Convergence Conversation

• Understanding the connected consumer
• Thursday 28 July 2011
• 18:00 - 20:00, registration from 17:30
• At Intellect, 10-12 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5EE
• Cheese and wine

July's convergence conversation attempted to decipher the connected consumer by addressing changing behaviour patterns, contracting concepts of privacy, and the opportunities presented by data.

We sought to provide clarity on the differences between connected consumers and their analogue predecessors, and outline how the industry can influence an increasingly networked and engaged audience. More...

Convergence Conversation on 07 June

• Access vs Control: Media 2.0
• Tuesday 07 June 2011
• 18:00 - 20:00
  Registration from 17:30
  
• At Intellect, 10-12 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5EE
• Cheese and wine will be available before and during this meeting

As content providers continue to grapple with making media 2.0 pay, will the successful strategies of the future be the ones providing access or maintaining control? Whether it's Paywalls, freemiumum, or open access business models, content providers across publishing, video, and music are all attempting to get to grips with a new disrupted ecosystem, and to varying degrees of success! Is it a one size fits all approach to access or control, or will bespoke approaches combining both methods work?

One things for sure, taking tired old world business models into the brave new digitised world will only serve to eat away at content providers bottom lines, as 'born digital' competitors step in More...

See future topics for Convergence Conversation meetings below -  please do let us know if you are interested in speaking or participating at any of these sessions?

• Tuesday 07 June: 
  Access vs Control: Media 2.0
• Thursday 30 June: 
  3D, evolution or revolution?
• Thursday 28 July: 
  Advertising 2.0
• Thursday 25 August: 
  4G
• Thursday 29 September:
  mPayment and location based services
• Thursday 27 October: 
  Gaming
• Thursday 24 November: 
  Selling convergence

The ConvergenceConversation is on 'Linked In'  .  We invite you to join - to network with your peers and continue the discussions started at our monthly meetings. More...

• Data - transparency, obesity, and opportunity! 
• Thursday 05 May 2011
• 18:00 - 20:00
  Registration from 17:30
  
• At Intellect, 10-12 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5EE
• Cheese and wine will be available before and during this meeting

'”The sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians” Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google (2009)

Some astonishing figures: " In 2010 the human race created 800 exabytes (800 billion gigabytes) of information. To put that into context between the dawn of civilisation and 2003 we only created 5 exabytes, now we're creating that amount every 2 days. More...

Here is a list of the conversations that we are planning for 2011.

The invitation for 05 May, including all details, will soon be circulated, but meanwhile please do let us know if you are interested in speaking at any of these sessions?

• Thursday 05 May:
  Data - transparency, obesity, and opportunity!
• Thursday 26 May: 
  Access not control.  Music, video and publishing 2.0
• Thursday 30 June: 
  3D, evolution or revolution?
• Thursday 28 July: 
  Advertising 2.0
• Thursday 25 August: 
  4G
• Thursday 29 September:
  mPayment and location based services
• Thursday 27 October:

Future topics will be advised;  please do let us know if you are interested in speaking or participating at any of these sessions?

• ** POSTPONED **  13 or 14 December 
  Virtual Currencies

The ConvergenceConversation is on 'Linked In'  .  We invite you to join - to network with your peers and continue the discussions started at our monthly meetings.  

PAST MEETINGS

• Thursday 29 September: The gamification of everything

#gamificationofeverything

As one of the most talked about trends of the year, gamification has made it onto the 2011 Gartner Hype Circle for the first time. More...

The Convergence Conversation update Friday 04 February

We bring you a selection from the blogs posted our members onto convergenceconversation.com over the last few weeks.

Read on  - to be informed and stimulated, to agree or disagree or to add your comments.   We welcome your own blog post should you too have something to say !

Cloud, a buzzword ? Nah...
by Benoît FELTEN of Yankee Group

There's little doubt in my mind that the potential of cloud computing and cloud applications is considerable. And there's even less doubt that it's happening before our very eyes (and quite often without our knowledge too...)

But as always with tech trends, the buzz seems to have overtaken reality, causing a general tiredness around the topic... More...

December's Convergence Conversation meeting 

It is becoming increasingly apparent that we live in a world of data and measurement. One of the biggest challenges facing social media as it seeks to monitize through advertising is in creating appropriate metrics for social media measurement that can be accepted as common buying currency for the advertising industry. Social media can be subtle and brand communication on social media must be much more nuanced than on TV. More...

The Convergence Conversation update from - Thursday 02 December 2010

We bring you a selection from the blogs posted by some of our members onto convergenceconversation.com over the last few weeks.

Read on  - to be informed and stimulated, to agree or disagree or to add your comments.   We welcome your own blog post should you too have something to say !

Is FCC Inflating the Value of Spectrum? 
by Murat Bilgic of WirelessE2E LLC

FCC recently published an Omnibus Broadband Initiative (OBI) Technical Paper, titled "Mobile Broadband: More...

The Information roundup for Friday 05 November

We bring you a selection from the most recent blogs posted on convergenceconversation.com over the last few weeks.

Read on  - to be informed and stimulated, to agree or disagree or to add your comments.   We welcome your own blog post should you have something to say too.

A quick Net Neutrality paradox...
by Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis

Let's say, hypothetically, that mobile Internet connections are allowed to be discriminated between. So, for example, a major operator like AT&T or Orange or Vodafone can charge "upstream" providers such as a an online gaming firm higher-quality connections for its services delivery to mobile users, over and above, say Facebook. More...