presentations

Jim Louderback of Revision3 To Deliver Day Two Keynote at nextMEDIA - The Future of Digital Content

Digital Alberta and CIPS Edmonton are partnering to bring together a feature presentation on the relationship between digital media and technology. Fuel Industries' Chief Strategy Officer will deliver a presentaiton titled "The Role of the CIO in Navigating the Shifting Mediascape". Brady Gilchrist, will explain how technology is fundamentally changing how people interact with each other and with mass media, how it's affecting the marketing and advertising industry and why it will be the CIO who is increasingly called upon to solve marketing challenges. He will provide real-life case studies of the technical and strategic sides of how branded entertainment, viral marketing and social media have been deployed for major brands, with a focus on helping to establish best practices for developing the backbone of a major online campaign.

Join Cybera Inc. September 19 (with TRLabs in Edmonton) and September 24 (at the Chamber of Commerce in Calgary) for CI 2.0 -- a showcase of how Cyberinfrastructure (CI), Web 2.0 and Next Generation Internet (NGI) technologies impact nearly every aspect of business today. This workshop is aimed at Alberta companies looking to reach customers in new ways, and increase their return-on-technology investment. Find out more at www.cybera.ca to register for this event.

The Canadian Heritage Trade Routes Contributions Program provides financial support to entrepreneurs in the digital media arena to develop and pursue opportunities in international markets. Deadline for applications is October 1, 2007. We are pleased to host Patricia Elliott from the program who will be in Edmonton September 10-12 and Calgary September 12-14 to meet one-on-one with companies interested in submitting an application. Meeting times are booking up quickly, so please contact rene@dmaa.ca if you are interested in scheduling a meeting.

At the recent information sessions on Serious Games, Patricia Elliott joined us from Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada where she looks after cultural industries in BC, Alberta, and Yukon. She shared some information about what kind of federal assistance and support is available for digital media companies looking to enter international markets.

• Trade Commissioner Service - 140 offices abroad, 12 regional offices in Canada, 900 Trade Commissioners, 800 based overseas
  

At the recent Serious Games Summit information sessions, I had the privilege of discussing and highlighting some serious games related activity in Alberta. The following are some notes and links to the information I was able to share.

• 3 major areas of activity in Alberta: research, projects that are similar to serious games and projects that are under development
• at the time of the presentation, no specific completed serious games that had been produced in Alberta, if you know of any please let me know