Internet Week 2010

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Published on Saturday, 22 May 2010 19:27

Written by Brad Balfour

Since 2008, Internet Week has taken place all over the city, hosting diverse events in different locations.The result is a critical mass of web-focused events that raises the profile of NYC's industry as a whole as well as the partners who participate.  Internet Week is a week-long festival of events celebrating New York's thriving internet industry and community running from June 7-10, 2010.

The third annual Internet Week New York will host over 150 events between June 7-14 at the festival's first-ever headquarters at Chelsea's Metropolitan Pavilion and at dozens of locations throughout the City.

The schedule reflects both the rise of New York City as a new tech capital and the festival's emergence as a top annual gathering for Internet leaders. The diverse slate of programming for Internet Week New York, presented by Yahoo!, includes everything from panels, conferences, and educational events to art installations, live performances and parties.

Serving as a hub for festival-goers, the first-ever Internet Week New York headquarters will showcase technology demos, art exhibits, panel discussions, product launches, lounge spaces, and a host of other activities. The headquarters is hosted by presenting sponsor Yahoo! and official sponsors HP, Pepsico, Microsoft Expression Studio, IAC, Southwest Airlines and Aquent.

The headquarters will also host premiere conference events, including the Yahoo! Provoke Summit with a keynote by Ze Frank and IAB's Innovation Days with AoL’s Tim Armstrong. Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV, Josh & Chuck of HowStuffWorks, and other Internet personalities will also present live shows and conversations throughout the week.

Beyond the headquarters, organizations such Time Warner, IAC, The Onion, mediabistro, and Guest of a Guest, will present events at venues across the city, including The Times Center, NYU, CUNY, Galapagos Arts Space, the Jane Hotel Ballroom and The Knitting Factory.

The diverse roster of events includes: NY Tech Meetup, the week's largest public event where over 800 people will see demos from New York’s hottest start-ups, The Webutante Ball, a "prom" for New York's tech media scene, an exhibition of Facebook portraits at the Art Director's Club, conferences for food and pet bloggers, geek speed dating, live dance music created by a Nintendo Game Boy, and a crash course in mastering Twitter. The week will culminate with The 14th Annual Webby Awards, a star-studded gala honoring the Internet’s best and brightest at Cipriani Wall Street on June 14th.

"There is a great sense of excitement, optimism, and energy in the New York community right now and that's reflected in the line-up for this year’s Internet Week New York," said David-Michel Davies, chairman, Internet Week New York. "The festival is an amazing opportunity to meet the innovators behind NYC's industry resurgence, share ideas, and find out where the Internet might be taking us next."

"Yahoo! is proud to be the presenting sponsor of Internet Week New York," said Mollie Spilman, SVP, Global B2B Marketing at Yahoo!. "There is a tremendous amount of positive momentum in the industry and this week of events is an important showcase of all the progress, innovation and creativity taking place in the market."

Highlights of the festival include:

Special Events and Parties

Blip.tv Five Year Anniversary Party - A celebration of NYC-based startup blip.tv's fifth anniversary. (June 8, IWNY Headquarters)

IAC's dumbdumb Launch Celebration -IAC and CollegeHumor celebrate the launch of DumbDumb, the new digital-driven production company co-created by Will Arnett and Jason Bateman in partnership with Ben Silverman's Electus. (June 10, IAC Headquarters)

The Webby Awards - Concluding Internet Week New York, the star-studded awards gala hosted by B.J. Novak of The Office will feature winners like Roger Ebert, Amy Poehler, OK Go, and Lisa Kudrow delivering the Webbys' famous five-word speeches. (June 14, Cipriani Wall Street)

The Webutante Ball - A celebration of the New York tech scene, including the crowning of the Webutante King and Queen. (June 8, Marquee)

Third Annual Internet Week NY Opening Reception - The week kicks off with cocktails in the first-ever festival headquarters at Metropolitan Pavilion. (June 7, IWNY HQ)

