Events

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Digital Media Arts Summit - November 12, 2009
The Long Beach Community Foundation convened this Summit to bring together key people for a discussion about how to establish Long Beach as a Digital Media Arts (DMA) Center. About 80 participants exchanged ideas, forged new collaborations, and left the Summit inspired to promote this idea throughout the community.

Event Program

Keynote speakers
Dr. Henry Jenkins, USC Provost's Professor of Communications, Journalism, and Cinematic Art
Dr. Jenkins' blog:  http://henryjenkins.org 
The videotape of Dr. Jenkins' presentation can be viewed here
Please check here again in the near future for his PowerPoint presentation.

John Tarnoff, Principal of Newspeak Consulting Group and former DreamWorks Animation executive
John's PowerPoint presentation:  Creating a Digital Media Community
The videotape of John Tarnoff's presentation can be viewed here.

Breakout Sessions - please click on the topic below to review the content of the discussions
Animation, Graphics, and Gaming
Digital Production - Video and Still
Music and Sound Production
Web and Social Media