MediaFuturist: Events

Entries categorized "Events"

October 21, 2010

If you are a Berklee College of Music student (Boston), join me for my guest lecture, Oct. 29

Happy to be back at my alma mater - see below. I think you have to be a student to attend (or otherwise work at Berklee). See you there, maybe.

Oct 21, 2010 6:04:40 PM | Announcements, Berklee, Bottom Lines, Conferences, Events, Meet me @

September 19, 2010

Egosystems become Ecosystems: the future of media, marketing and business (my presentation at DoLectures 2010)

Blogging this aboard a train from Wales to London; on my way back from one of the most amazing events I have attended in a long time: DoLectures in Cardigan, Wales (UK); see more details at their blog, here. I was invited to speak on one of my key topics: the switch from EGOsystems to ECOsystems - here is the PDF, below. Video to follow shortly.

Egosystem to Ecosystem: Gerd Leonhard at DoLectures 2010

View more presentations from Gerd Leonhard.

Sep 19, 2010 6:37:04 PM | 21st Century Content Ecology, Advertising Trends, Broadband Culture, CHANGE, Consumer Insights, Content 2.0, Decentralization, Disruption, eCommerce, Economic Egoism, Emerging Markets, End of Control, Events, Future of Advertising, Future of Business, Future of Marketing, Future of Media, Future of News, Future of Selling, Inspiring, MY PRESENTATIONS, Trends, Trust, TV 2.0

July 24, 2010

The Future of Film & Cinema: my presentation at NIFF (new video)

This is a much better quality version of the video I already posted last week (please go here for the slides of the presentation) - enjoy, share and spread the word. Download the video via my Blip.tv channel (480MB MP4)

ITF 2010 | Gerd Leonhard | The Future Of Cinema & Film from NIFFF on Vimeo.

The Future Of Cinema & Film.
Gerd Leonhard talk at the Imaging The Future Symposium 2010

Jul 24, 2010 12:39:55 PM | 21st Century Content Ecology, Attention Economy, Best of Gerd, Broadband Culture, Creativity, Crossmedia, Crowdsourcing, Events, Film, Future of Content, Future of Film, Future of Media, Future of TV, Inspiring, Link Economy, Marketing2.0, Monetizing Content, Must-watch, MY PRESENTATIONS, My speaking engagements, My videos, Social Media, Storytelling Trends, Trends, Trust, Videos I Like

June 19, 2010

Video: the Future of Music in a digital world (Dublin event)

Below is a short Youtube clip from my presentation at CMC Dublin, June 11, 2010 (more details. and the PDF etc, are here). I also recorded the event on my own Kodak Zi8 but am currently having some trouble converting it into flash, so right now you can only watch it on my GerdTube channel (Blip.tv) in Quicktime, or just download the whole 800MB from there.

Jun 19, 2010 11:28:46 AM | Copyright, Creative Rights, Creativity, Digital Music, Eoc: Music Industry, Events, Future of Music, Market failures, Music 2.0, Music Flat Rate, Music Like Water, Music2.0 Book, MY PRESENTATIONS, My speaking engagements, My videos, Videos I Like

June 06, 2010

Quick podcast on The Future of Marketing

Prior to my talk at the Future of Digital Marketing conference in London, June 16, 2010 here is a quick audio preview of what I will talk about (if I can stay on-topic;). Stay tuned as I will publish the PDF after the event, here and of course on Slideshare.

Future of Marketing Gerd Leonhard Podcast

Jun 6, 2010 10:00:50 AM | Bottom Lines, Conferences, Data is the new Oil, Events, Friction is Fiction, Future of Advertising, Future of Agencies, Future of Marketing, Marketing2.0, Mobile Advertising, My Podcasts

April 30, 2010

The Future of News: a new relationship with the public (Jeff Jarvis at INMA 2010), 'Not sell the words' (my take)

Check out this short Jeff Jarvis video, below, and then peruse my slide-show on "The Future of News" Update: here is my interview, as well

Apr 30, 2010 7:47:32 PM | 21st Century Content Ecology, Content 2.0, Cool people, Current Affairs, Events, Future of Journalism, Future of News, Videos I Like

April 23, 2010

Meet me in Dublin June 11: The Future of Music in a digital world (CMC event)

I am delighted to be back in Dublin for this June 11 event organized by the Contemporary Music Centre. I will be speaking about "The Future of Music: Mobile, Video, Social, and...Paid?"

