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Seasoned executives who have themselves "changed the game" in how content is created, distributed, and consumed will share their perspective of what lies ahead. What new paradigms will transform media and content? Will there be a further convergence of communication, computing, and entertainment industries? What business models will dominate? What technology disruptions can we expect? What does the future hold? How will our lives and how we work, live, and play change over the next five years as we consume more and more content and information?
The Startup Showcase will feature over 30 leading-edge companies demonstrating the very latest in emerging technologies. Attendees will be able to get hands-on experience with new products and discuss future trends with their creators. This diverse showcase will cover a broad range of entrepreneurial activity that includes both local and national startups in varying stages of growth.
Despite a historically challenging financial climate, start-ups in the digital, social, and mobile media sectors attracted some $2.9B in venture and private equity funding in 2009 , with 4Q being twice as much as the beginnng of the year. With this upward trajectory of investment expected, how can we, in the Southeast, enable entrepreneurs and startups to organically grow and further build a global hub in this region? How can start-ups and VC/private equity firms join forces to ensure our continued leadership? What new innovative models should we consider? Hear from experts who share their pragmatic views.
Introduction by Mike Eckert, former CEO and President, The Weather Channel
This session will explore several active developments that enable a richer reading experience by linking content on digital and paper mediums.
The traditional modes of advertising and marketing are fundamentally changing. We’re moving from an era of exposure to individual engagement. Experts from large corporations and savvy start-ups will share their perspectives and insights. A lively discussion will deliberate: the future role of an advertising & marketing firm, measuring ROI and effectiveness in a digital world, emerging new business models including "snack size advertising", impact of mobile and location-based technologies, and challenge the very premise of 4P’s of marketing.
The traditional music business model is broken. The music industry is transforming itself. Listen to a diverse panel of experts discuss the future of music and the technologies enabling its change. Consider the future of music discovery, personalization, interactive applications, digital distribution, and more. This discussion will be a prelude to a lively interactive Music Technology Performance and Music Mix lined up for later in the day.
What's growing faster than content? The data that manage or describe the content. As media companies move beyond the "3-screen" strategy for TV, Online and Mobile, the basis for any new media strategy must be to maximize what data provides in terms of social networking, online advertising or accessing libraries of content through metadata management. This breakout provides a focus on metadata, data integration, business intelligence, and SEO as key elements for content driving monetization of media.
What will gaming be like 25 years from now? The Future of Gaming Forecast will discuss how gaming has evolved, and what videogames will look in the future.
From pervasive predictive health to the management of chronic diseases in rural areas, healthcare services will increasingly stretch the frontiers of information science and technology. Cost-effective sharing of a diverse spectrum of healthcare media will call for revolutionary capabilities, not only in broadband infrastructure but also in the fundamental disciplines of information science. How will the healthcare industry articulate these advances? What are the benefits to the practitioner, provider and patient?
Journalism and related aspects information gathering, verification and distribution have significantly changed in recent times with the growth and pervasiveness of Computation, Information, and Networking Technologies. In this session, we will discuss how computation is now completely embedded into each and every aspect of news business from news gathering to newer distribution channels citizen journalism and oversight. Our goal is to bring together computationalists and journalists to study these current trends, and go further to impact future trends in the areas of both computation and journalism.
Explore and discuss novel system technologies for large-scale future media applications such as video-based surveillance, emergency response, and smart city-wide infrastructures. Issues span smart sensing, networking and communication, stream-based distributed programming middleware, and resource management.
Distribution and consumption of today’s multimedia content is inherently dependent upon the mobile ecosystem and its underlying transport fabric, application enablers and end-to-end service management. In turn, these processes depend on security processes and practices to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of application data that providers, users and regulators demand. This panel will explore the security challenges and solutions emerging in the mobile media ecosystem from multiple perspectives: end user, developer, service architecture, enterprise and carrier perspectives will be examined.
Opening up organizations to outside ideas has led to commercial success for many organizations. Innovation in the social and mobile media space has relied heavily on innovation outside the traditional walls of the company. FutureMedia related technologies for communication, collaboration and project management are making coordinating large projects across distributed, virtual teams much easier and giving rise to new business value opportunities and cross platform collaboration.
