The Conversation begins the morning of Friday, October 17th and continues through the late afternoon of the 18th. All sessions except for the after-lunch workshops on Saturday take place at the Pacific Film Archive theater. On Saturday afternoon, we move to Barrows Hall, a classroom building nearby. There are two opportunities for Conversation participants to lead the conversation: one on Friday during our "Idea Jam" and one on Saturday during our "Open Forum." Info below. We look forward to your ideas... Friday, 10.17 At the Pacific Film Archive theater 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome / Schedule Overview / Goals for The Conversation Ken Goldberg, Director, Berkeley Center for New Media Scott Kirsner, Editor, CinemaTech Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker & Founder, The Webby Awards Lance Weiler, Filmmaker & Editor, The Workbook Project 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Fireside Chat with John Batter: The Future of Animation, 3-D Cinema, and Games John Batter, Co-President of Production, DreamWorks Animation SKG; former Group Studio General Manager, Electronic Arts Scott Kirsner, Editor, CinemaTech (Moderator) 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM The Future of Visual Effects and Pre-Visualization John Gaeta, Visual Effects Designer, Speed Racer and the Matrix trilogy John Knoll, Visual Effects Supervisor, Industrial Light & Magic Phil Tippett, Founder, Tippett Studio Dan Gregoire, Founder, Halon Entertainment 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM New Forms of Storytelling Michael Ferris Gibson, Director, 24 Hours on Craigslist & Producer, Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story Gregg Spiridellis, CEO, JibJab Media Ken Goldberg, Director, Berkeley Center for New Media (Moderator) 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM New Forms of Delivery KC Blake, Anywhere/Anytime Content Lab, Entertainment Technology Center@USC Jonathan Marlow, Executive Director, San Francisco Cinematheque; formerly at Vudu and GreenCine Ken Goldberg, Director, Berkeley Center for New Media (Moderator) 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Box Lunch Out on the Lawn 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Fireside Chat: Reed Hastings on the Future of Movies Reed Hastings, CEO & Founder, Netflix Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker, The Tribe and Connected (Moderator) 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM The New Rules of Finance & Funding ... Presented by Independent Television Service (ITVS) Woody Benson, Managing Partner, Prism VentureWorks Diana Barrett, Founder, The Fledgling Fund Michealene Cristini Risley, Independent filmmaker, Tapestries of Hope Jim Sommers, Senior Vice President, ITVS Graham Leggat, Executive Director, San Francisco Film Society (Moderator) 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Idea Jam: Invited Speakers & Conversation Participants Present "One Big Idea" for the Future of Cinema, Games, and Online Video Post Your Idea Here, or Sign Up On-Site 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Building an Audience for Your Work Nick Braccia, Creative Director, Deep Focus Jason Harris, President, Mekanism Adrian Sexton, Head of Digital Media, Participant Productions M dot Strange, Animator and Director, We Are the Strange Lance Weiler, Filmmaker, Head Trauma and Publisher, WorkbookProject.com (Moderator) At the Bancroft Hotel 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Opening Reception 5:45 PM - 6:15 PM Roundtable Discussion on Next-Generation Movie Viewing Experiences ...Presented by Akamai Jesse Keane, CTO, CinemaNow Tim Napoleon, Chief Strategist for Digital Media, Akamai Josh Wiggins, Senior Director of Global Strategic Sales, Ascent Media Danae Ringelmann, Co-Founder, IndieGoGo (Moderator) Saturday, 10.18 At the Pacific Film Archive theater 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Fireside Chat: Where Are Indie Film, TV, and Online Video Heading? Ted Hope, Co-Founder, This is That; Producer, The Savages, A Dirty Shame, 21 Grams, The Ice Storm, The Brothers McMullen, What Happened Was... Dean Valentine, CEO, Comedy.com and Founder, Symbolic Action; former CEO of UPN and President of Walt Disney Television Scott Kirsner, Editor, CinemaTech (Moderator) 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Games & Cinema Collide: New Experiences, New Opportunities Ken Eklund, Writer & Creative Director, "World Without Oil" Richard Kerris, CTO, Lucasfilm Ltd. Cliff Plumer, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Domain Peggy Weil, Artist & Game Developer, "Gone Gitmo" and "The Redistricting Game" Lance Weiler, Filmmaker, Head Trauma and Game Developer, "Hope is Missing" Wendy Levy, Director of Creative Programming, Bay Area Video Coalition (Moderator) 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM The Changing Distribution Landscape: Big Potential, Big Challenges ...Presented by permissionTV Alex Afterman, Founder, Heretic Films Dana LoPiccolo-Giles, Co-founder, CreateSpace (formerly CustomFlix) George Strompolos, Content Partnerships Manager, YouTube Mike Shiley, Director, Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories & Dark Water Rising Tiffany Shlain, Director, The Tribe & Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence Peter Broderick, President, Paradigm Consulting (Moderator) 12:15 PM - 12:25 PM Overview of Afternoon Workshops 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch Break At Barrows Hall 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM > Broderick on Distribution: The Old World vs. The New World ...Presented by Spout Peter Broderick, President, Paradigm Consulting Chris Thilk, Director of Marketing, Spout LLC (Host) > Digital Production (and Post): Insights from the Front Lines Jeremiah Birnbaum, CEO, SF School of Digital Filmmaking Arin Crumley, Director, As the Dust Settles and Four Eyed Monsters Mike Curtis, HD for Indies James LeBrecht, Berkeley Sound Artists Danae Ringelmann, Co-Founder, IndieGoGo (Host) > Demo Session: New Technologies A New Approach to "Green Screen" Shoots / Eliot Mack, Lightcraft Technology Video Puppetry / Maneesh Agrawala, UC/Berkeley From Motion Capture to Reality Capture / Robin Fontaine, Mova A New Autostereoscopic Display (3-D Without Glasses) / Paul Norman, Agenda Media Sean Uyehara, Programming Associate, San Francisco Film Society (Host) > Open Forum: Post Your Idea Here, or Sign Up On-Site to Present 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM > Producing High-End Content for the Web Alex Lindsay, Founder, Pixel Corps Rich Bradway, Associate Dir. of E-Commerce & New Media, Boston Symphony Orchestra > What We've Learned: Filmmakers on Distribution Mike Shiley, Director, Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories & Dark Water Rising Hunter Weeks, Director, 10 Yards and 10 MPH Scilla Andreen, CEO, IndieFlix (Host) > Understanding the Digital Cinema Ecosystem Pete Ludé, SVP, Sony Electronics Arin Crumley, Director, As the Dust Settles and Four Eyed Monsters Lance Weiler, Filmmaker, Head Trauma and The Last Broadcast (Host) > How to Do Pre-Visualization for Your Feature Dan Gregoire, Founder, Halon Entertainment