Weekend media festival @ Rovinj, Istria

Lectures
WEEKEND MEDIA FESTIVAL 2009. *

At the Weekend 2009, make sure not to miss:

THURSDAY:

* Tim Hwang, internet theoretic and author of ROFL conference; session: Web Culture as Web Ecology
* Advertising Next – Quo Vadis? HURA (Croatian Society of Advertising Agencies) panel discussion with regional creative directors
* How Low Can You Go? – Where is the privacy line? – panel discussion with top regional journalists
* Giles Williams, famous music manager, lecture: More than Music by MTV
* CEEMPC, the Central and Eastern European Music Publishing Conference, is an annual conference organised by and for music publishers from the region which addresses and deals with region-related issues. Attendees from UK, Germany, Czech Republic, Russia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia…

FRIDAY:

* Christian Hernandez Gallardo, Director of New Markets Emerging EMEA at Google; lecture: Google Me!
* When will newspaper.com buy the newspapers? – panel discussion with chief editors
* The Future of Business Media – panel discussion with business media chief editors and company’s CEOs
* Christophe Cauvy, EMEA Digital Director in McCann Erickson; lecture: Social Media Is A Village In Italy and Other Digital Stories
* Web- Quanto Costa?; panel discussion regional IT experts
* Conrad Riggs, producer of reality shows The Apprentice and Survivor; lecture: Branded Entertainment
* Does PR arrange the media? Panel discussion with managers in PR and editors
* Rob Lee, lecture and workshop - TV producer mostly of reality shows on MTV, also former manager of Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake etc; lecture: Reality TV Deconstructed: The real truth behind creating, selling and exploiting non-scripted television

SATURDAY:
* What Women Want? – panel discussion with chief editors women’s magazines in our region
* Chris Matyszczyk, president, Howard Raucous and creator of the CNET blog "Technically Incorrect"; lecture: Why advertise when you can Twitter?
* Scott Moore, U.S. Executive Producer in Microsoft; lecture: On line content – As seen on TV
* Crisis and Media – panel discussion with leading regional CEOs
* Radio no radio?; panel discussion with hosts and radio station owners
* Daniel Ortiz, scriptwriter of most popular world soap operas and telenovelas; lecture: The Telenovela Genre Around the World – How did Jose Andreas fell in love with Marisol?