My agenda..

Creative Sydney

Your organisation is recognised as a leading cultural contributor within the creative industries and we would like you to share in the newest addition to Australia’s cultural calendar – Creative Sydney, a part of VIVID Sydney – a festival of music, light and ideas.

Celebrating the wealth and diversity of the city’s creative talents, Creative Sydney invites you to experience a provocative program of free talks and events with Sydney’s creative pioneers, visionaries, renegades and future stars from a number of creative industries taking place from May 27 – June 12 2009.

Spanning across music, design, architecture, gaming, photography, performing arts, writing, radio, film, TV, media arts, advertising and visual arts; the series will feature artists, practitioners and experts from the leading lights that have made their name on the world stage, to the next generation of creative talent.

We hope you can join us in this in this exciting event and encourage you to share the attached E-Flyer and media release with your creative community, affiliates and associated networks.

For further information please contact info@creativesydney.com.au, or visit www.creativesydney.com.au for a full and current program listing and to register to attend events.

Thanks for your support and we hope to see you at Creative Sydney!

Jess Scully
Artistic Director
Creative Sydney
www.creativesydney.com.au

I really appreciate those kinds of invitations/emails so I have copied and pasted it to this blog for others to read.

I’ve been meaning to ‘properly’ visit Sydney so I’ve decide to use Creative Sydney as an opportunity to do just that.  I’ll be in Sydney from June 9 to June 12.

AIMIA Mobile Advertising Guidelines launch seminar on June 10:

Event synopsis:

Mobile advertising is the placement of advertisements (currently display and search are the most commonly used) on mobile internet sites – both on the carrier portal and off-portal. Mobile advertising has the potential to deliver highly targeted, highly personalised advertising to a majority of the population – all those that have a mobile phone. Brands, publishers and agencies have begun to use mobile advertising for a wide variety of marketing motivations including customer acquisition, revenue generation, brand awareness and distribution.

Following extensive consultation with carriers, publishers, content aggregators and content providers here in Australia, and with industry bodies internationally, the AIMIA Mobile Industry Group has formulated Mobile Advertising Guidelines to support the professional growth and development of Mobile Advertising in Australia. The guidelines have also been endorsed by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Australia.

Speakers:
Kelly Ajai, Managing Director, Communicator
Kerry Field, Partner – Innovation, Mindshare followed by
Naomi McLean, Campaign Manager , HSBC Bank Australia Limited
Jon Slade, Head of Mobile Advertising and Marketing, ninemsn
Angus Beattie, Mobile Advertising Manager, 3 Mobile

Moderated by:
Jennifer Wilson, Chair of AIMIA Mobile Industry Group

IAB Australia is supporting the event as the AIMIA guidelines for Mobile Advertising formats has been endorsed by them.

NB: IAB Australia CEO Paul Fisher will be speaking at the June 25 AIMIA event “Online Advertising: Are Consumers Outgrowing Advertising?“.  Mobile Monday Brisbane for June will be on June 15 as well.

X Media Lab Sydney “Serious Games” on June 12:

Sometime soon, the ever-exploding possibilities of games technologies and game-play will reduce the linear video of traditional documentary storytelling to the same role as the film trailer – i.e., a small advertisement for the main event.

Serious Games (virtual worlds, immersive environments) will completely re-configure the landscapes of factual content with a richness, complexity, and depth not possible with linear video. The ways in which information and factual content of all kinds are communicated, acquired, and shared is about to be transformed.

X|Media|Lab “Serious Games” at the Sydney Film Festival is a partnership with the ABC TV and Screen Australia initiative linking documentary filmmakers and games developers to produce new modes of factual productions: don’t make a documentary, make a game!

X|Media|Lab “Serious Games” Keynote Conference Day:

Hear from the world’s leading “Serious Games” and “Documentary” experts:

• Noah Falstein - President, The Inspiracy (San Francisco)
• Ondi Timoner - Director of Multiple Internationally Award Winning Documentaries DIG! and WE LIVE IN PUBLIC Director/Producer, Interloper Films (Los Angeles)
• Ian Bogost - Founding Partner, Persuasive Games; Associate Professor at Georgia Tech (Atlanta)
  
• Lee Sheldon - Video Game Writer & Designer; Professor at Indiana University (Indianapolis)
• Michel Mol - Director of Innovation and New Media, Netherlands Public Broadcasting (Amsterdam)
• Joshua Harris - Internet Pioneer, Artist (Los Angeles, Sidamo)
• Dr. Yusuf Pisan- Assoc. Professor and Director of Games Studio, University of Technology (Sydney)
• Mandy Salomon – Senior Researcher, Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre (Melbourne)
• Stephen Sewell - Multi-award winning Writer (The Boys, The Blind Giant is Dancing); Director (Sydney)
• David Hewitt - Creative Director, Tantalus Interactive (Melbourne)
• Alana Valentine - Multi-award winning Writer (Parramatta Girls, Run Rabbit Run) (Sydney)
• Keren Flavell - Co-Founder, Treet TV (Melbourne)
• David S Vadiveloo - Director, Writer, Producer, Community Prophets (Melbourne)
• Morgan Jaffit - Head, The Impossible Changing Brain Foundation (Brisbane)
• Cath Godfrey - General Manager, Higher Education and Media Divisions
  McGraw-Hill Australia/New Zealand (Sydney)
• and more to be announced!

Looking forward to see what else is on the Sydney calendar during my visit there

I don’t think I have ever come across a full agenda in such a short amount of time.  One of the top things to do: do a bit of research on all the speakers and organisations involved.