The 14th International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) showcasing recent academic technology exchanges and research trends will be held at Daegu EXCO.
IMID 2014, a 4 day event from August 26th to the 29th, is one of the world's top 3 information display conferences along with the Society for Information Display (SID) in the U.S. and the International Display Workshop of Japan. More than 1800 participants from 25 countries will participate from them about 600 theses (the largest volume to date) will be published.
This year a 2014 IMID application downloadable from App Store or Google Play for use on your smartphones will be made available. The app will provide information on the programs and speakers.
KOREA IT TIMES interviewed two officials involved in Korea Information Display Society (KIDS) and IMID 2014, organizer Dr. Lee Sin-Doo, KIDS senior vice president as well as Electric Information Engineering Department professor from Seoul National University and professor Yoo Jae-soo, KIDS executive committee member and professor in the Chemical New Material Engineering Department of Chung-Ang University.
“We have 3 new, special sessions on the hottest display-related issues this year. World's famous speakers are invited to address recent display technology trends in 3 special sessions, specifically, Curved and High Resolution OLED Display, Oxide TFTs, and LTPS TFTs will be discussed.”
Dr. Yoo in charge of directing IMID 2014 revealed some of the noteworthy features.
A lot of attentions has been paid on IMID 2014 where renowned and rising display-related scholars and scientists gather to share their knowledge, experience, and research outcomes. Also, a lot of foreigners are attracted by the fact that it will be held in Korea, the world's No. 1 display leader.
The 3 days of IMID 2014 showing display's today and tomorrow will be filled with keynote speeches by Samsung Display CEO, chairman Park Dong-gun, Dr. Steven Bathiche of Microsoft, and Dr. Martin Schadt of MS High-Tech Consulting, LCD pioneer, Invited Lecture & Oral Talk on 17 different themes and poster presentations.
In this event, display experts from about 20 countries will introduce the trends of the recent technologies such as curved display and foldable tables, and show the development progress of the technologies including flexible, transparent display and 3D-touch.
About 600 theses, largest ever, will be published
Dr. Yoo said, “A total of 584 including 17 new theses have already been submitted. The number has increased this year thanks to China's technology mass production.”
According to the executive committee of IMID 2014, the number of theses submitted has increased 17% from 497 in 2013 to 584 this year in total, in the case of from Korea, 9% from 337 to 369, and from other countries including China (32% from 50 to 66) 24%.
The committee concluded that OLED-related technologies have developed a lot with a 27% increase from 74 in 2013 to 94 in 2014.
Yet, with 23% decrease from 69 in 2013 to 53 in 2014, the development of liquid crystal-related technologies has been slow. As for metal oxide TFT-related technologies, it is jumped up 86% from 49 in 2013 to 91 in 2014.
Prof. Lee said, “Business forums are usually aimed at seeking profits, therefore, they have high registration, lecture, and information-earning fees while academic conferences are more concerned with learning. What matters for them is sponsorship. As the city of Taegu has annually funded the event, we picked it up as the venue for IMID 2014.”
Eye-catching tourist attractions
The IMID 2014 committee will offer several fantastic tour programs to foreign visitors. Yet, will try not to bother their main purpose for being here, business. The programs are simple but enjoyable and include a night-view tour or alley tour.
In particular, visitors from other countries are expected to be delighted with the tea ceremony event planned before the first day's keynote speech; beautiful women in colorful Korea's traditional dresses will serve the country's traditional tea.