FutureMedia provides new opportunities to expand networks and forge new collaborative relationships. This session will discuss key concepts, aspects of open innovation, and FutureMedia related technologies that will impact your ecosystems and create a new innovation paradigms.
This event will feature three performances from the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology that will explore the creative space of human-machine interaction: The Laptop Orchestra, Beatscape, and Paper Moon - which features an ensemble performance of humans and Shimon, Georgial Tech's robotic marimba player.
The Gaming Lounge offers attendees a place to relax and play some of the hottest new games coming to the market. Companies participating in the lounge will be demoing breakthrough gaming technology in virtual worlds, interactive TV, mobile apps, augmented reality, and more.
Live performance by Prisca.
In addition to food and drinks, the Music Mix Reception will have several different activities for attendees to enjoy including a music discussion, live performances by Prisca, music technology demos from local startups, and more.
As the entertainment and music industry faces massive disruption, the next generation of music entrepreneurs are staking their claim on the future. Georgia-based companies, universities and musicians like Music Intelligence Solutions, Inc. at uPlaya.com and Kennsessaw State are helping to define the new music market place. How are music entrepreneurs making themselves heard both in Georgia and the World?
Augmented Reality, where media are merged with a person's view of the world around them, is becoming increasingly popular, largely due to the increased power and network bandwidth of high-end mobile phones. In this panel, we will look at augmented reality as a new form of media for gaming and education, but also discuss the outlook for this technology with respect to the near and long term improvements in mobile devices and wireless networks.
This panel of educators, industry and technical leaders will focus on how graduating engineers and mid career professionals are tuning (or retuning) themselves in the era of digital, social, and mobile media communications.
The definition and reach of Television are changing. Seamless multiscreen experience is no longer an option, technologies for multiview (at least in the form of stereoscopic 3D) are being sorted out , and multiplayer gaming is setting the stage for ever-newer modalities for interactive visual communications. As users and user groups spawn brand new ways of sharing the video experience, how will the television industry respond?
Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, images and sounds often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture for centuries. Explore, with world renowned experts, how the art of storytelling has and will change given the combination of increasingly overloaded consumers who "snack" content and the advent of multimedia available any time, any where, and on any device.
This panel will be a provocative discussion on how private and public institutions can work intrinsically together to nurture and attract economic development in their home countries and with their strategic partners - focused on the digital, mobile and social media sectors. Seasoned senior officials from around the world will consider what’s worked, lessons learned, and how an economy can leap frog into high growth in these challenging recessionary times.
Collective intelligence - a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals - is made even more powerful when social media and networking technologies are used to reach out and harness the creativity of many. This panel of seasoned media executives will explore what is possible - today and tomorrow - when organizations utililze the "power of many".
Spending on cloud computing is expected to increase to $55.5 billion in 2014 from $16.5 billion in 2009 as businesses realize it's cheaper to outsource their data centers than build and manage them. Is this promise hype or reality? Hi-tech giants to start-ups are positioning to capitalize on this growth. What does cloud computing mean for the future of media in coming years? A panel of deep and diverse experts will explore these questions and more.
Discover the world of immersive, interactive 3D virtual environments. What are they? What role are technologies such as simulation, modeling, 3D visualization, geo-location, and social networking playing? How will these 'worlds' be used as tools for learning, training, and entertainment over coming years? What unique opportunities and challenges will the commercial (business and consumer) versus government and defense sectors pose?
This showcase provides an opportunity for attendees to interact with state-of-the-art technologies being developed by Georgia Tech students, faculty, and researchers. There will be over 100 demos from labs and organizations across campus that will cover three floors of the Technology Square Research Building. This is the best place to get up close with the groundbreaking work coming out of Georgia Tech, and witness first-hand how Georgia Tech is a leader in creating what is next.
Attendees are invited to an Oktoberfest celebration at the Gordon Biersch Restaurant and Brewery in Midtown. We encourage attendees to unwind and have some fun to celebrate the last night of the fest. This will be a great time to network with fellow attendees and recap the week's events and discussions.
The GTISC Summit keynote and panel will explore the evolving nature of cyber security threats and how their growing sophistication and scale will impact Internet enabled applications. Technology and policy based solutions that could be effective in countering such threats will also be discussed.
