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3 Ilse Aigner Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology Deputy Minister-President of Bavaria

Dear Cartoon Digital Seminar Attendants,

n behalf of the Bavarian Government I warmly welcome you to Cartoon Digital in Munich, Bavaria’s cosmopolitan capital. O It has been a long-standing tradition to host a cartoon program event here in Munich. Munich is just the right venue: the local television stations and producers, special service providers for VFX and animation, the renowned University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) as well as other elite universities and, last but not least, an active and innovative games industry make Munich a first class location for animation film and television productions in Germany. The State of Bavaria with its film funding program run by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF Bayern) contributes highly towards maintaining this leading position. The FFF Bayern disburses funding totaling 33 million — 4.7 million € of this funding is specifically allocated to the technically highly demanding and staff-intensive VFX and animation services and to international co-productions. In addition, there is a program that is dedicated to the games industry in Bavaria. This program will be further extended in the following years, and other media innovations will also be funded in future. As our world is increasingly connected, Cartoon Digital this year will address how new media and new uses have transformed the way children engage in programs and brands. We will look into the strategies of animation producers, game companies, digital publishers, global broadcasters as well as VoD and SVoD platforms and how they benefit from these new opportunities. Case studies, new initiatives and hot topics like VR and AR will show a variety of new ideas for animation programs. We are particularly glad about the high caliber line-up of international speakers from Europe, the USA and Mexico. Our common goal is to create an environment in which creative ideas can arise and find their audiences. I hope you all have an interesting and successful experience in attending this seminar!

4 Marc Vandeweyer General Director of CARTOON

ver the years Cartoon Digital has always tried to enlighten animation producers on the new developments in the digital world that can impact the writing, production, financing and distribution of their O animated TV series and animation films. And for this last Cartoon Master of the year, we have convened a prestigious line-up of 26 forward-thinking speakers from Europe, the USA and Mexico to explain how animation producers can benefit from providing multiple content to multiple platforms. Embracing the challenges led by the new ways kids consume programmes and expect to be entertained today will feature high on the agenda. We will look in particular at how leading broadcasters are creating new online programmes and also how animation producers are re-focusing their activities to integrate online routes to expand their brands and monetize their content better. The significant offer provided by Video, VoD and SVoD platforms in Europe, the USA and Mexico will also be a focus of this year’s edition with real case studies attached. New synergies, partnerships with publishers, game companies and creative play leaders like LEGO and Ravensburger will offer food for thought whilst Virtual reality and Augmented reality the hot topics of the year will be largely presented. We wish to thank our long-standing partners Creative Europe/MEDIA and Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft und Medien, Energie und Technologie here in Munich for their support to animation professionals. We wish participants a great event where we hope you will acquire new skills, enlarge your networking base and fine-tune your digital projects.

INFORMATION

Eurostars Grand Central Vi Vadi Hotel

Alter Hof

Paulaner Im Tal

THE VENUE ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Eurostars Grand Central **** Arnulfstr. 35 CARTOON 80636 Munich Marc Vandeweyer Yolanda Alonso T (49) (89) 516 57 40 Joëlle Kesenne Julie Liamin Hélène Mambourg Stéphanie Siegels Fouzia Arrouj Elodie Wattiaux Av. Huart Hamoir 105 1030 Brussels - Belgium T (32) (2) 242 93 53 HOTELS [email protected] www.cartoon-media.eu Eurostars Grand Central **** Arnulfstr. 35 80636 Munich T (49) (89) 516 57 40 Vi Vadi Hotel *** Marsstr. 6-10 SERVICES 80335 Munich T (49) (89) 54 51 90 Technical supplier Neumann & Müller Wettersteinstraße 1 82024 Taufkirchen/Munich T (49) (89) 500 36 10 [email protected] SOCIAL ACTIVITIES www.neumannmueller.com Welcome Dinner – Tuesday 6 December Alter Hof Alter Hof 3 80331 Munich T (49) (89) 242 43 73 Farewell Dinner – Thursday 8 December Paulaner Im Tal Tal 12 80331 Munich T (49) (89) 219 94 00

PROGRAMME

TUESDAY 6 DECEMBER

13:00 Lunch with all participants

14:20 Opening words Speakers: Yolanda Alonso (CARTOON) Daniel Curio (Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology)

