Vendor/User Exchange Set
Digital solutions and business issues will be the leading topics at the Vue/Point conference set for March 26-28.
Staff -- graphic arts online, 3/1/2001
Vue/Point, the vendor/user exchange for business and technology in the graphic arts, may draw as many as 1,000 top executives and managers when the annual meeting is staged later this month at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va..
The 12th annual conference will again feature the user-based panel format, in which industry professionals discuss important trends, workflow technologies, advances in color management, and e-commerce matters. More than 100 professionals are scheduled to speak.
Clients, buyers invited
Especially notable at this year's meeting is to be the presence of more printing company customers, print buyers, and creative professionals, who also will be on hand to hear about the latest digital technologies, solutions, and business issues.
"Vue/Point has always been chiefly about the exchange of ideas and experiences among printers, prepress specialists, designers, and now print buyers and creatives throughout the production chain," says Michael Vinocur of Footprint Communications, Fort Lee, N.J., which is organizing the conference. "Our new incentive programs for 2001 are strongly directed to that goal."
The Graphic Arts Show Company, Reston, Va., the producer of Vue/Point, has created two incentive programs to encourage attendance of print buyers, clients, and designers.
"Our educational sessions and unique peer-to-peer networking environment are ideal in assisting graphic designers and ad agencies in identifying and implementing the latest solutions that best fit their current and future needs," explains Vinocur. "They'll also learn how technologies and processes used by their service providers may affect their own workflows and relationships with their clients."
Sets of concurrent sessions
To give the widest choice of topics while maximizing attendees' time, the Vue/Point program, developed with input from a 50-member advisory committee, consists of sets of concurrent sessions.
The exceptions are the opening general session, presented by Professor Frank Romano of the Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology, and the closing commentary, presented by a group of handpicked panelists.
Each of the three days starts with a vendor-sponsored breakfast, and the first two days end with a networking reception.
One unique feature of Vue/Point is the open-microphone "rap" sessions, described as interactive roundtables designed to facilitate attendee participation on a range of industry issues.
For complete information about the conference, registration details, program dates and times, speakers, names of more than two dozen sponsoring organizations, and hotel or travel arrangements, visit the www.vue-point.com Web site or phone (800) 962-5650.
