VUE/POINT 2001, the industry’s leading electronic prepress and digital imaging conference, has sold out its sponsorships and is developing a broader, more valuable program than ever before. VUE/POINT will be held on March 26-28, 2001 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. It will attract nearly 1,000 top executives from all industry specialties for a wide-ranging exploration of current technology trends and implementation experiences. Drawing on extensive attendee input gathered after last year’s show, as well as guidance from its 50-member Advisory Board, VUE/POINT 2001 will offer several key enhancements to its long-established program of "truth from the trenches, not pitches from the podium." One new feature for 2001 will be "a little more outreach to creatives, print buyers, and specifiers who are generating new print jobs," said Michael Vinocur of Footprint Communications, which is organizing the conference in conjunction with the Graphic Arts Show Company (GASC®). "We’re seeking out ways to spur a more complete dialog among printers, vendors and customers." The attendee canvass in 2000 also revealed "a lot more interest in standards, and tons of workflow questions," Vinocur said. He added that the 2001 program will also take on "the whole e-Commerce confusion in the industry today." Other topics likely to be addressed in the three day program include color management, computer-to-plate technologies, cross-media publishing , digital printing, direct-to-press, remote and "soft" proofing, networking, data storage and "disaster recovery." The core of the program will remain, Vinocur continued, "real end users of critical technologies, talking about their real life experiences with these tools. Almost all of the speakers at VUE/POINT 2001 will be end users."