Visual 1st announces initial presenter and sponsor lineup for this year’s conference
Visual 1st, the premier conference focused on promoting innovation and partnerships in the photo and video ecosystem, announces its initial topic, presenters, and sponsors for the 7th edition of its annual conference. The conference will be held October 3 (half day) and October 4, in San Francisco.
This year’s topics include:
- Empowering – and monetizing – the Gig photo/videographer
- The original imaging monetizer that keeps reinventing itself: the photo print product
- Hedging your innovation bets: breakthrough vs. incremental imaging innovations
- Combatting the bad and ugly of imaging AI: Deepfakes and beyond
- Turning yesterday’s photo masterpieces into today’s accessible, discoverable and engaging archives
Initial fireside chat presenters:
Cultural Heritage & Multimedia Supervisor
Fratelli Alinari Photo Archive
Florence, Italy
Florence-based Fratelli Alinari is the world’s oldest photo archive with over 5 million photos. Not only is digitizing a collection of precious photos at this scale a tremendous undertaking, making them searchable, discoverable and engaging for today’s generation poses yet another set of formidable challenges. That’s where AI comes to the rescue. Hear from Andrea de Polo, who spearheads Fratelli Alinari’s efforts to make its cultural heritage accessible and engaging through an economically driven and technically savvy solution.
Roman V. Yampolskiy, Ph.D
Associate Professor – Speed School of Engineering
Director – Cybersecurity Laboratory
University of Louisville
At this point it’s still hard to fully grasp the potential of today’s AI-based image and face recognition innovations. as much more is on – and beyond – the horizon. But so is the potential for abuse, whether threats to security and privacy, Deepfakes or malevolent AI. Hear from Prof. Yampolskiy, founder of the Cybersecurity Lab, and author of over 100 publications on these topics, including multiple journal articles and books.
Initial early admission & first-time Show & Tell presenters:
Todd Brown Pex
Ori Guttin of Viewbug
Mario Amura of Phlay
Sjoerd Pitstra of Roader
Kurt Hilmerson of Zenfolio
Initial Show & Tell Awards judges:
Andy Kelm, Managing Director. Palmarés Advisors
Anna Dickson, Visual Lead, Image Search, Google
Marcel van der Heijden, Partner, Speedinvest
Initial Gold sponsors:
Circle Graphics, Fujifilm and Picanova
For more about the 2019 edition of Visual 1st, check out https://www.visual1st.biz/intro2019