Interactive Ontario

iLunch 8.01

Starts: January 28, 2010 - Ends: January 28, 2010

This session showcased case-studies of successful interactive properties. What made these interactive properties innovative - use of technology? Business model? Creative concept? And what made them work?

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Featured speakers included:

VP, Policy & Stakeholder Relations Canadian Television Fund	Stéphane Cardin Stéphane Cardin joined the Canadian Television Fund (CTF) in June 2006. In his role as Vice President of Policy and Stakeholder Relations, Mr. Cardin leads the CTF’s research, programs, and communications teams and is responsible for the development of policy initiatives and the CTF’s stakeholder consultation process. Prior to joining the CTF, Mr. Cardin was Director General of Tax Credits with Quebec’s cultural funding agency, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC), and was a member of SODEC’s management committee.
President Admodo Group	Brady Gilchrist Brady Gilchrist has been in the digital business from the beginning. Brady is a sailer, pilot, photographer, writer and entrepreneur. His ﬁrst business was creating mobile applications - before mobile was a buzz word. The technology he created was sold and a non-compete brought him into the internet business in the early 90s. His second business was one of Canadaʼs ﬁrst online agencies. He has been involved in a number of interesting projects including “A Digital Life” when in 1999 he wired up a 27 foot sailboat to the Internet and accidentally became one of the ﬁrst bloggers. He traveled up the coast of Africa on the Microsoft, Sony and Stern sponsored Starship Millennium voyage as part of a crew making a multimedia record of our world at the turn of the century. As Brady says he has been fortunate to be at the right times and right places for serendipity to take him in interesting directions. In his professional life he has been a Senior Vice President at GJP advertising, Executive Vice President and CSO at Fuel Industries and is now President of the Admodo group. His responsibilities these days are investing, inventing and evangelizing very new things. His business endeavors have taken him around the world. He currently sits on the board of directors for Sketch, is a member of S&P Vistaʼs Society of Industry Leaders and has major online advertising award.
Director of Kids Interactive Corus Entertainment	Caitlin O'Donovan Caitlin O'Donovan is the Director of Kids Interactive at Corus Entertainment, Canada's largest kids broadcaster. She leads the strategic direction and operation for online and mobile initiatives for YTV, Treehouse and Nickelodeon Canada, as well as Nelvana properties such as Babar, Franklin, and Beyblade. Caitlin began her career producing cutting-edge interactive experiences and games at science centres and museums around the world with Immersion Studios. She later joined the Canadian Film Centre where she supervised dozens of major new media productions, oversaw the incubation of new media companies as Producer of the Interactive Project Lab, and lead the design of the TELUS Innovation Fund which invests in emerging forms of entertainment. She joined Corus in 2007 to oversee the development and production of massively multiplayer games, including the award winning GalaXseeds. Caitlin has participated in juries for the Geminis, the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, the United Nations World Summit Awards, and the Canadian New Media Awards. She frequently speaks about multiplatform and gaming, most recently at the Montreal Independent Gaming Summit, nextMedia, and the Banff Television Festival. She is currently completing graduate studies on political economy and multiplatform entertainment.
Principal Consultant Two Solitudes Consulting	Alan Sawyer Alan Sawyer is the principal consultant at Two Solitudes Consulting, which he established in 2006. Two Solitudes focuses on the changing face of entertainment across all media but with a particular emphasis on the television space. Alan has an extensive background in the area of digital content and brings a unique combination of technical and business perspectives to his analysis of the Canadian media and telecommunications industries and of emerging technologies and business models. In addition to his strategy consulting work, Alan also works with content creators and producers to help craft their projects to take them beyond now-conventional cross-platform approaches into uncharted waters. Alan is a frequent commentator on media and telecom in print and on radio and television and is a frequent participant at many media and media-related industry conferences.
Journalist, Globe and Mail	Ivor Tossell Ivor Tossell has been writing for the Globe and Mail's online-culture column since 2005, interpreting everything from passing web fads to the lasting changes that new media has brought. A freelance journalist, his writing about urban affairs and technology has also appeared in the Toronto Star, the National Post, Report on Business Magazine, Toronto Life, and Spacing Magazine, among others. Before joining the dinosaurs of old media, Ivor worked on ICT projects in Africa and worked and ran a small software business, developing web applications.