As the list of guests for New Media Days 2009 grows longer it is our pleasure to announce another 3 international speakers with novel approaches to media needs.
Here are some outtakes from their official bios. Find out more from their speaker profiles in our archive – and be sure to get your conference tickets while they last!
CLAY SHIRKY divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies.
His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web.
In addition to his consulting work, Mr. Shirky is an adjunct professor in NYU’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he teaches courses on the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology — how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.
Mr. Shirky frequently speaks on emerging technologies at a variety of forums and organizations. His writings are archived at shirky.com, and he currently runs the N.E.C. mailing list for his writings on networks, economics, and culture.
JULIA DIMAMBRO has spent the last 12 years in new media and digital communications and 7 years specifically in mobile entertainment.
In 2003 Julia set up Cherry Media to enable brands and consumer-orientated aggregators to reach, acquire, engage and retain a receptive, high-spending and loyal client base.
The company’s Cherrysauce operation is recognised as an industry leader in the field of erotic mobile entertainment, winning numerous awards.
She has been voted one of the top 50 most influential executives in mobile entertainment 3 years running as well as one of the top 50 women in mobile two years running.
Julia is also a regular speaker and writer on the strategies, innovations and challenges of mobile erotica and adult entertainment.
SHANE SMITH is one of the founders of Vice magazine and the President of Vice’s media empire.
In 1994, along with Suroosh Alvi, he helped start a small Montreal punk zine which would soon grow into the first ever free worldwide youth-culture monthly, with 22 international editions and a global circulation of over one million.
Under Shane’s direction, the company has expanded into a wide array of new territories. There’s Vice’s music wing, Vice Records, Vice Books and Vice has also pushed into the worlds of marketing and movie production with its own in-house ad agency, Virtue.
Since 2007 VBS.tv has been Vice’s internet broadband network and an online video counterpart to the magazine’s cutting-edge journalism and cultural commentary.
Shane enjoys cold white wine and long, bubbly baths—preferably in tandem.