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This is the official Mobile Entertainment Summit taking place across the street from CTIA although no longer affiliated with CTIA. Join the dynamic deal-making environment between content owners and distributors where we discuss the hottest trends for mobile content and applications. The Beach, Las Vegas http://ihollywoodforum.com/MESApril2006.htm

MIPTV featuring MILIA is where you will find everyone involved in content creation, production & distribution across all traditional, digital & Telcos TV platforms. Boasting a world class conference with over 200 speakers and 45 sessions on TV & Digital Platforms. Last year, some 12,000 professionals from across the globe generated over €3 billion worth of business at MIPTV featuring MILIA. http://www.milia.com/

More and more people are transforming themselves from media consumers to producers – using the new tools, software and technologies now at their disposal.

From the expanding realm of free and open source software (FLOSS), to peer-to-peer (P2P) distribution and ‘pervasive’ mobile and locative technologies, the possibilities exist as never before to create and disseminate our opinions and experiences through our own media.

TAKEAWAY, the Festival of do it yourself Media, will help you to understand what it’s all about and how to take part in the revolution.
The Dana Centre – Science Museum 165 Queen’s Gate South Kensington London SW7 5HD http://www.takeawayfestival.com/

28-29 March 2006 Produced by Internet Home Alliance, a cross-industry network of companies conducting collaborative research in the connected home space, the Collaborative Research Planning Conference is the only digital home conference that gives participants an opportunity to hear the latest connected home research and then work side-by-side with other attendees to develop connected home solution concepts for testing within the Alliance’s collaborative (multi-company) research program. At this spring’s conference, attendees will hear and discuss key learnings from the Alliance’s State of the Connected Home Market Research 2005, the organization’s most comprehensive annual research study into the digital home market. Orlando County Convention Center
Orlando, Florida http://www.internethomealliance.com/events_mkting/industry_conference.asp

20 – 25 MarchInternational Festival of Digital Art and Media The 10th Lovebytes Festival is happening in Sheffield this weekend! Featuring live music and multi-media performances, film screenings, workshops and exhibitions of new media work from around the world… Live music performances by Francis Dhomont (Canada), Fennesz (Austria), CM von Hauswolff (Sweden) and Aoki Takamasa (Japan). The film programme includes an international array of short films curated in partnership with organisations such as animate! (UK), onedotzero (UK), the UK Film Council and the Japan Media Arts Festival and an exclusive UK preview of David Slade’s feature film Hard Candy. Exhibitions include a specially commissioned three screen video installation by HFR-LAB (UK) and exhibitions of digital video work by Junebum Park (Korea), Julian Oliver (NZ) and Daniel Crooks (Australia). Presentations and workshops include desperate optimists (UK), Richard Fenwick (UK) who will be presenting their work and open source software workshops at Access Space. Sheffield UK http://www.lovebytes.org.uk/2006

15-16 March Digital technologies are allowing consumers to do more with their content. How can we preserve intellectual property, protect consumers’ fair use and ensure the freedom to innovate? How will proposed revisions to the Telecomm Act affect the debate? CEA’s Entertainment Technology Policy Summit will address these issues and more. Hear the innovators. See the products and hear first hand from the content community about the challenges these products create as well as the opportunities. Gain insight into the policymakers’ struggle of defining what’s right and what’s wrong. And learn about the final steps to the big finish for HDTV. Washington, D.C, USA http://www.ce.org/Events/event_info/default.asp?eventID=HDTV06

Don’t Stop thinking about tomorrow is Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies’ first Don’t Stop confernce and, they hope just the beginning of a long range of international futures conferences. This year thye’ve chosen to focus on business innovation. Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies has more than 35 years of experience in corporate foresight. The objective of the CIFS is to strengthen the basis for decision-making in public and private organisations by creating awareness of the future and highlighting its importance to the present. Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.dontstop01.com/programme.php

All the companies designing, specifying and procuring Digital TV Services equipment, including service providers, broadcasters, telecom and internet operators, silicon and software providers, are invited to attend the meeting together with national energy efficiency expert and policy makers. The meeting discussions cover both sophisticate Set Top Boxes for subscriber services over satellite, cable, ADSL and terrestrial, as well as simple digital to analogue converter boxes for free to air digital transmission. The main item on the agenda are the effective implementation and market coverage of the revised EU Code of Conduct on Energy Efficiency in Digital TV Services, with the aim to create a broad and shared consensus by the major players on the Code of Conduct consumption limits and power management guidelines. Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA) Italy

7.Mar.06 – 8.Mar.06 Digital Media is booming for the second time. An exciting new generation of broadband internet and wireless technologies is driving forward a new wave of growth and spending. Digital televisions and games consoles are taking over living rooms. Digital platform producers are racing to create the ultimate convergence device. Internet service providers are expanding their services to include music, film and free phone calls, and are preparing to do battle with the wider communications industry. Meanwhile the traditional broadcasters and content producers have been rethinking their strategies to keep pace with a rapidly transforming landscape. The stakes are high: by 2009, it is predicted that the global digital media market will be worth US$1.8 trillion. Along the way there will be winners, losers, and many new stars will be born. http://www.ftconferences.co.uk/digitalmedia/

6-9 March Every single year this has been on, we’ve wanted to go to this. If like us you’ve felt the same, do yourself a favour – make plans, come and join us. The O’Reilly site says
We’re five years into the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and the stuff of which it is made shows no sign of abating: bandwidth continues to broaden, storage grows ever larger and cheaper, and content keeps pouring from the firehose. How do we visualize all of this digital data, filter it, remix it, and access it in meaningful ways? The coming technical challenge is not about generating digital content-we have more than enough already. It’s time to do something with that data. It’s time to build The Attention Economy. Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/