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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(a)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