8.00 am

Registration

9:00 am

Introduction by host Mark Laudi, award-winning broadcast journalist and CEO of Hong Bao Media

9:05 am

Welcome to DMfest  2008

- Ng Chong Khim, Chairman of SiTF Digital Media Chapter

9:10 am

Grooming the next generation of digital media players

- Michael Yap, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Media Development Authority of Singapore

9:25 am

The Business of Internet and Mobile Television

- Patrick Chan, Research Director, Emerging Technologies, IDC Asia Pacific

9:50 am

TV 2.0 Infrastructure — Station Automation and Global Content Delivery Networks

The creation and consolidation of content delivery networks, how they became a unified platform for live and on-demand video distribution, and how destination channels are now being created using station automation tools that are capable of reaching browsers, set-top boxes and mobile devices.

- Iolo Jones, Founder & CEO, TV Everywhere (UK)

10:20 am

The Webisodes — How Serialised Television is Moving onto the Internet

The next big TV show may never be shown on TV — it'll be on the Internet. This presentation will cover million-viewer shows made with Microsoft Movie Maker, the machinima movement, virtual sets, virtual extras, how to make a $30m script on $10,000, 'Share- Alike' — the Creative Commons licensing model, and the rise of TV's nemesis — the "guerilla showrunner".

- Hugh Hancock, Founder and CEO, Strange Company (UK)

10:50 am

Morning Tea & Networking Session

11:15 am

Community Television — Collaboration in Scripting, Subtitling, Distributing, and even Producing Films for the Internet

The making of Star Wreck — the most popular Internet film ever, building a fan base, peer-to-peer distribution, translations and international collaboration.

- Timo Vuorensola, founder and producer, Energia Productions Ltd (Finland)

11:45 am

Social Networks — Making Business Sense Out of It

What are social networks? Find out how Blogs, Online Communities (eg- Facebook, Second Life), Interactive & Digital Media (IDM) and Digital Marketing can affect the way we do business and outreach to our customers.

- Sandeep Bakhshi, Business Unit Executive, Lotus Software, ASEAN Software Group, IBM

12:15 pm

Panel discussion and Q&A with Iolo Jones, Hugh Hancock, Timo Vuorensola and Sandeep Bakhshi

- Moderator: Mark Laudi

12:50 pm

Lunch & Business Networking

2:00 pm

Digital Production and Visualisation

A panel discussion featuring

• David Sproxton, Co-Founder & Producer of Aardman Animations Ltd (UK)
• Kenneth Liang, Executive VP of TV Channel 5 Programming and Production of Mediacorp
• Abishek Nair, Visual Effects Producer of VHQ Post
• Stefano Virgilli, Director of Ultimate Video FX and Manager of Adobe User Group Singapore for Photoshop and After Effects

Moderator: Mark Laudi

2:50 pm

Web-Enabled Business Models & Channels of Distribution

A panel discussion featuring

• Paul Meyers, CEO of Acme Mobile
• James Seng, VP of International Sales of P2PLive (China)
• Philip Morgan, Chief Operating Officer of Muvee Technologies
• Joanne Teoh, Senior Producer of Channel NewsAsia

Moderator: Mark Laudi

3:40 pm

Afternoon Tea & Networking Session

4:15 pm

Opportunities for the Net Generation

- Nicholas Ang, Design Student of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, and creator of the DMfest logo

4:25 pm

Web 2.0 and Building Online Communities

A panel discussion featuring

• Aroon Tan, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Magma Studios
• Jonathan Wong, Web Platform Evangelist from Microsoft Singapore
• S.P. Raja, SOA Architect from IBM
• Lai Kok Fung, CEO of BuzzCity Pte Ltd
• Hu Shunjie, Flex Developer at Seesmic

Moderator: Mark Laudi

5:25 pm

Closing remarks

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