Ideally, I should have blogged about this earlier, but I wanted to mention that I’ll be speaking at X|Media|Lab in Melbourne Australia this Friday. The theme is Digital Worlds: Social, Mobile, Virtual. Good news if you are able to make it, they have changed venue and have some more tickets available. I’ll be speaking about how what mass media companies need to do to become social media companies. I’ll be blogging the conference here and also on the Guardian’s Organ Grinder media blog. The rough schedule on Friday is:
9.30am Session One: Digital Worlds
Kevin Anderson
Head of Blogging and Interaction, The Guardian
(London)
Kim Dalton
Director of Television, Australian Broadcasting
Corporation (Sydney)
Dale Herigstad
Four times Emmy Award Winner, and Winner of the
inaugural Interactive Emmy Award (Los Angeles)
Shekhar Kapur
Film Director, Co-Founder Virgin Comics and Virgin
Animation (London/Mumbai)
11.30am Session Two: Online Video
Liz Heller
CEO and Co-founder Buzztone Inc (Los Angeles)
Marcelino Ford-Livene
General Manager, Interactive Content, Services
and Advertising Development, Intel Digital Home
Group; Governor of Interactive Media, Academy of
Television, Arts and Sciences (Los Angeles)
Brian Gruber
Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer,
FORA.tv (San Francisco)
Jason Roks
Advisory Board Member, The Real News
(www.therealnews.com) (Ontario)
1.30pm Session Three: Mobile Communities
Francisco Cordero
General Manager Australia/NZ, Bebo
(London, Sydney)
Jennifer Lewis
Editor, STOMP (Singapore)
Martha Ladly
Director, Mobile Experience Design, Mobile
Experience Lab (Toronto)
Tom Kennedy
Director, Digital, Belong Group, Australia’s Leading
Digital Interactive Communications Company; Chair
of the Digital Content Action Agenda Experts Group
and Australian Film Commissioner (Australia)
Martin Hoffman
CEO, Loop Mobile (Sydney)
3.30pm Session Four: Virtual Worlds
Dr David Liu
Founder and President, Cyber Recreation District
(Beijing)
Jason Romney
General Manager, Innovation, Telstra BigPond
(Sydney)
Lizbeth Goodman
Director, SMARTlab Digital Media Institute, University
of East London (London)
Keren Flavell
Executive Producer, SLCN.TV (Melbourne)
Bruce Joy
Founder, VASTPARK, Australia’s own virtual worlds
platform (Melbourne)