September 6
2006 Film Winners – Cannes International Advertising Festival
Toronto
www.canadacannes.ca
This year’s winning entries in the Cannes International Advertising Festival will be screened at 6 p.m. on September 6th at MaRS Auditorium (101 College Street). Judy John, SVP/managing partner, creative of Leo Burnett and Cannes film judge Steve Mykolyn, VP design & interactive CD of TAXI will speak at the event and a post-party for the advertising industry will follow.
September 7-8
2006
International Media in Transition Conference
Goethe Forum, Munich
www.mediaintransition.com
Focusing on structural transition in the media industry, the 2006 International Media in Transition Conference will cover such topics as Web 2.0, social web, user-generated content, interactive components (Ajax), e-commerce, media distribution and consumer behavior. Participating media companies, researchers and strategists from England, the U.S. and Europe include Last.fm, Yahoo!, Flickr, Amazon, Ask, Bloglines, Bubblegeneration and GEMA. Among the speakers are e-commerce pioneer John Buckman, founder of Magnatune Music, P2P file sharing innovator and inventor of Weedshare Steve Turnidge and Andy Bell, founder of Bloombox.tv.