X Media Lab Sweden

Fra nettsiden:

XMediaLab Sweden: Location Based Services consists of two parts: the Conference Day on 21st January (General Admission) for which just 250 places are available; and then the Lab itself (22nd - 23rd January) during which selected digital media businesses and project teams work one-on-one with the International Mentors - gaining high-level elite personal consultation and entering into an impeccable international network.

The Conference and Lab will be at the very frontier of new mobile and location technologies and will be held in the heart of one of the most thriving areas in the world when it comes to digital innovation.

South Sweden harbours more than 35 000 professionals working with new media, smart handheld devices and innovative game design and is truly one of the world’s hotspots for media technology revolution.

The Pro Day Conference (January 21st) will be held at the Orkanen Creative Hub in Malmö, while the Lab (January 22-23rd) will be held at the exquisite Örenäs Slott Castle … our first Lab in a Castle!

To top it all off, the VIP Reception will be held on the top floor of Santiago Calatrava’s amazing ‘Turning Torso’ building.

International Mentors include:

• Tomi Ahonen – International Expert on Nordic and Asian Mobile Industries (Hong Kong)
• Noah Falstein – Father of “Serious Games”; Games and Location Based Gaming (San Francisco)
• Dale Herigstad – World leading interaction and interface designer and 4 times Emmy Award winner (London/LA)
• Ivo van Barneveld – Manager Layar Partner Network (Amsterdam)
• Gabrielle Gresta – Owner, Founder & Deputy Chairman, Digital Magics Group (Milan)
• Vishal Gondal – Founder and CEO, Indiagames (Mumbai)
• Alvin Wang Graylin – Founder and CEO mInfo, China’s leading mobile search service (Shanghai)
• Johan P Bång – CEO, Future Position X (Sweden)
• Chris Deering – Former President of Sony Computer Entertainment – Europe (London)
• Paris Buttfield-Addison – Co-founder, Secret Lab (Tasmania)

You can register for the Pro Day Conference here

Nominate your project idea for the Lab here