The first iMedia Digital Summit took place last week on a very sunny Tuesday and Wednesday in Eastbourne. 180 major digital players got together to talk about what’s shaping the industry, where the trends are heading, who’s doing what best, and how we can all make lots more lovely monies online.

We know that the digital media & marketing industry is expanding and the Robert Walters Quarterly Update for 2011 reported that in particular ‘online marketing professionals were highly sought-after.’ With that growth there is also more demand for effective training, up-skilling and increasing industry expertise.

In order to serve the industry and back by popular demand we are once again hosting the ad:tech University – an intensive course to advance digital skills and knowledge. Fast. (ad:tech University, 3 June 2011, Vibe Hotel, Sydney, www.ad-tech.com/uni)

Due to significant internal changes at PepsiCo, Bonin Bough informed us on Saturday morning (26 March) that he is now unable to join us in person on Wednesday 30 March for the free Keynote Presentation at ad:tech Melbourne. Bonin’s presentation is one of four free Keynote Presentations at ad:tech Melbourne. The other Keynote speakers are: the Founders of Spreets, the Digital Communications Manager from Tate, UK and the CMO of Microsoft APAC.

The great thing about the ad:tech Melbourne program is that we’ll be revisiting some of the content from Sydney. This is good because it means the best content is being aired twice, and in the interim the speakers can re-evaluate their material in light of any feedback and taking in to account the local market. Here’s a few examples of those:

This year ad:tech brings you Sydney Digital Week:

The program for this year’s ad:tech Sydney CONFERENCE is looking great. We have a number of interesting case studies being presented and a lot of speakers from companies dealing with truly cutting edge technologies and approaches to digital media. Here are some of my personal favourites at the moment:

ad:tech Australia is delighted to announce the confirmed Keynote sessions for ad:tech Sydney 2011. The Keynote Presentations showcase global perspectives from international industry leaders and the Keynote Roundtable will bring together opinions on the hottest debate for 2011. All Keynote sessions are FREE to attend when you register for any of the ad:tech CONFERENCE, EXHIBITION or WORKSHOP passes.

The deadline for speaker submissions for both ad:tech Sydney and Melbourne is this Friday (12th November).

We’ve already received a record breaking number of submissions and we’re excited about the range & quality of case studies & insights that we’ll be choosing from…

All Guest Speakers on the first ad:tech University program have now been named. Course leader Patty Keegan (Director, Digital Chameleon) will be joined by five Guest Speakers, each experts in their respective fields:

Launch of ad:tech Melbourne

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