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We are pleased to announce that the Futures of Entertainment 6 conference will be held on Friday, Nov. 9, and Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Wong Auditorium on MIT's campus in Cambridge, MA. Registration is available here. Also, note there is a pre-conference MIT Communications Forum free and open to the public on Thursday, Nov. 8. Some details below.

At the two-day conference, each morning will be spent discussing key issues faced by media producers, marketers, and audiences alike, at the heart of "the futures of entertainment." Each afternoon, we will look into how some of those issues are manifesting themselves in specific media industries.

Here is the schedule outline, as well as some of the confirmed panelists who will be joining us at the event. More information will be released regularly from @futuresof on Twitter. We will also have the conference website up later this month.

Thursday, Nov. 8
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.: MIT Communications Forum Pre-FoE6 Event at Bartos Theater The Futures of Entertainment in West Africa
Panelists:
Ralph Simon, head of the Mobilium Advisory Group and a founder of the mobile entertainment industry
Aimee Corrigan, Director of Social Media for The Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University and associate producer on This Is Nollywood
Other Panelists To Be Announced Shortly

Friday, Nov. 9
7:30 a.m. Registration Opens
8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Opening Remarks

9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.: Listening and Empathy: Making Companies More Human
Panelists:
Lara Lee, Chief Innovation and Operating Officer, Continuum
Grant McCracken, author, Culturematic, Chief Culture Officer
Carol Sanford, author, The Responsible Business
Emily Yellin, author, Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us
Moderator: Sam Ford, Director of Digital Strategy, Peppercom

11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: Coffee Break

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: The Ethics and Politics of Curation in a Spreadable Media World--A One-on-One Conversation with Brain Pickings' Maria Popova and Undercurrent's Joshua Green

12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m.: Lunch

1:45 p.m.-3:45 p.m.: The Futures of Public Media
Panelists:
Juan Devis, Director of Production and Program Development, KCET Public Media
Rekha Murthy, Director of Projects and Partnerships, Public Radio Exchange
Moderator: Jessica Clark, media strategist, Association of Independents in Radio
Other Panelists To Be Announced Shortly

3:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.: Coffee Break

4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.: The Futures of Civic Media
Panelists:
Sasha Costanza-Chock, Assistant Professor of Civic Media, MIT
Dorian Electra, performing artist ("I Love Friedrich Hayek"; "Roll with the Flow")
Moderator: Sangita Shresthova, Research Director of CivicPaths, University of Southern California
Other Panelists To Be Announced Shortly

6:15 p.m.-6:45 p.m.: Closing Remarks

Saturday, Nov. 10
7:30 a.m. Registration Opens
8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Opening Remarks

9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.: Curing the Shiny New Object Syndrome: Strategy Vs. Hype When Using New Technologies
Panelists:
Todd Cunningham, SVP Strategic Insights and Research, Viacom Media Networks Jason Falls, CEO, Social Media Explorer
Eden Medina, Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
David Polinchock, Director, AT&T AdWorks Lab
Moderator: Ben Malbon, Managing Director, Google Creative Lab

11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: Coffee Break

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.: Rethinking Copyright: A discussion with musician, songwriter, and producer T Bone Burnett; Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at the University of Southern California; and Jonathan Taplin, Director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California

1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m.: Coffee Break

2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.: The Futures of Video Gaming
Panelists:
T.L. Taylor, Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies, MIT
Yanis Varoufakis, Economist-in-Residence, Valve Software
Moderator: Futures of Entertainment Fellow and games producer Alec Austin
Other Panelists To Be Announced Shortly

4:15 p.m.-4:45 p.m.: Coffee Break

4:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m.: The Futures of Storytelling and Sports
Panelists:
Abe Stein, researcher at Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; graduate student, Comparative Media Studies, MIT; columnist, Kill Screen
Other Panelists To Be Announced Shortly

6:45 p.m.-7:15 p.m.: Closing Remarks

7:15 p.m.: Post-Conference Workshop--The Futures of Transmedia Studies: Collaborations in and beyond Higher Education

Source: http://www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/2012/08/announcing_futures_of_entertai_2.php

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