PROFI SUMMIT 2025 – Create & Connect:
More than a conference for photography & content
What really makes good images today? In times of artificial intelligence, visual sensory overload and constant change, it takes more than technology – it takes attitude, style and an entrepreneurial perspective.
On October 11, 2025, the first PROFI SUMMIT will open exactly this stage as part of the new Imaging World in Nuremberg: practical, well-founded, inspiring. This is where professionals, creatives, thinkers and doers from photography, videography and visual communication come together to actively live Create & Connect(sic).
Creative Content Conference – Reloaded
With the PROFI SUMMIT, Imaging World is continuing the success story of the Creative Content Conference – one of the most popular industry get-togethers until 2023. Now you can enjoy an inspiring program with high-quality content for your daily work as a photo or video professional in Nuremberg.
Main topics:
Creativity & AI – How AI tools can contribute to personal signature today
Photo Law & Business – Legal security and self-marketing in the photo business.
Storytelling & Mindset – Perspectives, attitude and creative development.
Market & Exchange – Meeting space for professional dialog and reorientation.
Program:
SPACE Amsterdam
11.00-12.00
Konrad J. Schmidt
GenKI – Why we are talking about the wrong topics
12.00-12.45
Dr. Joachim Feigl, Institute for Photopsychology
How images work
12.45- 13.30
PAUSE
13.30 – 14.15
Det Kempke
What does AI do to photography and what does AI do to
my photography?
14.15-15.00
Franziska Walther, Analog Photographer – Mind Artist –
Coach
You see what you are
15.00-15.45
Art Business, Lecture + Q&A-
Simon Puschmann
Ich höre was, was Du nicht siehst – Bilder sprechen
lassen.
15.45-16.30
David Klammer
Videography for photographers
ROOM Dublin
11.00-12.00
Monica Menez and Ivonne Veith
Promptly News
12.00-12.45
Rüdiger Glatz
Selling photographic art 2025
12.45-13.30
BREAK
13.30-14.15
Leah Bethmann, Natalia Carstens, Female Photoclub
What AI can’t do
14.15-15.00
Sebastian Deubelli, specialist lawyer for copyright and
Media law
AI kills creativity!?
15.00-15.45
Boris Eldagsen
Rivals – Photography vs Promptography
15.45 – 16.30
Panel discussion
Topic: Frame the Future
Participants: Boris Eldagsen, Monika Menez, Simon
Puschmann, Konrad J. Schmidt
In cooperation with ProfiFoto
The event is being organized together with the ProfiFoto team. “The enormous response to topics such as AI, creativity and the photo business shows how important such an exchange is,” say the organizers of the Creative Content Conference. “There is no comparable event where professional photographers, image producers, content creators and AI promoters can meet in this form for an intensive exchange about the future of the creative scene.”
Our speakers:
Boris Eldagsen
Rivals – Photography vs
Promptography
AI features are moving further and further away from text prompts and towards reference images. As a result, creative
professionals are becoming visual cocktail mixers who have to find a mixture that “tastes good” for a specific audience and a specific image purpose. Eldagsen invites you to a “Generative Happy Hour” and shows what “shaking, stirring and serving” means for the workflow and the furnishing of the workplace.
David Klammer
Videography for photographers
In his lecture, the multiple international award-winning photographer
and documentary filmmaker shows his
workflow when it comes to ambitious video projects, be it commercials
(including Fujifilm) or documentaries
for Sky TV, ARD and ZDF. From the technology used, to the visual
pitfalls during a shoot, to the edit with Davinci Resolve – crisp,
precise, exciting for photographers, for video is (still) a book with seven
seals.
Det Kempke
What is AI doing to
photography and what is AI doing to
my photography?
Is AI just a curse or a blessing? For Kempke, happiness means meeting change
with ease – especially in the creative process. He has been working in the world of images for over 40 years: from analog large-format cameras to iPhones and AI-generated works. His path to the image has constantly changed, but one thing has remained the same: it is not the tool that makes the image – but
the mind behind it.
