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Self-Service & Kiosk Show opens in San Francisco

October 17, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO - The Self-Service & Kiosk show opens today at the South San Francisco Convention Center. The two-day event not only highlights self-service technology but also features real-world kiosk demonstrations. Show attendees are pre-screened buyers and key industry decision-makers involved with the purchasing or management of self-service/interactive kiosk solutions.

Networld Alliance, which also owns ATMmarketplace, KioskMarketplace and Self-Service World, produced its first Kiosk Show in Boston in October 2004. The company then decided to make the event semi-annual, and held an in Orlando in spring 2005.

Exhibitor space for the San Francisco event has been filled since early August.

"I think the fact that we have a full exhibit floor is evidence that self-service is one of the hottest trends in business today," Swistak said. "The market demand for self-service technology touches virtually every industry including retail, hospitality, financial services and beyond, and these exhibitors are ready to meet that demand."

Sponsors for the show include IBM, Zoom Systems, Whitech, friendlyway, PDNB Electronic Banking Solutions, St. Clair Interactive Communications and Source Technologies. For more information on the show, and a complete list of sponsors, visit www.selfservicekiosk.com.

Speakers

Keynote speaker Mohsen Moazami, a retail executive with Cisco Systems, is expected to speak about connected commerce and how it is re-defining the shopping experience and challenging traditional retailing models.

Other speakers include Brian Slaughter of Dell Inc. and Mark Krogh of NCR Corp.

Slaughter is scheduled to head a seminar on why 2005 is the year for digital signage, how retailers can fund digital signage initiatives and what to look for in retail digital signage solutions.

In his presentation, Krogh plans to detail the key lessons one retailer learned during its self-service implementation and how those lessons can be applied across industries.