Ontario Creates Podcasts

We took the Digital Dialogue Breakfast series on the road, and delivered the Let’s Make A Deal: Negotiating Rights, License Fees and Royalties for New Platforms session to an Ottawa audience. Everything you thought you knew about negotiating rights, royalties and license fees changed when your content moved from the traditional distributors across platforms to the digital space. Learn from those who have been there and done that in the new marketplace, with experience negotiating with broadcasters, technology companies, other content creators and streaming services for screen-based, music and published content. Explore new revenue sources through collaboration. Moderators: Doug Murray, Taylor Klein Oballa Panelists: Michael Dobbin, Producer and Corporate Director, Quiet Revolution Pictures Scott Simpson, President, CEO & Co-Founder, bitHeads Jon Bartlett, Founder, Kelp Records

Tout ce que vous pensiez savoir concernant la négociation des droits, des droits d'auteur et des droits de licence a changé lorsque votre contenu a migré des distributeurs conventionnels vers les plates-formes de l'espace numérique. Venez écouter les personnes qui sont passées par là, qui ont effectué cette transition au sein du nouveau marché et qui ont une expérience de la négociation avec les diffuseurs, les sociétés spécialisées dans la technologie, les autres créateurs de contenu et les services de diffusion en flux de contenu musical, publié ou pour écran. Découvrez de nouvelles sources de revenu grâce à la collaboration. Un service de traduction simultanée sera disponible. Animateur : Doug Murray de Taylor Klein Oballa Experts : Michael Dobbin, producteur et directeur de la société Quiet Revolution Pictures Scott Simpson, président-directeur général et cofondateur de bitHeads Jon Bartlett, fondateur de Kelp Records

Everything you thought you knew about negotiating rights, royalties and license fees changed when your content moved from the traditional distributors across platforms to the digital space. Learn from those who have been there and done that in the new marketplace, with experience negotiating with broadcasters, technology companies, other content creators and streaming services for screen-based, music and published content. Explore new revenue sources through collaboration. Moderators: Chris Taylor and Doug Murray, Taylor Klein Oballa Panelists: Barbara Howson, Vice-President, Sales and Licensing, House of Anansi and Groundwood Books Michael Perlmutter, Music Supervisor, Producer, Instinct Entertainment Nathan Vella, President and Co-Founder, Capybara Games

It’s 2015: how pervasive is gender bias in the creative media industries – and does it matter? Our panel discusses the issues and the findings of recently released and in-process research examining gender in the film and television, interactive digital media, music and publishing industries. Moderator: Sue Carter, Editor, Quill and Quire Panelists: Rachel Goldstein-Couto, Entertainment and Specialty Television, Bell Media Samantha Slattery, Women in Music Professional Association of Canada / Founder, Republic Presents Suzanne Stein, Foresight & Innovation / Digital Futures, OCAD University

Join our panelists from three established content creation companies to explore ways to add another layer to the media experience. We’ll be looking at strategies and tools for building additional content into products, the cost and how the marketplace is responding to these innovations. Moderator: Kim Gibson, Program Consultant - Interactive Digital Media, OMDC Panelists: Penny Caldwell, Cottage Life Media; Erin Mallory, House of Anansi; Blair Powers, Sinking Ship Entertainment

Data visualization is the art of visually communicating information - through informative, persuasive or artistic approaches to displaying patterns, relationships and trends in information. Compelling data visualizations can create powerful content experiences and help deliver key messages when communicating with stakeholders about your business. In this session, our presenters give examples from their recent work and offers tips and techniques for crafting effective visual stories with your information. Moderator: Karen Mazurkewich, Maz Media Productions Panel: Noah Genner, BookNet Canada; Andrea Teolis, Graphic Designer & Software Programmer; Manfred Becker, Documentary Filmmaker & Lecturer

What are your obligations under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act? What do you need to do in providing customer service, the information and communication you provide to the public, and as an employer? A representative from the Accessibility Directorate of Ontario explains. Panelists: Richard Cavanagh, CEO/Funding Officer, Broadcasting Accessibility Fund Alfred Spencer, Director, Outreach and Strategic Initiatives, Accessibility Directorate of Ontario

Companies across the creative media industries face common issues: how to attract and retain top talent, recruit for intermediate and junior positions, stay ahead of talent and training gaps, and do effective succession planning. In this Digital Dialogue Breakfast session experts in the field, including Diane Davy, Executive Director of WorkInCulture, discuss the issues and answer audience questions. Panel: Sandy Lee, Toronto International Film Festival; Diane Davy, WorkInCulture; Lisa Lyons, Kids Can Press/Corus Ent.

The market for creative media product is global; when trying to reach consumers outside Canada you may encounter different business models and technology as well as cultural differences. What do you need to know when selling in foreign territories? Panellists share their experiences selling to the US and other international markets: strategies for success and lessons learned. Moderator: Kim Gibson, OMDC Panel: Rob Segal, Get Set Games; Ryan St. Peters, Shaftesbury & Smokebomb; Peter Wilmshurst, AGW Publishing Inc.

Book publishers, music labels, and magazines used to depend heavily on reaching their audience by getting their product into retail stores, where consumers could find and purchase their products, and marketing leaned heavily on in-store merchandising. The changing retail landscape — fewer bricks and mortar stores, limited shelf space in the stores that exist, and the growing marketshare of online retailers — has dramatically changed how companies reach their consumer audiences. Three companies from different sectors share case studies on creative ways they are reaching audiences now, and how the digital sphere intersects with both their physical and digital products. Moderator: Deb Day, Innovate by Day Panel: Erin Creasey, ECW Books; Nathan Laurie, Jobpostings.ca; James Trauzzi, Last Gang Records

How to successfully leverage collaboration arrangements to achieve your business goals Do you need to develop an area of your business that requires skills that your staff don’t have or have you consider outsourcing an area of the business that is not a part of your core competencies? What can partnerships or other ventures do to enhance your foray into new business areas or to outsource certain business areas? Learn what other companies have done to successfully leverage arrangements in their business strategies. Moderator: Lisa Coulman, PwC Panel: Sandra Singer, Director, Open Roof Festival; Peter Kozik, Senior VP & CFO, Arc Productions; Philippa King, VP, Business Affairs, marblemedia; Strahan McCarten, Scalar

With the explosive growth in Smartphones and tablets expected over the next several years have you considered all the avenues to commercialize your rights to content? The use of mobile devices is expected to grow explosively over the next several years with mobile internet penetration expected to grow from 35% to 65% in just 5 years and with over 90% of people using a mobile device while multi tasking. We will investigate how companies have creatively multiplied avenues for commercializing their content rights. Moderator: Lisa Coulman, PwC Panel: Mike Wagman, MavenSay; Yoav Schwartz, Uberflip; Lisa Lyons, Kids Can Press

Do you effectively use all your consumer data? Data overload? Do you have a ton of data on usage, visits to your website, followers, market trending, consumer usage, population demographics? Are you successfully employing data mining tools to leverage business opportunities? Our panelists will discuss this important business challenge. Moderator: Lisa Coulman, PwC Panelists: Nathon Gunn, Social Game Universe; Ken Hunt, St. Joseph Media; Cal Rosen, PwC

For entertainment companies, funding is available from both public and private sources. Whether you are obtaining funding through a grant process, from a traditional bank or from your friends and family, how clearly you present your business plans and commercial opportunities will impact how successful you are in raising funds. Learn from funders, Ray Brooks (Angel Investor), Andrew Giosa (RBC Royal Bank), and Kim Gibson (OMDC), what a successful pitch document looks like.