Industry Conferences and Panels

Future of Media: 2010 - Arianna Huffington and Dan Abrams are among the panelists debating how the Internet and other digital media are transforming the traditional media landscape. (June 8, New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute)

GCA Savvian Digital Media Summit -Leading companies and private equity firms in the industry will converge to engage in thought-provoking dialogue. (June 8, Westin Times Square)

HP@IWNY Kick-Off Event - HP helps commence Internet Week New York festivities with a news conference followed by a conversation, moderated by Mashable and featuring some of the Web's most innovative minds, about how companies are harnessing the power of the Internet. (June 7, IWNY HQ)

IAB Innovation Days @ Internet Week - AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Lloyd Braun of BermanBraun are among the speakers at a two-day conference exploring branded content and the future of TV and online video. (June 8 & 9, IWNY HQ)

Mashable Media Summit 2010 - A one-day conference focusing on the impact of social media on the news industry, big brands and advertisers, featuring presentations by College Humor's Ricky Van Veen and The Onion's Baratunde Thurston. (June 8, The Times Center)

Twtrcon - Focused entirely on the business use of Twitter, this one-day conference features remarks by Martha Stewart and foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley. (June 15, New York Hilton)

Yahoo! Provoke Summit - Ze Frank keynotes this event featuring creatives and developers exploring how new innovations and technology are evolving the digital media environment. (June 7, IWNY HQ)

Social Media

The Art of Social Media - The Art Directors Club and The Social Media Society host an exhibition of Facebook Portraits by Matt Held, including cocktails and live music. (June 8, The Art Directors Club)

Mastering Twitter Seminar - Experts offer tips on how to jumpstart your social media presence and reveal new ways individuals and organizations are capitalizing on Twitter. (June 8, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism)

#Promise - The #Promise will explore how social & mobile media are empowering corporate citizenship to create social & environmental change. (June 10, IWNY HQ)

TechMunch - A one-day conference for food bloggers. (June 10, Roger Smith Hotel)

Social Media Roundtable on Pets - Kristyn Pomranz of I Can Haz Cheezburger and Jason Scott, the owner of Sockington (a cat with over 1.5 million Twitter followers) discuss the intersection of pets and social media. (June 9, The Center)

Start Ups & Technology

Microsoft Expressions Studio 4 Launch - Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at Microsoft and author of the book, "Sketching User Experiences," unveils Microsoft Expressions Studio 4, design tools for the Web, the desktop, mobile devices, and Silverlight. (June 7, IWNY HQ)

NY Tech Meetup - NY Tech Meetup will be the largest event open to the public during Internet Week New York. 860 technologists will converge to see demos from some of the area's hottest, most interesting startups. (June 8, NYU Skirball Center)

Startup Weekend - Local developers, marketers, designers, and aspiring entrepreneurs gather to launch new business ventures in just one weekend. (June 11 – 13, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University)

VC and Angel Financing Bootcamp - Entrepreneurs seeking advice on venture capital and angel financing hear from leaders in the field about how to best position their company for a successful liquidity event. (June 9, NYU Stern School of Business)

Arts and Leisure

Area Mondays - The Onion and The A.V. Club kick-off of a monthly music series with Josh and Chuck from HowStuffWorks and live performances from Anamanaguchi and Home Video. (June 7, The Knitting Factory)

Gaming & The Arts - The Arts, Culture and Technology Meetup and NY Gaming Meetup explore the intersection of art and games. A performance by musician Luke Silas, who uses a pair of Game Boys to create dance music, caps the night. (June 8, Galapagos Art Space)

Kickball for Silicon Alley - A kickball tournament for New York City-based startups. (June 11, Chelsea Park)

Nerd Nite NYC - Nerds convene for presentations on such geeky topics as how to turn Nintendo's portable video game console into an all-purpose gadget and the history and future of downloading music. The night kicks off with a speed dating for geeks. (June 11, Galapagos Art Space)

Pop Everything -Bloggers like The Fug Girls, JustJared, and The Superficial go head-to-head in pop culture trivia at this party hosted by BUZZMEDIA and Ustream. (June 9, Pop Burger Midtown)

Social Climbing - New York City Web companies and start-ups compete in an indoor climbing competition. (June 9, Brooklyn Boulders)

The full schedule of Internet Week New York 2010 events can be found at http://www.internetweekny.com.

