The two-day World Expo, July 18-19, offers keynotes from leaders in the high-tech field; the industry’s best peer-to-peer networking; a chance to see cutting-edge products and services from exhibitors; a Managed Print Pavilion with demos throughout the day; the popular Readers Choice Awards; and the industry’s best education program, with classes taught by leaders in hot topic areas such as business management, cartridge technologies and managed print.
 

Randy Dazo Senior Director InfoTrends

Wednesday, July 18

Moving Beyond MPS, Office Productivity Solutions for the Mobile Knowledge Worker
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

The office equipment market has experienced strong headwinds of late, and dramatic pressures to change since the beginning of the past decade. Today we see managed print services as a way to gain new pages and revenues to our individual businesses; however, MPS is only a short-term solution to the long-term challenges we will continue to face in an ever-shrinking paper-based output market. What does our future hold? As an output industry we have to look to the horizon for new growth opportunities and areas for sustainable business expansion. The rapid ascendency of mobile devices, networks, software and services is having a profound impact on business processes and IT operations. Mobility is changing customer and employee expectations, creating security issues, and dramatically affecting IT priorities and resources. Further challenging IT executives is the growing array of mobile devices, development tools, and services that must be mastered and managed. Companies are likely to experience increasing tension from a desire to transform quickly and realize the tremendous benefits of a mobile-enabled organization while needing to move cautiously to minimize security risks and the creation of new legacy issues and overhead. We'll look at these changes, how we need to look at MPS as a pathway to new solutions and services, the mobility market, and how we need to think differently and embrace these new technologies and opportunities that will become the new future of our industry.
 

Wednesday, July 18

Panel: MPS by the Numbers - Analysts Dissect Managed Print
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Managed print solutions are heavily dependent on numbers, so who better to examine those numbers than analysts? In this panel made up of some of the leading analysts in the industry, we’ll break down managed print and see what each of these industry experts has to say.