IBC 2011

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Published on Monday, 05 September 2011 20:00

Written by Christopher Lai

IBC 2011 is coming this weekend September 9 – 13, 2011 held in at the Amsterdam RAI in the Netherlands, located in the heart of Northern Europe. IBC is the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide. Attracting 48,000+ attendees from more than 140 countries, IBC combines a highly respected and peer-reviewed conference with an exhibition that exhibits more than 1,300 leading suppliers of state of the art electronic media technology and provides unrivalled networking opportunities.

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Small Press Expo

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Published on Monday, 05 September 2011 05:00

Written by L E Shannon

The Small Press Expo (SPX) is taking place September 10 - 11, 2011 at the Marriott North Bethesda Hotel and Conference Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

SPX is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons.

SPX is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit that brings together more than 300 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers and distributors each year.

The Ignatz Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comics and Cartooning is the first Festival Prize in the US comic book industry. This year‛s winners of the Outstanding Artist awards are:

• Michael DeForge, Lose #3 (Koyama Press)
• Edie Fake, Gaylord Phoenix (Secret Acres)
• Renee French, H-Day (Picturebox)
• Joseph Lambert, I Will Bite You (Secret Acres)
• Carol Tyler, You’ll Never Know, Vol 2: Collateral Damage (Fantagraphics)

Audiences at this year’s festival have the opportunity to enjoy spotlight presentations and question-and-answer sessions with many of SPX’s headline guests, including

• Chester Brown
• Roz Chast
• Anders Nilsen
• Diane Noomin
• Johnny Ryan
• Alex Robinson
• Ann Telnaes
• Craig Thompson
• Jim Woodring

Other artists attending include:

• BOOM! Town 
• Roger Langridge
• cartoonist studio Pizza Island, composed of Kate Beaton, Sarah Glidden, Lisa Hanawalt, Domitille Collardey, Julia Wertz and Meredith Gran
• Marc Bell
• Tom Neely
• Matthew Thurber

Every year many artists debut their new published work at SPX. This year‛s new works include:

• 1-800 MICE by Matthew Thurber – an anthropological study of the imaginary city of Volcano Park with a soap-opera-styled fractured narrative and a cast of thousands.
• Back to the Grind by Jamie Noguchi – the first collected print edition of Yellow Peril by Noguchi, an Asian American office romance comedy strip published online at http://ypcomic.com. The strip follows the exploits of Kane and Bodie, two frustrated graphic designers trying to find meaning working for the soulless corporate every-workplace, Pedanticorp.
• Curls: MASER by Carolyn Belefski – the dreaming mind of a girl with mitten hands named Curls, an investigative turtle named Turtle Neck, and the mysterious appearance of a dark creature in the woods.
• Freedom No.1 by Seamus Heffernan – The what-if story is set in 1779 but in an alternative reality: America‛s founding never happened. The debut issue follows Adam Farr, a strong-willed teenager living in the post-revolutionary British Colony of Massachusetts. Apprenticed to a Tory merchant in Boston, he quickly finds himself at odds with his older brother, the British Army and the Sons of Liberty.
• The Rise & Fall of Studly Pete: Chapter 0 by Renee Lott – a new fantasy/ adventure webcomic about Peter Shade and his quest to end his unusual curse of super-studliness.
• Trinadot 3 by Melody Often – A plane crash brings three people together on Trinadot, an island inhabited by a mostly peaceful, post-industrial culture.

This year’s programming also includes panel discussions such as:

• Inside The New Yorker – Roz Chast in conversation with Kate Beaton
• Narrative Logic: Surreal and Obscure – with Marc Bell, Matthew Thurber, Jim Woodring
• The Secret History of Women in Comics – moderated by Heidi MacDonald, with Jessica Abel, Diane Noomin, Robyn Chapman, Alexa Dickman
• Comics in the Library – a round-table discussion with Sara Duke from the Library of Congress, Charles Brownstein, and representatives of two local library systems
• Navigating the Contemporary Publishing Landscape – with Mike Dawson, Meredith Gran, Julia Wertz
• Images of the Body – with Robyn Chapman, Jennifer Hayden, Gabby Schulz, Jen Vaughn
• Excruciating Detail: Drawing the Grotesque – Sean T. Collins speaks with Lisa Hanawalt, Benjamin Marra, Tom Neely, Johnny Ryan

Other special presentations include:

• You Don’t Know Jacques: The Work of Jacques Tardi – a slideshow presentation by Kim Thompson about the works of French comics giant Jacques Tardi
• a hands-on cartooning workshop by comics educators Robyn Chapman and Alec Longstreth and Tom Hart

SPX Programming Coordinator Bill Kartalopoulos teaches classes about comics at Parsons The New School for Design. He also co-organizes the Brooklyn Comics Graphics Festival, reviews comics for Publishers Weekly, and has curated several comics-related exhibits including "Cartoon Polymaths" at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. He recently assisted Art Spiegelman on the production of MetaMaus, a book and DVD about the making of Maus.

