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LA Travel & Adventure Show
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- Published on Friday, 12 February 2010 05:00
- Written by L E Shannon
The largest travel show in the United States, the Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show is being held 
February 13-14, 2010 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The event showcases hundreds of destinations, and exciting activities abound, including a huge scuba pool, trip giveaways, cultural performances on the Global Beat Stage, World Culinary Stage and much more. The Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show is THE place to plan that ultimate vacation.
The Adventures in Travel Expo, the longest-running series of consumer travel events in the U.S., has merged with the Los Angeles Times Travel & Adventure Show to become The Travel & Adventure Show. The change reflects a new focus on what the travel industry calls "experiential travel," which offers authentic social and cultural itinerary options.
Speakers:
Rick Steves shares Budget European Travel Skills
Pauline & Arthur Frommer discuss Traveling Authentically & Affordably in 2010
Huell Howser, LA’s own PBS Producer & Host of California’s Gold shares his expertise
Travel Talks –
Sailing Around the World at Age 17, with Zac Sunderland and Chris Reynolds
The Best Tips for Getting Travel Deals Online. with Jen Leo (moderator); George Hobica, Johnny Jet & Sam Shank
Other presentations are:
Peter Piper Picked a Pocket: How to Avoid Pesky Pickpockets Around the World, with Kevin Coffey, a veteran police officer
Make Better Travel Photos & Videos with Chris Reynolds
Using Twitter to Travel and The Best iphone Apps for Travelers with Jen Leo
South Africa and the 2010 World Cup, presented by Dean Jacobberger, South African Tourism and Terry von Guilleaume, Destination Southern Africa
Discover Taiwan– Best-Kept Secret in Asia, presented by Mr. Trust Lin, Taiwan Tourism Bureau in Los Angeles
World Expo 2010 & Travel in China, presented by Dawei Wu, China National Tourist Office
Some of the exciting workshops are:
Experience New Zealand… and experience life as it should be – Sarah Westerman, presented by Tourism New Zealand
Travels in Turkey and the Silk Road Countries of Asia – Bora Özkök, presented by Cultural Folk Tours
Welcome to Armenia: Ancient Nation, New Republic – Matthew Karanian and Robert Kurkjian, presented by Armenian American Chamber of Commerce
Discover the Islands of Tahiti – Leila Laille, presented by Tahiti Tourisme
Free activities for attendees include;
Scuba Dive Pool Lessons and Demos – A dip in the Scuba Pool — a 4-foot-deep 18,000-gallon tank — is free to all attendees over the age of 10. Instruction from a certified diving instructor and all necessary equipment will be provided, including towels, wetsuits, masks and air tanks, mirrors and hair dryers. Attendees need only bring bathing suits and a sense of adventure.
Rock Wall – Tenaya Lodge at the Yosemite booth invites all to test their endurance on the rock wall. The wall is 25 feet high and offers different routes and levels of difficulty to accommodate a range of skill levels. Experienced professionals will be on hand to ensure everyone’s safety for this experience.
Ocean Experience: Surf School – Attendees can try out this Indo/Surfboard Simulator that’s great for beginners and pros alike. Players can compete to see who can ride the longest, the wildest or at the highest speed.
Zip Line and Adventure Ropes Course – Attendees can strap themselves into a sturdy harness and fly along with the greatest of ease, a thrilling experience for young and old alike.
Golf Simulator – Attendees can hit a golf ball at a wall-sized screen displaying a computer-generated 18-hole course that looks amazingly authentic. A golf professional offers personalized tips on how to improve one’s score.
Steer Roping – Join some honest-to-goodness cowboys and learn the ropes, literally, as they teach the basics of steer roping, from making a lasso to tossing it ’round the horned head of the bovine quarry.
The Adventures in Travel Expo promotes itself as a one-stop shopping marketplace for consumers and the travel trade to meet, while the Los Angeles Times Travel & Adventure Show has been the largest travel show, with more than 500 exhibitors.
Together, under the new name, they aim to offer a show for "real travelers" (as opposed to simply vacationers) who have an expanded interest in authentic travel experiences. Exhibitor Development is producing the new hybrid.
For more information, visit http://events.latimes.com/travelshow.
LA Times Travel & Adventure Show
February 13-14, 2010
LA Convention Center
1201 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Digital Asset Conference and Exhibition
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- Published on Thursday, 11 February 2010 22:23
- Written by Laura Blum
For two days a year, entertainment heads flock to Universal City, California, for more than a tour of a theme park. The big attraction? A powwow on digital asset management.
