X|Media|Lab

July 28, 2006 We need to acknowledge that we’re a bit biased when it comes to international media event the X|Media|Lab, with two of Gizmag’s lead players having participated in an event last year. The next X|Media|Lab event is being held as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), to be held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) August 11-13th and features an elite international network of the worlds outstanding digital media practitioners, innovators, and power-brokers. This time the unique mentoring process for participants include senior managers from Current TV (Al Gore's cross-platform iTV initiative), China's Beijing Film Academy (including the Dean of Animation, the Head of Digital Media, the Head of Mobile Content, and the Director of New Media and Technology at Harbin Institute of Technology), the Georges Pompidou Centre's Forum des Image (Mobile Movies), the Founder and CEO of Bollywood's biggest entertainment portal, the Editor of Singapore Press Holdings brilliant new STOMP ("Straits Times Online Mobile Print"), the Creative Director of London's biggest advertising agency, the Chair of the Producers Guild of America's Interactive Media Council, the Entertainment Technology Center at CMU (and formerly Head of Research at Electronic Arts) and Nokia Research Centre in Finland, and more.

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