Which conferences to attend? Which trade shows to exhibit at? Every year Managers and Technology Scouts are wondering where to go and what to skip. To help with this task, we have held a survey specifically for the Imaging and Machine Vision industry it identify the top events in EMEA, The Americas and APAC. The results are shown in intuitive charts and a summary at the end. So far, we have surveyed the visit-or-exhibit schedule of 31 participants on 45 events. But the story goes on... in our new survey we have collected 79 trade shows were we know for sure that Imaging companies are exhibiting or at least attending. Details can be found in the presentation.

1. IMAGING TRADE SHOWS 2015
1ST SURVEY RESULTS
DR. RONALD MÜLLER, VISION MARKETS, 2015-01-19

2. THE SURVEY
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• Poll details:
Online, published via our presences on LinkedIn, Xing, Twitter, Google+, Facebook
• Target audience:
Marketers and managers of Imaging companies
• Questions:
1. Which business model describes your company best? (single choice)
2. Which business sectors are your primary target markets? (multiple choice)
3. Please select the events you are going to visit or exhibit with the actual
probability (definitely or likely) in EMEA, The Americas, APAC

3. PARTICIPANTS’ CHARACTERISTICS
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31 completed the questionnaire / 20 answered only questions 1 & 2 (ignored herein)
Imaging
components
OEM
Distributor
End User
Media
System
Integrator
Engineering
Service
Provider
Research
Corporate
Advisor
Primary Business Model
Imaging
Automation
and Quality
Inspection
Medical
Defense
Traffic
Automotive
Security
Entertainment
& Sports
Energy
Fundamental
Research
Other - Visual Communication
Primary Target Markets

4. EVENTS IN EMEA
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0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Visit-or-exhibit schedule, EMEA Events
Exhibit, likely
Exhibit, definitely
Visit, likely
Visit, definitely

5. EVENTS IN THE AMERICAS
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0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
SPIE Photonics
West
Automate SPIE Defense,
Security and
Sensing Expo
AIA Business
Conference
SPIE Optics +
Photonics
MedTech,
Automation,
Pack, AeroCon
Embedded
Vision Summit
SPAR
International
None
Visit-or-exhibit schedule, Americas Events
Exhibit, likely
Exhibit, definitely
Visit, likely
Visit, definitely

6. EVENTS IN APAC
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0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
Vision China
Shanghai
Korea Vision
Show
Vision China
Shenzen
Vision China
Beijing
Int'l Technical
Exhibition on
Image
Technology
and
Equipment,
Japan
Semicon
Korea
SIAF / SPS
Industrial
Automation
Fair, China
OPIE Optics
& Photonics
Int'l
Exhibition,
Japan
Propak
China
Taipei Int'l
Industrial
Automation
Exhibition
None
Visit-or-exhibit schedule, APAC Events
Exhibit, likely
Exhibit, definitely
Visit, likely
Visit, definitely

7. SUMMARY OF THE 1ST SURVEY RESULTS
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• So far, the majority of the participants were Imaging OEMs with the target markets
of Imaging, Automation and Quality Inspection participated
• Top 3 events per region:
EMEA The Americas APAC
Laser World of Photonics,
Munich
SPIE Photonics West,
San Francisco
Vision China,
Shanghai
Image Sensor Europe,
London
Automate,
Chicago
Korea Vision Show,
Seoul
EMVA Business Conference,
Athens
SPIE Defense, Security and
Sensing Expo, Baltimore
Vision China,
Shenzhen

8. AND THE STORY GOES ON…
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• We have updated the list with now 79 Imaging events worldwide.
• A new poll is out based on this even more comprehensive list:
https://de.surveymonkey.com/s/RZHH5Y7
• Please take 2-5 minutes to fill this poll to share the individual schedules within the
community anonymously

9. © VISION MARKETS 2015 Monday, January 19, 2015
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Contact:
Vision Markets
Dr.-Ing. Ronald Müller
Kistlerhofstr. 70
81379 Munich
Germany
t: +49.89.21 553 665
m: +49.176.48 668 706
e: r.mueller@markets.vision