[Fsf-friends] Careers in New Media Festival, 1-3 July 2005

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested individuals  
and organisations. For more information and to register, contact  
Sonia Nazareth at +91.22.2382.1893 or +91.98199.39820 or write to  
sonia@cometmedia.org

Best,


S.K.
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Comet Media Foundation presents

CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA
seminar and exhibition

interactive presentations with the finest minds
on the hottest topics in New Media


DATES:
FRIDAY 1st, SATURDAY 2nd and SUNDAY 3rd July 2005

TIME:
10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M. Daily

VENUE:
Bosco Hall
St Andrews Church Compound, Hill Road
Bandra West, Mumbai 400050


a COSMOS foundational event


CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA is a festival composed of a seminar, an  
exhibition and scope for many interactions. It aims to create  
awareness among students about the new and viable professional  
options unleashed by emerging information and communication  
technologies.

Friday 1 July 2005
NEW MEDIA FOR COMMUNICATIONS Seminar
10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M.

Saturday 2 July 2005
NEW MEDIA FOR A NEW WORLD Seminar
10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M.

Friday 1 July, Saturday 2 July and Sunday 3 July
NEW MEDIA Exhibition
10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M.

CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA will have an inter-disciplinary approach, with  
experts and established professionals from a wide variety of work  
areas sharing their experiences and visions of the future. This is an  
unique opportunity for students to interact with experts in order to  
make a strategic career choices.

COSMOS is a recently-launched initiative of the Comet Media  
Foundation in Mumbai, exploring the complex and densely woven field  
in which science, technology and society overlap. The educational  
programme of COSMOS is scheduled to be operational by 2006. For more  
information on the Comet Media Foundation visit

http://www.cometmedia.org

The CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA festival is open to all. Entry to the  
exhibition is free. The seminar presentations require pre- 
registration, as seats are limited. The registration charges are Rs  
200. For more information and to register, contact Sonia Nazareth at  
+91.22.2382.1893 or +91.98199.39820 or write to sonia@cometmedia.org



FRIDAY 1 JULY 2005
NEW MEDIA FOR COMMUNICATIONS Seminar
(25 minute presentation will be followed by 15 minute question and  
answer sessions)

10:00 to 10:15
Introduction
CHANDITA MUKHERJEE
Comet Media Foundation, Documentary Film-Maker

10:15 to 10.45
Keynote Address "the unfolding new media scenario "
NINA SABNANI
Head, Department of New Media Studies
National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad

10.50 to 11:30
"Making it in the games industry"
REENA GEORGE
Human Resources Manager, Indiagames Ltd, Mumbai

HRISHI OBEROI
Head of 3D and Console Games, Indiagames Ltd, Mumbai

11:30 to 11.45
BREAK

11:50 to 12:30
"Animation as a career for the future"
SHILPA RANADE
Faculty Member, Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Indian Institute of  
Technology (IIT), Mumbai

12:35 to 1:15
"Can writing be a viable career? Exploring web-journalism"
KIRAN JONNALAGADDA
Blogger and Information Architect, Seacrow Labs, Bangalore

1.20 to 1.30
"The power of the portal: a case study"
Z. ANSARI
rediff.com

1:30 to 2:15
LUNCH

2:20 to 3:00
"Entrepreneurship in the age of new media: entertainment and commerce"
TOBY MORNING
Chairman, Urban Technology Ventures, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

3:05 to 3:20
BREAK

3:25 to 4:05
"Opportunities in audio-visual post-production"
NEIL SADWELKAR
Editor and Editing System Consultant,
Technical Consultant to Pixion Studio

4:10 to 4:30
Concluding Remarks
NIRMALENDU JAJODIA
Software Developer,
Board Member, Comet Media Foundation



SATURDAY 2 JULY 2005
NEW MEDIA FOR A NEW WORLD Seminar
(25 minute presentation will be followed by 15 minute question and  
answer sessions)