It's sexier than it sounds, given that global spending on digital asset management is expected to exceed one billion dollars in four years.
The Createasphere/Explore Digital Asset Management Conference and Exhibition, which runs February 17 and 18 at the Universal Hilton, convenes entertainment technology and content creators to frame standards and consider challenges of asset management in global entertainment and media.
Through a jammed program of keynotes, roundtables and networking events, DAM nudges the industry toward a rethinking of and protocol for "the constantly growing mountain of content we are creating and managing," to quote Createasphere president Kristin Petrovich.
DAM's public encompasses content holders, creators and technologists from gamer rubes to gavel-wielding decision makers.
Speakers hark from the rungs of studio experts, social media leaders and tech innovators, including Alex Grossman, President and CEO of Active Storage; Roger Howard, Digital Archivist at Blizzard Entertainment; and Ben Huh, a former journalist turned dotcom entrepreneur at Cheezburger Network.
The conference kicks off with "Studio Panel: Vision 2010 and 2020," keynoted by Fox Filmed Entertainment's Scott Phelan, Universal's Stan Scoggins, Warner Bros' Tim Padilla, and other industry mavens. Topping the agenda are such issues as cloud computing, disaster recovery and social media.
Breakout sessions will tackle managing video files, metadata, social media and digital photography, among other topics of concern to the DAM community.
The conference unfolds alongside its big sister event, Createasphere’s Entertainment Technology Expo. Created in 2001, HD EXPO offers a show-and-tell space where exhibitors and experts can mingle over the next generation of products and ideas
The semi-annual conference swaps coasts on September 22 and 23, 2010 when it unfolds at the New Yorker Hotel and Manhattan Center Stages in New York City.
Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City
555 Universal Hollywood Drive
Universal City, CA 91608
818-506-2500
HD Expo, LLC
3727 West Magnolia Blvd.
Suite #729
Burbank, CA 91505
(818) 842-6611
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New-Media Biz Converges at OnMedia NYC
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- Published on Sunday, 31 January 2010 17:31
- Written by Tony Cohen
From the quicksilver evolution of new-media advertising to the upheavals in such old media as print ads and TV commercials, getting the message out, whether as a journalist or as an entrepreneur, has never been trickier. Just as new, untested, essentially experimental forms of communication and advertising followed in the wake of such previous new media as radio and television, so, too, are new forms emerging now.
What they are and how to utilize them are at the core of OnMedia NYC 2010, a conference and expo organized by the open-media site The AlwaysOn Network. The company, launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in early 2003, defines its editorial mission as rapidly identifying "where technology innovation is disrupting [consumer] behavior and creating ... entrepreneurial opportunities for both start-ups and big businesses."
OnMedia 2010, a gathering of 700 technology, media and advertising CEOs, business-development officers, media buyers, venture-capital and private-equity investors and members of the press and the blogosphere, takes place Monday, February 1 to Wednesday, February 3, at the Mandarin Oriental - New York hotel, 80 Columbus Avenue (between West 60th and West 61st Streets), Manhattan. (Details and tickets here.)
The two-and-a-half-day event features CEO presentations and executive-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries. True to its new-media nature, AlwaysOn says 20,000 webcast viewers from more than 100 countries will also tune in and interact with the program, where executives will "identify and debate emerging trends, build high-level relationships, and create new business opportunities."
In addition, the conference will introduce this year's OnMedia 100, its latest annual list of important emerging companies in digital advertising. The honorees include Yieldex, Yield Software and YieldBuild, which help advertisers selected "online surgical strikes over offline dynamite fishing"; ad-network/exchanges such as MediaMath and HubSpot; community platforms such as Gilt Groupe; and overall winner Millennial Media. Fifty CEOs from the 2010 OnMedia 100 will present their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in the conference's CEO Showcase.
Among the major venture capitalists scheduled to speak at OnMedia 2010 are Alan Patricof and Bob Davis from Highland Capital; Andy Goldfarb from Globespan; and Michael Greeley from Flybridge. The digital VC panel includes Venrock's David Pakman, Greycroft's Ian Sigalow, Canaan's Warren Lee and FirstMark Capital's Amish Jani. Other guests include Quincy Smith of CBS Interactive; Mark Cuban, chairman of HDNet and owner of the Dallas Mavericks; Greg Coleman, president and chief revenue officer of The Huffington Post; Jessica Schell, senior vice president of NBC Universal; and Dan Rose, Facebook's vice president of business development and monetization.
