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The Digital Boot Camp for TV Producers


@ BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly - Saturday July 25th 2009 9:30am - 6:00pm

co-hosted with Women in Film and Television.

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Saturday July 25th 2009 9:30am - 6:00pm


2:00pm - 3:00pm
Test Itinerary
Testing

Speakers - click name for more info

- John Nolan, North One Television, Head of N•ONE
John Nolan


John Nolan is Head of N•ONE, the Commercial and Digital Division of North One Television, where he is charged with investigating future models of financing television production. In 2005, John helped to launch Audi Channel with BBH, and produces all of the Channels content.

In the last 12 months, he has successfully negotiated the delivery of Branded Content on all 3 UK terrestrial free to air commercial networks ITV, Channel 4 and five.

John manages all of the cross platform strategy and delivery for the FIA World Rally Championship, increasing the traffic on wrc.com by 100% in the past 12 months.

He has produced programming for Texaco, BP, Ballantines, Swatch, Nokia, Motorola, Salomon, Saab, Gauloises, Red Bull, Pepsi, Heinz, Haymarket, COI, General Motors, Honda, HSBC, LG, O2, Dunlop, Tourism Ireland and Audi.Honda, HSBC, LG, O2, Dunlop, Tourism Ireland and Audi.
- Utku Can Akyuz, Product Manager, Mint Digital
Utku Can Akyuz
Utku is an interaction designer at Mint Digital. When he’s not busy working on websites, he can be found preaching to anyone who’ll listen about cutting edge social web stuff. His latest obsessions are real-time web, two-screen consumption and data visualization.

Mint Digital is a social web technologies company. Working with clients like Channel 4, Orange & BBC, Mint has been behind sites such as Sexperience , Unsigned Act and Landshare. Mint is currently in beta with Football3s, a live fantasy football game.

9:30am - 10:00am
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10:00am - 11:00am
Funding strategies for today
A how-to session. How to deal effectively with deficit funding, how to finance up-front investment, to plug the funding gap, attract external investors, and create successful joint ventures.

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- Ann Longley, Digital Strategy Director, MediaEdge: CIA
Ann Longley
MediaEdge is a global communications planning organisation part of WPP and is one of the world's largest marketing groups.

Within MediaEdge, Ann helps develop client strategies for cross platform innovation. Clients include Chanel, Danone, Orange and a range of other well known brands. She also coordinates MEC's social media practice. Previously, Ann helped take educational prototypes to market with Nesta Futurelab; she also helped start up a mobile social enterprise in Kenya with support from Vodafone. In her native Canada, Ann developed her own participatory media productions.

The workshop will cover how independent producers can work with big brands and agencies based on industry case studies. Ann will also share MEC's approach to working with the independent sector.
- John Nolan, North One Television, Head of N•ONE
John Nolan


John Nolan is Head of N•ONE, the Commercial and Digital Division of North One Television, where he is charged with investigating future models of financing television production. In 2005, John helped to launch Audi Channel with BBH, and produces all of the Channels content.

In the last 12 months, he has successfully negotiated the delivery of Branded Content on all 3 UK terrestrial free to air commercial networks ITV, Channel 4 and five.

John manages all of the cross platform strategy and delivery for the FIA World Rally Championship, increasing the traffic on wrc.com by 100% in the past 12 months.

He has produced programming for Texaco, BP, Ballantines, Swatch, Nokia, Motorola, Salomon, Saab, Gauloises, Red Bull, Pepsi, Heinz, Haymarket, COI, General Motors, Honda, HSBC, LG, O2, Dunlop, Tourism Ireland and Audi.Honda, HSBC, LG, O2, Dunlop, Tourism Ireland and Audi.

11:00am - 12:15pm
Making more than TV Shows
How to integrate the making of new media products and services into a traditional TV production company, and how partnering and deal making can work for you in the digital age.

Speakers - click name for more info

- Rick Williams, Creative Development Director, AKQA
Rick Williams
AKQA is the leading global digital marketing and technology services firm. We help our clients design digital solutions that create engaging experiences. Last year I helped to develop Fiat eco:Drive, a solution for Fiat car owners to monitor and improve their driving style, which helped them to cut their fuel costs and lower their carbon emissions. To date, the Fiat eco:Drive community have collectively saved 1.5 million kg of CO2, equivalent to keeping every one of the 18,000 homes in eco:Ville heated for 7days.
- Utku Can Akyuz, Product Manager, Mint Digital
Utku Can Akyuz
Utku is an interaction designer at Mint Digital. When he’s not busy working on websites, he can be found preaching to anyone who’ll listen about cutting edge social web stuff. His latest obsessions are real-time web, two-screen consumption and data visualization.

Mint Digital is a social web technologies company. Working with clients like Channel 4, Orange & BBC, Mint has been behind sites such as Sexperience , Unsigned Act and Landshare. Mint is currently in beta with Football3s, a live fantasy football game.
- Carmel Landy, Managing Director, Expanding Universe
Carmel Landy
We are a social entertainment company, combining brand entertainment and social media. We build interactive and immersive experiences that engage and connect audiences, and build strong communities of interest through participation and interaction. We fuse old and new media - film, video, audio, live programming, on-demand content, web, mobile, social media and live performance and events to tell rich and unique stories that connect and entertain audiences.