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ImageScape 2000 Highlights Digital Imaging Explosion in E-Business

(Weymouth, MA) March, 01 2000... Media Event Draws World Market Leaders to Demonstrate Tomorrow's Digital Imaging Solutions for E-Commerce and C-Commerce

InfoTrends Research Group, Inc. announced today that ImageScape(TM) 2000 - "E-Commerce and Imaging" at Spring Internet World in Los Angeles will gather leading innovators like ACD Systems, AltaVista, AOL, Digimarc, Excite@Home, HP, Intel, JASC, Kodak, and others into one location to highlight emerging digital imaging solutions that will significantly impact the future of e-business. The champagne breakfast event is scheduled for the morning of April 6, 7AM - 11AM at the Hotel Inter-Continental in Los Angeles.

This forum continues to gain importance as digital imaging technologies make electronic and collaborative commerce more engaging for customers. Additionally, rich image exchange and display will augment the community-building aspects of the Internet, and lead to revenue-generating opportunities in the form of prints and photo merchandise. Industry leaders have been gathered especially for this event to bring to light these exciting industry developments before they happen.

Kristy Holch, principal at InfoTrends Research Group, said, "Digital imaging technologies and services are expanding the opportunities for e-businesses to interact with their customers effectively. Visually-rich online product display and communication tools will increase the stickiness of e-tailers' sites by providing a more compelling consumer experience."

The following sponsoring companies will demonstrate through tabletop exhibits the newest and most innovative developments in their particular technologies and will discuss the future of digital imaging as it relates to electronic commerce and communications: ACD Systems, Acer Peripherals, Alchemedia, AltaVista MultiMedia Search Centers, AOL's "You've Got Pictures", Applied Science Fiction, Corbis, Corel, Digimarc, eCircles.com, Excite@Home, EZ Prints, FotoWire, HP Digital Media Solutions, HP ScanJet, Imation, Intel, IPIX, Jasc Software, Kablink, Kensington Technology Group, Kodak, LightSurf Technologies, LizardTech, MGI Software, NUWAVE Technologies, Ofoto, Opholio, PhotoPoint, PictureIQ, PictureWorks Technology, Q-Research, Shutterfly, SpotLife, Xippix, and Zing.

Event Schedule

The breakfast event will be keynoted by Philippe Kahn, founder of Borland International and Starfish Software, and currently Chairman of LightSurf Technologies, Inc. BYTE Magazine named Philippe as one of the Top 20 Most Important People in the history of the computer industry. After the keynote, a panel of top industry experts will discuss current and future technologies, highlighting the explosive growth of image-related e-commerce activities on the Internet. The panel will include the following digital imaging leaders:

• Digimarc - Bruce Davis, CEO
• Excite@Home - Faulkner Hunt, Senior Director, Community Development
• Hewlett Packard - John Stedman, Vice President and General Manager of Imaging Products
• IPIX - Jeff Peters, President
• Kodak - Dennis Hamann, General Manager, Kodak Picture CD; Marketing Director and Vice President, Consumer Imaging
• MGI Software - Anthony DeCristofaro, President and CEO

Following the panel discussion, attendees can get hands-on exposure and experience with the newest in digital imaging and e-business technologies through tabletop demonstrations. They also will be able to interact freely with representatives and executives at the firms most responsible for creating this rising wave of change in the world of online commerce.

Press Reservations

Members of the press who wish to reserve a seat at the event or submit questions to the ImageScape 2000 panelists should contact Lisa Christopher at FutureWorks, Inc. at ext. 106 or via e-mail at . Please include all contact information. The first 200 attendees to arrive at the event will receive a heavyweight, customized shirt.