opportunity to learn about the technology and market forces that are shaping the ProAV and consumer markets. The executive-level conference allows attendees to hear from, and engage with, the industry's movers and shakers. The stimulating sessions and discussion will focus on key industry trends and issues - matters that will affect business decisions at all levels of the industry.
The Projection Summit Preliminary Agenda follows:
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Projection Summit 2007
Anaheim Marriott ~ Anaheim, CA, USA
June 17-18, 2007
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Sunday, June 17 |
Session 1: Lamp/LED/Laser Devices I |
Rapid Progress in High Brightness LEDs for Projection
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Beyond many industry expectations, the brightness increase of LED light collected into small etendue projection light engines has significantly accelerated during the last 3 years. This acceleration has enabled the creation of LED projection TVs of various sizes. This presentation reviews the progress which has been made with LEDs for projection applications, and the products being enabled. An outlook for further brightness improvements and new products is also given.
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Christian Hoepfner
Vice President
Luminus Devices |
New Generation LIFI Light Sources
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A new high intensity light source will be discussed that implements an electrode-free design where the metal halide chemistry is energized by an RF generated electric field. This LIFI light source has been used in micro-display projection HDTV and has the benefits of long, stable lifetime, full color spectrum and fast start time. This presentation introduces the next generation of LIFI light sources that perform with increased levels of light output efficacy and more comprehensive spectra. The performance characteristics of these products are discussed and their benefits to HDTV and home theater front projectors are outlined.
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Tony McGettigan
President and CEO
Luxim Corporation |
Long-lived Arc Lamps for Projection Applications
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Recent life test data shows 200W lamps can last about 10K hours to half brightness when used with Wavien's Dual Paraboloid Reflector (DPR) system. Data for lower wattage lamps means even longer lifetimes that will rival LED. Might such lamps enable projectors that could be called lamp replacement-free? The presentation will discuss the latest data, status of development and manufacturing efforts, and the implications of the DPR technology.
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Ken Li
President
Wavien, Inc. |
Session 2: Opportunities for Multi-Projection Systems |
Opportunities in
Multi-projector Displays
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The need for more and more pixels to achieve ultra-high resolution is growing in many sectors of the military, academic, and commercial user sectors. Seamlessly blending multiple, high-resolution projectors is an effective way to realize ultra-high fidelity. This presentation will describe the applications where multi-projector displays are needed, the needs and growth trends in these sectors, and the various approaches one can take to create a multi-projector image, including the strengths and weakness of these approaches.
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Paul Lyon
International Manager, Display Systems
Barco Simulation Products |
New Vistas in
Multi-Projection Applications
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Recent advances in video server technology make it possible to create multi-projector configurations that display massive pixel counts in panoramic and environmental formats. These systems use edge-blending and keystone techniques that were previously unavailable or prohibitively difficult to achieve. Utilization of these systems is now economically viable for the entertainment and commercial communications markets due to product developments and price reductions. The presentation will describe how these technologies are maturing and enabling new opportunities.
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Jon Stolzberg
Encore Productions |
Session 3: Hot Market Opportunities |
Replacements for CRT Projectors in Simulation and Planetariums
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The presentation will review of the needs of these small-volume niche markets, discuss how fixed-matrix projectors have traditionally come up short, and how recent advances are now overcoming these limitations. The talk will examine the methods to address these issues as well as the overall design considerations in developing a projector for a small volume niche market. It will detail competitive solutions, including details of the SEOS LCOS projector with 900,00:1 sequential contrast.
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Keith Murray
R&D Manager
SEOS Ltd. |
3-D Market Opportunities - The Tide is Changing
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Perceptions about 3-D display technology are changing. Stereoscopic cinema is finally being taken more seriously by the studios and talked about in more positive terms. Earlier, when stereoscopic cinema was discussed it was with derision; it was a joke, to be dismissed. This is no longer the case. This presentation will provide an update on the status of 2D and 3D digital cinema rollouts and explore the reasons for this recent change in attitude with regard to stereoscopic cinema.
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Lenny Lipton
CTO
RealD |
Future Trends in Digital Signage
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The future of digital signage lies in the ability to enhance the customer/viewer experience, beyond the traditional signage technologies and platforms. To meet this market need, a number of trends are taking shape, and this presentation will cover trends such as multi-screen arrangements, engrossing visual effect platforms, and live interactive experiences.
