AFTRS has announced a lineup of free, interactive online events focused on this year’s free and interactive online event, “Predictions: Screen and Audio Industry Imagination for 2030.”
Key speakers include the author of mediator and media analyst Doug Shapiro. Lynette Wallworth, an artist and filmmaker. Screen Australia COO Grainne Brunsdon; Deputy Prime Minister Professor Marnie Hughes Warrington and the National Film School of Film, Head of Danish Research and Research, Jacob Kirstein Hogel, who is in the Provost and Chief Academic Office at the University of South Australia.
To be held on June 26th, the conversation covers how the industry builds capabilities and infrastructure for sustainability and change, and provides ideas on how to assemble and build structures, spaces, relationships and learning environments for a better future.
“The media business is tackling deep structural challenges rooted in the disruption in content distribution enabled by the Internet. A second wave is now coming. The slower content creation costs can overwhelm the pace of change, but it also provides opportunities for media companies that come to mind.
Dr. Nell Greenwood, CEO of AFTRS, said the panel’s scope “hopes to allow us to collectively predict changes ahead and consider strategies to create resilient, sustainable and prosperous industries.”
To participate, guests must register for each session they wish to participate in. Sessions run from 12pm to 5:25pm, and registration for all sessions is free.
Details of the five sessions are listed below.
Session 1 | Media Confusion: Conversation with Doug Shapiro
The summit begins with Doug Shapiro, a mediator, independent advisor, strategist and media analyst author. In a detailed conversation with Australian media leader and communicator Paula Kruger, Shapiro reflects on the opportunity to imagine where we are in today’s media and screen industry, how we anticipate new disruptions, prepare for them, and where the industry wants to go.
Session 2 | Ingenuity and imagination: The future of creative education
How will creative education evolve to meet and thrive the demands of rapidly changing industrial and cultural landscapes? This panel brings together thought leaders in education, industry and research to explore and imagine the future of the learning environment, training and the role of technology in shaping learners of tomorrow. Dr. Nell Greenwood, CEO of AFTRS, will be hosting the panel by Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO, Vice President of the University of South Australia, Provost and Chief Academic Office, and Jakob Kirstein Høgel, Director of Educational Research at the Danish National Film School.
Session 3 | Production 2030
What skills and business models should producers develop or thrive in the future? In this session, the producers, featuring Screen Australia’s Chief Operating Officer Grainne Brunsdon and WildBear Entertainment CEO Michael Tearter, are invited to predict what production will look like in 2030. Gain valuable insights from top-class practitioners and deep thinkers who are committed to predicting the challenges and opportunities of local production, as well as the skills needed to navigate a new era of storytelling.
Session 4 | Listen: Exploring the future of listening
Radio is not dead, but I am no longer alone. It’s just part of the fast-growing, disrupted, rapidly evolving audio industry, where competition is intense and revenue flowing, but opportunities are very high. Join prominent broadcasters and industry leaders as you imagine for the future of radio and audio and how to continue this transformation. Moderated by AFTRS Discipline Lead, Radio & Podcasting, Andrea Ho, and speakers.
Session 5 | Closing of keynote speech by Lynette Wallworth
What new stories can make our progress? Which voices, stories, and methods of storytelling can connect us beyond the challenges of our everyday reality and the constraints of our lives? In this session, Australian artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth looks back on the role and importance of storytelling, storytellers, and clarify ideas that can drive us into the future.