14:30 – 15:15 Keynote speech on entertaining kids today Lucy Murphy is Head of Kids Content at Sky. She is overseeing the children’s section of Sky’s on demand library and involved with the development of Sky’s new kids app. She shares the belief that kids matter and that they deserve the very best content provided in the most direct and engaging way. Sky is Europe’s leading entertainment company, serving 21 million customers across 5 countries: UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. Speaker: Lucy Murphy (Sky) Moderator: John Lomas-Bullivant

15:15 – 16:15 Crafting together the future of interactive entertainment A new generation of interactive producers working in games and VR is developing writing tools and new economic models to further partnerships with the animation community. Cooperation opportunities will be presented. Speakers: Stefan Kreutzer (Remote Control Productions) Sylvain Joly (apelab) Moderator: Christophe Erbes

16:15 – 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 – 17:30 YouTube welcomes innovation Engaging your audiences to build brands on YouTube requires an innovative approach that content creators need to grasp. The inner workings of YouTube and analytics provided by the platform to ensure successful programming strategies will be described. Speaker: Cédric Petitpas (Google) Moderator: Christophe Erbes

19:30 Welcome Dinner at Alter Hof Restaurant

WEDNESDAY 7 DECEMBER

9:00 – 10:15 Exciting innovation and digital developments from kids’ broadcasters Platform launches including app development, games and web content, hybrid and new formats, shortform projects, webisodes… Entertaining kids in this new digital age is reaching new heights as demonstrated by 3 leading broadcasters in the field. Speakers: Rachel Bardill (CBeebies - BBC Children’s) Christine Reinaudo (France Télévisions) Orion Ross (The Walt Disney Company - EMEA) Moderator: Christophe Erbes

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 11:30 Ravensburger: Let’s play! In Labs like the In-house “MakeLab”, Ravensburger is exploring and creating new concepts and ways for cross platform, digital play and storytelling. Michael will share insights about context, methods, digital, stories and products. Ravensburger is a leading international player in puzzles, games and activity products, and the leading publisher of children’s and youth books in the German-speaking region. Their “tiptoi” products can be found in almost every second kids’ house in Germany, and the “Spielland” has been voted family-friendliest theme park in Germany. Speaker: Michael Rueger (Ravensburger) Moderator: Christophe Erbes

11:30 – 12:00 Azoomee: A new VoD kids’ platform Azoomee, the new kid on the block in the UK, launched early 2016. The multimedia platform is for primary school-aged kids and its motto is ”Watch, Learn and Play” in a safe environment, devoid of in-app purchases and ad-selling to children. It features curated tutorials, shows and games and should interest animation producers. Azoomee can be downloaded on any mobile device and is also available on all O2 kids tablets in the UK for free. Luca will talk about how content is acquired and what he looks for in the digital space. Speaker: Luca Fiore (Azoomee) Moderator: John Lomas-Bullivant

12:00 – 12:30 TV and Digital: A finer and thiner borderline Figures and trends in consumption on TV vs. Internet and in particular impact of YouTube and SVoD platforms, moves from major entertainment groups to drive audience engagement in a multi-platform context with content more prevalent than ever, growing content into 360° brands… A summary of how multi-content in a multi-platform world is shaping the future of TV. Speaker: Avril Blondelot (Médiametrie / Eurodata TV Worldwide) Moderator: John Lomas-Bullivant

12:30 – 13:00 Available Funding under Creative Europe/MEDIA programme How can producers successfully file an application under Creative Europe/MEDIA funding schemes for development,TV programming and video games. Speaker: Ingeborg Degener (Creative Europe Desk München) Moderator: Christophe Erbes

13:00 – 14:25 Lunch

14:30 – 15:15 How digital kids connect with brands: Industry examples (1st part) The digital media landscape is being completely transformed by the centennial generation. With kids’ Internet usage growing exponentially, brands can no longer ignore the vital under-13 audience. This age group has grown up with technology at their fingertips and wields enormous power over their parents’ purchasing decisions. How can brands and content owners safely connect and engage with a generation who are accustomed to so many media touch points? Dylan gives a rare insight into the minds of this fascinating audience and shares some success stories where IP owners have been able to cut through the noise and captivate a new generation of fans. Speaker: Dylan Collins (SuperAwesome) Moderator: John Lomas-Bullivant

