Innovation Forum | The Future of Media | Sydney

YOU ARE INVITED TO DISCUSS THE FUTURE OF MEDIA WITH SOME OF AUSTRALIA"S LEADERS ON MEDIA, MARKETING & STRATEGY. JOIN US.

What if you started one of the worlds most amazing magazine empires like Sahill Merchant from Mag Nation?

What if you created a social enterprise that creates a pathway for homeless youth into full time employment like Rebecca Scott from STREAT.

What if you decided to create the Tennis World Cup like Ben Crowe from Gemba?

What if you built a pop up a retail empire of more than 300 stores like Paul Breen or created a company that designs the best retail stores on the planet like Jason Pollard & James Hewitt from Public Design Group.

What if we could explore the innovative minds behind the people who do create these things every day. Welcome to IF (Innovation Forums).

WHAT IS IF (INNOVATION FORUMS)?

IF starts with an idea. It is where remarkable thought leaders come together to share ideas. 

IF channels energy and direction towards solving the pressing issues for organizations both large and small across varying markets and demographics seeking to reinvent the traditional notion of “networking” by enabling interactions and long-term relationships.

IF is for people to share ideas and networks by meeting other remarkable people. It’s for people that inspire more action, better ideas, and new ways of seeing the world.

IF is designed to connect local innovators and experts to discuss far-reaching themes like marketing, online, design, business, strategy and more.

IF is about exploring possibilities, looking at the world through someone else's eyes and sharing a lifetime of knowledge with a room full of smart people.

TOPIC :THE FUTURE OF MEDIA.

Galvin is the Founder, Owner and Creative Director of Protein One. He has successfully driven the Protein brand to be recognised as one of Sydney’s leading boutique multi-media studios. 

For more than 8 years, Protein have delivered award-winning projects for their clients in Brand, Print, Web, Interactive, Mobile Applications and Film. 

In the past year alone, Protein have been awarded 6 x International Interactive Media Awards (IMA’s) for commissioned website projects. 

In the film industry - Galvin is represented by The Brant Rose Agency in the U.S., and RGM Associates in Sydney as a Writer/Director for Film and Television. His short film 'Brother' won the Beverly Hills Film Festival and Los Angeles Silver Lake Film Festival in 2006.

Pip graduated from Edinburgh University in 2002 with a first class (high distinction equivalent) masters degree in Economics. She was recruited directly from university into the fast stream civil service
for the British government giving economic analysis and advice on all areas of Home Office operations. After a year in Economics she pursued her dream of working in the media industry where she has worked since, first for the BPI working on the 2004 BRIT Awards, then as Strategy &
Development Manager for MTV Networks Australia, where she developed the business model, planned and spearheaded the team that launched two new localised channels in New Zealand, MTV and Nickelodeon.

Most recently Pip headed up Marketing for MTV Networks New Zealand, where she oversaw all areas of marketing activity including traditional and digital consumer marketing initiatives, online and
offline public relations and events. During her tenure she won A Silver ANZ PROMAX for Best Innovative Idea for the MTV Mile High Gig and built key strategic media partnerships with NZ media giants including SKY, The Radio Networks, BNet, ACP, The Herald, TV3, Myspace, Real Groove, Vice and Air New Zealand.

In 2008 Pip returned to Sydney to launch The Loop, www.theloop.com.au, a career networking site for creative professionals, which has quickly cemented itself as a fantastic platform to connect with like-minded professionals and with industry.

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Johannes is co-founder of PLAY, a specialist brand experience agency based in Australia. His background is branding and strategic planning for agencies across Europe and Australia including Fitch Worldwide in London. 

Throughout his career, he has pioneered experiential thinking across retail, brand communication and event based marketing, helping brands to establish a meaningful dialogue with both consumers and internal audiences. He has worked extensively with clients such as MINI, Jaguar, the Sydney Opera House, Adobe Systems, the City of Sydney, Ernst and Young, Telstra, Vodafone, Samsung, Tourism Victoria, Tourism New Zealand. Johannes studied Business Administration in Austria and completed his Marketing Degree in London.

In your opinion, what the world needs more than anything right now is... Johannes is co-founder of PLAY, a specialist brand experience agency based in Australia.  He believes the world needs more of "less". With technology opening new opportunities we are increasingly confusing the new with the useful. Einstein put it profoundly: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Hi, I'm David. I love, in no particular order, wine, coffee, New York City and music. Actually I love that last thing the most, NYC is a close second. 

Let me elaborate on David's profile. (by Ben Rennie), David is a rare strategist with an insanely accurate perspective on strategy, marketing, business and in particular media. As a writer for Marketing magazine, blogger and account director for some of the worlds leading brands. David can and will engage you in conversations about change, the future and music.

Hang over every word. Its worth it.

Ian's digital native status dates back to 1979 when upgrades involved a soldering iron.  Computer connectivity played a large part of his early career, taking him into some large Australian and international organisations - and a couple of coups in Russia.

He spent '95 in San Francisco following a hunch this new Internet thing might have legs.  Returning to Australia, Ian was appointed the first Internet Team leader at TAFE NSW (now DET).  Starting with a single 128Kb link, the next 3 years he oversaw access roll out to both 100K staff and 1M+ students at classroom level and took the best selling non fiction publication - the TAFE Handbook - online. 

In 2000 Ian was appointed the CIO of Line56 - a new media company in Los Angeles, set up to ride the dot com boom - mostly down.  In that time, he built a custom CMS, subscription CRM for 300K subscribers and learned all about salesforce automation, display and search media from their pre 1.0 versions.

Back in Australia, Ian took business development roles at MassMedia Studios (Traction eCRM platform), pure profile (Research panels and profiled media) and was in 2009 appointed Director of Social Media at Amnesia | Razorfish.

He currently teaches the ADMA Certificate in Digital Marketing and is an independent Social Media Advisor, working with clients such as Hon Michael Kirby AO, Sydney Festival, Starlight Foundation, Adam Brand, Emily Scott and National Disability Services.

In your opinion, what the world needs more than anything right now is... to chill out about growth being the primary measure of success.

With over 15 years experience across the design and advertising industries Richard brings a unique combination of creative, strategy and realisation to his work.

Able to bridge the gap between disciplines he focuses on developing strategic creative that spans the breadth of traditional and non-traditional channels in its scope and ambition.

Originally from London he continues to work with award winning agencies and has designed and developed creative for clients including Ford, Mazda, GSK, United Distillers and Vintners, Telstra and Island Records.

I am the founder of 6.2 and uncluttered white spaces. I work with companies, organisations and brands on innovation, strategy, marketing and social responsibility. 

I have 3 kids, I live in a town with 100 people, I surf most mornings, Skate when I find a spare 5 and I work with partners in Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong, New York, Brazil and Tasmania. 

I believe what the world needs now is to get a little smarter on consumption, stop drinking water from plastic bottles and to constantly look at innovative ways to bring about change for good be it through brand, people or education. 

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