Media 08: Australia's Annual Report for Media Professionals
Friday 7th March
9.00am – 5.00pm, followed by cocktails and networking
Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont, Sydney
Registration: $495 (Inclusive of GST)
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Australia's leading digital media organisation, Fairfax Digital, brings you a one-day executive debrief on all you need to know about digital media for the year 2008.
Powered by X|Media|Lab, the conference will bring world leading experts from the UK, the US, India, China, Australia, the Middle East and Korea, to present on the most significant trends and innovations happening or about to happen across the spectrum of digital media: The Media and The Message; Generation Cellphone; Video and Interactivity; Platforms and Widgets.
No time-wasting boring panels, just densely-packed, information-rich, clear and helpful, set piece keynotes from digital media luminaries from all over the world.
If you are a digital or traditional media professional, executive, producer, creative, business strategist, journalist, analyst or technology professional from the news, entertainment, information, advertising, marketing or education industries, this is the one-day conference you can’t afford to miss.
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Media 08 – Agenda
| 8.30am - Registration for 9.00am (sharp!) start | |
| 9.00am - Opening by Jack Matthews, CEO, Fairfax Digital (Sydney) | |
| 9.15am - Session One: The Media and The Message | |
| David Kirk | CEO, Fairfax Media (Sydney) |
| Kevin Anderson | Head of Blogging and Interaction, The Guardian (London) |
| Assia Grazioli-Venier | Head of Ministry of Sound TV (London) |
| Kevin Swanepoel | President, The One Club (New York) |
| 10.45am - Coffee + Networking | |
| 11.15am - Session Two: Video and Interactivity | |
| Vicky Taylor | Editor of Interactivity, BBC News (London) |
| Jean K. Min | Director, International Division, OhMyNews (Seoul) |
| Mohamed Nanabhay | Head of New Media, Al Jazeera (Doha) |
| Lee Stephens | CEO, Aegis Media (Sydney) |
| 12.45pm - Lunch | |
| 1.15pm - Session Three: Platforms and Widgets | |
| Alan Noble | Engineering Site Director, Google Australia and NZ (Sydney) |
| Niall Kennedy | Producer, Widget Summit (San Francisco) |
| Jonathan Haagen | Social Media Analyst, Economist Intelligence Unit, The Economist (Beijing, New York) |
| Richard MacManus | Founder and Editor, ReadWriteWeb (Wellington) |
| 2.45pm - Coffee + Networking | |
| 3.15am - Session Four: Generation Cellphone | |
| Kaiser Kuo | Group Director, Digital Strategy, Ogilvy China (Beijing) |
| Kay Gruenwoldt | Head of Title Marketing, North America, Nokia (Helsinki, Vancouver) |
| Benjamin Joffe | Founder and CEO, +8* | Plus Eight Star (Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo) |
| Neeraj Roy | MD and CEO, Hungama Mobile; Vice Chairman, Mobile Entertainment Forum – Asia (Mumbai) |
| 4.45pm - Rapporteur: Jack Matthews, CEO Fairfax Digital (Sydney) | |
| 5.00pm - Cocktails and Networking | |