"With access to music now just a click away for most of us, very few of the tried and tested ways of accessing music remain unchanged. Can we, or should we, attempt to predict the future? Have we even begun to deal with the present yet? This major conference brings together high-level international speakers to explore and debate issues around the meaning of digital culture; how it impacts on the creator and the performer; and the implications for copyright in a world which has come to expect music to be free"

Who should attend: creative artists and organizations engaged in any area of composition, performance, publishing or distribution across all forms of music in Ireland.

Other Speakers
    •    Ms Mary Hanafin, TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport Official opening
    •    Prof Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, University of Limerick, Ireland, and CMC Board Keynote address
    •    Andrew Dubber, Reader in Music Industries Innovation, Birmingham City University, Great Britain
    •    Bill Whelan, Composer, Ireland Ireland and the Global Culture Market: A Creator's View

Download the brochure

Apr 23, 2010 8:55:01 AM | Announcements, Events, Future of Music, Meet me @

April 07, 2010

Some great pictures from my session at Roda Viva / TV Cultura in Brazil

Together with my colleague and Swiss leadership guru Didier Marlier I have been doing some interesting work with one of the leading business schools in Brazil, Fundacao Dom Cabral (more on that soon!). The last time I was there I also managed to do a very special engagement for the very cool people at the NBS agency, see the details and PDF here.

Via the NBS gig and via Twitter (of course), I was introduced to the people that program one of the most accomplished and popular talk-shows on Brazilian Public TV, called Roda Viva, on the TVCultura channel. The show involves sitting in the midst of a circle of 10-15 very smart people that quite literally 'grill' you on some pretty tough issues (in my case, as you may have guessed, the future of content, copyright, marketing, social media etc).

The full video should be available via Roda Viva fairly soon; in the meantime I just discovered an entire set of some pretty good pictures that their really talented photographer (Duda Groisman took during the filming, embedded via the amazing Flickr widgets, below. Enjoy. And stay tuned.

Apr 7, 2010 5:30:18 PM | About Me, Brazil, Crowdsourcing, Events, Gerd in the media, In Portuguese, Me, Must-watch

March 25, 2010

Meet me at Next Conference 2010, May 11-12 in Berlin: Game Changers

Next2010 looks like a very promising event; the main topic this year is 'Game Changers' - certainly a good fit for my own work;). I will most likely do a keynote speech on "The next 3 years: major game changers for content, entertainment and media" - and if I can make the switch before that date this may be the first gig where I will be presenting in an entirely new way, possibly using a new device that Apple is launching in April....;)

Stowe Boyd will be there, too, plus Umair Haque, Steve Rubel and Brian Solis - some of my favorite colleagues and fellow game changers (or...rather... changees?). Join us.

Mar 25, 2010 1:12:28 PM | 21st Century Content Ecology, Announcements, Conferences, Events, Future of Media, Meet me @

March 19, 2010

Presentation, audio and video from the Books 2.0 event in London: the Future of Books & Publishing

Updated: this post now includes Dominic Pride's presentation, embedded below. I also just added the audio version of my presentation (sorry for the rather poor quality), as well as the front-row-shoot with a video of my presentation, below; please note that this is the 'unofficial version', quickly recorded with my Kodak Zi8 - better quality video to follow soon. Clive Rich's presentation is embedded below.

Gerd Leonhard at Future of Books event London March 19

Below is the link to the PDF with my edited presentation from today's Books 2.0 event at Olswang in London. I will add the slideshare embed code and file download options later, today (very slow connection here at the Hilton;), and we will have Clive's and Dominic's slides available as well; videos should follow within a few days, too. This was a really inspiring event, a great and very clued-in audience, beautiful location (Olswang London), and a perfect combination of different view-points by the 3 of us. More comments are available via the Twitter stream and via #books20 hashtag.

Some of the topics I covered included: the toxic assumptions of the music industry and what book publishers could learn from them, the reality of upside-down consumers (digital access first), the ecology of selling access vs selling copies, the Napster-Moment in eBooks - and what to do about (or rather, with) it, the characteristics of 'Reading 2.0', the new definition of books, media as a service and the potentials of 'content in the cloud', the future role of publishers... and much more. 32MB PDF: files.me.com/gleonhard/824xup (Creative Commons non-commercial, attribution licensed, as always)

Books 2.0: The Future of Books and Publishing

View more presentations from Gerd Leonhard.