The festival is organized by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS), in cooperation with the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting.

Internet Week New York Sponsors include: Yahoo!, Pepsico, HP, Microsoft Expression Studio, IAC, Corbis Images, Aquent, Southwest Airlines, .CO, Rackspace Hosting, AoL, and Motorola.

June 7th

Official Kick-off Party

June 7th - 10th
Internet Week HQ Open

June 14th
Closing Celebration

Internet Week invites all interested companies and organizations to participate. Like the Web itself, Internet Week is open: anyone can throw events citywide. No organization is too big or too small to be included. Open access for all!

Internet Week New York is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in cooperation with the City of New York and The Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting.

We still love crowdsourcing, but now we're adding something new: a central Internet Week Headquarters. Located at Metropolitan Pavilion (125 W. 18th Street), Internet Week HQ will feature two main areas:

• Interactive Playground of 12,000 square feet of exposition space. This space will be both a place for attendees to meet, greet, and get a little work done, as well as hosting arts, technology, media and entertainment exhibitions and social events.

• The Expo space will be open to the general public during the day Monday June 7 - Thursday June 10. Tickets to the expo space can be purchased online or onsite at the HQ.

• The theater space will accommodate up 450 people for special announcements and presentations.

Citywide Events

These events are held independently throughout New York from June 7-14, 2010

In 2009 over 100 events, ranging from parties and meetups to executive breakfasts and conferences were hosted throughout NYC thanks to our Official Event Partners. We're encouraging this kind of crowdsourced participation again in 2010.

Organizations can become Official Event Partners simply by adding an event to our schedule and helping us get the word out.
Headquarters

See the full list of participating Citywide events.

Internet Week New York headquarters passes are available for purchase ($10 for Monday through Thursday access) at http://www.internetweekny.com/attend/expo-pass.

Internet Takes Over New York City: More Than 150 Events Slated For

Internet Week New York
June 7-14, 2010

The Festival Headquarters
Metroplitan Pavilion
125 W. 18th Street 
New York NY 10011

EditFest NY Has the Right Cuts

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Published on Thursday, 20 May 2010 19:18

Written by Laura Blum

If you're looking to get into the editing business – or if you've ever doubted the power of editors to make or break a movie -- come catch EditFest at the Director's Guild of America Theater (on West 57th Street) in New York, June 11 and 12, 2010. Back in town for its second annual run, the event rallies award-winning editors for intensive How To's, shop talk and networking.  

This year's bill includes the Oscar-nominated editing duo from Avatar, John Refoua and Stephen Rivkin; Oscar winner Thelma Schoonmaker (The Departed, The Aviator, Raging Bull);  and Oscar winner Alan Heim (All That Jazz, Network), among 20 or so others.  

Panelists will reincarnate some of the creative choices they faced in their editing suites, and share tricks of the trade.

The east coast edition of American Cinema Editors' popular editing festival is presented together with Manhattan Edit Workshop, which offers certified courses and customized training classes in editing. Panelists are drawn from the membership of ACE, an honorary society of motion picture editors currently notching its 60th anniversary.

EditFest NY's $349 fee ($249 for students and affiliates) may deter anyone who isn't in the business, though if you read Walter Murch's In the Blink of the Eye more than once – and then picked up Michael Ondaatje's The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Film Editing to boot -- you're probably movie nerd enough to consider it. Otherwise, the targeted audience of content cognoscenti ranges from production executives and network and studio staff to aspiring and professional editors.

In addition to moderated panels, EditFest NY will feature an opening night reception, Q&A sessions and a closing pizza and beer bash.

