Selected, public worldwide conference presentations, many given as BBC senior producer. Topics include future gazing, personalization standards, creative and emerging production. These represent around 25% of all Gary’s presentations, most others are under NDA, too strategic or specific in topic. Future presentations to be added and others from archive on-going. The selected slideshow embeds are [...]

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My slides below from my presentation at one of Australia’s industries leading advertising conferences yesterday which I had previously blogged about “The Advertising and Marketing Summit” It was a jam packed room with around 400 attendees of marketing movers and shakers. I closed the second day with the talk on ‘engaging in virtual communities’ followed [...]

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Interesting. I have a screen here at work spiting out various random on the spot blog posts from the Future of Media Summit . Looking at the themes and points coming out forcibly takes me back to the mid to late 90s and even earlier. At today’s conference there is lots of discussion about how [...]

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As usual a slowish Australian conference start to the year, still getting used to these hot Jan/Febs Coming up though cool conferences and seminars I am appearing at and will add more to this post as others firm up. In chronological order:

Feb 24-29 - LAMP, Victoria. Directing the 8th residential in Marysville, Victoria
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Garys Full Wikipedia Profile Link.
After joining the BBC in London as an editor Gary quickly moved on to lead the BBC’s development of the internet, interactive TV and emerging platforms from 95-04 as Senior Producer and Development Manager. He devised & produced many of the BBC’s ‘firsts’ - Digital Text, the first broadcast interactive TV [...]

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I did a short presentation at the Australian Communications Media Authority ICE conference last week. It was at the end of a plethora of panel presentations about regulation, media literacy, digital privacy and converged business models. There was also a range of keynotes that were pretty generic, about attitude to change eg: Steve Vamos (Microsoft [...]

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Just spotted my old collegues Matt Locke and Frank Boyd launching another series of 360 lab initiatives at the BBC. Not much has changed since the labs of 2000 and earlier, when EXACTLY to the day, six years ago I was presenting slides including those on this post to wannabee cross-media BBC producers. Incidentally I [...]

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I have posted prolifically about MUVE’S (Multi User Virtual Environments) in the past, concentrating mainly on the ever customisable Second Life. It is interesting to watch the buzz spreading and consider if virtual worlds are really web 3.0, I think so. A quick look at the evolution of the intraweb from the mid 90’s. From [...]

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Will try, against all the odds, to blog a little about Mip and Milia while I am on the ground in Cannes at the moment. I am already two days behind but I hope to give a feel of what is happening over here. (BTW: The pictures are grabs from my 3G mobile phone, even [...]

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Looking forward to treking over to Cannes next week via LA and UK. I remember when Milia was a short hop from home (London) now it is a heave to the other side of the planet but the seminar line-up alone (see extensive list below) makes it worth it alone.
MIPTV featuring MILIA is the world’s [...]

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Before I go onto the cross-media element of this post, a commercial lead in - Another week, another “the day tv (or something closely related) died” article. Ashley Vance of the register is the next person trying to get their name in the “I told you so” history books by trotting out the same old [...]

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Once IPTV type networks are truly enabled it becomes possible to produce services that many of us have been advocating and wishing for, for many years. A service that provides each individual viewer looking at the same content with a different experience is now reaching out to larger and larger audiences. ITVT reported on Minerva’s [...]

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The current post drought is due to life and conferences taking over. I am currently in Perth with limited connectivity (in the worlds most remote city) presenting at Small Screen Big Picture. Then flying off to Melbourne to take part in a X-Media Lab and prepare for LAMP which is being held from 4-9 December [...]

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