10:00 to 10:20
Introductory Note
NIRMALENDU JAJODIA

10:25 to 11:05
"Emerging careers in the new information age"
GURUNANDAN BHAT
Chief Technologist, Synapse, Goa

11:10 to 11:50
"Future prospects for sound specialists"
P. BALARAM
Audio Engineer, Audeus Studios, Mukta Arts, Mumbai

11:55 to 12:10
BREAK

12:15 to 12:55
"Careers in e-learning"
RUPESH GOEL
Head, Simulations, Tata Interactive Systems

1:00 to 1:40
"GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications"
VINEET SHROFF
Founder-Director, Biond Software, Mumbai

1:40 to 2:25
LUNCH

2:30 to 3:10
"New media as an area of research and training"
NISHANT SHAH
Research Scholar,
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore

3:15 to 3:30
BREAK

3:35 to 4:15
"ICTs, social development and business models"
JAYALAKSHMI CHITTOOR
Editor, I4D Magazine,
Centre for Science Development & Media Studies (CSDMS), New Delhi

4:20 to 4:30
Vote of Thanks
INDRANIL CHAKRAVARTY
Film-Maker and Project Director, COSMOS New Media Initiative,
Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai



ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

NINA SABNANI teaches Communication Design at National Institute of  
Design, Ahmedabad. After a degree in Fine Arts from Baroda, she  
studied animation at NID and in the UK. Later, she did a post  
graduate programme in Television & Film from the USA on a Fulbright  
Fellowship. She has evolved with the times to embrace a wide range of  
subjects in her profile. At present she teaches courses in Visual  
Scripting for Animation, Interaction Design, Linear and non-linear  
story telling, Games design, Illustration and Multi-sensory Design.

http://www.nid.edu

REENA GEORGE currently Manager Human Resources at Indiagames, had  
extensive experience in the IT industry. A part of the dynamic  
industry of wireless gaming, Reena has taken Indiagames from an 80  
member team to over 250 employees in the past one year. She is an  
active member of the HR Infotech Association, Mumbai.

http://www.indiagames.com

HRISHI OBEROI is currently Head of the 3D & Console games at  
Indiagames. He has specialised in computer graphics and animation and  
has designed and programmed 2D and 3D games for mobile phones. Hrishi  
is currently producing a console named "Ashoka". He is active in the  
International Game Developer's Association, Mumbai chapter, organises  
gaming events like WCG India and speaks in technical forums concerned  
with games development in India.

http://www.indiagames.com

SHILPA RANADE is a faculty member at the Industrial Design Centre,  
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. A gold medallist from Sir J.  
J. Institute of Applied Art, she did her Masters in Visual  
Communication from IDC, IIT, Mumbai and subsequently completed an  
M.Phil in Animation from the Royal College of Art, London. Her  
animation film Mani’s Dying won the critics award at the Bombay  
International Short Film Festival, 1996 and was nominated for the  
best British short film award at the British Short Film Festival, 1995.

http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in

KIRAN JONNALAGADDA is a writer and programmer who works at the  
crossing of media, technology and the web. Currently a consultant  
technologist at various organisations, he is also an Independent  
Research Fellow at Sarai, studying how the user interface affects  
online communities. He is also a collaborator on the Mumbai Free Map  
Project of CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), Mumbai, a  
member of the Plone Foundation, and a trustee of the Tapovan School  
in rural Bangalore. An observer and participant in blogging, Kiran is  
also an occasional journalist and a keen photographer.

http://www.seacrow.com
http://www.freemap.in

TOBY MORNING is an entrepreneur who heads Urban Technology Ventures,  
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. This group of internet-based  
companies aims to leverage technology and “serve as a catalyst for  
creating a more peaceful, healthy, prosperous planet for future  
generations”. Toby’s passion for music has taken him from event  
promotion to music distribution and concert promotion to the Internet  
radio portal djunion.com. Toby’s focus is on developing the company’s  
internet services, and he is in India investigating various fresh  
business opportunities with Indian partners.