Tour SCAD Atlanta’s 60,000 square foot Digital Media Center which offers industry-standard learning resources such as multi-camera stages with high definition broadcast capability, professional sound recording and mixing suites, editing rooms, a screening room, set and fabrication studios and state of the art classrooms. Explore the multi-level green screen lab and the 75 seat cinema quality screening room and experimental animation studios. Shuttle buses will run between Tech Square and SCAD. Tours begin and finish at the Ferst Center.
Tour SCAD Atlanta’s 60,000 square foot Digital Media Center which offers industry-standard learning resources such as multi-camera stages with high definition broadcast capability, professional sound recording and mixing suites, editing rooms, a screening room, set and fabrication studios and state of the art classrooms. Explore the multi-level green screen lab and the 75 seat cinema quality screening room and experimental animation studios. Shuttle buses will run between Tech Square and SCAD. Tours begin and finish at the Ferst Center.
The Georgia Tech Information Security Center is a leader in several key research areas in information security. Attendees are invited to the Klaus Advanced Computing Building to see live demonstrations of GTISC research that includes botnet detection, malware analysis, monitoring of large-scale systems, security challenges for converged communication, including mobile device security and security of cellular and wireless networks, and security and privacy of electronic medical records, including user-centric access control and detection of potentially anomalous access patterns. Other projects in areas such as cryptography, virtualization security, embedded software security, privacy and information quality are indicative of the significant breadth and depth of GTISC research programs.
Tour Georgia Tech. Explore one of America’s top engineering institutions. Walking tours include a visit to the site of the 1996 Olympic swimming & diving venue (now a state-of-the-art campus recreation facility), the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, the Center for Music Technology, Georgia Tech Research Institute, College of Architecture, College of Management, and more. Walking tours offer the chance to interact with a few of the 20,000 students who make campus come alive. Tours begin and finish at the Ferst Center.
Tour SCAD Atlanta’s 60,000 square foot Digital Media Center which offers industry-standard learning resources such as multi-camera stages with high definition broadcast capability, professional sound recording and mixing suites, editing rooms, a screening room, set and fabrication studios and state of the art classrooms. Explore the multi-level green screen lab and the 75 seat cinema quality screening room and experimental animation studios. Shuttle buses will run between Tech Square and SCAD. Tours begin and finish at the Ferst Center.
Tour Georgia Tech. Explore one of America’s top engineering institutions. Walking tours include a visit to the site of the 1996 Olympic swimming & diving venue (now a state-of-the-art campus recreation facility), the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, the Center for Music Technology, Georgia Tech Research Institute, College of Architecture, College of Management, and more. Walking tours offer the chance to interact with a few of the 20,000 students who make campus come alive. Tours begin and finish at the Ferst Center.
Tour Georgia Tech. Explore one of America’s top engineering institutions. Walking tours include a visit to the site of the 1996 Olympic swimming & diving venue (now a state-of-the-art campus recreation facility), the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, the Center for Music Technology, Georgia Tech Research Institute, College of Architecture, College of Management, and more. Walking tours offer the chance to interact with a few of the 20,000 students who make campus come alive. Tours begin and finish at the Ferst Center.
Tour SCAD Atlanta’s 60,000 square foot Digital Media Center which offers industry-standard learning resources such as multi-camera stages with high definition broadcast capability, professional sound recording and mixing suites, editing rooms, a screening room, set and fabrication studios and state of the art classrooms. Explore the multi-level green screen lab and the 75 seat cinema quality screening room and experimental animation studios. Shuttle buses will run between Tech Square and SCAD. Tours begin and finish at the Ferst Center.
Sonic Generator is the contemporary music ensemble-in-residence at Georgia Tech dedicated to using technology to transform the ways in which we compose, perform, and listen to music. The group works closely with students and faculty across campus to implement technology in concert and to incorporate new research into live performance. Sonic Generator's experiments with new technologies have led the group to perform with wine glasses, iPhones, comic strips, car speakers, DJs, and a robotic drummer. The ensemble also frequently collaborates with visual artists to create video projections to accompany its performances.