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Avishay Ben-Natan
CTO
C-nario |
Trends in Signage and Professional Displays |
This presentation will forecast trends by major applications and display technology, covering this unique segment's needs and display specification requirements for signage and professional displays. |
Sanju Khatri
Principal Analyst
iSuppli |
Session 4: Wireless and Wired Connections |
No More “Fn-F5”: A New Generation of Display Networking Technology
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This presentation will highlight the projection market potential for display networking products and discuss the trends and technical challenges involved. A new level of networking enables graphics to be transmitted over standard wired and wireless interfaces such as USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi and wireless USB, to break through connectivity limitations imposed by traditional VGA/DVI monitor interfaces. The presentation will describe technology that makes it easy to connect to projectors and send real-time, fully interactive graphics losslessly from any PC with instantaneous interactivity.
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Dennis Crespo
Executive V.P. of Marketing & Business Development
DisplayLink |
Wireless Video - Ready for Primetime?
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WHDI (Wireless High Definition Interface) is a new technology enabling wireless uncompressed HDTV with the same quality and robustness as an HDMI cable. WHDI is based on a novel video modem concept which gives higher protection to video with higher visual significance. WHDI can deliver uncompressed 1080i and 720p in a 20MHz channel in the 5GHz unlicensed band and uncompressed 1080p using a 40MHz channel complying with FCC regulations, and has been demonstrated in ranges of 100 feet and more through walls. WHDI will be the basis of a new industry standard that will be launched in 2007, enabling a standard-based wireless connection between projectors/TVs and the various video sources such as high definition DVD players, gaming consoles, PCs, STBs. The presentation will describe the technology, uses and status.
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Naom Geri
V.P. Marketing & Business Development
Amimon, Inc. |
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Reception/Exhibition/Networking |
Monday, June 18 |
Session 1: LEDs/Laser Displays I |
Commercialization of Lasers for Display
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With the showing of laser-based TVs and projectors from major brands at CES'07, the industry is now looking forward to the roll out and commercialization of lasers across multiple display products. This presentation will focus on key market segments including laser projection TV, laser cinema, laser home theater front projection, and laser backlight units for LCD TV.
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Greg Niven
Executive V.P., Marketing
Novalux, Inc. |
Laser Illuminated Microdisplay Television
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The optical properties of lasers give them a tremendous long-term advantage over LEDs for use with microdisplays as a solid state light source because lasers do more to enable smaller, less expensive microdisplays and RPTVs that rival the thinness of LCD and plasma TVs. With lasers being the best illumination source for microdisplay TVs, the next issue to consider is which of the microdisplay technologies stands to benefit the most from laser illumination.
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Karl Guttag
CTO
Syndiant |
Roadmap to Commercialization for Laser Light Sources
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Last year Oerlikon Optics (formerly Unaxis) took an equity position in and has been working through a JDA with Novalux with the goal to provide economically feasible lasers as a light source to the display industry. The road from R&D to mass production and commercialization of this new laser light source technology is being traveled now, and Oerlikon is focused on developing lasers to serve the MDTV and pico projector markets in the short term. This presentation will provide an update on progress, detailing our roadmaps as commercialization begins.
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Ed Passon
Business Development Manager
Oerlikon Optics |
Session 2: LEDs/Laser Displays II |
| LED/Laser Projection - A Reality Check: |
LED and laser-based projectors offer great promise, but don't get lost in all the marketing hype. This talk will assess the realities of the capabilities, costs and applications for these products. What can really be done today in terms of price, power, and performance? What can customers really expect? What business models will really work? |
Jim Shanley
CTO
SCRAM Technologies, Inc. |
Projection-based Mobile Display Devices
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This presentation will cover the technology required to make a mobile product small enough, bright enough and cost effective enough to have it universally adopted for mobile TV and video. What's required is a display producing an image of 12” to 30” that meets the above requirements. What light, displays, power sources, and interfaces will be utilized? What distribution channels will be utilized?
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Fred Hammett
President
Murgence |
Requirements for Commercialization of Lasers for Display
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Getting a laser projection product approved in the US can require a 3-month pre-approval process for every single customer! This presentation explains in detail the US regulatory environment, the extensive requirements of manufacturers and users, and the laws as they currently exist. It will also discuss the changes needed, the strategies, who is working on these changes, and how to get involved and support the necessary regulation changes to allow commercialization of this potentially large and highly profitable new market in the US.
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Casey Stack,
President
Laser Compliance |
Session 3: Lamp/LED/Laser Devices II |
New Illumination Sources Enable New Opportunities
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Osram currently offers arc lamp and LED sources for projection and is working on laser sources. Each of these sources needs to be matched to an application, accessing the technology cost and performance, timing and application needs. The presentation will describe the status and trends in Osram's arc lamps, LEDs and lasers with a roadmap for analysis of best fits to opportunities.
