BANFF and TORONTO – While Canada’s telecommunications leaders debate the future of telecom in Toronto at the Canadian Telecom Summit next week, the world’s leaders in digital media and television will be making headlines at NextMedia and the Banff World Television Festival.
Cartt.ca will be on the ground at all three, of course, providing regular reports.
First out of the gate is NextMedia, beginning tomorrow in Banff. Organized by Achilles Media, the same company that puts on the BWTF (not to mention NATPE Mobile++ and the World Congress of History Producers), NextMedia features cutting-edge speakers and session topics.
For example, Benjamin White, chief creative officer of the Sling Media Entertainment Group and Sean Love, business development manager of the media and entertainment group at Microsoft will deliver the inside scoop on content development for Slingbox and Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
White, who was formerly VP of Digital Media for MTV Networks, will make his presentation during an Executive Download session on June 9, while Love’s is scheduled for June 10. The Executive Download sessions are a series of back-to-back presentations by senior digital media executives. As previously announced, Stacy Seltzer of Joost will deliver one on June 10.
The Banff fest kicks off Sunday and if you cover TV, you simply have to be there. Cartt.ca will have three people on site providing coverage of NextMedia and Banff.
Speakers at Banff include the likes of Corus president and CEO John Cassaday, Trailer Park Boys creator Mike Clattenburg, Teletoon president Len Cochrane, Minister of Canadian Heritage Bev Oda, BBC director general Mark Thompson, USA Networks EVP Jeff Wachtel, TNT/TBS VP Lillah McCarthy and Comcast Entertainment International president Kevin MacLellan.
Along with the usual networking opportunities and pitch opportunities for producers will be sessions with titles such as: Television is Revolutionized; The Power of the TV Critic; Big Drama, Small Screen – Changing the Face of Television; Environmental Responsibility in the Media; The Role of User Generated Content; Working with China – Producing and Delivering Content and; Revisiting the Green Paper.
The Canadian Telecom Summit, as usual, features just about every industry bigwig and has sessions on every industry hot button, from technical to strategy to yes, regulatory.
Speakers from next Monday to Wednesday include RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie, Motorola president and COO Greg Brown, Minister of Industry Maxime Bernier, Bell Canada CEO Michael Sabia, Videotron president and CEO Robert Depatie, Nokia Siemens Networks CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie, CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein, Rogers Communications president and COO Nadir Mohamed, Nortel CTO John Roese, and former Rogers Cable chief and current Ontario PC Party leader John Tory.
All-in-all, it will be a busy, newsy week.
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