NPES To Host “One-Stop” Industry Summit

RESTON, Va.—NPES The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies will launch its 2008 Industry Summit, a three-and-a-half-day event that brings together the PRINT OUTLOOK® economic and marketing conference and the PRIMIR Spring Meeting, March 31-April 3, at the Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel in New York, N.Y.

“The NPES 2008 Industry Summit is designed to be a timely and convenient ‘one-stop’ experience that will provide the most relevant business, trend and forecast information, at an optimum time of year, at one easily accessible location,” says Ralph Nappi, NPES president. “This event will equip members to move forward this year with the most recent industry data and research, and it will deliver an unparalleled networking value.”

PRINT OUTLOOK 08, themed “Sustaining Print in a Dynamic Marketplace,” on April 1-2, will reveal trends in the marketplace and examine business prospects for the future. The team of print media and economic experts includes day-one keynoter Dr. Sung Won Sohn, president and CEO, Hanmi Financial Corporation. Sohn will provide a perspective on the outlook for the U.S. economy pre- and post-election. Program highlights also include an interactive discussion with a panel of experts who will address the outlook for advertising in 2008. Panelists feature industry media strategists who will offer perspectives on the industry and sustaining print in a dynamic marketplace. Day two’s keynote speaker is Barbara Pellow, director, InfoTrends, who will open the program with her presentation on “The Role of Marketing in Sustaining the Viability of Print.”

Attendees can also participate in the PRIMIR Spring Meeting, April 2-3, immediately following PRINT OUTLOOK. This event will reveal the results of two new PRIMIR research studies on topics of critical strategy concern to manufacturers, suppliers, and printers including “Trends in Financial and Transactional Printing” and “Mega Printers’ Impact on the North American Print Market.”

For program and registration information on the NPES 2008 Industry Summit, visit www.npes.org/conferences.