Taking part in CÚbicS
Marie-José Montpetit
Research Scientist on Social TV at MIT
Marie-José Montpetit is a research scientist in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) focusing on television convergence and internet video networking, services and interactive and social applications. She is involved in a class in Social TV at MIT Media Lab. Her work in Social TV got a TR10 mention in MIT Technology Review as one of the "10 technologies to watch" in May 2010.
She received a Ph.D. in EECS from the École Polytechnique in Montréal, Canada.
Montpetit received the Motorola Innovation Prize in 2007 for a multi-screen, multinetwork video viewing system. She is also a reviewer for the European Union in the wireless and future Internet fields.
She received a Ph.D. in EECS from the École Polytechnique in Montréal, Canada.
Montpetit received the Motorola Innovation Prize in 2007 for a multi-screen, multinetwork video viewing system. She is also a reviewer for the European Union in the wireless and future Internet fields.
Simon Nelson
Controller, Portfolio & Multi-Platform, BBC Vision
Simon Nelson is responsible for digital media and on demand activities for the BBC’s television and multimedia content division, including web, mobile, iTV and on demand services. He also manages portfolio areas such as TV scheduling and subtitling.
Key achievements include a new online BBC Knowledge offer; pioneering online storytelling initiatives ; the mass participation, crowd-sourcing product, Lab UK; and a suite of highly successful red button services, pioneering social media initiatives and innovative social TV experiments (Apprentice Predictor, Strictly social).
Previously, Simon was Head of Strategy and Controller of Interactive for BBC Radio, where he oversaw BBC Radio’s digital strategy on all platforms including the development and launch of new digital services, 6Music, BBC7 etc.
His team pioneered with the first mainstream on demand service, the BBC Radio Player, forerunner of the iPlayer and made the BBC the first major broadcaster to introduce podcasting and offer programme downloads.
His radio and TV teams have won multiple awards including several Webbys, Baftas, Prix Europas and 2 Digital Emmys as well as a Banff World Television award, Prix Italia , Rose D’or and an Oscar nomination (for a Film network comedy short). He was awarded the inaugural Broadcasting Press Guild award for innovation for “pioneering service in on demand”.
Key achievements include a new online BBC Knowledge offer; pioneering online storytelling initiatives ; the mass participation, crowd-sourcing product, Lab UK; and a suite of highly successful red button services, pioneering social media initiatives and innovative social TV experiments (Apprentice Predictor, Strictly social).
Previously, Simon was Head of Strategy and Controller of Interactive for BBC Radio, where he oversaw BBC Radio’s digital strategy on all platforms including the development and launch of new digital services, 6Music, BBC7 etc.
His team pioneered with the first mainstream on demand service, the BBC Radio Player, forerunner of the iPlayer and made the BBC the first major broadcaster to introduce podcasting and offer programme downloads.
His radio and TV teams have won multiple awards including several Webbys, Baftas, Prix Europas and 2 Digital Emmys as well as a Banff World Television award, Prix Italia , Rose D’or and an Oscar nomination (for a Film network comedy short). He was awarded the inaugural Broadcasting Press Guild award for innovation for “pioneering service in on demand”.
Peter Boland
President, Universal-McCann Spain
Peter Boland is President of Universal-McCann (UM), a media-marketing agency belonging to the IPG group, one of the world’s top communication groups. He joined the company in 2006 as Head of Communications Planning, contributing a professional background of more than 14 years experience in the world of advertising.
In 2008 he began to combine his strategic functions with those of the company’s CEO, and in 2009 he was appointed to the top position for Spain of this multinational. During his leadership, the company has managed to consolidate its position in the market and to evolve towards a more successful, modern and sophisticated model of agency, with a strong technological base and the development of totally innovating strategies.
In 2008 he began to combine his strategic functions with those of the company’s CEO, and in 2009 he was appointed to the top position for Spain of this multinational. During his leadership, the company has managed to consolidate its position in the market and to evolve towards a more successful, modern and sophisticated model of agency, with a strong technological base and the development of totally innovating strategies.
Before joining UM, he was CEO of Carat España, a company in which he stayed 8 years and in which he devoted special efforts to the Customer Service area. He had previously worked for CIA (PLC Group) for 5 years as Head of Development with direct responsibility over the project of the group’s corporate expansion in Spain and Portugal.
Brian David Johnson
Futurist and Director, Future Casting and Experience Research Intel Corporation and author of Screen Future
The future is Brian David Johnson’s business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation his charter is to develop an actionable vision for computing in 2020. His work is “future casting” – using ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data and even science fiction to provide Intel with a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. Along with reinventing TV, he has been pioneering development in artificial intelligence, robotics, and using science fiction as a design tool.
Johnson is the autor of Screen Future, a book about the people, technology, and economics that are shaping the evolution of entertainment.
He speaks and writes extensively about future technologies in articles and scientific papers as well as science fiction short stories and novels (Fake Plastic Love, Nebulous Mechanisms: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories and the forthcoming This Is Planet Earth). He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter.
Johnson is the autor of Screen Future, a book about the people, technology, and economics that are shaping the evolution of entertainment.
He speaks and writes extensively about future technologies in articles and scientific papers as well as science fiction short stories and novels (Fake Plastic Love, Nebulous Mechanisms: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories and the forthcoming This Is Planet Earth). He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter.
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International experts explore the new dimensions of audiovisual media at ‘CúbicS’
The seminar, run by the Centre for Audiovisual Research (Centre de Recerca Audiovisual, CREA) of the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation (CCMA), analysed the transformation of the media
