Visual 1st announces this year’s panel topics and confirmed presenters

Visual 1st, the annual conference that promotes innovation and partnerships in the photo and video industry, announces this year’s panel topics, as well as the first fireside chat presenter, moderators, panelists, presenters, and Visual 1st Awards judges. Visual 1st will be held October 16-17 in San Francisco, and DMLA is a proud partner of this conference.

This year’s first announced fireside chat presenter is Jeff Herbst, early stage AI and frontier technology investor and Founding Managing Partner of GFT Ventures, a fund that also invested in last year's Visual 1st Best Technology Award winner, BRIA. Jeff will share his perspectives formed by his journey from 20 years as NVIDIA’S VP of Business Development to founding GFT, a $140M venture fund focused on AI.

This year’s Visual 1st panel topics are:

Innovation in photo print products, technology, and manufacturing.

Where is the money?

Diversity in the photo & video industry. 

Gender matters.

Scalable imagery for ecommerce.

The new frontier for innovation.

Photos & videos are more than a collection of dead pixels. 

But how to empower consumers to engage with their imagery?

For an up-to-date program and speaker listing, see visual1st.biz/program2024 .

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