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Presents IMTC Forum 2004

Presents IMTC Forum 2004. Welcome and IMTC Status. Presented by Istvan Sebestyen IMTC President. Welcome to the 18 th IMTC Forum. Theme: “The Next Frontier in Multimedia Communications”. Special Thanks. In Memorium Yoni Malachi, RADVISION. In Memorium Jeremy Worley, RealNetworks.

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Presents IMTC Forum 2004

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  1. Presents IMTC Forum 2004

  2. Welcome and IMTC Status Presented by Istvan Sebestyen IMTC President

  3. Welcome to the 18th IMTC Forum Theme: “The Next Frontier in Multimedia Communications” IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  4. Special Thanks IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  5. In MemoriumYoni Malachi, RADVISION IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  6. In MemoriumJeremy Worley, RealNetworks IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  7. Our Progress from Geneva to San Jose • Board and Officer Changes • Membership Information • IMTC 2004 and Beyond • IMTC Awards IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  8. 2002 - 2004 Anne Cerboni, France Telecom Keith Lantz, Cisco Anatoli Levine, RADVISION Mark Ludwig, Polycom Istvan Sebestyen, Siemens AG 2003 - 2005 Shawn Ambwani, Nextreaming Robert Berntsen, Tandberg Marwan Jabri, Dilithium Tim Mendonca, Nortel Nori Sayanagi, Sony Senthil Sengodan, Nokia Amir Wolf, Emblaze Board of Directors IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  9. IMTC Officers 2004 President Istvan Sebestyen, Siemens Treasurer Mark Ludwig, Polycom Secretary Jim Polizotto, Inventures IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  10. IMTC Members 64 Members Worldwide Today

  11. IMTC Members by Region

  12. IMTC 2004 • Stabilize and grow IMTC as economy recovers • Roll-out IMTC Historic Archive • Publish revised IPR Document • Continue successful Interops/SuperOP! • Continue successful WG/AGs • Continued strong liaison with other bodies (SDOs / Fora) • Continued marketing / promotion / education of MM communication technologies • Allow room for any new initiative… IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  13. IMTC 2005 • Theme of the Forum: “The Next Frontier in Multimedia Communications” • “Next Frontier” is “NGN” (“Next Generation Networks”) – with strong emphasis on supporting multimedia communications and applications • Also much “hype” around NGN, but IMTC must find its role in the NGN standardization, interoperability testing, deployment efforts. IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  14. IMTC Leadership Award IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  15. IMTC Leadership Award Considerations and Parameters • Leadership in multi-media communications. • Recognize significant contribution by an individual or company. • Recognize the importance of creating and working within industry effort providing collaborative contributions to a product type, protocol profile, or service offering. (e.g. work with standards, interoperability, integration, etc., but does not include work on any specific products). • Create an environment that allows for innovation to happen. IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  16. IMTC Leadership Award • Go this year to two “grand old man” of multimediaresearch, development, standardization, education, management…. • Who have at least ???? Decades of multimedia experience • Who have significantly influenced our industry… • In alphabetical order… IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  17. IMTC Leadership Award Ron Arps, IBM Almaden Research Center Leading research figure in the area of still image compression and coding for more than 35 years. Researcher; mentor to generations of still picture coding experts worldwide; key contributor to standards bodies, including the ITU-T and ISO/IEC JPEG and JBIG Groups. IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  18. IMTC Leadership Award George Helder, former Vice-Chairman of ITU SG 16 Distinguished career in CCITT and ITU standardization for 34 years, as a delegate of AT&T Bell Labs and later PictureTel,. Instrumental in the creation of SG16 reuniting the "conferencing" subjects dispersed in SG8, SG14, and 15 into a single multimedia study group IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  19. IMTC Service Awards Recognizing significant Contributions to IMTC • Anne Cerboni, France Telecom, Marketing VP • Yoni Malachi, RADVISION – Posthumously, Director • Steve Welch, Director and IP Security AG Chair • Larry Schessel, Cisco Systems - H.323 Forum Leader • Chaim Fried, Glowpoint - UMMAP AG Chair • Rita-Eileen Glynn Smith - MAG co-chair • Bernhard Wimmer, Siemens - 3G-324M AG co-chair IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

  20. Thanks! And Enjoy the Forum I would like to introduce Jim Polizotto, IMTC Secretary who will provide some specific Information about the forum IMTC Forum – May 2004 – San Jose, California

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