Below is the full lineup and schedule:

Friday June 11, 2010:

7:15pm - 9:00pm, Opening Night Panel: The Lean Forward Moment
9:00pm - 11:00pm, Cocktail Party

Saturday June 12, 2010:

10:00am - 11:45am, The Documentary Edit: Finding the Thread
12:00pm - 1:00pm, Anatomy of a Scene With Alan Heim
2:15pm - 3:30pm, Cutting Yourself Out of a Corner
3:45pm - 5:15pm, : The Big Picture
5:15pm - 8:00pm, Pizza And Beer

Confirmed panelists (in addition to those mentioned above) to date:

Michael Berenbaum, ACE (Sex and the City I & II) Emmy® Winner
Geoff Bartz, ACE (Pumping Iron, Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth) Emmy® Winner
Milton Ginsberg, ACE (Fidel, Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back)
Norman Hollyn, (Heathers, Author of The Film Editing Handbook)
Joe Klotz, ACE (Precious, Junebug) Oscar® Nominated
Mark Livolsi, ACE (The Blind Side, Wedding Crashers, The Devil Wears Prada)
Andrew Mondshein, ACE (Remember Me, Chocolat, The Sixth Sense) Oscar® Nominated
Susan Morse, ACE (Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters) Oscar® Nominated
Sabrina Plisco, ACE (Charlotte’s Web, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)
Geoffrey Richman, ACE (The Cove, Sicko)
Randy Roberts, ACE (Law & Order, SVU) Emmy® Nominated
Jean Tsien (The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World, Shut Up & Sing)
Andrew Weisblum (Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Wrestler)
Jeffrey Wolf, ACE (First Sunday, Billy Madison)

For more info go to: www.editfestny.com and www.mewshop.com.

EditFest NY
June 11 - 12, 2010
the Director's Guild of America Theater
110 West 57th Street
New York, NY
212-414-9570

22nd Int'l Contemporary Furniture Fair, Design Week and Conference

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Published on Thursday, 13 May 2010 15:20

Written by Brad Balfour

Design is part of our cultural consciousness where it's both process and product, verb and noun--and a way of solving problems great and small for both the larger environment and one's own comfort space. From May 15 to 19,  Design Week 2010 takes place, centered around the ICFF.

To discover how design goes beyond the call of style, ICFF -- the International Contemporary Furniture Fair -- offers a confluence of various streams of the design-savvy community to debate and display examples of good design at its very best.

The ICFF offers the latest in contemporary furniture design -- and a visual feast for anyone seeking new ideas for television shows, film sets or theater productions.

Part of the four day-long celebration is also a series of off-site open-houses that happens throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn at various design stores and companies; the list of events can be found at the Javits and here.

During the four days at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, from Saturday, May 15 to Tuesday, May 18, the Fair's 145,000 net square feet (14,500 net square meters) will teem with more than 23,000 people including:

interior designers
architects
retailers
facility managers
wholesalers
store design professionals
hotel and restaurant designers
manufacturers
students
and members of the general public.

More than 500 exhibitors will be on hand displaying:

contemporary furniture
seating
lighting
carpet and flooring
wall coverings
textiles
accessories
kitchen and bath
outdoor furniture
and materials for residential and commercial interiors.

The combination of domestic and international exhibitors provides easy access to the best and hippest home and contract products. 

The ICFF creates a global nexus of design so the Fair welcomes representatives from the following diverse range of countries:

Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
India
Israel
Italy
Japan
Lebanon
Mexico
Monaco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Thailand
United Kingdom

Contingents from five nations will also make the annual quest to this celebrated design hub:

BEDG (British European Design Group)
Brazilian Trade Bureau (Brazil)
Federlegno-Arredo (Italy)
ICEX (Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade)
and Royal Danish Consulate General (Denmark).

Though a largest part of the show is for the trade, there is a day devoted to the public--Tuesday, May 18, from 10:00 am-4:00 pm--where for $50, one can experience where the professionals are at and where they are going.

And on Monday, May 17, there will be full-day event, The Metropolis Conference @ ICFF-- titled "Design Entrepreneurs: What’s Next" -- beginning at 10 a.m. in the Javits Center's ICFF Theater.

