Advisory Council meets for intermediaWORLD - World market for leaders in the interactive digital industries; Council to expand and oversee leading industry conference programs.NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 1995--Reed Exhibition Companies (REC) today announced their appointed advisory committee that will participate in creating this year's industry leading conference program at intermediaWORLD '96. Known for the past decade as intermedia Intermedia - A hypertext system developed by a research group at IRIS (Brown University). , the world's largest showcase for the interactive digital industries, intermediaWORLD takes the best of the tremendously successful event and has expanded its focus to meet the changing needs of the industry. The event will take place March 5-7, 1996 at San Francisco's Moscone Center The Moscone Center is San Francisco, California's largest convention and exhibition complex. The complex consists of two main underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, Moscone North and Moscone South, as well the three-level Moscone West exhibition hall across 4th Street. . The Council Encompassing the full breadth of interactive digital industries, REC has assembled as·sem·ble v. as·sem·bled, as·sem·bling, as·sem·bles v.tr. 1. To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury. 2. senior executives from cutting-edge, leading industry companies to comprise the committee. The advisory council is headed by Tom Lopez, 11-year member of the council and president of Mammoth mammoth, name for several large prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus, which ranged over Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene epoch. Microproductions, and includes industry gurus such as:
Terry Anderson Georgia McCabe
Mindscape Inc. Applied graphics Technology
Bud Colligan Michael Mellin
Macromedia Hands-On Technology
Ferhan Cook Emiel Petrone
Media Play International Phillips Interactive Media
Michele DiLorenzo Bob Stein
Viacom New Media The Voyager Company
Douglas Gayeton Linda Stone
Writer/Director Microsoft Corp.
David Garrison Dan Stuart
Netcom Systems Novell Network Products
Terry Hershey Joanna Tamer
Time Warner S.O.S. Inc.
Interactive Group
Rich Jaso Rob Tercek
IBM Corp. Yoyodyne
Hal Josephson Vicki Vance
Media Sense Apple New Media
Robert Lippincott Victor Varney
AT&T Intel Corp.
Stewart McBride David Wilcox
United Digital Artists Dataware Technologies
The mission of the 23 person working council is to create an unprecedented conference program by participating in the establishment of programs, selection of topics and identification of speakers for each session. "As the premier interactive digital industry conference, intermediaWORLD defines and illuminates the most important issues facing developers, publishers/distributors and the technologist," details council member Michael Mellin, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Hands-On Technology. "The advisory council better meets the needs of the industry by focusing intermediaWORLD on hot topics such as intellectual property, government regulation, and the overall impact of the interactive digital technology information business." "We recently had an intensive two-and-a-half day off-site council meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz., where the members of the council witnessed the new direction that will take place at intermediaWORLD '96 and were extremely excited about it," explains Kerry Gumas, REC's senior vice president for the Media & Entertainment Group. "As we enter our second decade with the new intermediaWORLD, the advisory committee is going to play a major role in maintaining the high-level conference program we offer, which is the best in the industry. The group we have assembled represents several years of leading-industry expertise and we are excited about their thoughts and ideas for the conference program in '96." The conference program -- typically divided into three tracks -- focuses on the developer, publisher/distributor and the technologist. In 1996, intermediaWORLD has recognized the increase in new media applications in the market and has extended the seminars to include a fourth track focusing on corporate issues that will target the MIS (1) (Management Information System) An information system that integrates data from all the departments it serves and provides operations and management with the information they require. sector. In addition, the conference program will increase the sessions focusing on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and online services. intermediaWORLD '96 intermediaWORLD also recently announced plans to broaden the scope of the event in order to offer three co-located and interrelated in·ter·re·late tr. & intr.v. in·ter·re·lat·ed, in·ter·re·lat·ing, in·ter·re·lates To place in or come into mutual relationship. in exhibitions: o intermedia, the world's original and largest market exclusively devoted to the creation of interactive digital content and programming. o intermediaNET, devoted to the creation of digital infrastructures and technology solutions for designers, developers, managers and owners of interactive digital networks. It will highlight Internet commerce, as well as the Business Solutions Center. o intermediaLIVE!, a fabulous festival of digital arts, titles, content and programming. The one-of-a-kind Digital Arts Festival An arts festival or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts, but which may also focus on other arts. Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions. , produced in conjunction with United Digital Artists, continues to feature demonstrations and exhibits from leading interactive digital artists and creators from around the world. In addition, The Pioneer Awards will recognize contributions in the not-for-profit Not-for-profit An organization established for charitable, humanitarian, or educational purposes that is exempt from some taxes and in which no one in profits or losses. sector. The three interrelated exhibitions make intermediaWORLD the only forum in the world that addresses the wide spectrum of the interactive digital universe. Reflecting the evolution of the industry over the past 10 years, intermedia has grown to attract more than 300 exhibitors, 18,000 attendees and close to 1,000 members of the press. Further, the event has highlighted pioneers in the industry with keynote keynote /key·note/ (ke´not) in homeopathy, the characteristic property of a drug that indicates its use in treating a similar symptom of disease. speakers such as Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. , John Sculley John Sculley (born April 6 1939) was president of PepsiCo during the 1970s and early 1980s, until he became CEO of Apple on April 8 1983, a position he held until leaving in 1993. Sculley is currently a partner in Sculley Brothers, a private investment firm formed in 1995. , John Malone, Barry Diller Barry Diller (born February 2, 1942 in San Francisco, California) is an American media executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company. Biography and George Lucas Noun 1. George Lucas - United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944) Lucas . About Reed Exhibition Companies intermediaWORLD is produced and managed by Reed Exhibition Companies (REC). REC, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc., is the world's leading organizer of trade and public shows with a current portfolio of approximately 300 events serving more than 40 industries. More than 60,000 exhibiting companies take advantage of REC's events, which attract nearly 7.5 million people globally. For more information on attending intermediaWORLD '96, contact Reed Exhibition Companies at (203) 840-5634. For more information about exhibiting at intermediaWORLD, call customer service at (203) 840-5834, or write Reed Exhibition Companies, 383 Main Ave AVE Avenue AVE Average AVE Alta Velocidad Espanola (train between Madrid and Seville) AVE Alta Velocidad Española (Spanish: High Speed Train) AVE Audio Video Entertainment AVE Advertising Value Equivalent ., Norwalk, Conn. 06851. CONTACT: PAN Communications Mark Nardone, 508/474-0055 or Reed Exhibition Companies Amy Riemer, 203/840-5484 |
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