Chicago Convergence @ MGFest

Imagination College
Chicago 2009 Schedule
Presenters List
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 9am to 4pm
Columbia College's Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Ave.
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Full-day conference of presentations in auditorium style seating.
"Experience Distribution and how to jumpstart influential marketing"
Heidi Skinner, Emerging Media Director, Critical Mass
Featured in MGFest Online's Video Learning Gallery
18 minutes of high-octane 411; where talent ideas and code collide. Presenters include Critical Mass, crowdSpring, Octane Rich Media, Keener Law, Adobe, Liquidis Media, Manifest Digital, University of DePaul, Taproot Productions, See3 Communications and Spark.
| 9:00 am | Thinking Visually |
David Armano, Critical Mass |
| 9:30 am | A New Perspective of Creativity |
Ross Kimbarovsky & Mike Samson, crowdSPRING |
| 10:00 am | Experience Distribution |
Heidi Skinner, Critical Mass |
| 10:30 am | Copyright Ownership in the Land of a Thousand Authors |
Kevin Keener, Keener Law |
| 11:00 am | Content, Creativity, Community, and the Tools that Power Them |
Dennis Radeke, Adobe & Kristin Petrovich, HD Expo |
| 11:30 am | The Intersection of Creative Ave. and Business Blvd. |
Brian Houchins, Liquidus Media |
| 12:00 pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 1:00 pm | Explorations of Convergence |
Jim Jacoby, Manifest Digital |
| 1:30 pm | Opportunity Amidst the Chaos: Trends from the Trenches |
Raman Chadha, Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, DePaul University |
| 2:00 pm | From B.C. to A.D.: Monetizing Online Video Content in the Digital Age |
Alex Lemay and Howell Malham, Digitaal Media |
| 2:30 pm | Causes, Content, and Convergence |
Michael Hoffman, See3 Communications |
| 3:00 pm | New Media Experiences: 10 Revelations from the Trenches |
Alberto Knapp-Bjeren, The Cocktail |
| 3:30 pm | The Essence of What Makes Us Great |
Jim Cohen, Spark |
Join us after the convergence from 6:30pm - 9pm at the same location for:

Thinking Visually
A New Perspective of Creativity
Experience Distribution
Copyright Ownership in the Land of a Thousand Authors
Content, Creativity, Community, and the Tools that Power Them
The Intersection of Creative Ave. and Business Blvd.
Explorations of Convergence
Opportunity Amidst the Chaos: Trends from the Trenches
From B.C. to A.D.: Monetizing Online Video Content in the Digital Age
Causes, Content, and Convergence
New Media Experiences: 10 Revelations from the Trenches
The Essence of What Makes Us Great