About
When: Fri, 2008-08-01 09:00 - Sun, 2008-08-03 18:00
XMediaLab is the internationally acclaimed digital media event: a unique meeting place designed to help people get their own ideas to market through creative development, business matching, and access to world-class networks of digital media professionals.
Video-on-Demand is the third wave of the ascendency of internet protocol (IP) over traditional media – first there was text, then graphics, and now the moving image.
Whole new opportunities are opening up for creative ideas in the creation, production, distribution, syndication, platforms, brands, and new business models in video content and services.
XML “DIY TV” is designed to assist everyone involved in traditional TV, and those creating its mutant forms, which are now emerging across the three screens, to achieve business success. XML Melbourne 2008 is your opportunity to assess your own conceptual ideas, business plans, and underlying technologies; and your chance to introduce yourself directly to some of the best people in the world driving the DIY TV transformations.
If you are developing ideas for any form of video content across platforms, attend the Keynote Conference Day to hear how the experts are thinking and planning; and you can also apply to attend the Lab itself, where you can work with all the International Mentors on your own DIY TV project idea.
Meet with the World’s Outstanding Media Practitioners:
- Stewart Butterfield - Co-founder of Flickr, the world’s favourite image and video hosting website (Vancouver)
- Nick DeMartino - American Film Institute Director and voted #3 on the Hollywood Reporter’s ‘Digital 50’ list (Los Angeles)
- Robert Tercek - one of the world’s foremost authorities on digital entertainment, Founding Member of the Academy of TV, Arts and Sciences, Interactive Media Executive Committee, Founder of PeopleJam.com (Los Angeles)
- Dan Fill - Head of Multiplatform Production, ABC TV (Melbourne)
- Herb Wang - Executive Manager, China Lead Advisory and Business Solution Group (IBSG), Cisco Systems, China. (Shanghai)
- Ken Rutkowski - one of the world’s best connected people in the media, entertainment, and technology industries www.kenradio.com (Los Angeles)
- Dominic Carosa - CEO Dominet Digital: Digital | Innovation | Investments (Melbourne)
- Mohamed Nanabhay - Head of New Media, Al Jazeera Network (Doha)
- Gabriele Gresta - Founder, Executive Vice Chairman and CCO, Digital Magics (Milan)
- Jae Won - Director, Telecom/Internet Services Investment, Skylake Incuvest, formerly General Manager, Business Development, Nokia Korea (Seoul)
- Chris Adams - New Media Pioneer; Co-Founder, Participant Productions (Los Angeles)
- Helen Baxter - Managing Directrix, Mohawk Media (Auckland)
- Mike McGraw - Australian digital media pioneer, and now Managing Partner, Big Fuel (New York)
- McLean Mashingaidze-Greaves - Canadian superstar and CEO and Founder, NIMBLE TV (Toronto, NYC)
- Scott-Bradley Pearce - CBS Interactive; Executive Producer, adikted.tv (Sydney)
- Louise McElvogue - Partner, McLeod Media, and part of Strategy Group, Project Kangaroo (Sydney)
The Mentors
XMediaLab has access to a superb roster of some of the world’s leading digital media practitioners, innovators, and power-brokers. International Mentors and Speakers at XMediaLab Melbourne “DIY TV” include:
Co-founder of Flickr, the world’s favourite image and video hosting website (Vancouver)
Stewart Butterfield co-founded Flickr in 2004, and it was acquired by Yahoo in March 2005. As of November 2007, Flickr hosts more than 2 billion images.
One of Hollywood's most influential leaders in Digital Media; voted #3 on the Hollywood Reporter's 'Digital 50' list (Los Angeles)
Nick DeMartino is one of Hollywood’s most influential leaders in Digital Media, ranked #3 on the PGA/Hollywood Reporter ‘Digital 50’ list in 2006. The Los Angeles Business Journal has twice named DeMartino as a leader in the technology industry.
One of the world’s most prolific creators of interactive content (Los Angeles)
Robert Tercek is one of the world's most prolific creators of interactive content.
Head of Multiplatform Production, ABC TV (Melbourne)
Dan Fill is the Head of the Multiplatform Production division of ABC TV.
Executive Manager, China Lead Advisory and Business Solution Group (IBSG)
Cisco Systems, China (Shanghai)
Herb Wang joined Cisco in March, 2003. He is responsible for Advisory and Business Solution for Cisco China.
One of the world’s best connected people in the media, entertainment, and technology industries www.kenradio.com (Los Angeles)
Ken Rutkowski is one of most broadly-informed and connected people in the media, entertainment and technology (MET) market.
CEO Dominet Digital: Digital | Innovation | Investments (Melbourne)
Prior to this he co-founded destra Corporation in 1993, when he was in his late teens and then listed it on the Australian Stock Exchange in May 2000.
Head of New Media, AlJazeera Network (Doha)
Mohamed Nanabhay is the Head of New Media at the AlJazeera Network based in Doha, Qatar.
CEO, SLCN.TV (Melbourne)
Gary is internationally recognised as a world-leading innovator in reaching audiences through multiple digital media platforms, and pioneering the use of virtual worlds as a tool for the production and distribution of television content made collaboratively with in-world participants.
Director, Telecom/Internet Services Investment, Skylake Incuvest, and former General Manager, Business Development, Nokia Korea (Seoul)
Jae Won is Director for Skylake Incuvest’s telecom and internet related investments.
New Media Pioneer; Co-Founder, Participant Productions (Los Angeles)
Chris Adams is an internationally recognized new media pioneer, entertainment industry executive and social entrepreneur with nearly twenty years of experience in creating and developing partnerships, programming and relationships between media, entertainment and online brands.
Managing Directrix, Mohawk Media (Auckland)
Helen Baxter runs Mohawk Media, an animation & video production company in West Auckland. She produces the g33k show, a science & technology series, writes the MsBehaviour Files for The Big Idea, appears regularly on Virtual World, Radio New Zealand, and the Radio Wammo show on Kiwi FM.
Digital Media Pioneer, and now Managing Partner, Big Fuel (New York)
Mike McGraw has been at the forefront of emerging content development for most of his career and has always maintained a priority to deliver content to the most relevant audiences through the most relevant channels.
Canadian superstar and CEO and Founder, NIMBLE TV (Toronto, NYC)
As executive producer of the groundbreaking interactive nightly CBC series, ZeD, MMG was the driving creative force behind a revolutionary format that landed 5 Gemini nominations in its inaugural season as well as selection in the prestigious 2003 INPUT TV conference (Denmark) and 2 Leo Awards (including Best Variety Show).
CBS Interactive; Executive Producer www.adikted.tv (Sydney)
He was there before the digital big bang, before the beginning of time as we know it: before Netscape.
Partner, Macleod Media; formerly Launch Strategy Group, Project Kangaroo (Sydney)
Louise McElvogue is a founding partner of Macleod Media a strategy, and implementation company working in the digital and media sectors.