15:15 – 16:30 How to create audience for next generation animation & kids content? What are the challenges for existing creative and business paradigms? Animation on Internet keeps growing more and more popular thanks to dedicated multichannel networks such as Frederator Networks at global scale in English-speaking language and France Télévisions’ MCNs in French- speaking language. Global and local video networks bring new opportunities to the animation industry. Multi- talented, creative and technological teams are crossing new frontiers for animation. Our two speakers will talk about their achievements and will look ahead at innovations which have yet to come. Speakers: Julien Borde (France Télévisions) Fred Seibert (Frederator Networks) Moderator: Christian Davin

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 – 17:45 VR Space race and the real challenges that face the producer Virtual Reality is a new entertainment platform that combines space, immersion and interactivity, and with leading production companies spending millions on development, how does the indie animation producer begin the journey in this field. VR may well launch a revolution in the way stories are told, audiences immersed. Mark will be showing you his journey at VR Arts and will talk of the technological challenges, writing and production opportunities opened up by VR. Speaker: Mark Ashmore (Future Artists) Moderator: Christophe Erbes

19:30 Speakers’ Dinner / Free evening for other participants

THURSDAY 8 DECEMBER

9:00 – 9:45 Lagardère Active: Understanding new uses and new media Lagardère Active is the digital branch of the Lagardère Group, a major player in the publishing, sport and retail business. It encompasses 17 TV channels, 27 press titles, approximately 30 Internet websites and 23 radios in the world. Through a couple of animation case studies, Guilhem will explain the challenges and opportunities of going digital with kids’ brands. Speaker: Guilhem Ravet (Lagardère Active) Moderator: Christophe Erbes

9:45 – 10:30 Innovation from LEGO As children increasingly play with electronic devices or like to build their own toys, how is giant LEGO fusing physical and digital to address kids’ new playing fields. Speaker: Daniel Mathiasen (LEGO) Moderator: John Lomas-Bullivant

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30 How digital kids connect with brands: Industry examples (2nd part) Coming from a traditional book publishing background, Eric Huang’s company which still remains faithful to the kids’ realm has diversified its activities to embrace the next-generation of kids’ playful, creative and interactive needs. He will comment on the necessity for book publishers to adapt to digital products to ensure the growth of brands. Speaker: Eric Huang (Made in Me) Moderator: Christophe Erbes

11:30 – 12:00 STARTOON: The Canadian digital talent show for animated characters Fuelled by Wildseed Studios and the Canadian Shaw Fund, STARTOON has developed a totally new way of creating cartoon properties with the audience and has resulted in new talents, new ideas getting picked up for pilot funding, etc. Speaker: Jesse Cleverly (Wildseed Studios) Moderator: John Lomas-Bullivant

12:00 – 13:00 Digital content: A mixed economy for animation houses In our increasingly connected world, new media and new uses have transformed the way kids engage in programmes and brands – online comedy and short formats being most popular. TV commissioners are also moving towards shorter and more humourous genres. One of the challenges for producers is to make the original digital content that kids like whilst sustaining and developing this content into bigger Intellectual Properties. Insights from leading animation producer. Speaker: Bob Higgins (FremantleMedia Enterprises) Moderator: John Lomas-Bullivant

13:00 – 14:25 Lunch

11 14:30 – 15:15 Case study of an interactive web series “Pigeons & Dragons” Reminiscent of Monty Python’s humour, this stop motion interactive series is a co-production with Franco- German broadcaster ARTE. The production team engaged with 1500 Internet surfers to help define the evil characters of this 30-episode series which will be broadcast in January 2018. Christophe will take us back to this interactive journey in terms of writing and production challenges. Speaker: Christophe Abric (La Blogothèque Productions) Moderator: John Lomas-Bullivant

15:15 – 16:00 Kaiken Publishing and new IPs Kaiken Publishing, a new affiliate company of Rovio Entertainment, is developing publishing programmes for Rovio’s large library but is also looking at more opportunities to publish other’s IPs, helping creators to build new stories, worlds and characters for teens and children on all platforms. Tuomas and Ulla will explain their strategy. Speakers: Ulla Junell (Rovio Entertainment) Tuomas Sorjamaa (Kaiken Publishing) Moderator: Christophe Erbes

