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Workshop Offered on Smart Watches, Wearables, News & Information
Monday 01. June 2015 - Exploring smart watches and other wearable technologies for news media is clearly a hot topic, so the heavy demand for places comes as no surprise for the WAN-IFRA 'Wearables Workshop' planned for Sunday, 31 May, ahead of the opening of the World News Media Congress, set to take place in Washington D.C., from 1 to 3 June.
WAN-IFRA’s Global Alliance for Media Innovation, in partnership with CCI and the Stibo Accelerator, has extended registration for the workshop to allow more participants and welcome extra speakers and mentors to meet the demand.
“We knew that the demand for more knowledge about the potential of wearables for news publishers would be there, but that this workshop would be almost full three weeks ahead of the event is nice surprise,” said Stephen Fozard, Director of WAN-IFRA’s Global Alliance for Media Innovation.
The workshop is the latest in a series from from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and follows publication of its new report on “Wearables: The key consideration for news publishers.” The report includes some of the leading minds in the industry sharing their thoughts on how wearables might affect news publishers.
The programme for the Washington workshop will include:
– Media and design expert Dr. Mario Garcia who will open the workshop with a talk that frames the ‘wearable revolution’ and who will moderate the idea-generation exercises.
– Berlingske Media, one of Denmark’s leading and most innovative publishing houses, sends its Head of Lab, Anders Kring, to share findings from the company’s five-month research project on smart watches and news.
– Deniz Ergürel, technology journalist and R&D director for Turkish media group Zaman,was one of the first to experience the Apple Watch when is was released earlier this year. He will present examples of current and future possibilities the Apple Watch holds for news.
– Tamás Szépvölgyi, CEO of the Sanoma Mobile Development Centre, will give an overview of the best smart watch news apps on the market as well as an introduction to the approach different publishers have selected.
– From PURCS in Brazil, Professor Eduardo Pellanda – who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Mobile Experience Lab – will introduce workshop participants to the research on wearables.
The workshop will be a combination of inspirational talks, roundtable discussions, group exercises, case studies and hands-on experience with both the consumer side of receiving news on wearable devices as well as writing for smart watches in various journalistic forms.
Registration is open to delegates of the 67th World News Media Congress, the 22nd World Editors Forum and the 25th World Advertising Forum, the annual global summit meetings of the world’s press. More than 1,000 publishers, CEOs, chief editors and other senior executives are expected in Washington, and there is still time to join them: full details, including registration information, can be found at http://www.wan-ifra.org/dc2015
The Global Alliance for Media Innovation is an initiative launched by WAN-IFRA that aims to create the basis for renewed innovation in news media. It is a global community of stakeholders from the news media world: publishers, suppliers, startups, academic and research centres, with the common goal of bringing the best digital news media innovations to market.