2012 Media Summit in New York

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Published on Monday, 05 March 2012 14:00

Written by John Matthews

From March 6th to 8th, 2012, Digital Hollywood’s Media Summit returns to New York City at the McGraw Hill Building (49th and 6th Ave). The Media Summit is one of those must attend conferences if you are media professional needing to stay up to date on the latest trends and thinking in media and advertising.

Each year many events in New York target media and advertising professionals but few attract the quality of speakers and panelists and audience that attend this annual events. A comprehensive conference, it allows senior media professionals to get a snapshot of the trends and technologies that are transforming their industry almost daily.

The conference gives senior media professionals, emerging media-technology companies, and investors insights from their peers and from those in the trenches as the transformation of media takes place. Unlike many media conferences the Media Summit covers all media from Film and TV including Cable TV to Digital, Mobile, Print etc.

Consequently, it is an ideal opportunity for professionals to network with their peers in other media and to make valuable connections across the spectrum of media, entertainment, and advertising.

The world class line up of presenters include:

• David Westin, President and CEO of NewsRight and former president, ABC News
• Bonnie Fuller, President & Editor-in-Chief, HollywoodLife.com & HollyBaby.com
• George Gallate, Global Chairman, Euro RSCG 4D
• Vivian Schiller, SVP & Chief Digital Officer, NBC News
• Deborah Forte, President, Scholastic Media
• David Lang, President, Mindshare Entertainment, North America
• Brian Kaminsky, COO, Huffington Post Media Group
• Liz Schimel, EVP and Chief Digital Officer, Meredith National Media Group
• Victoria Lasdon Rose, Publisher, Us Weekly and Usmagazine.com and Vice President, Wenner Media
• John Caldwell, President, National Geographic Digital Media
• Jeffrey Thompson, Vice President, Entertainment Digital Strategy and Business Development, Conde Nast Entertainment
• Kristine Welker, Chief Revenue Officer, Hearst Magazines Digital Media
• Kim Moses, principal, Sander/Moses Productions (Ghost Whisperer)
• Lee Garfinkel, Chief Creative Officer, Global Brands, Euro RSCG Worldwide Co-Chairman, Euro RSCG
• Paul Gunning, Chief Executive Officer, Tribal DDB Worldwide
• Doug Scott, President, OgilvyEntertainment
• Paul Buccieri, Managing Director of ITV Studios International & President and CEO, ITV Studios
• Patrick Lafferty, COO, North America, McCann Erickson
• Stephan Shelanski, Executive Vice President of Programming, Starz Entertainment
• Bruce Eisen, Vice President, Online Content Development & Strategy, Dish Network
• Jim Schachter, Associate Managing Editor, The New York Times
• Matt de Ganon, VP Mobile Product and Operations, Gannett Digital Network
• Lee Huang, Product Director, Barnes & Noble Digital Newstand
• Jon Steinberg, President, BuzzFeed
• Peter Phillips, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media Group, Marvel Worldwide
• Idan Cohen, Co-Founder & CPO, Boxee

Themes covered in the conference include:

• Mobile
• Mobile Apps
• Social TV
• Digital Advertising

Since social and mobile are moving to center stage for the media and advertising ecosystem, both increasingly becoming a growing facet of media and advertising formats. Just about all media is being touched or transformed by social or the ability to share and discuss media over social networks. At the same time, mobile is becoming a growing part of many consumers' interaction with media whether at home on the tablet or out of home where they watch media on their smartphones and other devices.

The Media Summit also picks up on important nuanced trends so often missed such as the diversity of audience for media especially in urban areas. As a result, the Media Summit incorporates this year The Urban Media Summit to discuss diversity as a mindset to be acknowledged and understood by media programmers and advertisers.

Other associated aspects of the conference include The Content Summit -- day one is the Film & Television Summit on Wednesday, March 7th, and the Publishing & Transmedia Media Summit on Thursday March 8th.

 Also on Thursday is a whole track dedicated to the Future of Advertising.

Throughout the three days of the conference there are many workshops for attendees to attend for information on new developments in media, entertainment, and advertising that will be important for the year ahead. The conference is not just about media and new technologies but also about the financial side of the business, financing media-tech startups, new streams of revenue from media companies, and where the business side of the media industry is head in the year ahead and beyond.

If there is one conference  to attend this year this should be it for the quality of speakers and panelists, and the comprehensive coverage of new and emerging trends, themes, business models, technologies etc that are touching every aspect of the media, entertainment, and advertising industries today.

For full programming info and registration online go to: http://www.digitalhollywood.com/MediaSummit.html

To register by phone: 212-352-9720

Media Summit on Twitter: @mediasummitny

2012 Media Summit • New York
Including
The Urban Media Summit
The Content Summit -- the Film & Television Summit / the Publishing & Transmedia Media Summit 
March 6 - 8, 2012

McGraw-Hill Building
49th St. and 6th Ave.
New York City

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