16:00 – 16:30 Atomo Network: An alliance for the digital ages Created through a partnership between Channel Frederator Network and Anima Estudios (Latin America’s animation leader), Atomo Network is a new endeavor totally dedicated to animation and aimed at the Spanish speaking audiences worldwide. From original content to adapted global hits along with the best independent creators, José Carlos will explain the global strategy of this new service, the reasoning behind it, the importance of international content and the plans for the future. Speaker: José Carlos García (Anima Estudios) Moderator: Christophe Erbes

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 – 17:45 “Will”: Case study of a cross-media animation series The cross-media elements of this 52x2’ series are co-produced by an animation house and a game developer and both their representatives will focus on the challenges of co-developing, writing, financing and monetizing on digital platforms. Speakers: Sam Dahmani (3DDUO) Jérôme Nougarolis (Cross River Productions) Moderator: John Lomas-Bullivant

19:30 Farewell Dinner at Paulaner im Tal Restaurant

FRIDAY 9 DECEMBER

Departure of Participants

12 SPEAKERS

The speakers at this Cartoon Digital are:

Christophe Abric LA BLOGOTHÈQUE PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) Mark Ashmore FUTURE ARTISTS (UK) Rachel Bardill CBEEBIES - BBC CHILDREN’S (UK) Avril Blondelot MÉDIAMÉTRIE / EURODATA TV WORLDWIDE (FRANCE) Julien Borde FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS (FRANCE) Jesse Cleverly WILDSEED STUDIOS (UK) Dylan Collins SUPERAWESOME (UK) Sam Dahmani 3DDUO (FRANCE) Ingeborg Degener CREATIVE EUROPE DESK MÜNCHEN (GERMANY) Luca Fiore AZOOMEE (UK) José Carlos García ANIMA ESTUDIOS (MEXICO) Bob Higgins FREMANTLEMEDIA ENTERPRISES (USA) Eric Huang MADE IN ME (UK) Sylvain Joly APELAB (SWITZERLAND) Ulla Junell ROVIO ENTERTAINMENT (FINLAND) Stefan Kreutzer REMOTE CONTROL PRODUCTIONS (GERMANY) Daniel Mathiasen LEGO (DENMARK) Lucy Murphy SKY (UK) Jérôme Nougarolis CROSS RIVER PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) Cédric Petitpas GOOGLE (UK) Guilhem Ravet LAGARDÈRE ACTIVE (FRANCE) Moderators Christine Reinaudo FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS (FRANCE) Christian Davin CHRISTIAN DAVIN PRODUCTION (FRANCE) Orion Ross THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY - EMEA (UK) Christophe Erbes KIDS MEDIA ©NSULTING (FRANCE) Michael Rueger RAVENSBURGER (GERMANY) John Lomas-Bullivant KICKBACK MEDIA (UK) Fred Seibert FREDERATOR NETWORKS (USA) Tuomas Sorjamaa KAIKEN PUBLISHING (FINLAND)

13 14 SPEAKERS

Christophe Abric LA BLOGOTHÈQUE PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) Christophe Abric, also known as Chryde, created la Blogothèque in 2003. At first, it was just a collective weblog about music he ran with friends. But the blog grew fast, mainly because of one unique live-session programme, the “Take Away Shows”, created with filmmaker Vincent Moon. After having filmed hundreds of artists in the streets of cities around the world, Christophe asked his longtime friend Matthieu Buchsenschutz to join him and create a production company. Since 2009, La Blogothèque Productions has grown and diversified, and is developing several animation short programmes for Arte and other channels, specializing in interactive storytelling.

Mark Ashmore FUTURE ARTISTS (UK) Mark Ashmore is a Content Producer specialising in experienced and event based virtual reality, Mark has over 10 years experience working in indie film, digital content creation and cross platform – 90% of his work created via Future Artists is crowd funded – Mark moves with the audience to tell his stories and over the past 2 years has become a much sort after content producer for VR – Mark is the founder of VR Arts a new kind of studio backed by HTC and Coolermaster.

