X | Media | Lab Auckland “Commercialising Ideas” event – local digital media ideas wanted

International Investment analysts looking to fund local digital media ideas. 

Investors and Business Analysts from the US, UK, China, India, and New Zealand are attending the X|Media|Lab Auckland “Commercialising Ideas” event looking for the best local ideas to help bring to market.

X|Media|Lab is the internationallyacclaimed digital media event, a meeting place uniquely designed toassist companies and people get their own digital media ideassuccessfully to market, through creative development, businessmatching, and direct access to world-class networks of digital mediaprofessionals.

X|Media|Lab Auckland “Commercialising Ideas” brings together some of the world’s best informed experts, VC’s, and business analysts,as well as some of New Zealand’s creative, business, and technologywizards to to assist you succeed amids these turbulent times.

Never before has it been so important for digital media companies tohave an acute understanding of the changes occurring in the priorities of investors, the behavior patterns of consumers; emerging business models; and how best to “commercialise” creative ideas locally, and across international marketplaces.

If you are developing digital media ideas across platforms, attend the Keynote Conference Day to hear how the experts are thinking and planning; and you can also apply to attend the Lab itself, where you can work with the International Mentors one-on-one to bring your own digital project ideas to market.

International Mentors include:

• Dale Herigstad – pictured – Four times Emmy Award Winner, and Winner of the inaugural Interactive Emmy Award; CCO, Schematic (Los Angeles)
• Adrian Sexton – Co-founder, New Medici, and formerly Digital Head of Lionsgate and Participant Media (Los Angeles)
• Tim Chang – Principal, Norwest Venture Partners (Silicon Valley)
• Susan Bonds – President and CEO, 42 Entertainment (Pasadena)
• Richard Cardran – Multi Emmy Award Winning Media Strategist & Technologist (Los Angeles)
• Juliette Powell – Media Entrepreneur, Author of “33 Million People In The Room” (Toronto)
• Vishal Gondal – Founder and CEO, India Games; one of India’s top 40 Entrepreneurs (Mumbai)
• Rajat Paharia – Founder and Chief Product Officer, Bunchball (San Francisco)
• Doug Whatley – Founder and CEO, BreakAway Games (Hunt Valley)
• Hugh Mason –  Partner, Pembridge Partners LLP (London, Singapore)
• Parmesh Shahani –  New Media, Venture Capital and Innovation, Mahindra & Mahindra, one of India’s largest conglomerates  (Mumbai)
• Andrew Hamilton – CEO, The ICEHOUSE (Auckland)
• Mike McGraw – Digital Media Pioneer, Managing Partner, Big Fuel (New York)
• Zhan Ye – President,GameVision; Strategic Investment Consultant for Giant Interactive,China’s leading online game developers (Beijing, Chicago)
• Nathan Torkington – Open Source Evangelist and Founder of Kiwi Foo Camp and NZ 2.0 (Auckland)
• Greg Suess & Trent J Blacket – ROAR (Los Angeles)
• Helen Baxter – Managing Directrix, Mohawk Media (Auckland)

And more soon to be announced!

The Keynote Conference Day will showcase the perspectives of each of the 16 International and Local Mentors and is available for General Admission.

If you are a digital media professional, media executive, producer,creator, analyst or strategist of any kind, this is the one day youneed to attend – with utterly exceptional value pricing, thanks to ourpartners and supporters. Conferences costing more than ten times asmuch don’t have anywhere near the clarity of focus, the richness ofpractical information, or the variety of international perspectives.

X|Media|Lab Auckland is seeking outstanding digital media business ideas to participate in the Lab.  As always, it’s cross-platform, cross-disciplinary, and cross-cultural.

The Lab isrestricted to selected participants and their nominated project teamand ideas.  The participants present their projects, and then workdirectly with the Mentors they choose, one-on-one on their own ideas!

X|Media|Lab Auckland “Commercialising Ideas” is supported by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise as part of its work to help grow New Zealand’s digital content industry and build its international competitiveness.

You can nominate your project to participate in X|Media|Lab Auckland here.