Programme

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• 18.00 Registration

  Register for the festival

• 19.00 Opening addresses

  Louise Benson, Festival Director
  Peter Bazalgette, Festival Chairman

• 19.20 Opening night panel

  Cuts, closures, reorganisation…what does it mean for the Arts? The audience is invited to question the panel on how arts and commercial organisations might need to adapt in order to overcome the current environment of huge change and austerity, and what part digital will play.

  Chair: Will Gompertz, Arts Editor, BBC
  Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director, Barbican Centre
  Iwona Blazwick, Director, Whitechapel Gallery
  Paddy Earnshaw, CRM Director, Travelex Global Business Payments
  Marcus Davey, Chief Executive, The Roundhouse
  Heather Rabbatts, Chair, Shed Media
  Alan Yentob, Creative Director, BBC
  

• 20.20 Drinks reception

  Opening night drinks reception.

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• 9.20 Opening remarks

  Peter Bazalgette, Festival Chairman

• 9.30 Welcome

  Dame Liz Forgan, Chair, Arts Council England

• 9.45 Keynote - Making Money, Art and Society: The New Digital Culture

  Balancing commercial enterprise with free public access to the arts in the digital age.

  Russell Davies, Founder, The Newspaper Club

• 10.25 Keynote panel - Balancing commercial enterprise with free public access to the arts in the digital age.

  • How can the public cultural sector collaborate and partner with the digital media industry to unlock its cultural assets?
  • How can maximum value be achieved in the age of 'free'?
  • How do you make choices about public access to publicly-funded data, and entrepreneurial commercial exploitation?

  Sally Potter, Film Director
  Paula le Dieu, Digital Director, BFI
  Hasan Bakhshi, Research Director, NESTA
  Eren Ozagir, Founder, The Founding Twenty

• 11.15 Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport

  Interview by Peter Bazalgette

  As the new government beds in, announces major cuts to public funding of the arts, and calls for a new age of philanthropy, this session probes
  the thinking behind the strategy and welcomes questions from the floor.

• 11.55 Break and networking

  Break and networking.

• 12.20 Select a stream.

  Stream 1 - Old Money New Commissioning

  Even in an age of austerity there is money available to make arts, film and cultural content. Meet the broadcasting arts commissioners and understand their commissioning strategies. Also featured are some examples of non-traditional funding to complete the picture of how to finance cross-platform arts content for broadcast and distribution.

  Tabitha Jackson, Arts Commissioner, Channel 4
  James Hunt, Head of Programming, Sky Arts
  Jan Younghusband, Commissioning Editor, BBC Music and Events
  Laurence Billiet, General Manager, Babelgum
  Gareth Evans, Producer 'After Sebald', Artevents
  Mark Bell, Arts commissioner, BBC
  Tanya Seghatchian, Head of the Film Fund, UK Film Council
  Chaired by: Roy Ackerman, Managing Director, Fresh One Productions

  Stream 2 - Know Your Audience: Presentations of media data analytics

  • What are audiences doing online?
  • What do we know about arts and film consumers and how can we capitalise on our insights?
  • How do audiences engage, communicate and - crucially - transact online?

  Richard Ellis, Co-Founder, MTM London presents details of their Arts Council England digital engagement study
  Hasan Bakhshi, Research Director, NESTA
  
  Joanne South,Research Manager,Arts & Business
  
  Findanyfilm.com
  
  Martin Talks, Big Fish, BlueBarracuda.com discussing consumer behaviour as seen through FAF, and what lessons might be drawn from it.
  Chaired by: Jane Finnis, Director, Culture 24

  Stream 3 - FutureEverything Lounge

  Introduction followed by Bill Thompson and Simon Terrington presenting Cultural Engagement in an Online World.

• 13.15 Lunch and networking

  Lunch and networking.

  Stream 3 - FutureEverything Lounge

  Lunch (plus Cultural Engagement in an Online World open sessions).

• 14:15 Select a stream

  Stream 1 - FutureEverything: We Don't Need Another Bubble: How To Build A Sustainable Digital Culture

  

  Today digital culture has burst its banks, the digital impacts on all organisations, communities and sectors, and there is increasingly no place digital creatives cannot go. Building on a series of debates that began with The City Debate in Manchester during May, FutureEverything offers recession-bending ideas and a vision of the future of art and innovation emerging from digital culture, where artists and creative organisations are working in agile, entrepreneurial ways, often working fluidly across culture, RND, business, and other sectors.

