If you want to know how they like us to use what they had invented and what we have to pay for it: the C | summit Cameraphones 2004, April 27-30, in Maui, Hawai, has gathered them all together, the Mr. Important and Mrs. Next Big Thing in marketing, finance, business development and technology of the moblogging world.
"A stunning program of industry leaders, visionaries and mavericks will discuss practical solutions and innovative strategies that are defining the dynamic new market for mobile imaging and multimedia...the market research firm Strategy Analytics* recently forecast that over 800 million camera phones will be sold worldwide between 2003 and 2008. At this point, it is all but official that cameraphones are the Next Big Thing."
Furthermore we read "The Cameraphone Summit has three objectives." Getting your, my and our money in their pocket. Ok, let´s be serious again. Instead the Summit is attended by "the visionaries who truly understand that mobile imaging is something radically new and vitally important." They claim "You won’t find any canned marketing speeches at this event." It´s because "The CameraPhone is an Emerging Social Medium." It´s because we´re all after "The Emerging Killer App for Cameraphones". And the Next Big Thing:
"The Cameraphone Summit has three objectives.
First, we aim to highlight the current hardware revolution, the potential business opportunities, and the pervasive social impact of this exciting new field of mobile imaging and media, including a hard hitting, solutions-oriented analysis of privacy policy. Second, we will support interoperability efforts by hosting and facilitating a series of open standards roundtables and collaboration as the avenue to market acceleration. Finally, we intend to bring innovation into the conference business itself, so that every attendee can leave feeling that this was the most impactful, thought-provoking and productive business networking event they have ever experienced.
There are many factors that make C | summit the must-attend event of the year for cameraphone industry executives: Global scope. C | summit is focused at the global market, and so, we’ve invited top-level business executives from the leading global technology leaders, the international policymakers, and the visionaries who truly understand that mobile imaging is something radically new and vitally important. "
The classical marketing hot air speech. But the schedule for the C | summit Cameraphones 2004 has some very interesting points. There´s also a report at Reiter´s Camera Phone Report.
C | summit is maintaining a official Official Conference Weblog and Moblog during the event.
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*InfoTrends Research Group, Inc., recently has published another study.
