The series of IEEE ISM and its predecessor conferences is celebrating the 20th anniversary in 2016 - it's time to contemplate the coming of age of this "attractive young lady". The talk will briefly review the outset and important development steps of the conference series, both from the organizational perspective and from the perspective of hot and challenging research topics. This will shed some light on multimedia as a field of research and its changing emphases. Of course, a look at the crystal ball for ISM, "the young lady", will not be missing: does she have a promising future? What will this future be like? Is she going to marry? Will there be children? The dinner audience will be invited to develop their own vision - and not to forget that the best way to predict the future is to create it.

Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser is Full Professor, Dean of Computer Science and head of the Telecooperation Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt. His Lab works on smart cyberphysical spaces of all scales, from personal to global, in three research fields: (a) big networks for big data & smart/critical infrastructures, (b) novel HCI devices & concepts, and (c) privacy, trust & resilience. Max is also head of a doctoral school on privacy and trust for mobile users, deputy speaker of a collaborative research center on Future Internet (MAKI) and lead PI in CySec, TU Darmstadt's key profile area on CyberSecurity. Max authored or co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications. He was and is active in numerous conference program and organization committees and as member of editorial boards such as Ubicomp, ACM Multimedia, Percom, IEEE ICME, IEEE ISM, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Jrnl. Web Engineering.