October is a busy month for the Creative Industries in China. XML is giving Keynote addresses at the Shanghai Creative Week, Shanghai International Design Week, Wuxi Animation Base, Wuhu Animation Festival, and Zhongshan International Game Forum.  BH made the front page of the Auhui Daily pictured with the Party Secretary of Anhui province Mr. Wang Jinsan (Anhui provinc population: 63 million people) Check out the story here.

XMediaLab Sydney Opera House ‘Global Media Cultures’ 27th-29th November, The Studio, Sydney Opera House (Updated) Sydney, October 21 2009 – Some of the world’s most influential entrepreneurs in mobile, interactive media and entertainment including Gotham Chopra, Advisor to Al Gore and co-founder of entertainment company Liquid Comics; Nick Yang, China’s most successful internet entrepreneur; Neeraj Roy, Bollywood’s biggest content owner; and Susan Bonds, the world’s pioneer of Alternate Reality Games and...

Watch XMediaLab TV! Keynote Presentations and interviews from XML Auckland "Commercialising Ideas" now online! Check out the Keynote Presentations and Interviews with the International Mentors and Participants from XML Auckland!  And dont miss the new XML trailer! www.xmedialab.tv'

On XMediaLab’s sixth anniversary, we return as part of the Sydney Film Festival, and during Brian Enos Luminous Festival with a stunning program. In partnership with ABC TV and Screen Australia initiative, XML Sydney “Serious Games” enjoins documentary filmmakers and game makers to produce groundbreaking new ideas about creating new forms for documentary...

The Suzhou Lab was such a great experience! There really is something special about doing these cross-cultural events that are based on personal exchanges – they have a real magic about them, and leave permanently positive impressions and relationships. What more can I say than quote Zareh Nalbandian, the co-Founder and CEO of Animal Logic who said it “was the best networking event I’ve ever attended”, and the Director of Kung Fu Panda, the amazing John...

Investors and Business Analysts from the US, UK, China, India, and New Zealand are attending the X|Media|Lab Auckland “Commercialising Ideas” event looking for the best local ideas to help bring to market! X|Media|Lab Auckland  brings together some of the world’s best creative experts, VCs, business analysts, and digital media powerbrokers, as well as some of New Zealand's creative, business, and technology wizards, to assist you succeed amidst these turbulent times. Never...

XML is attending the invitation-only 4th bi-annual Al Jazeera Media Forum in Doha on March 14-16th. Were proud of the recognition, and we are sure that the invitation will yield a harvest of highly valuable new contacts for the XML network. The Forum will host an international mix of journalists, analysts, academics, and intellectuals to help bring these issues into focus as well as leading thinkers and strategists to explore and understand the changing face of the Middle East...

Following the great success of the first Suzhou Lab, we are proud to announce the second Suzhou “Wealth of Animation” Lab 16th - 19th April! The first Lab brought together the world’s great creative talent and business executives together with a ‘who’s who’ of the China animation industries, and this year’s event will be the same. Insert yourself right into the middle of the many opportunities for outsourcing, licensing, international...

(The Australian Broadcasting Corporation asked me to submit an opinion piece on contemporary Australian media - here is what I said) Media is that through which we communicate with each other. The idea of a national media is always a vexed question in any genuinely multicultural society, such as Australia claims to be. The questions of who is allowed to speak, and who is silenced, what topics are discussed, the points of view that are permitted or censored, the usual...

因势 利 导 - “YÄ«n Shì Lì Dǎo” Creative Industries and the Financial Crisis Presentation at the 3rd International Creative and Cultural Industries Forum in Beijing December 17th 2008. Dajiahao! (‘Hello everybody’!) I want to tell you that I am very proud to be learning to speak Mandarin - slowly but surely. But I must say that it is still much more ‘slow’ than it is ‘sure’. So please accept my thanks...

I was asked to write a column for the excellent Digital Media magazine published in Australia about the possibilities of "export" markets ... here is what I wrote: Don’t think “Export”, think “Networks" X|Media|Lab began life as part of the Sydney Film Festival and is now held in seven digital media hotspots around the world: in Australia, Singapore, China, India, the Middle East, New Zealand, and Korea. I want to share some experiences that...

It’s been an honor to be in Beijing during the Olympic Games, and to experience the sheer pride and joy, the great success – and the wonderful hospitality. Even in these days afterwards, a great friendliness and happiness is wonderfully apparent. It’s been a slow motion eye-opener spending so much time in Beijing and Shanghai over the last couple of years … and especially learning the almost total disconnect between the China you experience while you...

There must be something about living on the edge of the world that motivates New Zealanders to push the boundaries when it comes to digital creativity. Surrounded by water, the flora and fauna of the country diverged into a natural ecology unlike anywhere else in the world; the unique human culture arose in a similar fashion. New Zealand has long been the beneficiary of sequential waves of migration. They came first in long canoes from the Pacific then in tall...

When I was discussing doing a Lab on animation in China with Sun Li Jun, the Dean of Animation at the Beijing Film Academy, he told me that best place to do such a Lab would not be Beijing, but rather Suzhou. In my ignorance, I had never heard of Suzhou then but now I know much better why Professor Sun so wisely pointed me in that direction. Located about 80 kms north-east of Shanghai, READ MORE

In an otherwise scintillating exposition of the emerging geo-political balance, Parag Khanna, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, manages to leave out of his calculations almost entirely one giant powerhouse of development: the Middle East or, more exactly, the states that make up the Gulf Co-operation Council. The GCC comprises six states ...