Schedule for 2007
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 2007
8:00am DOORS OPEN for registration and check-in
8:45am Steve Gehlen, Founder of the Inverge conference, Principal, IndePlay, Inc.
TOPIC: Conference Kick-off and opening remarks, including Bruce Warner, Executive Director of the Portland Development Commission
9:00am Joshua Green, Research Manager, Convergence Culture Consortium, MIT
TOPIC: More than Bringing Things Together: Convergence Culture and New Media Logics >> MORE
10:00am Dalen Harrison, CEO, Ensequence (interactive TV platform)
TOPIC: Interactive TV - The Next 10 Years >> MORE
10:45am BREAK
11:15am Bill Barnett, General Manager, 926 Ventures
TOPIC: How the FF Button is Squeezing Your Ad Dollar >> MORE
12:00pm LUNCH (NOT served at the event, a list of area restaurants will be provided)
1:30pm Chris Van Dyke, President & CEO, Nau (see recent Fast Company feature)
TOPIC: Open for Business Unusual >> MORE
2:15pm Ken Papagan, President & Chief Strategy Officer, Rentrak
TOPIC: Invergence: Too many Touchpoints…too little Measurement. What has to change? >> MORE
3:00pm BREAK
3:15pm Adam Richardson, Strategy Director, frog design
TOPIC: The System is the Product: The emerging need to manage complex systems
>> MORE
4:00pm Interactive Television Advertising Panel led by Stephanie Otto, CEO, Brainstorm Communications, Inc., featuring:
TOPIC: The State of Interactive Television Advertising, including a case study of the revolutionary Nike ZOOM footwear campaign on DISH Network. [campaign press release]
5:00pm FINISH
5:30pm First Thursday Festivities in the Pearl District
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH, 2007
8:00am DOORS OPEN for registration and check-in
8:50am Opening remarks
9:00am Mark Deuze, Professor, Journalism and New Media, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
TOPIC: Who Needs Media Workers When Your Customers Do The Labor For Free?
>> MORE
9:45am Renny Gleeson, Global Director of Digital Strategies, Wieden+Kennedy
TOPIC: Tay Zonday, Brands and Agencies >> MORE
10:45am BREAK
11:15am Jeff Yapp, Executive Vice President, MTV Networks
12:00pm LUNCH (NOT served at the event, a list of area restaurants will be provided)
1:30pm Jason Stoddard (Managing Partner/Strategy) and Ken Brady (VP, Asia), Centric, Agency of Change
TOPIC: Virtual Worlds: Final Invergence? >> MORE
2:15pm Lori H. Schwartz, SVP & Director, Interpublic Emerging Media Lab, Interpublic Group
TOPIC: Creating a Learning Agenda for Emerging Media
3:00pm BREAK
3:15pm Catherine Ogilvie, Executive Vice President & General Manager of the San Francisco Office, Edelman
TOPIC: Blogger, Boomer, Reporter, Radical – Who’s Building Your Brand? >> MORE
4:00pm IT’S A WRAP!