Profits from the SPX go to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), protecting the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals.

For more information, go to spxpo.com.

Small Press Expo
September 10 - 11, 2011

Marriott North Bethesda Hotel & Conference Center
5701 Marinelli Road
North Bethesda, MD 20852
301-822-9200

Elevating the Business of Travel at the GBTA Convention

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Published on Sunday, 21 August 2011 18:18

Written by Brad Balfour

The 2011 Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) Convention takes the business of travel to new heights in the mile-high city of Denver this Aug 21 - 25, 2011. Held in the Downtown Denver Convention Center, this conference offers thousands of business travel buyers cost-effective solutions to the many industry challenges in this world of shifting economic sands.

The GBTA is the world’s premier business travel and meetings organization. Collectively, GBTA’s 5,000-plus members manage over $340 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually. It provides its network of 17,000 business and government travel and meetings managers, as well as travel service providers, with networking events, news, education & professional development, research, and advocacy.

As "The Business Travel Event of the Year" the GBTA provides ample information for professional travel managers and their clients to advance travel programs, including the latest on travel technologies, new sourcing strategies and emerging industry trends.

Of special note is the remarkable line-up of keynote speakers:

• Monday, August 22: Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
• Tuesday, August 23: Meg Whitman
• Wednesday, August 24: Sean Penn

In addition, the GBTA's lineup of highly accomplished speakers will provide insight and advice to enhance a company's bottom line. Learn from company leaders in four separate featured presentations:

• LIVE with GBTA — The World’s Largest Airline and What’s Next in Travel Security
• The Airline CEO Panel
• Travel Value Chain Panel
• The Mavericks of Business CEO Panel

This year, advanced planning tools are available for all attendees to target and communicate with colleagues and prospects more easily, making the Convention experience more efficient and manageable. More than 400 companies can be found on the Expo floor to learn firsthand how this myriad of products and services can help companies achieve their goals.

GBTA’s large trade show offers market choices not available at other industry gatherings. And, for the second year in a row, the Expo floor will feature the Business Traveler Innovation Awards sponsored by The Wall Street Journal, which will honor innovative ideas, products or services that make life on the road easier.

The latest trends on cutting-edge industry topics will be discussed at more than 70 education sessions, divided into tracks to maximize the learning experience. The conference offers professional development opportunities that allow traveler managers to maintain a competitive edge critical to success.

A wide selection of professional development opportunities are offered even before the full Convention begins on Saturday, Aug. 20. Information sessions include a Financial Modeling for Travel Managers and the Travel Procurement Workshop.

The convention also offers planning tools, available to all attendees, to make things more manageable such as a Convention Mobile App that can be can be synched up to your Outlook calendar. With these tools, scheduling -- from seeing exhibitors on the show floor to education sessions and events to attend -- can be more efficient.

Travel management is a specialized business that balances employee needs with corporate goals, financial and otherwise. Good travel management ensures cost tracking and control, facilitates adherence to corporate travel policies, realizes savings through negotiated discounts, and serves as a valuable information center for employees and managers in times when travel is not as smooth and carefree as it used to be.

The economic downturn has allowed travel managers to take a front and center role within their companies and has made travel management, as a profession, an important part of every top executive’s strategic planning. In many cases, travel managers have been asked to lead company-wide efforts to cut travel costs, track those savings and report them back to senior management.  

But travel management is still misunderstood and undervalued by some corporations today. Therefore, the role of business travel within the corporate structure must be placed in proper context so that its value can be measured and appreciated.The annual GBTA Convention is the place to discover all this and more.

For advance registration online go to: http://www.gbta.org/convention/2011/Registration/Pages/default.aspx

To register on site got to Lobby B of the Convention Center.

Onsite registration desk hours are:  

• Saturday, August 20 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
• Sunday, August 21 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
• Monday, August 22 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
• Tuesday, August 23 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
• Wednesday, August 24 8:30 am – 2:00 pm
  

Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) Convention
Aug 21 - 25, 2011
Denver Convention Center
700 14th Street
Denver, CO 80202
(303) 228-8000