Tradeshows: Film, Television, and Motion Picture Industry

Learn about the most interesting emerging technologies coming to market in the next few months that stand to impact your work. This invigorating session will showcase ten tech trends that you need to know NOW. Amy Webb will explain what they are in plain English, why they matter to you and how you can leverage them to energize your work.

Amy Webb is an author, speaker and future thinker and heads the Webbmedia Group, an international digital strategy consultancy that offers mobile, platform, social and emerging tech/ media strategic services and workshops to Global 1000 and Fortune 500 companies, media organizations, governments, foundations and universities worldwide. Amy has spent more than 18 years working with digital media, founding several web-based companies and now advising various tech startups and media groups as well as Webbmedia's clients.

Amy serves on the Board of Directors for the Online News Association, the SXSW Accelerator Advisory Board, Knight-Batten Advisory Board, the Advisory Board for Temple University's Journalism Program and the Advisory Board for the International Center for Journalists. She is a Delegate on the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission and one of the Knight News Challenge judges. Amy is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Interactive Media Peer Group) and serves as a judge for the Emmy awards. She is one of the co-founders of Spark Camp, a quarterly invite-only gathering of technologists, journalists, designers, policymakers and others working in emerging technology.

Amy's work has been recognized with awards/nominations from Webby, Editor&Publisher, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Society of Professional Journalists, W3 and IAVA, among others. She has an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and holds a B.A. in political economics from Indiana University. She also earned Nikyu Certification in the Japanese governmentadministered Language Proficiency Test and speaks fluently. Amy has been a Lecturer at the Columbia University Sulzberger Program at the Graduate School of Journalism since it began in 2007 and has served on the adjunct faculty at University of Maryland, Temple University, Tokyo University and University of the Arts. She is a regular commentator on various broadcast shows and is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences around the world.

Resources:

http://www.beaweb.org