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Thank you ALL for participating in Saturday's Defrag conference. We are collecting information now and will be mailing a summary and next steps within a week or so. If you have immediate questions, please email betseymerkel@gmail.com. Thank you for your time and efforts to build the Ohio Defrag network!

 

Next conference: Friday, April 13, 2007 and Saturday, April 14, 2007 at Lorain County Commuity College.

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In a networked world things change fast. Our ability to take ideas to action quickly matters.

 

Participate Saturday, December 9th and connect to a full day of concurrent forums, presentations and workshops to "link and leverage" resources in the Ohio creative digital media industries.

 

We'll learn from Ohio leaders building innovations and collaborations in digital media, simulation and videogame development projects.

 

Participate in one hour interactive conversations with Ohio academic, business and government leaders to raise industry awareness of State resources and capabilities in rich media. We will identify next steps to strengthen Ohio as a global leader in the creative industries.

 

We'll take a close look at strategic outcomes, determine metrics we need to measure our success, describe the milestones along the way, and identify SMART (simple - measureable - aggressive - relevant - time sensitive) goals.

 

Topics include: education and curriculum development, serious gaming applications in entertainment and education, arts in digital media, a game design workshop for youth, facilities design for creative businesses and business development.

Date: December 9, 2006

Time: 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.

Place: FUTURE: The Center for Design and Technology Transfer @ The Cleveland Institute of Art's Joseph McCullough Center, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland OH 44106

Parking: The Cleveland Institute of Art has arranged to have the gate to the rear parking lot at the Joseph McCullough Center open. Entrance to the lot is from E. 117th St., reachable from either Euclid Ave., just past the JMC Bldg., or Mayfield Rd. just west of the railroad overpass. In lieu of this, attendees can park in the metered lot on the west side of the JMC Bldg. or on the street.

Map Link

 

Meet The Bloggers, George Nemeth; Gloria Ferris; Tim Ferris, Meet The Bloggers are recording interviews, dialogues, and conversations relating thoughts, best practices, and stories to be posted at Meet The Bloggers

We're Wireless! Bring your laptops.

 

Conference Backgrounder Materials

Defrag Brochure.pdf

Defrag Conversation Guidelines.doc

DefragRegistration20061209.xls

 

To register or for more information by email at info@i-open.org or by calling Betsey Merkel at 216-246-2447

 

These are quarterly forums. Our next forum date is Saturday, April 14, 2007 hosted at Lorain County Community College.

 

Presented in collaboration with: FUTURE: Center for Design & Technology Transfer @ The Cleveland Institute of Art, The Northeast Ohio Videogame Initiative, Strategic Technology Alliance (STA), I-Open, Ingenuity, Civic Innovation Lab, COSE Arts Network, and Meet The Bloggers.

 

Go ahead! Take the survey: Connecting the Ohio Creative Digital Media Network.Tell us what you would like to learn more about. Your answers will help us stay on target. Go here. Survey results here.

 

Our Schedule (Entire program hosted at FUTURE)

 

10:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M.

 

• Welcome: David Moss, Director, FUTURE: Center for Design and Technology Transfer @ The Cleveland Institute of Art

 

• Introduction & Overview: Daniel Carl, Director, Northeast Ohio Videogame Initiative

 

• Our Innovation Opportunity: Ohio as a Global Leader in the Creative Industries, Ed Morrison, Purdue Center for Regional Development, and The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open)

 

11:00 A.M. to Noon

 

Concurrent Open Conversations

 

• Building Creative Businesses: Matt Neff, Flipline Studios; David Grampa, New initiative developer; Morgan Adams, Adams Immersive; Moderator: Rick Pollack, Manager, IT and Operations, Nine Sigma LLC

 

• Career Pathways: Terrance Green, Ph.D, Lorain County Community College; Douglas Reichard, Senior Project Engineer, Software Architecture team, Co-founder of Giant Revolving Brain, Rockwell Technology & LCCC; Geof Pelaia, Dir., Digital Media, Virginia Marti College of Art & Design; Thomas M. Nosek, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Ted Jordan, Jordan Team Technology Camps

 

• Connected Facilities for Creative Businesses: Frank Mills, Urban Paradoxes; Hunter Morrison, Director, Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Youngstown State University; Kenneth Fleming, Acadia Holdings & the Tyler Elevator Building restoration; Jean Anderson, Mayor, City of Vermilion, Ohio

 

Noon to 1:30 P.M.

Lunch on your own. Directory to be provided.

 

 

2:00 P.M. to 2:30 P.M.

 

• Kasumi: Art & Technology Performance. Film maker, video and VJ artist, animator, electronic musician, theatrical designer, sound designer, writer and producer. View the VJ demo here.

 

2:30 P.M. to 3:30 P.M.

 

Concurrent Open Conversations

 

• Videogame Design Workshop for Young Pros: Ted Jordan, Jordan Team Technology Camps; Steve Simmons, Director, Audio Director, EDR Media LLC, Beachwood Studios Production Center

 

• Digital Signage & Narrowcasting Solutions: Barbara Siss Oney, Director, Digital Airport Initiative LLC; David Moss, Director, FUTURE: Center for Design & Technology Transfer @ The Cleveland Institute of Art

 

• Best Practices: Linking and Leveraging Regional Assets in Southern Ohio: Tom Stead, of Shawnee State University; Karen E. Riggs, Ohio University, Professor, School of Telecommunications, Director, Game Research and Immersive Design (GRID) Lab, Scripps College of Communication

 

3:30 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.

 

• Next Steps in Building the Networks: Ed Morrison, I-Open

 

4:30 P.M.

 

• Conference Close & Networking

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FOOD and BEVERAGE TABLE: In the morning we will have fresh, best-in-Cleveland Bialy's Bagels and hot Phoenix Midtown Blend coffee for sale. In the afternoon, E City Cleveland students will host the sale of fresh bakery goods benefiting the E City Cleveland School.

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Interactive Displays and Information:

 

• All-tronics Technical Systems
• KasumiVideoJockey
• Muscle Physiology, Tower of Learning
• T.I.M.E. (Technologu and Integrated Media Environment) at CIA
• Flipline
• Adams Immersive: playable preview of 3D game for release in 2007
• The Digital Airport Initiative
• Greater Cleveland Partnership: Arts Network & NEOBiz resources for artists
• And more!

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Thanks to these organizations and individuals who leveraged their networks to get the word out about Defrag:

 

• Brewed Fresh Daily
• Meet The Bloggers
• Michael DeAloia, City of Cleveland
• Thomas Mulready, Cool Cleveland
• FUTURE, Cleveland Institute of Art
• I-Open
• Cleveland 2.0
• Strategic Technology Alliance (STA)
• Case Daily
• Digital Airport Initiative
• Northeast Ohio Videogame Initiative
• Adams Immersive
• COSE Arts Network
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