MIPS 2020 DALLAS - AN OPEN INVITATION FOR BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, AND SECURITY

Feb 10, 2020 15:02 CET

MIPS 2020 DALLAS —
AN OPEN INVITATION
FOR BUSINESS,
TECHNOLOGY, AND
SECURITY
Milestone Systems’ annual MIPS brings together a rich community of video,
security, and technology solution partners focused on advancing innovation.
Special guests including Milestone officers, industry leaders, renowned futurists,
authors, and a popular TEDx speaker will share their inspirations. Milestone will
also showcase three start-ups from its Kickstarter Contest with compelling
technologies and businesses that comprehensively address pressing security and
societal issues.

Milestone Systems, a global leader within open platform video management
software (VMS), is hosting the 2020 Milestone Integration Platform

Symposium (MIPS) conference, in Dallas, Texas on February 17-19, 2020.
Partners, customers and influencers are invited to register for the special
two-day event. Milestone will feature a variety of speakers and topics,
including TEDx speaker Anders Sorman-Nilsson, and one of the Top Ten
Futurists in the world, Gerd Leonhard. The event will also include an
exhibition pavilion featuring products and programs from leading partners
including Axis Communications,Dell,Intel,Herta,Lenel S2, and Seneca Data
and an innovation showcase with the three most promising ideas from
Milestone’s incubator program, Kickstarter.

“MIPS is a one-stop destination for applied innovation in video
surveillance,” notes Tim Palmquist, Vice President for the Americas at
Milestone Systems. “Each year we hear from an array of speakers that
challenge our thinking about today’s technology and the new frontiers of
tomorrow. We see new products and programs from the most innovative
companies in our industry. Together with XProtect, they serve the needs of
our many customers. Finally, we glimpse at the future through the ideas of
our Kickstarter contestants. MIPS is a hub for business, network connections
and, above all, novel ideas!”

Leveraging the power of the open platform, the Milestone XProtect video
management software (VMS) is compatible with more than 8,500 security
and surveillance devices, and more than 450 software integrations from
over 3,500 technology partners. Technology partners include providers of
network video cameras, cloud solutions, DVRs and NVRs, servers and
storage equipment, alarm and detection systems, video analytics, GPS
technology, laser and radar scanners, emergency call boxes and more.

“The open platform provides an opportunity to innovate freely as
circumstances and opportunities dictate — not as a VMS provider dictates,”
says Palmquist. “This freedom of innovation has already yielded some of the
very best technologies and collaborations in the security industry. It has
also resulted in scalable and future-proof systems in healthcare, education,
city surveillance and other verticals where Milestone is the platform of
choice and where professionals accept nothing less than freedom of choice
to do their jobs at the best of their capacity.”

Open for Innovation
Milestone will launch version 2.0 of the Milestone Marketplace on its
website which will enable customers to find resellers and integrators that
deliver video solutions based on their pain points or location. Integrators
will promote their installation experience and connect with technology
partners on Marketplace hereby allowing end-users to access information
on the latest innovations.

“By launching Milestone Marketplace 2.0, we are inviting customers to
search for the latest and greatest technologies in our community. Milestone

supports the co-creation of solutions, allowing our community to supply
best-in-class technology for a variety of customer needs,” says chief sales
and marketing officer at Milestone, Kenneth Hune Petersen.

A large part of the MIPS 2020 Dallas event focuses on the many advantages
of an open solution, with the Milestone XProtect VMS platform enabling
reliable and efficient integrations with thousands of third-party hardware
and software products. Detailed discussions of solution applications as well
as previews of new integrations and partnerships help integrators, resellers
and partners of all types to shape the future of their own businesses.

Open for Cloud
MIPS 2020 promises to usher in new integrated cloud-based solutions,
which will greatly impact the future of how video systems are designed,
deployed, and monetized. Cloud-based services and integrations will soon
take video management systems to a new level, expanding how security
professionals think about technology and their own business models.

Open for Startups
Additionally, three finalists in Milestone's annual Kickstarter contest will
demonstrate their visions. MIPS 2020 participants will have an opportunity
to vote for their favorite software coder with the winner being announced
during the gala dinner. Milestone believes in inspiring talent to make the
world see through connecting new technology ideas, business strategy, and
innovation. Three 2020 finalists will have a chance to showcase their
visions directly to the Milestone Community of partners and customers at
the MIPS2020 conference and beyond. They are:

  •    Benoit Koenig is the co-founder and COO at Veesion. Benoit was
       confronted with shoplifting on a regular basis in his family-owned
       supermarkets. During his studies in Artificial Intelligence, he saw the
       great potential of deep learning applied on video data, which
       inspired him to start Veesion with two other engineers. Veesion are
       developing a gesture recognition technology to detect shoplifting in
       the retail industry.

Commenting on Benoit’s idea and company, Palmquist noted, “Veesion is
what MIPS is all about. This is an innovation that addresses a major
commercial issue for retailers around the world but does so using
technology in a respectful, considerate, and intelligent manner. I am proud
and encouraged that Veesion is enabled by the open platform.”

  •    Jennifer Ivens is the founder of Canscan, a technology company that
       provides automated container inspection services. It was impatience
       and ambition that prompted her to leave her position as a logistics
       analyst for an ocean carrier to go into this business for herself.
       Canscan’s idea is the next-level shipping container checking system,

powered by artificial intelligence (AI) called Virtual Checker.

“Jennifer and her team have come up with an innovation that addresses
many social, economic, and criminal issues. It has the potential to avert
some of the human tragedies we hear of and see on television across the
globe each year,” Palmquist said.

  •    Zeljko Tepic has over 15 years of experience in the development of
       client/server and cloud architectures. He works on projects involving
       advanced algorithms, signal processing, Artificial Neural Networks,
       deep learning, generic algorithms, fuzzy logic, spectral analysis, and
       more. Venzo Secure’s idea is to provide seamless awareness of
       critical events by transparently displaying an intuitive “alert
       timeline” on top of the XProtect Smart Client camera views. The
       solution will give customers the option to dynamically arrange a
       view of the cameras in the Smart Client which are closest to the
       event at hand, and to handle any related events, alarms, analytics or
       metadata inside the Milestone XProtect video platform, including
       those from third parties.

“Smart city managers, emergency responders, and police will benefit from
this new technology enabling them to better respond during a crisis. This
technology is poised to save lives and I am proud that Milestone is
supporting Venzo through our Kickstarter program,” commented Palmquist.

When and where?
750+ attendees are expected to attend MIPS 2020 at the The Gaylord Texan
Resort and Convention Center on February 17-19, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. If
you cannot attend MIPS 2020, you may view it via livestream.

Resources
  •    Register now for MIPS 2020
  •    Learn more about Community Kickstarter Contest
  •    View the livestream

About Milestone

Milestone Systems is a leading provider of open platform video
management software; technology that helps the world see how to ensure
safety, protect assets and increase business efficiency. Milestone enables an
open platform community that drives collaboration and innovation in the
development and use of network video technology, with reliable and
scalable solutions that are proven in more than 150,000 sites worldwide.

Founded in 1998, Milestone is a stand-alone company in the Canon Group.
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