Mark your calendars: The Fourth Danwei Plenary Session is scheduled for Wednesday January 27, 2010 in Beijing, China.
It’s a panel discussion about mobile phones and the media business.
MOBILE AND THE NEW NEW MEDIA
Venue:
Punk at The Opposite House Hotel
What’s it about?
Ever smaller laptop computers, pervasive online presence thanks to 3G and wifi, ever more powerful phones, cultural phenomenon like Twitter: the age of the mobile device has arrived.
The technological and cultural changes of the mobile age will affect everyone businessmen and bankers to painters and musicians. The aim of our discussion will be to answer some questions about our mobile future, starting with these:
• What is the future of the news, music, video and gaming industries as they go mobile?
• Who will make the money? What business models will succeed?
• Where will the jobs be?
• How will mobile media affect work in the media and tech industries? How can people prepare for the kind of jobs that will emerge in these industries?
• Does mobile advertising work? What’s the future business model for publishers and ad networks?
• Geo-location: what are the business opportunities for location based services?
• How are microblogging (Twitter and its Chinese clones) and mobile phones changing the way news is made and the way reporters do their jobs?
Panelists:
Jamil Anderlini of The Financial Times
Frank Yu, writer for Gamasutra, Venture Advisor at Ymer Venture Capital and veteran of Shouji Entertainment and MicroSoft XBox
Jay Chang of Kongzhong.net
The discussion will be moderated by Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn.
What you’ll get if you attend:
Intelligent discussion about a major area of concern to the business, media, Internet and entertainment communities. The panel will be strictly moderated to ensure the discussion is lively. There will be no PowerPoint. There will be plenty to drink and you will have fun.
Watch this space for updates and information about how to register.
You can read about previous Danwei Plenary Sessions at these links:
• Careers in media, technology and communications
• Western and Chinese news coverage and blogs about China: who is biased?
This event is being organized together with leading PR firm Waggener Edstrom.