http://urbantechnologyventures.com

NEIL SADWELKAR spends most of his waking hours as an editor and edit  
system consultant, currently at a large post production house called  
Pixion. Neil started out making sky shows in the Planetarium, moved  
to 16mm film and then followed video through its evolution as a  
professional medium. Neil has been associated with documentary and  
feature film-making in all the possible capacities—sound recordist,  
editor, camera person, director. He has been a contributing editor at  
Misenscene, and forum host at the DMN Forums’ Final Cut Pro forum.

http://www.sadwelkar.com

GURUNANDAN BHATT enjoys working on applications that allow people to  
organise, share and disseminate data and collaborate in useful,  
productive and innovative ways. Currently Chief Technologist at  
Synapse, Goa, a company that “partners with clients to solve their  
business problems through information-based initiatives” Gurunandan  
has worked extensively on designing and developing complex yet  
inexpensive information systems. An ardent proponent of Open Source  
software, he regularly speaks at events, has authored several books  
and writes for technology magazines.

http://www.plusthought.org

BALARAM PONDENKANDATH graduated from FTII Pune in sound recording and  
sound engineering. He has designed, installed and worked as a  
recordist at a number of leading sound studios such as Sargam Studio,  
Audio Bytes of Mumbai, VGP Digital Studios, ABM Digital Studio,  
Maryan Digital Studio of Chennai and Navodaya of Trivandrum, Jeevan  
TV satellite channel of Cochin and the dubbing and DTS mixing studios  
for Easwary Films, Banglore. Currently Balaram is the chief recording  
engineer at Audeus Studio for Mukta Arts. He consultants with the  
Music Archive at St. Paul's, Bangalore and does sound engineering for  
musical shows in India and abroad.

http://www.muktaarts.com

RUPESH GOEL is Head, Simulations, Tata Interactive Systems, a large  
developer of custom e-learning solutions. It has a multi-disciplinary  
team of over 700, including content developers, 3-D animators &  
modellers, software engineers and instructional designers. TIS e- 
learning programmes cater to the needs of diverse sectors in the  
corporate, educational and government arena. Its offerings include  
business and educational simulations, enterprise applications  
training, adaptive assessments, story-based learning objects, game- 
based learning, teacher tools and teaching aids and a host of other  
applications.

http://www.tatainteractive.com

VINEET SHROFF trained in aeronautical engineering at IIT Powai. He  
founded Biond Software in 1994 with Milind Dalvi. Biond is in the  
space of creating GIS datasets or digital maps for India. His  
expertise includes procurement and analysis of high-resolution  
satellite imagery, vectorisation and CAD work, physical field survey  
and application software development. Vineet is also the founder  
director of Newreka Chemicals and CEO of Standard Engineers. His  
special interests include growing exotic fruits.

NISHANT SHAH is a researcher in contemporary culture and new digital  
media based at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society  
(CSCS), Bangalore. His interests are in looking at the formation of  
online communities in the third world through blogging. The  
construction of identities online and the patterns of social  
structure that arise due to these activities are of immediate  
interest to him. Nishant has been designing and teaching courses in  
contemporary digital cultures for undergraduates at Christ College  
and St. Joseph's College, Bangalore. His work has been published in  
various poetry anthologies and he dreams of writing a novel some day.

http://www.cscsban.org

JAYALAKSHMI CHITTOOR has written extensively on gender, consumer  
issues, ICT4D, mountain issues and natural resources management and  
has experimented with new electronic media for community building and  
networking. Heading the i4d programme of the Centre for Science,  
Development and Media Studies, she brings out the monthly magazine  
“i4d” and coordinates two research studies. She also works as  
regional Asia advisor to Bellanet International, promoting ICT tools  
to provide opportunities to disadvantaged communities and for  
providing democratic space in the world of the Internet.

http://www.i4d.csdms.in
http://www.i4donline.net