Executive Sponsor:

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. HP offers products, services and solutions that are high tech, low cost and deliver the best customer experience. More information about HP is available at www.hp.com.

 Sponsors:

Founded in 1999, Shutterfly, Inc. (www.shutterfly.com) is an Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service. Shutterfly provides a range of products and services that make it easy, convenient and fun for consumers to upload, edit, enhance, organize, find, share, create, print and preserve their digital photos in a creative and thoughtful manner.

EZ Prints is a leading private-label digital fulfillment and technology solutions firm, servicing the Consumer, Professional, Digital Content, and Real Estate Verticals. EZ Prints is a strategic partner to companies in these verticals seeking to build successful and sustainable digital product offerings and solutions for their customers. The combination of our vast array of tangible products and technology tools enables us to rapidly and effectively deploy complete solutions for strategic partners that are relevant, functional and comprehensive. Since its founding in 1998, EZ Prints has been selected as the private-label fulfillment solution for over 300 companies, both public and private, in the US and Europe. Our list of industry leading partners includes the #1 newspaper, #1 photo site, #1 portrait studio, the #1 and #3 portals, and the #1, #2, and #3 professional sites.

More information about EZ Prints is available at www.ezprints.com.

Visan is a company comprised of business and technology pioneers who have delivered advanced digital products ranging from consumer to State-of-the-Art professional visual effects systems used in film and television. Visan’s innovative Patent Pending RocketLife Media Platform is an integrated Web and Kiosk technology which enables the instant creation and merchandising of all types of next-generation photo-rich products from Photo Books and Photo DVD’s to Collage Prints, Calendars and scores of other gifting products. Unique to the RocketLife Platform is its instant 3D Digital Merchandising technology which provides enticing real-time previews of the customer’s photos on finished ready-to-buy products. Visan Founders have invented and shipped over one hundred different products to well over a million customers, and have been given the most prestigious awards in the industry including three Prime Time Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development.

More information about Visan is available at www.visan.com.

Simple Star develops software products and services that help consumers share their memories in new, entertaining ways through PhotoShow, the most complete and easy-to-use photo platform available. With PhotoShow, anyone can quickly and easily organize and edit their digital photos and video clips and turn them into entertainment to enjoy and share on the screen of their choice - whether a PC, a TV or a handheld device. Unlike viewing static pictures in a photo album or on a computer, PhotoShows provide a rich multimedia experience that combines broadcast quality credits, captions, transitions, special effects and clip art with a compelling musical soundtrack. 

Simple Star distributes its award-winning PhotoShow software primarily through partners such as cable companies, digital media software providers, online photo services, retailers with photofinishing services and hardware manufacturers.

More information about Simple Star  is available at www.simplestar.com.

Exhibitors:

ip.labs is firmly established as the European market leader in digital photo service software solutions. We develop native applications for Windows, OS X, Media Center, and cutting edge web browser solutions. The leading retailers, ISPs, media, and other companies have based their photo business on our Internet Photo System (IPS) platform. Today our solutions are used by over 1,200 customers in 23 countries generating more than 40,000 orders per day.

Our IPS platform covers the full range of your customers' digital imaging needs. The highly optimized and intuitive order workflow makes ordering prints, posters, photo gifts, calendars and photo books great fun. Especially, our innovative and unrivaled digital scrap-booking solution allows the user to become creative with digital images and to experience amazing calendar and photo book products. The technologically most advanced online storage and sharing platform, which constitutes an integrated element of our web solutions, in combination with extensive administration and CRM functionalities round off your photo service portfolio and help you to massively improve your customer relationships.

More information about ip.labs  is available at www.iplabs.de.

Liberty Photo Products is North America's leading supplier of consumables, replacement parts and services to the photofinishing industry in the retail onsite and wholesale lab markets.  We also offer a full range of premium wide format media accompanied by custom ICC color profiles.  Products such as our custom printed silver and gold CD's and DVD's, private label flash memory and hardware/software upgrades helped position Liberty as the industry's preferred supplier.  Our product range includes over 4,000 different items and is rapidly growing to meet the digital needs of our customers.

Liberty was founded in 1984 and has earned a solid customer base of the nation's leading retail and wholesale photofinishers.  B2B clients include every national and many regional retail chains offering imaging services.  Our unparalleled service has driven our company to an average annual double digit sales growth through the entire 22 years of our existence.
Liberty is 9001: 2000 certified and Kodak Supplier Certified

More information about Liberty is available at www.libertyphotoproducts.com.

MAGIX enables retail companies to concentrate on their core business while taking advantage of the growth opportunities in the multimedia market.  MAGIX offers a complete imaging solution that encompasses not only photo but also video and music, and connects all platforms seamlessly (fixed and wireless).

In addition there are server applications that offer automatic creation of photo-show DVDs based on selected themes that can be also ordered in store. In this way customers can order prints and photo gifts in store as well as automatically created photo-show DVDs and personalized online albums.

MAGIX is the worldwide market leader for photo, video, and music solutions.  MAGIX products and services include 30 PC software applications; 15 multimedia online services including online album, community, print service, podcast service, flash website service, blog service, music recognition; and 5 mobile applications for photo optimization and uploading, music recognition, ringtone creation, music player, etc.

MAGIX offers the best technology in an intuitive, turnkey solution. The MAGIX products are recognized as “best of class” in their particular categories. Since 1993 MAGIX products have won 596 awards, 202 of which were awarded in the past 12 months.

For more information, contact Markus Gunn, Director of Business Development at 647-222-1102, mgunn@magix.net, or visit www.magix.com. 

Siberra Corp. provides professional, end-to-end online photo services for companies who want to offer their customers leading edge photofinishing, online to in-store.  Our photo commerce websites are fully branded and customized to your retail identity, where customers can upload digital images from home, share photos with friends, and order high quality prints and personalized photo merchandise.  Siberra also offers fulfillment services that ship customer orders back to your stores, or to home. 

We have a full range of high margin specialty products available to you, including: greeting cards, calendars, photo gifts, and our premium retailer-branded photobooks.   Siberra’s photo merchandise adds to retailer profit by increasing the average order value and building repeat business.

For more information, contact John Johnson, VP of Business Development at 416-419-0420, or visit www.siberra.com. 

 Association/Publication Sponsors:

I3A is the leading global imaging industry association, driving growth of and setting standards for the photographic and information imaging markets. As the industry focal point, I3A offers a framework and environment where members can quickly find resources to solve critical issues and develop market solutions. Members of I3A work together to find common ground for advancing the industry and to enable better products and services for their customers.

Picture Business focuses on the important business issues effecting today's imaging retailer. In addition to covering the imaging industry from a business perspective, it will also keep tabs on the latest innovations that continue to change the face of the imaging market.

Photo Industry Reporter Reaches the largest market of Imaging Retailers. It is distributed to imaging retailers, minilabs, wholesale photofinishers, consumer electronics and office supply retailers and mass market chains. Our focus is on reaching the retail buyers that make purchase decisions, and the sellers “behind the counter” that affect the final sales to consumer, and to provide them with the news and tools they need to help them make informed decisions in their business.

Photo Trade News (PTN) magazine reaches 12,500 imaging industry retailers primarily through the photospecialty, minilab, consumer electronic and computer channels. The magazine is published 12 times per year, with special daily magazines produced during PMA and Photokina trade shows, and is currently celebrating its 65th year of successfully covering the photo trade industry.

The publication's editorial content provides product, trend and industry news to established and emerging photo, computer and electronics retailers. Each month the pages of PTN are filled with candid, hard hitting examinations of the issues and decisions that face its readers.