WhatTheyThink at Graph Expo: Dr. Joe Webb to Discuss Graphic Arts a
Decade from Today

Free WhatTheyThink Event at Graph Expo 2007 Sponsored By MAN Roland and Featuring Dr. Joe Webb

August 16, 2007 -- Lexington, KY -- WhatTheyThink, the leading online media organization serving the printing and publishing industry, today announced a free event at Graph Expo 2007. The event is sponsored by MAN Roland and features Dr. Joe Webb, director of WhatTheyThink's Economics and Research Center. Dr. Webb will take a speculative look at the graphic arts market 10 years from now. The session will be held Tuesday, September 11, room S106B at the McCormick Place Convention Center, from 8:30 to 10:00 AM. In addition, a continental breakfast will be served at 8:00 AM.

Industry professionals are urged to register by visiting

ttp://members.whattheythink.com/home/go07event.cfm

The presentation is entitled: "Graphic Arts 2017: A Speculative Look at the Graphic Arts a Decade from Today," and will offer printing and publishing executives a strategic look into the future from one of the industry's best-known consultants, forecasters, and commentators. In addition, Dr. Webb will examine key future demographic and technological trends that will create the graphic arts and content creation business of 2017. Dr. Webb will discuss projections of how many printers, workers, designers, and  publishers there will be 10 years from now, as well as what communications needs will come into view, grow, or decline. The event will explore what technologies will enable change or be barriers to the industry, what job opportunities will emerge, and how to get your business and career ready for 2017 as well.

"The WhatTheyThink event will provide attendees an excellent and rare opportunity to look into the future," said Randy Davidson, president of WhatTheyThink. "We want to recognize MAN Roland's generosity as the exclusive sponsor of this event, allowing WhatTheyThink to make it free to all attendees for the fifth year in a row."

Dr. Joe Webb is the director of WhatTheyThink.com's Economics and Research Center. A 30-year veteran of the graphic arts industries, he was the founder of the influential TrendWatch information service, which was sold to Reed Elsevier in 2000. Since January 2003, his "Mondays with Dr. Joe" column has become a must-read feature on WhatTheyThink.com, as have his quarterly economic forecast webinars, where he analyzes trends in the economy, technology, and the industry, interpreting what they mean for executives and their strategic decisions.

To register for the event, visit ttp://members.whattheythink.com/home/go07event.cfm

About WhatTheyThink
WhatTheyThink is the printing and publishing industry's leading online media organization; offering a wide range of publications delivering unbiased, real-time market intelligence, industry news, economic and trend analysis, peer-to-peer communication, and special reports on emerging technology and critical events. Serving a membership base of more than 50,000, WhatTheyThink also hosts webinars and live events as well as providing content through a syndication program, which delivers content directly to related websites and through RSS.

About MAN Roland
GRAPH EXPO attendees have the opportunity to observe the ROLAND 700 HiPrint working with MAN Roland's InlineFoiler. The innovation allows printers to apply foil effects while the job prints, adding maximum value at minimal cost. In addition, MAN Roland's printcom and printservices initiatives cover customer maintenance, consumables, and service packages, optimized specifically for MAN Roland presses. And MAN Roland continues its role as the pioneering proponent of computer integrated manufacturing with the company's exclusive printnet system.

MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG is the world's second largest printing systems manufacturer and the world's market leader in web offset. MAN Roland operates out of Offenbach, Augsburg and Plauen in Germany. It employs 9,000 staff and generates annual sales of $2.7 billion (EUR  2 billion), with an export share of 82%. Web and sheetfed offset are its major product lines for publishing, general commercial and packaging printing. MAN Roland is the only printing press manufacturer to be a partner of the WAN (World Association of Newspapers). In North America, MAN Roland Inc. operates a network of five regional sales and service facilities, staffed by over 250 employees.

 For more information visit www.manroland.com.

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