If you’re a designer, architect, business owner, manufacture or educator, or just looking for inventive ways to navigate the new economy, this day will provide useful insights into what other creative people are doing. Whether you are  reinventing yourself or your practice be part of this timely conversation...

This program is registered for continuing-education credits. For more info go to: www.metropolismag.com/story/20100401/icff-conference

10–10:15 a.m.
Welcome
Susan S. Szenasy, Metropolis’s editor in chief and the conference facilitator

10:15–11:15 a.m.
The Third Annual ASID New York Education Legacy Fund’s Horace Havemeyer III Keynote Address: Universal Design Now and Next
Valerie Fletcher, executive director of the Institute for Human Centered Design, asks: With the Baby Boom retiring and the millennials pushing the marketplace to new levels of creative problem-solving, what will the designs of our homes, workplaces, and public places need to become? What do we need to know? What’s in the works?

11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Art and the Manufacturer
Andreas Dornbracht, the charismatic leader of the world-wide bathroom products company that bears his name, traces his firm’s unique arts program, how it’s evolving to reflect the new social consciousness about sustainability, and what it communicates about the firm’s vision and product offerings in a global market.

12:15–1:15 p.m.
Making the Financial Argument for Green
John Williams, teacher at Columbia University’s Center for Environmental Research and Conservation and HDR Engineering’s senior vice president of sustainable development, offers useful pointers on how to convince your clients that green design is profitable design. What’s your next step in communicating green value and values?

1:15–1:45 p.m.
Lunch Break

1:45–2:45 p.m.
Green Design for the Desert
b, associate partner at Foster + Partners, discusses Abu Dhabi’s famous and infamous MASDAR City, publicized as a zero-carbon development. We travel with Häpp and Russ Wheeler, president of Hansgrohe North America, from the master plan and the architecture to the bathroom fixtures. What’s next for large-scale developments and water-related products?

2:45–3:45 p.m.
Design Policy and World Trade
What can the U.S. learn from countries with strong design policies? Robert Kloos from the Consulate General of the Netherlands; Andrej Kupetz of the German Design Council; and Leif Verdu-Isachsen, head of operations at the Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway, report on programs that support design-oriented manufacturing as the backbone of successful global businesses.

3:45–4:45 p.m.
Design Innovations: Rapid-Fire Presentations

     Jennifer Leonard
     The IDEO designer reveals the plan behind the firm’s collaboration with Design
     21 on Livingclimatechange.com.

     Dan Wood
     WORK Architecture Company’s Edible Schoolyard is about to be built in
     Brooklyn. Lessons learned?

     Grace La and Mike Tennity
     La, associate professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the
     University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Mike Tennity, vice president of design
     and development, KI, will discuss the value of collaboration between academia
     and manufacturing, and the increasing importance in educating the next
     generation of architects and designers. La and Tennity will draw from their
     collaboration through a graduate student Studio led by Professors La and
     Dallman at UWM-SARUP.
    
     Yves Béhar
     Founder of fuseproject, Béhar shows objects designed by students using solar-cell
     technology developed by Swiss chemist Michael Grätzel. (The Sunny Memories
     collection, powered by the sun’s energy, is now on display at New York’s Center
     for Architecture.)

4:45–5 p.m.
The Next Generation of Design
Meet Metropolis’s 2010 Next Generation Design Competition honorees and learn about their brilliantly simple but far-reaching fixes that will make our environment better.
Space is limited. Metropolis is a registered provider with the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education Systems. Credit earned on completion of this event will be reported to CES Records for AIA members by the provider. Certificates of completion for non-AIA members are available upon request.

Design Entrepreneurs: What’s Next is sponsored by the American Society of Interior Designers, Dornbracht, and Interiors from Spain.

For ICFF info go to: http://www.icff.com/page/home.asp

the International Contemporary Furniture Fair
Saturday, May 15th to Tuesday, the 18th,
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
(between 34th St. and 37th St. at 11th Ave.)