Update: Here is Dominic Pride's great presentation from the same event

The Future of Books - Creating New Value from Reading

View more presentations from The Sound Horizon.

L1031 ppt books 2 -_future_of_publishing_seminar_presentation_-_2_a

View more presentations from RichFutures.

Mar 19, 2010 3:47:54 PM | 21st Century Content Ecology, Books, Books2.0, Conferences, Content 2.0, Creative Rights, Crossmedia, eBooks, Events, MY PRESENTATIONS, Open Network Economy, Print & Newspapers, Trends, Trust

March 16, 2010

Some previews of my Books 2.0 presentation this coming Friday (March 19, London)

Here are 4 'scenes' from my upcoming presentation at the Books 2.0 event in London, March 19. I still have a few seats reserved for my tweeps and blog-readers - ping me if you are interested (yes, it's still a free event;). I will publish my slides on this blog, via Slideshare, and via Twitter, sometime in the afternoon of that day. Stay tuned. The Twitter Hashtag is #books20 and the Twitter-Stream is here.

Mar 16, 2010 4:28:25 PM | 21st Century Content Ecology, Books, Books2.0, Bottom Lines, eBooks, Events, Friction is Fiction, Future of Media, Images, Meet me @, Monetizing Content

March 08, 2010

Join me for the Books2.0 event in London March 19!

This event will be a total blast: "The Future of Books & Publishing", March 19 (am), 2010, at Olswang London. Here is a quick intro video, below. Don't miss this event if you are in the books / writing / publishing business. There are few seats left (it's a free but invitation-only event) so... ping me soonest if you are interested. Btw: the twitter hashtag for this event is #books20

Mar 8, 2010 4:23:00 PM | Announcements, Books2.0, Events

March 01, 2010

1st Online Seminar "Thriving in Social Media": today at 1pm EST / 7pm CET (don't miss it)

Alan Moore and me are very much looking forward to our 1st Online Seminar on "Thriving in Social Media and the connected web", today, March 1, at 1pm EST. We still have a few tickets available (nope, it's not entirely free;), just go here to register. If you feel that you absolutely must have a discount code, please do contact me.

To avoid any confusion, 1pm EST means:

10 am in San Francisco
1pm in New York
6pm in London / GMT
7pm in Central Europe / CET
8pm in Greece / Israel etc
11.30 pm in India
1 am (next day) in Jakarta

The event will take place on the new DimDim webinar platform which requires nothing but a good browser (e.g. Firefox;). The session will have Alan and myself on video, and audio, during the entire time, plus all participants can use the chat windows to ask questions throughout the entire session (approx. 90 minutes). We will be recording the whole thing (if the technology keeps its promises) and shall make the video available to all participants, afterward.

We will be something between 30 to 50 people for this event which is a fantastic start. Hope to see you there.

For more information click here: Online seminar with Gerd Leonhard & Alan Moore: thriving commercially in social media and the networked society

Mar 1, 2010 10:01:00 AM | Announcements, Events, Online Seminars

Great videos from the recent 'Tools of Change for Publishing' Conference (NY)

I just ran across some really nice presentations from the O'Reilly TOC (Tools of Change) conference that went down in NY last week. I could not attend because of my trip to Brazil but this event looks like a great success, judging by these videos. Here is my selection of best videos:

Mar 1, 2010 8:43:17 AM | 21st Century Content Ecology, Content 2.0, Events, Future of Content, Future of Journalism, Future of Media, Video, Videos I Like

February 25, 2010

Last chance to get discount tickets for my online seminar: "Thriving in Social Media" March 1, with Alan Moore

If you are interested in this event please contact me asap and I will send you a very juicy discount code - but do it soonest -- this is NEXT MONDAY. Update: don't email me: use this link to automatically get 50% off - limited to 10 people.

Feb 25, 2010 4:59:31 PM | Announcements, Events

MediaFuturist

Futurist Gerd Leonhard on the Future of Media, Business, Culture, Content Communications, Technology, Advertising and Entertainment