Wednesday 16 May 10:00

Session: “Entertainment indusrty and the content”

place:Digital October

It is not a secret that content of big size such as audio, music videos, animation, films, games are the main driving force in the digital space. Every day hundreds of millions of people look for such content in the Internet, listen to it, watch, load, share and also create it. For many sectors of big and serious business which is growing in the digital sphere the user's acting with entertainment models, models of preference, recommendations are the base for analytics researches and serious questions decisions making.

The content which is produced by the entertainment industry always takes first places among search requests and is always the reason for many users to be online for and the object of many services and new business models to be surronded by.

Leading professionals of entertainment industry from Japan, China, Singapore, England, USA, Europe, CIS and Russia in their lectures, debates and roundtable discussions will tell about the entertainment industry in their country, how it advances in the digital sphere and what perspectives they see in common eco-sphere creation considering cultural and economics approach.

The speakers:

- Hajime Taniguchi – Chairman of the Music Publishers Association of Japan (MPAJ), President of Avex Music Publishing Inc. (Japan)
- Bill Yanbin Zang – Chairman of China Recording Industry Committee, Vice President of China Audio-Video Association,Vice President of Shanghai Synergy Culture & Entertainment Group/Shanghai Media and Entertainment Group (China)
- Nozomi Daikuhara – Music Publisher (Japan)
- Vadim Ponomarev – NewsMusic.ru founder and Chief Editor (Russia)
- Ed Yen – Head of Pop Music Project Office (PMPO) of the Taiwan Government Information Office, Director of concerts and TV broadcasting for Asia Olympic Games, Chairman of the Reform Committee for the Taiwan Golden Melody Award (Taiwan)
- Yuriy Rozum – Russian national artist, pianist, professor, Head of piano dapartment in Russian Academy named by Gnesiny (Russia)
- Jean Hsiao Wernheim – Head of International department of Shanghai Synergy Culture and Entertainment Group / Shanghai Media and Entertainment Group (SMEG) (Sweden/China)
- Takahashi Tadahiko – President of Coolfin.inc (Japan)
- Christian Ulf-Hansen – Founder of Plan C Management Company, Founder and co-owner of TV and Film production company Big Feat Films and record cmpany Telescopic Baby (Great Britain)
Theme: Artist Management. Cultural language - is it a barrier? Working with artists in the new markets. Is there an opportunity to have a commercial success?

- Scarlett Li – CEO of Zebra Media (China)
- Greig Watts – Author, producer, founder of DWB Music Ltd. (Great Britain)
- Konstantin Khankhalaev – Khankhalaev Gallery founder (Russia)
- Jessica Kam – Senior TV executive and film producer, Founder of a production house Heart Farm Co, TV Award Nominee
- Sergey Pudovkin – Producer of Vitas (Russia)
- Nick John Wood – Award winning composer, Founder and President of Syn K.K. (Japan)
- Mikhail Bublik – Author, singer (Russia)
- Matthias Röder – Head of Eliette und Herbert von Karajan Institute (Germany)
- Zhou Xian Yun – Artist, Gohua technics master (China)
- Igor Matvienko – Composer, Igor Matrievko Producer fund founder (Russia)
- James Matsuki – Tokyo Music Festival in New York co-producer (Japan)
- Eric De Fontanay – Founder and Chief Editor of Musicdish China (USA/China)
- Alexander Tikhonov – Intermedia agency Chief Analyst (Russia)
- Minako Ota – Painter (Japan)
- Igor Ovrutskiy – Orfey Radio Program Director (Russia)
- Ruhan – Singer, actress (China)
- Evgeniy Safronov – Intermedia agency Founder and CEO (Russia)
- Wicked Aura – Artist / Band (Singapore)
- Alexander Shulgin – Author and composer, Founder of Gruppa Kompaniy Familia and rASiA.com (Russia)
- and others

Who can be interested in it?

Obvious it will be interesting for all the people that work in the entertainment industry in any company and at any position. It will also be interesting for complementary enterprises which work with the content such as media, Internet and telecommunications, advertisement and marketing. For the first time in Moscow there will be so many unique speakers, so it will be very interesting to listen to their opinions and analytics for everyone.
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