Franziska Walther
Analog Photographer – Mind Artist – Coach You see what you are
Franziska Walther is an analogue photographer and, as a mind artist coach, helps people not only to take pictures with the help of the camera, but also to recognize themselves. Her approach combines creative self-reflection, visual language and neuroscientific findings with the aim of creating more clarity and orientation and making photography tangible again.
Konrad J. Schmidt
GenKI – Why we are talking about the
the wrong topics
Everyone is talking about GenKI. But beyond the hype, there are countless corners that are not in the spotlight enough: J. Konrad Schmidt (ADC, AOP, BFF, DGPh) gives insights into his learnings from countless AI conferences in the capital, the legal state of affairs and why it’s not a good idea to ask ChatGPT about tomorrow’s weather. If you love critical all-round views, you’ve come to the right place.
Rüdiger Glatz
Selling photo art
Photographer Rüdiger Glatz uses the new Shopify app from photo lab WhiteWall as a convenient solution for the professional sale of his own photographs and artworks by linking his own online gallery to it and thus being able to use a fully automated sales process from image upload to worldwide shipping.
Monica Menez & Ivonne Veith
Promptly News
Monica Menez and Ivonne Veith explore the creative possibilities of generative AI at the intersection of fashion, art and technology. With many years of experience in photography and film, Menez brings artistic depth to the world of AI-based image production, while Veith follows the latest developments around AI and creative applications. Together they will talk about AI campaigns, present exciting projects and provide practical information on how companies are using AI and which AI tools are recommended.
Sebastian Deubelli
Specialist lawyer for copyright and
media law
AI kills creativity!
Sebastian Deubelli is one of Germany’s most prominent lawyers in the field of photography law. In his lecture, he will shed light in a practical and understandable way on when AI works are protected by copyright, whether or not copyrighted photographs may be processed by the AI industry as training data without the photographers’ consent and what legal risks photographers should be aware of when using generative AI tools. The aim is to provide professional photographers with concrete guidance and tangible legal recommendations for action. Beyond the hype, but right in the middle of the reality of everyday professional life.
Leah Bethmann & Natalia Carstens
Female Photoclub
What AI cannot do
While artificial intelligence is increasingly changing the tools of photography, central elements remain irreplaceable: human connections, lived exchange and collective experience. The lecture will shed light on why personal networks, diversity and mutual support not only enrich creative processes, but are also crucial for the future of professional photography.
Natalia Carstens is a freelance photographer and art historian. Leah Bethmann works as a conceptual and commercial photographer in Düsseldorf.
Dr. Joachim Feigl
Institute for Photopsychology
How pictures work
Joachim Feigl is a psychologist and photographer. In 2022, he founded the Institute for Photopsychology, which researches the psychological impact factors of photography. In his podcast “FotoPsychoLogisch”, he has been providing practical psychological perspectives on the medium since 2023: How do photographs develop their effect – and what is behind them psychologically? Photo psychology sheds light on the perception, emotion, memory and meaning of images and shows how psychological knowledge can be used specifically for image impact and communication.
Simon Puschmann
I hear what you don’t see – let the pictures speak for themselves.
Photography is often simply no longer enough. At least not on its own. If you want to touch people with images today, you have to think further: in sequences, in atmosphere, in sound. Puschmann shows how free photographic and cinematic works can be transformed into something greater through music, sounds and rhythm – into small cinematic experiences. Because our world is not silent. It rustles, hums, hammers, narrates. Puschmann believes: Anyone who only thinks in single images today is missing out on a trend. And perhaps an opportunity.
Trends. Tools. Talks. – The new trade fair culture
Imaging World is organized by Ringfoto and is open to everyone for the first time: from professionals and ambitious amateur photographers to smartphone fans. No matter what you work with – here you will find inspiration, technology and exchange at eye level.
Exhibitors from the entire imaging universe will show you tools for:
– Image & video capture
– Editing, storage & presentation
– Sharing & social media
– Software, AI solutions and start-ups
Shoot. Edit. Influence.
The PROFI SUMMIT is open to professionals and ambitious photo enthusiasts. The number of participants is limited – so secure your ticket early!
Advance booking price: €100
Box office price: €120
Access to the Imaging World trade fair included