  Drew Hemment, Founder, FutureEverything & Associate Director, ImaginationLancaster
  Toby Barnes, Founder, Mudlark
  Amanda McDonald Crowley, Director, Eyebeam
  Marleen Stikker, Founder, Waag Society

  Chaired by: Andrew Missingham

  FutureEverything Online Forum
  http://debate.futureeverything.org

  Propose your question for the opening night debate on the FutureEverything Online Forum from 2nd September. You can propose and debate questions here, and vote to decide which questions are presented to the panelists.

  The FutureEverything Online Forum will also host discussion and debate on the themes of the conference led by speakers and key figures from digital culture.

  Live from 2nd September.

  Stream 2 - Doing business with the new gatekeepers - featuring digital giants Microsoft, You Tube and O2
  

  

  • Providing unique insight into the evolving world of digital and where it is headed
  • Showcasing digital's increasing relevance for engaging arts and entertainment audiences
  • Sourcing partners that can enhance and extend your content
  • Managing audience relationships
  • Interacting effectively with digital audiences
  • Showcasing the digital opportunities for arts and entertainment in 2010 and beyond

  Alex Woodford, Head of Digital, aka
  Jon Oliver, International Branded Entertainment Director, MSN
  Ariane van de Ven, Future & Trend Insights, O2
  Donagh O'Malley, Head of Content Partnerships, YouTube UK

  Stream 3 - FutureEverything Lounge

  14:15 - Salette Gressett - Crowd Funding workshop.

  14:40 - Mint Digital presents 'Quotables'

  15:00 - Adrian Hon, Six To Start presents 'ABC'

• 15.15 Select a stream

  Stream 1 - Archive session one - What if...? The new possibilities of the digital archive

  If, tomorrow morning, the public were able to access their moving image heritage online, for free and in its totality (for any noncommercial use), what might happen? A collection of influential thinkers and sector representatives imagine the impact, drawing on their own experiences/expertise.

  Chaired by: Roly Keating, Head of Archive, BBC
  JP Rangaswami, Chief Scientist, BT Group
  Paul Gerhardt, Director, Archives for Creativity
  Matthew Postgate, Controller BBC Research & Development BBC
  Chris Wild, aka The Retronaut

  Stream 2 - The open data debate

  • What happens when the public are given access to data?
  • How do you plan for the unpredictable?
  • How have organisations that allow unfettered access to data managed the outcomes and what have the benefits - and drawbacks - been?

  Matthew Somerville, Web Developer, Dracos
  Paula le Dieu, Digital Director, BFI
  Chris Thorpe, Technologist, Jaggeree

  Chaired by: Matt Locke, Acting Head of Cross Platform, Channel 4

  Stream 3 - FutureEverything Lounge

  15:20 - James Bridle presents BookTwo

  15:40 - Ben Terret presents The Newspaper Club

• 15.45 Break and networking

  Break and networking.

  Stream 3 - FutureEverything Lounge

  Break (plus open sessions).

• 16.10 Select a stream

  Stream 1 - Channel 4 pitching competition

  You've got 5 minutes and 9 pictures to bag yourself a couple of grand of Channel 4 development money for a state of the art digital project. If you've got a cracking idea for an innovative digital/multiplatform arts project and can do it justice in this live pitching session, the cash and a follow-up meeting with Channel 4 Crossplatform Commissioning is yours for the taking.

  Hosted by Stuart Cosgrove, Director of Nations and Regions, Channel 4
  Featuring Adam Gee, Editor - Cross Platform Commissioner, Channel 4

  Stream 2 - New media collaborations between arts and industry

  • What are the principles of successful collaboration?
  • How do arts and media organisations marry public service requirements with private sector commercial pressures? These warts and all case studies cover the successes - and failures - of cross platform new media partnerships, from the creative to the practical to the commercial.

  Case Study: RSC+ 4IP+Mudlark 'Such Tweet Sorrow'.
  Toby Barnes, Founder, Mudlark
  Case Study :'Theatre Sandbox' : venues + commissions + tech industry
  Clare Reddington, Director, iShed

  Chaired by: Sally Luton, Consultant

  Stream 3 - FutureEverything Lounge

  16:00 - Christopher Osborne presents ITO data visualisation.

  16:15 - Matthew Somerville HackData workshop

• 17.00 Close day 1

  Close day 1.

  Stream 3 - FutureEverything Lounge

  DeCamp to Hawley Arms pub for free drinks.

