Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The Venice Festival of Media


The Venice Festival of Media 2008 is a global meeting that has a guest list of 800 delegates of the world's advertisers, media agencies, developers, and media owners. It is a four day festival that is taking place at the Palazzo del Cinema, Venice, Italy on Sunday, April 13th and goes until Wednesday April 17th. The article "The Venice Festival of Media 2008" explains that this global event will focus on issues such as dealing with the "buying and selling of pan regional and global advertising communications." The four days have a full agenda of conference session, speakers, and scheduled social networking opportunities. Check out the agenda for the week. In addition to providing these four days of activities, The Venice Festival of Media is teaming up with WaterAid in which delegates will be invited to make corporate of individuals donations for the cause.   
There will be many speakers at the festival such as Brandon Berger, Director of Digital Innovation, MDC Partners; Joanne Bradford, the Vice President and Chief Media Officer at MSN; and Brett Brewer, President AdKnowledge & Co-founder of My Space. These speakers will be accompanied by many other big wigs in the advertising world. This 2008 festivals also has big name sponsors. Some of these include AD Europe, ESPN, Yahoo, Advertising Age, Euronews, and the Wall-street Journal. 
To find more speakers that will be attending as well as partners of the Venice Festival of Media check out their official website. 

1 comment:

Kim Gregson said...

2 interesting posts - be sure to follow up with some posts about speeches or announcements from this media festival in Venice

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