Vancouver International Digital Festival

What’s going on in the world of speakers for VIDFEST 07?

So far this year we have an interesting array of speakers. Two sectors new to VIDFEST are police and advertising. Do they go together? You’ll have to come to Vidfest to find out!

In no particular order… drum roll please…

Ori Brafman, Co-Author, The Starfish And The Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations (US)
Anastasia Goodstein, Author, Totally Wired: What Teens And Tweens Are Really Doing Online and publisher of Ypulse.com. (US)
Gerri Sinclair, Executive Director, Masters of Digital Media Program (Canada)
Greg Goodfried, Co-Creator and Executive Producer, Lonelygirl15 (US)
Jennifer Ouano, Monkey Business Woman, Elastic Entertainment, (Canada)
Michael Tippett, Founder, Now Public (Canada)
Megan Cole, Creative Director, Catapult Media; Co-Producer, ThisCityRocks; Blogger, megsjargon, Canadian New Media Awards (Canada)
Inspector Kevin McQuiggin, Vancouver Police Department (Canada)
Dan Reitzik, President, DY Mobile (Canada)
Jim Southcott, Chief Strategic Officer, TBWA (Canada)
Andrew Keen, Author, The Cult Of The Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture (US)
Steve Bocska (B.A., M.A., MBA) Joint CEO, Hothead Games (Canada)
Dave Sylvestre, Group Creative Director, Organic (Canada)
Joshua Davis, Web Artist (US)

If you know someone that should join this list, let me know!

Contact Kelly Verchere, Program Coordinator and Speaker Recruiter for Vidfest 2007
Kelly@newmediabc.com