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• 9.30 Opening remarks

  Opening remarks.

• 9.40 Project Canvas

  Antony Rose, CTO, Project Canvas

• 10.00 Arts + Internet + TV = ?

  With the advent of Project Canvas this timely discussion explores and questions the opportunities for arts and film organisations, both large and small, that will emerge from the internet and television convergence

  Mark Thompson, Director General, BBC
  John Woodward, Chief Executive, UK Film Council
  John Wyver, Illuminations
  Kip Meek, Chair, Project Canvas
  Honor Harger, Director, Lighthouse
  Mike Stubbs, CEO, FACT

  Chaired by: John Newbigin, Chair, Culture24

• 11.00 Break and networking

  Break and networking.

• 11.30 Select a stream.

  Stream 1 - Architecture of collaboration Two: More case studies covering the successes and failures of collaboration in the arts/film/media space

  'NT Live'
  David Sabel, Head of Digital, National Theatre
  
  Judith Dimant, Producer, Complicite
  Lyn Goleby, Managing Director, City Screen
  

  'The Girl who Played with Fire'
  Jamie Schwartz, VP, Theatrical Marketing, Momentum
  Martin Talks, Big Fish, Bluebarracuda.com
  

  'Profile Books and New Scientist '
  Adrian Hon, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, SixToStart - We Tell Stories
  Michael Bhaskar, Digital Publishing Manager, Profile Books

  Chaired by: Peter Buckingham, Head of Distribution & Exhibition, UK Film Council

  Stream 2 - Build Your Audience: Building community is the new digital marketing

  Crucial insights from the digital experts

  Sony Music Ltd shares insights about its customers - their passions, behaviours and buying habits.
  Fred Bolza, VP, Marketing Services, Sony Music

  Multi award winning digital agency shares its global learnings and expertise and offers some predictions for the future of digital engagement.
  Lorenzo Wood, CTO, Lost Boys International

  Anthea Williams, Associate Director, Bush Theatre
  Chaired by Paul Bennun, Director of Strategy, Somethin' Else

• 12.30 Lunch and networking

  Lunch and networking.

• 13:30 Avant-Gaming: What the arts can learn from games

  Game play and interactivity are more ubiquitous than ever and offer many opportunities to engage, educate and extend online and offline audiences. These case studies showcase the best in class of when arts meets film meets games.

  '221B Baker Street'
  Margaret Robertson, Development Director, Hide&Seek (for Warner Bros)

  'Trafalgar Origins'
  Alice Taylor, Commissioning Editor, Channel 4 Education
  
  Tassos Stevens, Co-Director, Coney
  
  Chaired by: Clare Reddington, Director, iShed

• 14.30 SP-ARK, building the worlds first interactive, multimedia film archive.

  SP-ARK is pioneering an entirely new approach to the use of archive material as an educational resource. It is unique in allowing students, scholars and film fans to interact, not just with its database of thousands of multimedia materials relating to every aspect of filmmaking, but also with each other.

  SP-ARK tackles a problem that all traditional archives are facing: how to provide enhanced access to hard-to-find materials in the digital age?

  Dr Janko Calic
  Sophie Mayer, Education Consultant, Adventure Pictures
  Christopher Sheppard, Founder and Producer, Adventure Pictures

• 14.45 The archive surgery

  • Got an archive question that needs answering?
  • Struggling with the metadata minefield?
  • Unsure of the right investment choices?
  • Weighing up IP protection against open access?

  Bring your questions on all this and more to our panel of archive experts.

  Christopher Sheppard, Producer, Adventure Pictures
  Clare Holden, Development and Outreach Co-ordinator, Adventure Pictures
  Asha Oberoi, Managing Director, ITN Source
  Peter McInerney, Partner, Sheridans

  Chaired by: Tony Ageh, Director of Archive Content, BBC

• 15.15 Break and networking

  Break and networking.

• 15.30 Where's the money? Tapping into funds for innovation and development

  What are different organisations doing to support creative R&D and innovation in the digital arena?

  Pete Buckingham, Head of Distribution and Exhibition,
  UK Film Council
  Adrian Friedli, Director, Digital Projects,
  Arts Council England
  Alex Stanhope, Lead Technologist, Creative Industries,
  Technology Strategy Board

  Chaired by: Mike Gubbins, Consultant

• 16.15 The wrap

  Peter Bazalgette asks delegates about their biggest revelations and learnings from the festival.