Future of Local Media - August Lineup
The Future of Hyper-Local City Guides
Tuesday - August 25, 2009 | 6:30-9pm
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Moderator:
Michael Gluckstadt is an editor at Gelf Magazine.com, a “Business of News” columnist for The Faster Times, and he has recently written about the prospects of hyperlocal journalism for Fast Company magazine. He also hosts the Media Circus speaker series in DUMBO. You can watch a video from their event, “The Business of HyperLocal” here.
Panelists:
Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of foursquare, a service that mixes social, locative and gaming elements to encourage people explore the cities in which they live. Previously, Dennis founded dodgeball.com, one of the first mobile social services in the US, which was acquired by Google in 2005. He has been named one of the “Top 35 Innovators Under 35” by MIT’s Technology Review magazine (2005) and has won the “Fast Money” bonus round on the TV game show Family Feud (2009). His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Time Magazine, Newsweek, MTV, Slashdot and NBC. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Brad Rosen is the Co-Founder at Prximity a location-driven event filter to better connect you with the places you live, work, like to be, and the people around you. Brad has a BS and a MS in Computer Science from Yale University, and JD from Harvard. He previously worked at Aptec-NRC/Canberra, Synqware, Inc., and sits on the advisory board of Retailer Networks.
Polly Lieberman is the VP, Business Development and Advertising Sales at Buzzd, a location-sensitive city guide and social network developed for mobile phones. Polly joined buzzd with more than 10 years of digital advertising, marketing and sales experience. She has spent the majority of her career building digital properties and developing innovative advertising programs for Fortune 500 companies including Nike, HBO, USA Network and DosXX. Since 2003, she has been in the mobile space at buzzd, Juice Wireless and Kikucall. During the boom years, Polly worked at MetLife.com, ClubMom.com and Bolt.com.
James Tunick is the Founder of Mapcidy, a local guide and blog that helps you find the hottest spots in New York City. James attended Yale University as an undergraduate and received his Masters in New Media from NYU Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). He is President/Founder of Studio IMC, a new media agency based in New York City. His work has been featured in Rollingstone Magazine, the Museum of Modern Art, and in the book, Virtual Sets and Pre-Visualization for Games, Movies and the Web, by Jean-Marc Gauthier, Focal Press (2004), and an upcoming book to be published in China about the evolution of American TV & media.
Pitch & Present Guests:
Jeannette Arrowood
Brian Van Nieuwenhoven
Danny Lyu
Jonathan Wegener
Amber Marlow Blatt
Jamie Hutson
