USDC and Needham to Host Annual Investment Conference in New York

For the twelfth year in a row, USDC and Needham & Company are teaming up to educate the investment community on the latest advancements, trends and business strategies associated with the display industry.

The 2007 Displays & Emerging Electronics Investment Conference, which will be held in New York on Thursday, March 1 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel, will bring together many of the fastest growing companies dedicated to end-use display applications, as well as representatives from the extensive supply chain infrastructure behind these technologies—including organic and flexible displays, materials, manufacturing equipment and electronics companies.

The conference will feature twenty presentations and four “Ask-the-Expert” sessions covering a wide range of topics, from digital TV/cinema and mobile display applications to the emerging printed and organic electronics market—a new focus at this year’s event in response to the sector’s rapid establishment as the next high-technology growth market. An aggressive pace of innovation is being set in printed and organic electronics by a number of large industry corporations, including DuPont, Dow Corning, GE and Motorola, to develop products for a variety of near-term applications such as RFID tags, sensors, photovoltaics, electro-clothing and disposable electronics.

Conference presenters will comprise senior executives and analysts from public and privately-held companies at the forefront of the electronic display industry. Participating companies scheduled thus far include Activision TV, Bright View, Cambridge Display Technology, DuPont, Fusion Optix, Genesis Microchip, Insight Media, Integral Vision, Kodak, Nuelight, Novalux, Orbotech, Photon Dynamics, Roam Consulting and Universal Display Corporation.

David Barnes, Vice President of Strategic Analysis, of DisplaySearch, will kick off the agenda with a morning keynote address on the market conditions and outlook for the LCD industry.  Tom Edman,Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Emerging Business Group, for Applied Materials, will deliver the luncheon keynote on high volume LCD fabs and equipment.  Tom will give a clear picture of the substrate size economics and what future fabs will look like..  Kenny Kim, senior vice president of leading Korean display market research firm, DisplayBank, will cap the conference with an afternoon address on technology and market trends.

Prior to the conference, DisplayBank is sponsoring a half-day market briefing on Wednesday, February 28, to give attendees an even more in-depth perspective on the display market.

For more information on the Displays & Emerging Electronics Investment Conference or to register, please visit www.usdc.org. To learn more about the DisplayBank workshop or to register, visit www.displaybank.com