XMedia Labs Wellington

I’ve been a bit late in covering this, after being contacted very early by the organisers but XMedia Labs is holding its first New Zealand event in Wellingon in its series of acclaimed international conferences. There’s some very cool international and local speakers here, so its well worth getting along to, and its only $99 for the keynote day on Friday May 30, so register up!

XMedia Wellington

The theme of X|Media|Lab Wellington “Commercialising Ideas” brings together a roster of the world’s best informed experts, VC’s, and business analysts to help the participating companies with creative thinking, comparison to best-practice examples, access to outstanding international professional networks, and exposure to investment opportunities.

Wellington is one the world’s most uniquely beautiful cities, and is home to active and internationally successful creative communities. A perfect place to meet up, in typical X|Media|Lab style.

XML Wellington is looking for the best, new digital media business ideas to participate in the Lab. As always, it’s cross-platform, cross disciplinary, and cross cultural.

International participants include:

• Tom Duterme - New Business Development, Google (Mountain View)
• Chris Adams - New Media Pioneer; Co-Founder, Participant Productions (Los Angeles)
• Sam Morgan - Founder, TradeMe (Wellington)
• Brian Seth Hurst - CEO, The Opportunity Management Company; Vice Chair, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Los Angeles)
• Suresh Seetharaman - Founder and President, Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation (Bangalore, New York)
• Chris Deering - Chairman, Codemasters; formerly President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (London)
• Alvin Wang Graylin - China’s Leading Mobile Entrepreneur (Shanghai)
• Noah Falstein - The Father of Serious Games; President, The Inspiracy (San Francisco)
• Marcelino Ford-Livene - General Manager, Interactive Content, Intel Digital Home Group; Governor of Interactive Media, Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences (Los Angeles)
• Richard MacManus - Founder and Editor, ReadWriteWeb, one of the world’s most popular web blogs (Wellington)
• Jason Roks - Emerging Technology & Digital Distribution Analyst (Toronto)
• Hugh Mason - Partner, Pembridge Partners LLP (London)
• Sean Kauppinen - Vice President, TriplePoint (San Francisco)
• Rod Drury - Serial Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO, Xero (Wellington)
• Meg Pickard - Head of Communities and User Experience, The Guardian (London)
• Xin Chung - CEO and Founder, Vykarian
• Helen Baxter - Managing Directrix, Mohawk Media (Auckland)
• Marcia Lyons - Programme Director of Digital Media Design, Victoria University of Wellington (Wellington)