BARCO supports the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as a Strategic Partner.
BARCO will equip the congress hall and the conference rooms with the innovative iQ projector series.
Kortrijk, January 22, 2003, The World Economic Forum, the foremost global organization encouraging partnerships of business, political, intellectual and other leaders of society committed to improving the state of the world, will hold its 33rd Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland from 23 to 28 January 2003. BARCO is proud to be a Strategic Partner of the World Economic Forum since 1998; BARCO has been a member of the World Economic Forum since 1986.
At this year’s Annual Meeting, BARCO will equip the congress hall, the conference rooms and the Executive’s lounge with a total of 16 projection solutions. The innovative iQ Series projectors, with high brightness, high resolution and extreme color accuracy will suit the typical presentations and conference applications requested by the World Economic Forum. Malte Godbersen, Director of Knowledge Management at World Economic Forum, states "Barco as a strategic partner to the World Economic Forum provides "state of the art" projection services to the Annual Meeting 2003 in Davos. They allow to enhance the experience of participants substantially by displaying with highest resolution all the emotions of the panelists as well as of the audience in the mostly heated debates."
Barco’s iQ (Pro) Series involves a range of 13 innovative projectors for presentations and training applications. This intelligent projector series has received no less than 5 Industry Awards during 2002.
Barco’s iQ Series offers brightness levels from 1800 up to 4200 ANSI lumens and following unique user benefits: advanced picture-in-picture functionality (up to 3 sources), seamless source switching and a reliable dual-lamp system. The networked version, the iQ Pro Series, adds a powerful computer server to the design of the iQ projector for advanced networking functionalities.
About the World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is an international organization committed to improving the state of the world. The Forum provides a collaborative framework for the world's leaders to address global issues, engaging particularly its corporate members in global citizenship. Incorporated as a foundation, and based in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is independent, impartial and not-for-profit; it is tied to no political, partisan or national interests. The Forum has NGO consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. www.weforum.org
About BARCO
BARCO has three key activities, which are all active in Image Processing. BarcoProjection is in various markets of large screen visualization. BarcoView develops and manufactures display systems for life critical applications, while BarcoVision is in systems for visual inspection and quality control. In 2001, sales of the BARCO group amounted to 792 million EUR. BARCO has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in 97 countries throughout the world. BARCO has been quoted on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 1986, and is now quoted on Brussels/Euronext. BARCO is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company and is a component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes.
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