With J.P. Morgan projecting more than 10% growth in US graphical advertising and more than 13% growth in US search advertising, representing a marginal increase in spending of roughly $4.5 billion in 2010, the conference promises to be timely.
OnMedia NYC 2010
February 1-3
Mandarin Oriental - New York
80 Columbus Avenue
(866) 801-8880
NY International Gift Fair
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- Published on Thursday, 28 January 2010 05:00
- Written by L E Shannon
The New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF) is running from January 30 through February 4, 2010, at Jacob K. 
Javits Convention Center and the Passenger Ship Terminal Pier 94 in New York City. This semi-annual event is the premier gift and decorative accessories market in the United States.
The 45,000 national and international attendees are drawn from major retail outlets, specialty retailers, distributors, catalog companies and others. There are more than 2,800 firms exhibiting in eleven major merchandise sections of the Fair, including international sponsored groups representing Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Guatemala, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Peru and the United Kingdom.
The Gift Fair will feature the latest trends, with a focus on the newest items in the gift, home and lifestyle categories, including a bamboo booster seat, an evening bag knitted from neoprene yarn, a portable USB hub that looks like an '80s cassette tape, and organic dog biscuits, with proceeds benefitting therapy-dog programs.
NYIGF's international exhibitors will showcase globally inspired items, such as cotton kimono robes, stainless-steel babushka-doll necklaces and ceramic yerba maté vessels.
Also to be featured are classic concepts with a contemporary twist, such as hand-crocheted pearl solitaire rings, children's block sets made from sustainable solid maple and vibrantly colored bone china teacup sets. And with the growing worldwide demand for green products, NYIGF again will feature the most current eco-driven products, including paper made at biofuel-po
wered mills and stylish rugs composed of recycled plastics.
The exhibitors are showcased in eight divisions:
Accent on Design® featuring A+: The Young Designers’ Platform
At Home featuring Home Textiles
EX•TRACTS®
General Gift, featuring Floral & Garden Accessories, Just Kidstuff® and The Museum Source®
Handmade® featuring Handmade in the USA®
Personal Accessories featuring Details®
STUDIO
Tabletop & Housewares featuring Accent on Tabletop
The SustainAbility: design for a better world® display is a curated exhibit of global gift and home industry suppliers whose products or production processes are eco-friendly, or companies whose business practices are socially responsible, philanthropic or fair-trade oriented. Participation is free to all NYIGF exhibitors, but companies must apply and be accepted. Ilene Shaw of Shaw of Shaw + Co! Productions curates the exhibit for NYIGF, considering newness and inventiveness, as well as adherence to the following criteria:
* “Green” Products: products that are manufactured or constructed with only recycled, recyclable and/or sustai
nable materials.
* Environmentally-friendly Production Processes: manufacturers who are using renewable or alternative sources of energy in production, including wind, sun, and alternative fuels.
* Socially-responsible business practices: products produced by indigenous peoples, creating viable, sustainable trades and markets in poverty-stricken and needy communities worldwide; and manufacturers who donate percentages of their sales to not-for-profit organizations.
* Beginning in 2010, NYIGF introduced a “Zero Tolerance” for products with: VOC; Lead (for baby, children and food-related products); PVC, without recommendation for use and disposal, and unless repurposed; and Aniline dyes, formaldehyde, chlorine (for textiles)
In addition to the exhibits, gift fair participants can enjoy several industry functions, including:
the Gift for Life Kings & Queens Casino Night, a fund-raiser that benefits DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fi
ghting AIDS
A Night on Broadway, featuring the musical Hair
the 2010 Housewares Design Awards Gala & Ceremony
All badge-holders can gain free admission to the New Museum of Contemporary Art, compliments of NYIGF and its market partners, during the exhibition.
Additionally, attendees will have access to an extensive educational seminar program addressing color and design trends, social media, sustainability and retail strategies.
There also will be exhibitor-focused sessions regarding post-show follow-up, global sourcing and licensing.
For more information, go to www.nyigf.com.
New York International Gift Fair
January 30-February 4, 2010
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 W.34th Street, New York City
Passenger Ship Terminal Pier 94
55th Street and 12th Avenue
New York City
