DSE (Digital Signage Expo 2012) is the world's largest international trade show and conference dedicated to digital signage, interactive technology and digital out-of-home networks and it will be taking place from March 6 to March 9, 2012.
In addition to numerous educational seminars, practical workshops, industry vertical discussion groups and on-floor presentations, on March 7 and March 8 the Expo will be featuring keynote breakfasts on different topics.
In, Through and Beyond: A Pixel Dialogue
The keynote speaker John Underkoffler has acted as a science adviser for a number of films in the sci-fi genre. Some of the more known names include "Iron Man", "Aeon Flux" and also "Minority report". He is currently a chief scientist of Oblong Industries which was also founded by the man himself. During this keynote breakfast he will try to use examples from fiction (like "Minority Report") and bring it into real user interface design trajectory in order to sketch the most important and imminent advances in the field. He will also discuss their potential and already now visible impact on the world on digital signage.
Digital Signage 2020: Eyes on the Future
This panel has been put together of Dr. Peter L. Bocko (Chief Technology Officer at Corning Glass Technologies, Corning Inc.), Erica Schroeder (Director of Enterprise Video, Cisco), Michelle Tinsley (Personal Solutions Division General Manager at Intel Corp.) and Lisa-anne Uhrmacher (Senior Manager of Business Development at Emerging Solutions Group, Sprint). The panel moderator is Lyle Bunn. All those industry experts will be sharing their vision of the future and to be more exact, the technologies and driving forces that will be shaping the future of the digital signage industry.
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