The Conference 15 Oct

The 7th Cross-Media Forum 15-18 Oct 2013
in association with the 57th BFI London Film Festival

The 7th Cross-Media Forum gets off to a flying start with The Conference on 15 October. Attracting the world’s leading media practitioners and innovators, The Conference explores the latest in multi-platform storytelling – from new narrative techniques, to building brands, to engaging today’s interactive audiences – and everything in between.

08.45 – 09.25
Registration outside NFT1, BFI Southbank

09.30 – 09.45
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION: LIZ ROSENTHAL, CEO & Founder, Power to the Pixel

09.45 – 10.30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ELAN LEE – Chief Design Officer, Xbox Entertainment Studios (USA)
My Mother Has No Idea What I Do for a Living

10.30 – 11.00
PAULA ZUCCOTTI – Founding Director, The Overworld (UK)
Consumption of Culture: People’s Needs, Desires & Expectations

11.00 – 11.15
BREAK

11.15 – 11.45
WAYNE FLETCHER – Global Chief Strategy Officer, Naked Communications Worldwide (UK)
The Stories We Could Tell

11.45 – 12.15
INGRID KOPP – Director of Digital Initiatives, Tribeca Film Institute (US)
Experiments in Interactive Documentary – What Robots, Coal Miners and Mobile Phones Have Taught Me About Storytelling and Social Change

12.15 – 12.45
CLINT BEHARRY – Senior Creative Technologist, Harmony Institute (US)
Optimising Stories for Future Impact

12.45 – 13.45
LUNCH BREAK

13.45 – 14.15
LANCE WEILER – Co-founder, Reboot Stories (US)
The Writer’s Room of the 21st Century
CASE STUDIES: Body, Mind, Change & Lyka’s Adventure

14.15 – 14.45
NUNO BERNARDO – Managing Director & Producer, beActive (PT)
CASE STUDY: Collider. It All Started as a Simple Idea: Terminator Meets Lost

14.45 – 15.15
STAN DOUGLAS & LOC DAO – Visual Artist / Head of Digital Content & Strategy, NFB Canada (CA)
CASE STUDY: NFB Interactive 2.0: CIRCA 1948 

15.15 – 15.45
RADHA AGRAWAL – Social Entrepreneur (CA)
CASE STUDY: Super Sprowtz

15.45 – 16.00
BREAK

16.00 – 17.00
GRUFF RHYS – Super Furry Animals (UK) introduced by NATHAN HULL – Digital Product Development Director, Penguin Books (UK)
American Interior: A Multimedia Psychedelic Travelogue from the Welsh pop legend. Presentation sponsored by Film Agency Wales.

17.30 – 20.00
OPENING NIGHT DRINKS RECEPTION

Ticket holders to The Conference will also receive an invitation to Opening Night Networking Drinks where delegates have the chance to meet and mingle with all the speakers from the day plus hundreds of fellow industry guests. And that’s not all – there are also free tickets up for grabs to the European premiere preview of beActive’s new sci-fi thriller, Collider.