We’ve just posted our full three-day agenda of keynotes, presentations, panel discussions and workshops on the KidScreen Summit site. Check it out when you have a chance.
And REGISTER NOW to take advantage of the year’s best professional learning opportunities for kids entertainment executives for $100 less than full rate.
Our friends at Little Airplane Productions are throwing their doors open to KidScreen Summit delegates again this year for an opening-night party on Tuesday, February 9. If you missed it last year, their South Street Seaport studio is really something to see. And the Little Airplane team is working hard to line up a big-name musical guest to keep the party rockin’.
NOTE: This party is exclusively for KidScreen Summit attendees. You must register for the event to get on the guest list.
Hot on the Trail of Cool: A Trendspotting Report
She’s packed the house at KidScreen Summit for the last two years with her riveting showcase of emerging youth trends. And The Zandl Group’s Anna D’Agrosa is back again this year to deliver the download on hot kid culture themes including Farming 3.0, Splurge Lust and the latest developments in the Digital Natives movement. Zandl clients like AOL, Cartoon Network, Disney, Fisher-Price, Hasbro, General Mills, Proctor & Gamble, MTV Networks and Mattel hang onto every word of these reports. You should too!
We’re thrilled to introduce the mastermind behind blockbuster cross-platform hits like Hot Wheels and Disney Fairies as a marquee speaker at KidScreen Summit 2010.
New Narrative Paradigm: How to be a Master of the Transmedia Universe
In his Digital Media track keynote, leading cross-platform strategist Jeff Gomez will talk about how to transform intellectual properties into highly lucrative transmedia franchises.
Jeff conceived, co-wrote and produced one of the most successful transmedia storylines of the decade with Mattel’s Hot Wheels comic books, video games, web content and animated series. He has gone on to work with such franchises as Fairies, Pirates of the Caribbean, Prince of Persia and Tron for Disney, Halo for Microsoft, Happiness Factory for The Coca-Cola Company and, most recently, Transformers for Hasbro.
Rounding out our Digital Media lineup this year, we’ll be featuring…
• Getting into the Digital Game: Six Steps to Get You Going
• Bypassing TV: An Exploration of Direct-to-Kid Launch Strategies
• Tech Talk presentations on augmented reality, 3-D TV, iPhone avatars and more…
How do they do it? Over and over again, Pixar films delight, entertain and move families worldwide. And though every one of the studio’s landmark movies is different, there are some secret ingredients they all have in common. Back this year by popular demand, screenwriting expert David Freeman will deconstruct 12 of Pixar’s most spellbinding cinematic moments to identify the storytelling elements and techniques the studio deliberately uses to evoke emotion in its audiences.
