XMedia Lab Melbourne : DIY TV
While the first g33k show airs live in New Zealand on Alt TV, Chelfyn and I will be in Melbourne for the next XMedia Lab. Which just happens to be on the subject of “DIY TV”: Video, UGC, Mobile and IP TV content. I am really looking forward to hearing the other mentors speak, as well as spending two days in the Labs with the creative project teams. The lineup of digital media experts is amazing, and I'm honoured to be speaking alongside them.
- Stewart Butterfield – Co-founder of Flickr, the world’s favourite image and video hosting website (Vancouver)
- Nick Di Martino - 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 (MsBehaviour) - 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)
If you are making DIY TV and want get feedback, advice and contacts from these digital media professionals, the 2008 Melbourne Lab is now looking for 12 great projects along the general theme of “DIY TV”… all kinds of Do-It-Yourself Television – in all forms of Video, UGC, Mobile TV and IP TV content and services.
