Will Price - Presentation

Chief Executive Officer, Widgetbox (San Francisco)

Will Price is the CEO of Widgetbox – helping people to connect, create and inform using web widgets that can be easily shared and distributed anywhere on the web. Widgetbox’s community of tens of thousands of widgetmakers, and tens of millions of widget users, is growing daily.

Prior to [...]

Media 09 Introduction

Brian McCarthy
CEO & Managing Director, Fairfax Media Limited (Sydney)
Brian McCarthy was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director in December, 2008. Prior to that, he was Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Media Limited from May, 2007 following the merger between Rural Press Limited and Fairfax Media Limited.
Mr. McCarthy has a broad experience in [...]

Meg Pickard - Presentation

Head of Communities and User Experience, The Guardian (London)

Meg Pickard usually describes herself as a creative geek. As Head of Communities and User Experience for guardian.co.uk, she is responsible for developing and managing existing and new social web strategy and participatory experiences for The Guardian and The Observer. Her background is in anthropology: she conducted [...]

Nic Newman - Presentation

Future Media Controller, Journalism, BBC (London)
Nic Newman is Future Media Controller, Journalism - co-ordinating the BBC’s plans for News, Sport, Weather and Local in the Future Media space. He is responsible for the delivery teams. Nic sits on the BBC’s Journalism Board and the Future Media and Technology Group Board.
Nic was one of the founding [...]

Louise McElvogue - Presentation

Partner, Macleod Media (Sydney)
Louise McElvogue is a founding partner of Macleod Media a strategy, and implementation company working in the digital and media sectors. Clients have included Channel 4, BBC Worldwide, ITV, ABC-TV Australia, National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, HIT Entertainment, BSkyB and Fremantle Media Enterprises.
Louise’s recent video work includes the UK’s Project [...]

Kevin Swanepoel - Presentation

President, The One Club (New York)

Kevin Swanepoel is President of The One Club – the world’s foremost non-profit organization for the recognition and promotion of excellence in advertising.

Kevin has twenty-three years experience in traditional advertising. He has held the position of Chief Creative Officer in two advertising agencies, and was the Founder of Creative [...]

Fritz Demopoulos - Presentation

China Internet Pioneer, CEO and Co-founder, Qunar.com (Beijing)
Fritz Demopoulos has been involved in the Chinese internet and media industries for nearly a decade. Fritz sold China’s first banner advertisement to Ogilvy & Mather in 1997 as part of the IBM account. He is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Qunar.com, a [...]

Geoffrey Handley - Presentation

Co-founder, The Hyperfactory (Sydney)

Geoffrey Handley is Co-founder and architect of The Hyperfactory, the most awarded full-service mobile ideas, strategy and execution service in the world.

Founded in Auckland, New Zealand in 2000, The Hyperfactory now has over 150 staff in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Hyderabad, Shanghai, Sydney and Hong Kong.

Geoffrey has [...]

Media 09 Annual Forecast

Media 09 is a one-day international gathering of the world’s leading digital media executives and entrepreneurs, showcasing global best practice in digital media innovations. Media ’09 is designed to assist you shape successful digital media content offerings, business models, and advertising appeal to make the best weather of these turbulent times.
The forecast for 2009 seems [...]