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Bernd Straehler
Senior Director
Osram GmbH |
Microwave- powered Electrodeless High
Intensity Discharge Lamp System
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The presentation will discuss a new 2,4GHz microwave powered electrodeless high intensity discharge lamp system that operates at a single frequency, uses no mercury in the lamp, and has been designed for minimum cost and maximum reliability. The lamp system offers an unprecedented level of flexibility for system designers, and can be easily modified to suit specific applications. The lamp system is designed to work with Gallium Arsenide, Gallium Nitride, Silicon LDMOS and Magnetron microwave amplifiers, offering a variety in design choice that allows designers to choose between performance versus material cost depending on their unique requirements.
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Chris Williams
Executive Director
Ceravision Ltd. |
Session 4: Light Rejecting Screens |
Projection Screens for Use in Uncontrolled Lighting
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Both front and rear projections systems deliver the largest, lowest-cost-per-unit-area images of any display technology. And, new generations of lightweight, low-power projection systems can also be the lightest weight-per-unit-area display technology. These attributes make projection systems the most flexible display systems for a great many applications from consumer activities like gaming and video display, to corporate meeting rooms, to commercial applications like retail signage.
In order to get the best quality pictures from a projection system, it is critically important either use the system in a reduced illumination environment or use the projector in conjunction with a high-gain, high-contrast projection screen. But in any other viewing environment, it is more useful to have a high-gain, high contrast screen, to bring maximum image luminance for a viewer, along with maximum ambient illumination rejection. Screens that perform both functions – increased image luminance and increased rejection of ambient illumination have not been technologically feasible until now.
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Don Hirsh,
Business Development Manager Brightview Technologies |
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Brian Carskadon
Sr. Manager, Product Marketing
Planar Systems, Inc. |
Screen Performance Under Ambient Lighting Conditions
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This presentation will cover screen performance under ambient lighting conditions with emphasis on front projection screens.
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Chuan Lee
Director, Greenwood Research Laboratories
Fujifilm Manufacturning USA, Inc. |
Session 5: Projection Manufacturning Trends |
Thin is In - and Now Cost Effectively Producable
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This presentation covers the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to manufacturing thin RPTVs. Results from recent configuration studies on thin-chassis RPTVs illuminated by either UHP lamps or solid-state lasers, with target specs of 10:1 diagonal to depth, and 10:1 diagonal to chin ratios will be presented. Discussion will include how advanced geometry processing was used in synergy with advanced optics.
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Gopal Ramachandran, Strategic Marketing Manager
Silicon Optix |
Making MDTV Competitive Through Innovation
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The presentation will show how lamp-based MDTVs can remain viable and competitive today. While it is a difficult competitive landscape, innovative designs, lower cost manufacturing and better distribution models can help keep MDTV viable. The presentation will describe the risks and the steps needed to be successful.
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Marty Zanfino
Vice President of Marketing
Microdisplay Corp. |
Session 6: Market Data/Trends in Displays |
Projection is Alive and Well
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Many people think projection is in trouble because of the MDTV segment. But both the professional side and home theater are doing fine and new innovations are coming. This presentation will cover projection's ability to effectively compete with FPDs.
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Midori Takaso
Vice President
Techno Systems Research Co., Ltd. |
Trends in 3D Displays
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This talk will cover three existing market segments for large-screen 3D displays: data visualization, digital signage and cinema. Examples of current applications in each of these market segments will be discussed. Market size estimates and forecasts of market growth will also be given. |
Matt Brennesholtz
Sr. Analyst
Insight Media |
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Bill Coggshall
President
Pacific Media Associates |
Insight Media (www.insightmedia.info) and McLaughlin Consulting Group (www.mcgweb.com) will once again manage the Projection Summit, held in conjunction with InfoComm 07. We will run on a new Sunday-Monday schedule this year with sessions on June 17 and 18. The main InfoComm'07 Exhibition begins on Tuesday, June 19.
Attendee Registration
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Full Conference |
May 22 - June 15 |
$1,095.00 |
On-site (registration received after June 15 will be considered on-site) |
$1,295.00 |
Sponsorship Opportunities
Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsorship levels are available for Projection Summit 2007. Sponsorships include exhibit space, limited discounted registrations, and company logo on all promotional materials.
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Gold Sponsorship $8,500
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Silver Sponsorship $6,500
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Bronze Sponsorship $4,500
Pease go to http://www.projectionsummit.com/sponsor.htm for further details.
Exhibit Opportunities
Projection Summit exhibit space is priced at $1,000/booth. Please see complete details at http://www.projectionsummit.com/exhibitor.htm.
For more on Projection Summit, registration, exhibition and sponsorship opportunities, visit: www.projectionsummit.com or contact Dian Mecca, Insight Media (203) 831-8464, dian@insightmedia.info or Bruce Kuhlmann, (707) 292-3693, bkuhlmann@mcgweb.com.
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