We caught up with Jeff Gomez, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Startlight Runner Entertainment, and the transmedia producer of Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Avatar, Tron, in the lead up to X Media Lab Bath "Digital Entertainment".   1. Where do you find your inspiration for ideas? I've had the great fortune of working with many extraordinarily talented people, in Hollywood, the gaming industry, in education, and especially...

  We met Howard Goldkrand at XML Sweden and he blew us away - not just his awesome intellect and creativity, but the way he so effortlessly moves across and between cultures/disciplines....and incorporates them into his very Being.   Read on and you'll see what we mean... it's poetry... and it's a taste of what you'll get when you do meet him at READ MORE

  Some of the world’s leading digital entertainment experts who have worked on films including Minority Report, Inception, Avatar and Pirates of the Caribbean, played with international bands and founded creative businesses and technologies will be in Bath for four days in March to give their support and advice to aspiring creative businesses.   The mentors will be working as part of the internationally renowned digital creative event X...

  Henrik Byström is the Chair of P1.CN - China's exclusive social network for exceptional people.  By invitation only, the site caters to about 5% of China's population - the ultra cool emerging middle class, the tastemakers.  Currently the site as 1.7 million members and is experiencing very rapid growth. Henrik brings over 30 years of International business experience to...

    Trond Bugge developed his first LBS wayyyy back in 2000 before the world was ready.  He's bringing all of that experience and more to XML Sweden in Malmö later this month. What do you think Location Based Services and position technology will bring to the world within 10 years? "Location Based" is already starting to be and will definitively over the next 10 years be a standard component in...

  XML Sweden is back in Malmö on 25 November.  We asked Annika Lidne - Sweden's most sought after social media strategist, to share her thoughts about the future of LBS.    Annika Lidne is the founder and CEO of Disruptive Media and Swedishstartupsessions.com. What do you think Location Based Services and position...

  X Media Lab Sweden: Location Based Services is coming back to Malmö in November.  We asked Hampus Jakobsson on his thoughts about the future of LBS and what he would like to share with the participants of the conference on 25th November in the Caroli Church.   Hampus Jakobsson is M&A at RIM and an advisor and investor in the Scandinavian start-up community. What do you...

  Ralph Simon, the founder of the ringtone and father of the mobile entertainment industry, shares his views on LBS and what we can expect in his killer keynote presentation at XML Sweden: Location Based Services next month.   What do you think Location Based Services and position technology will bring to the world within 10 years? LBS is going to play more of a role for mobile and wireless as "colloquial relevance" is a cardinal factor for subscribers and telcos....

  10 October 2011, Malmö – X Media Lab today gave a sneak preview of the line-up of International Speakers for X Media Lab Sweden: “Location Based Services”, a one-day summit exploring the latest media evolutions with some of the world’s most successful digital visionaries from Beijing, Tokyo, Mumbai, London, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Boston and the Nordic Region.   X Media Lab Sweden: “Location Based Services” brings together digital media powerbrokers to South Sweden, including...

  Nominations are open for digital entrepreneurs to workshop business ideas with the world's most successful digital visionaries and investors.   11 October 2011, Malmö – Entrepreneurs in the digital media and mobile industries will be thrilled to learn that due to popular demand, X Media Lab Sweden "Location Based Services" - which features two days of mentorship from the world's leading digital media and creative thought leaders - is back in Malmö. X Media Lab Sweden ...

We're excited to share with you our upcoming activities and invite you to 'save the dates' in your diary. In particular, we are absolutely thrilled to have the chance to introduce XML and the XML network to 5 of the most exciting countries in Asia - whole new horizons for us, and you! Here's a snapshot of XML events in London, Malmö, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Kuala Lumpur and Bath that we invite you to participate in...

Nick DeMartino has graciously shared these thoughts with X Media Lab.  You can check out the original post on his blog here, and check back soon for the third installment. PART ONE: Shouting "FIRE" in the theatre “Isaac Newton didn't discover gravity, he just named it,” one TV writer-producer quipped during a recent conversation about “transmedia. And so it would seem, despite a testy flame war over...

X Media Lab Presents: The 2011 Jeff Gomez Transmedia Masterclass Series Melbourne: 27 July; Sydney: 29 July; Perth: 2 August A one-day masterclass with the world’s foremost transmedia producer of Avatar, Tron, Halo and Pirates of the Caribbean.   Sydney 7th July 2011: The world’s most successful transmedia producer who wowed participants at Melbourne International Film Festival’s “Film eXtended” last year, returns to Australia to present his...

Orvar Säfström is Scandinavia's leading game and film commentator.  He produced the multi award winning transmedia event "Halo in Berwaldhallen", and the "Joystick" video game music concert which holds the world record for attendance.  He has spoken on video game culture in the Swedish parliament,  met all four ABBA members and was hugged by Agnetha.   On his way to Sydney for XML: Global Media Ideas, Orvar reminds budding entrepreneurs to ask ...

X Media Lab Global Media Ideas Conference Day and Lab is a Vivid Sydney festival event Conference Day: 10th June, Sydney Opera House The Lab: 11th- 12th June 2011, Sydney Opera House Book your tickets at www.xmedialab.com Sydney – May 24, 2011 – Wired editor-at-large Ben Hammersley, Rubedo co-founder Dr Vesna Petresin Robert, and founder and CEO of informitv Dr William Cooper will join the world's top digital media and creative industries innovators...