June 2016 – What does Birdseye Frozen Foods, Five Hour Energy and Netflicks have in common? They are all examples of successful application of the concepts now described as part of the discipline of Category Design. This discipline was the topic of discussion during the June 21st Open Forum Event hosted by the Churchill Club…
May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Sir Hossein Yassale from Imagination talked about changes in the industry and markets, driven by trends in computer vision, security, virtual and augmented realities, connectivity, and application portability. Mostly functions interact with people leading to changes in existing markets while increasing and changing them. Some of the emerging…
August 5, 2014, Emerging Display Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—A panel looked at the other system-level issues for video images. Pete Ludé from Mission Rock Digital moderated the group. Panelists were Julian Carey from Intematix, Veeral Hardev from Nanosys, Seth Coe-Sullivan fro QD Vision, Jimmy Kim from NPD DisplaySearch, and Roland Vlaicu from Dolby. Ludé…
July 23, 2014, Casual Connect Conference, San Francisco—Bertrand Schmitt from App Annie presented some trends and drivers for the casual gaming industry. Although the industry is growing, it is fairly fragmented and volatile. Monthly statistics for the gaming industry are available from http://www.appannie.com/indexes/all-stores/rank/overall/ The page allows for data analysis by publisher, revenue, country, and game…
March 3, 2014, US Flat Panel Display Connected Devices Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Paul Gagnon from NPD DisplaySearch described the trends and drivers for the variety of flat panel displays. The market is going into a period of introspection with the top issue being good enough performance versus convenience and cost. The industry has always been…
January 2014 – Steve Koenig, Industry Analysis Director for the Consumer Electronic Association (CEA) delivered his presentation to the media paraphrasing the Julius Verne book “Around the World in 60 minutes”. The presentation updated the global technology market provided by GfK and CEA. GfK is a Boutique Research organization and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of…
July 24, 2013, Siggraph, Anaheim, CA—John Peddie from JP Research provided a market overview and held a panel discussion on the democratization of CG tools. One difficulty for the industry is that the Siggraph conference is declining over the past decade, for both exhibitors and attendees. At the same time, the value of CG apps…
July 11, 2013, Motion Tracking Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—Sam Massih from Invensense described the various market segments and applications for wearable sensors. The latest wearable devices are becoming consumer friendly and moving to populations outside the hard-core fitness adherents. Although originally designed for sports training and the elite athletes, the latest activity tracking gadgets are…
June 17, 2013, Churchill Club, Santa Clara, CA—The Churchill Club held a panel session on economically disruptive technologies. Michael Chui from McKinsey distributed McKinsey’s report on disruptive technologies and noted the highlights. Panel members included Bill Reichert from garage Technology Ventures, Barry Schuler from DFJ Growth, and Hal Varian from Google. The report identified a…
June 13, 2013, Association for Corporate Growth, San Jose, CA—An executive panel considered the issues of innovation in their respective industries. Sharma Banerjee from Socialtext moderated the panel, and panelists were Komathi Stem from Genentech, Stan Rosenschein from BranchTime, Brian Steel from UC Berkeley, and Karoly Nikolich from Circuit Theraputics. While the open innovation movement…