Forbes MEET (Media Electronic Entertainment Technology)
Forbes MEET Conference - October 24-25 2007 - Beverly Hills, California - This is going to be one of the greatest conferences before the year’s end. The overview states: Turmoil and Transitions: Building the Next Digital Revolution - The whole world is going digital—now how do we get there?
If you can afford to attend it (time and or money-wise) it will be well worth the knowledge to be gained from the vast number of confirmed speakers (listed conveniently below.) One quick side note, due to the low cost of modern digital and electronic technology, we should all be able to attend online at say “GoToMeeting.com” or buy the set of DVD’s that could be purchased by donation on a PBS weekend or evening broadcast. Just “my” opinion?
I make mention of this because the price to attend is as such:
All applications are subject to approval by Forbes.
Special Offer: Register by October 15, 2007 and pay only $2,495. That’s a savings of over $2,000 off the regular registration fee of $4,500. Participation fee includes all special events, meals, functions and conference documentation. For more information, please contact Jennifer Meeks, Executive Relations Coordinator, at 212-367-2504 or jmeeks@forbes.com.
CANCELLATION POLICY: All paid registrations are subject to a $195 administrative cancellation fee. Cancellations made within 30 days prior to each event are not eligible for refunds. Substitutions may be arranged at no additional charge, but require the prior notification and approval of Forbes.
$ 2495.00
Back to the topic, here is how the description reads word for word:
“In the next 20 years surviving and thriving in media, entertainment and technology will be determined by how well companies handle the transition from old to new. Print newspapers and magazines must transform themselves into always-on online outposts; filmed entertainment will yield to pixilated pictures rendered by computer; television networks must re-form into a fragmented cornucopia of stored on-demand content (or get obliterated by the same). DVDs, now an $11 billion-a-year business, will get supplanted by streaming bits over fiber-optics, and music on CDs, a dwindling business that has shrunk 23% worldwide since 2000, will disappear amidst billions of downloads. Wired and cellular telephone networks will give way to fourth-generation, all-digital, video-ready wireless webs wrapping the world.
But we always overestimate how rapidly new technologies will win mass adoption, and we underestimate how much life is left in the old stuff. The trick becomes how to build for the future without neglecting the old businesses that will finance it. Today more companies are turning to alliances for help: NBC Universal and News Corp.’s Fox have joined to compete in online video with YouTube, where people tap a hundred million viewings a day. Dow Jones has just partnered with Barry Diller’s IAC/Interactive to create a new personal finance Internet business targeting the broad Web-savvy audience. And a total of 264 newspapers have signed an online partnership with Yahoo.
These transitions and alliances will be examined in detail at the second annual Forbes MEET conference, set for October 24-25, 2007 at the storied Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. MEET brings together leaders and innovators from two sometimes feuding worlds—the oldline “content” world of media and entertainment; and the next-wave world of digital technologies that will deliver all forms of content in the future. Together they will devine the future, explore the opportunities and map out the obstacles that must be overcome to build riches and new businesses in the Digital Age.
The winners in this coming upheaval are likely to be those businesses that, rather than try to stop this tidal wave, instead seek to adapt and try to harness its force to their own benefit. At the Forbes MEET conference, some of the most creative minds in tech and entertainment will weigh in on what’s happening, who’s winning and who’s losing—and what will happen next.”
And now, your list of confirmed speakers: (Names highlighted have great ideas and companies to watch) I’m not seeing very many women’s names popping up. Perhaps I will join Lea in the near future.
Samir Arora, Cofounder, Chairman and CEO, Glam Media, Inc.
Luke Barats and Joe Bereta, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, “Barats & Bereta”
Seamus Blackley, Agent, Creative Artists Agency
Ron Burkle, Managing Partner, Yucaipa Companies
Jason McCabe Calacanis, CEO, Mahalo.com
Sanford Climan, President, Entertainment Media Ventures
Peter Daou, Internet Director, Hillary Clinton for President
Barry Diller, Chairman and CEO, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Chairman, Expedia, Inc.
John Edwards, President and CEO, Move Networks
Rick Farman, Cofounder, Superfly Productions
Steve Forbes, President and CEO, Forbes, Editor-in-Chief, Forbes magazine
Carl R. Geppert, Partner and U.S. Industry Sector Leader, Communications & Media Practice, KPMG LLP
Tom Gibbons, Corporate VP, Specialized Devices & Applications Group, Microsoft
Lea Goldman, Senior Editor, Forbes magazine
Quentin Hardy, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, Forbes magazine
Greg Harper, Cofounder, Gadgetoff
Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-founder, YouTube
Robert A. Iger, President and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
Michael Jones, CTO, Google Earth
Rich Karlgaard, Publisher, Forbes magazine
Dennis Kneale, Managing Editor, Forbes magazine
Douglas Krone, CEO, Dynamism Inc.
Yair Landau, Vice Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment, President, Sony Pictures Digital
Jeff Levick, Director, Industry Development & Marketing, Google
Daniel Lyons, Senior Editor, Forbes magazine, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs
Vish Makhijani, SVP and GM, Yahoo! Search
Matthew Miller, Associate Editor, Forbes magazine
Joe Mohen, Chairman and Founder, SpiralFrog
James W. Montgomery, CEO, Montgomery & Co.
David J. Moore, Chairman and CEO, 24/7 Real Media, Inc.
Jason Nadler, Head of UTA Online, United Talent Agency
Ashwin Navin, President and Co-Founder, BitTorrent, Inc.
Torbjörn Nilsson, Senior Advisor to CEO, Ericsson
Tero Ojanperä, CTO, Nokia
Barney Pell, CEO, Powerset
Brett Pulley, CEO, NewYork.com
Daniel Read, SVP, Product Management & User Experience, Ask.com
Ben Relles, Creator and Founder, BarelyPolitical.com
Dan Scheinman, SVP and GM, Cisco
Douglas Schoen, Founding Partner, Penn, Schoen & Berland
David Siminoff, General Partner, Venrock
Harry Sloan, Chairman and CEO, MGM Studios, Inc.
John Smedley, President, Sony Online Entertainment
Randall Stephenson, Chairman and CEO, AT&T
Steve Stoute, Founder and CEO, Translation Consultation & Brand Imaging
Rishad Tobaccowala, CEO, Denuo
Brendan Traw, Intel Fellow, CTO, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation
Thomas Tull, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Legendary Pictures, Legendary Pictures
Bruce Upbin, Assistant Managing Editor, Forbes magazine
Todd Wagner, CEO, 2929 Entertainment
Brent Weinstein, CEO, 60Frames Entertainment
Tom Westdyk, Managing Director, CIT Communications, Media and Entertainment
Jim Wiatt, CEO, William Morris Agency
Strauss Zelnick, Chairman, Take2 Interactive; Founder, ZelnickMedia
Here’s the location of where to attend, including the web site address:
The Beverly Hills Hotel
9641 Sunset Boulevard
Beverly Hills CA 90210
Tel: 310 276 2251
Website: The Beverly Hills Hotel
For more information on this upcoming event: Forbes MEET
