programme overview
Connecting Worlds is a unique conference - complete with workshops - that addresses how modern, digital technology can be used to promote the arts and generate new audiences and ensure artists are aware of their own DAS (Digital Audience Strategy).
Programme
- 10.30 Hoipolloi
- Hoipolloi present an excerpt from the Hugh Hughes Production - Floating
- 10.45 Bill Thompson
- Welcome address and an introduction to the day
- 10.55 Tom Loosemore, Head of Innovation, BBC
- Keynote speaker exploring new ways to access content and the rise of user generated content. Plus an update on cutting edge BBC news.
- 11.40 Graham Whitehead, Futurologist, BT
- Keynote speaker outlining BT's 21st Century Network and its impact. "Imagine when everything is connected to everything!"
- 12.20 Helen Wewiora, Media Curator, Cornerhouse
- Presentation on The Bigger Picture, a project that programs and coordinates moving image work for the Big Screen in Manchester
- 12.45 Networking Lunch
- 13.45 Breakout workshops
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A choice of:
- An Audience on the Move
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Podcasting Primer
- The Entrepreneurial Producer
- 15.15 Panel Q&A Session
- Chairman: Bill Thompson
Panelists: Tom Loosemore BBC; John Snyder EEDA Board; Jo Twist IPPR; Mike Dicks, Illumina - 16.15 Bill Thompson
- Presentation of the live demonstration work inspired by Hoipolloi and executed by Storm Media.
- 16.45 Close
Workshops
- An audience on the move
- Hosted by new media pioneer, Bill Thompson with Nancy Proctor from Antenna Audio this session explored the growing range of hand-held devices being used to view visual content. They considered the challenges posed by the devices and distribution methods and looked towards the screen-based, content rich, wireless future.
- Defining Intellectual Property
- Negotiating a return on creative investment in the multi-platform, easy access, digital age. This workshop guided delegates through the increasingly complex IP maze. Answering questions were: James Lancaster - Head of Rights at BBC and Matthew Meyer from Taylor Vinters Solicitors. Both very experienced, they promised to 'de-mystify IP' and leave delegates with some simple take home points to follow.
- An audience of One
- How to create a podcast, get content online and reach new audiences. With Jo Twist, a Senior Research Fellow in Digital Society and Media at the IPPR and a well know podcaster and blogger in her own right. Laura Moss and Iain Griffin from BBC Radio Northampton also talked about their award winning Weekender show featuring un-signed bands.
- The Entrepreneurial Producer
- Arranged by Screen East and of particular interest to film and TV producers interested in creating work for range of platforms. With Mike Dicks from Illumina exploring work from mobi-soaps to websites. And Jeremy Cooke from Gameware exploring user generated content for kids.
