Press release from The PR Group
Digital media heavyweights from around the globe, including Gotham Chopra, Advisor to Al Gore and co-founder of entertainment company Liquid Comics; Animal Logic co-founder Zareh Nalbandian; Neeraj Roy, Bollywood’s biggest content owner; and Susan Bonds, the world’s pioneer of Alternate Reality Games and President of 42 Entertainment, will come together at the Sydney Opera House for XMediaLab Sydney ‘Global Media Cultures’ November 27-29, 2009.
XMediaLab Sydney ‘Global Media Cultures’ will explore how the world’s new geographies (China, India, the Middle East, North and South Asia) and innovations in new media are creating new growth opportunities, new partnership possibilities and new business models.
The event runs over three-days and consists of a one-day open conference, followed by an intensive two-day creative ideas and business matching Lab, where selected participants hand pick the mentors they wish to work with to help get their project idea to market and achieve commercial success.
If you are developing ideas for games, mobile, the Internet, alternate realities or for traditional television, video, or any form of IP TV content or services, this is your chance to enter into XMediaLab’s impeccable international network of digital media stars and tap into their superb expertise and high-value international contacts.
Previous XMediaLab Lab teams included independent start-ups which have gone on to win awards at MIPCOM in Cannes, UNESCO in New York, AIMIA in Australia; to Lonely Planet; ABC’s Rage and The Chaser; Disney Internet Group from Tokyo; Zuji.com; India’s biggest games and animation company; and world leading Virtual Worlds platform. Project teams have come from the UK, Hong Kong, China, Australia, Japan, Germany, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and New Zealand.


Nominate your project for the Lab or register to attend XMediaLab Sydney ‘Global Media Cultures’ go to: http://www.xmedialab.com/
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For more information about the mentors, please read their biographies included below.