Open Video Conference coming June 19-20

by Lea Shaver | June 3, 2009 | Workshops & Symposia | 1 Comment

The future of online video will be explored at a two-day event taking place June 19-20 at the NYU School of Law in Manhattan.

The “Open Video Conference” is sponsored by Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (ISP), the Participatory Culture Foundation, and Kaltura, in partnership with Mozilla, Creative Commons, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.

“What is Open Video?” an open video

Detailed conference schedule

Register now to attend

A partial list of highlighted speakers is now available…

• Clay Shirky — Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program
• Yochai Benkler — Professor at Harvard’s Berkman Center
• Lizz Winstead — Co-creator of The Daily Show and Shoot the Messenger
• Christopher Blizzard — Director of Evangelism at Mozilla Corporation
• Nina Paley — Creator/Director of Sita Sings the Blues
• Josh Silver — Executive Director of Free Press
• Corynne McSherry — Attorney at EFF
• Xeni Jardin — Co-editor of Boing Boing
• Ted Hope — Film Producer (of nearly sixty features including 21 Grams and most recently Adventureland)
• Avner Ronen — CEO at Boxee
• Eclectic Method — Live Video Remix DJs
• Jason Wishnow — Video Director of the TED Conference
• Lauren Cornell — Executive Director of Rhizome and Adjunct Curator at the New Museum
• Nikhil Chandhok — Senior Product Manager, YouTube
• Anthony Falzone — Executive Director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School
• Mohamed Nanabhay — Head of New Media at Al Jazeera
• Matt Mason — Author of the Pirate’s Dilemma
• Sam Gregory — Program Director of WITNESS
• Jon Lech Johansen, aka DVD Jon — Founder of doubleTwist
• Jonathan McIntosh — Video Remixer and Activist
• Jamie King — Director of Steal this Film I and II
• Melinda Lee — Chief Content Officer of Uncensored Interview
• Eyebeam — Kenseth Armstead, Jon Cohrs, Jeff Crouse, and Michael Mandiberg
• Lance Weiler — Filmmaker and Co-founder of WorkBook Project
• Mark Surman — Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation
• Mike Hudack — CEO of blip.tv
• Eirik Solheim — Project Manager at NRK (Norway’s Public Broadcaster)
• Peter Kaufman — Executive Director, Intelligent Television
• Jack Brighton — WILL Public Media
• Ryanne Hodson & Jay Dedman — RyanIsHungry.com, Video Activists
• Mark Tribe — Artist and Professor at Brown University
• Neil Sieling — Media Fellow at American U’s Center for Social Media
• Sumner Paine — Product Manager Adobe Media Player, Adobe Systems
• Tracey Jaquith — Web Engineer for Archive.org
• Henrik Moltke — Director of Good Copy Bad Copy
• Brett Gaylor — Director of RiP: A Remix Manifesto

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