Rachel Bardill CBEEBIES - BBC CHILDREN’S (UK) Rachel Bardill is Digital Development Editor at BBC Children’s. Rachel has been in the interactive world for 14 years, where she started out at ITV leading online community projects, live digital events and building digital experiences for TV brands. She joined children’s in the BBC 10 years ago where her career has built on and specialised in delivering digital experiences for children of all ages. Through her career she has helped many brands, characters and stories come to life on digital platforms and has a nack for unlocking the magic of interactivity through games, digital stories and audience engagement. In recent times, in her role as Executive producer, CBeebies interactive the most exciting and impactful project that she has led has been the delivery of 2 market leading UK apps for under 5’s, CBeebies Storytime and CBeebies Playtime. Playtime Island has recently launched and exciting CBBC app projects to follow. She now has a new role in leading digital development across both CBBC and CBeebies, working in partnership with brand owners, product and platform specialists to deliver strategy and creative leadership in games, apps and web platforms to the wide range of our audience. She is knee deep in strategy at the moment – helping the department grapple with how to transform the business for digital first audiences – an exciting and challenging time!

15 Avril Blondelot MÉDIAMÉTRIE / EURODATA TV WORLDWIDE (FRANCE) Avril Blondelot is a specialist in tailor made research solutions provided to networks, production and distribution companies helping them to position their brands and optimise their TV programming strategies. She is heading a team of 8 research analysts, specialized in kids TV programming, scripted series and entertainment series. Previously, she worked for Eurosport, France Télévisions and Musée du Louvre. She graduated from a Master in Management of Cultural Organizations at Paris Dauphine and the International Master in Management (IMIM) at SKEMA Business School.

Julien Borde FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS (FRANCE) Julien Borde is Head of VoD at France Télévisions. He is overseeing AVoD, TVoD and SVoD activities for French public broadcaster. Up to September 2015, he was SVP of New Projects at France Télévisions Programming and Digital Department in charge of the public broadcaster multichannel development on the web, a large portfolio from children and kids content to general entertainment and original series. Before that, he was General Secretary of Programmes and Deputy Director of Programming at France 3, 4th terrestrial generalist channel in France. Between October 2008 and June 2012, he created and ran the children’s and youth programming department for France Télévisions, the first commissioner of animation in Europe. He was in charge of animation co-productions, acquisitions and youth programming for all of France Télévisions channels and digital services. He has commissioned international hits such as “Raving Rabbids”, “Garfield”, “Noddy”, “Kind of Magic”, “The owl”, “Jungle Bunch” and “Zorro”… In 2005, Julien Borde joined France Télévisions, to run the children’s and youth programming unit of France 3. Previously, between 1997 and 2005, he successively held the position of deputy Programming Director, Programming Director and then Executive Director of Programming and Production at Disney Channel France. He holds a postgraduate degree from the IEP (Institute of Political Studies) in Bordeaux and a Master’s in Media from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Paris. Julien Borde began his career at Canal J as a Programming Assistant.

16 Jesse Cleverly WILDSEED STUDIOS (UK) Jesse Cleverly is Creative Director at Wildseed Studios. Wildseed Studios is a next-generation media company which enables emerging talent to create fantastic new entertainment IPs’s by investing directly into the development and production of their ideas. Wildseed is investing 50 x £10k into new ideas over the next three years, with two successive rounds of increasing funding available for the ideas which show potential to become the break out hit we seek. Wildseed looks in three categories – Kids 6-11, animated and live action adult comedy, and genre fiction. We produce digital original series and microbuster movies – blockbuster movies on a microbudget. All of Wildseed’s series commissions premiere on one of two proprietary OTT entertainment channels Wildseed Comedy and Wildseed SciFi, while our movies generally go into VoD distribution networks. Since launching Wildseed Comedy in November 2014, it has fast become the biggest independent OTT Comedy Channel in the UK. Wildseed’s first full length feature “Hungerford” (produced for £23k) recently won Best SciFi at Berlin Independent Film Festival, and lead actress Georgia Bradley won Best Actress at Fantasporto. It has also been officially selected for SciFi London Film Festival and Shriekfest in Los Angeles, and is currently available on iTunes for pre-order. Prior to founding Wildseed with his business partner Miles Bullough, Jesse ran his own creative solutions company Connective Media, and before that Jesse held a range of senior editorial positions at the BBC, culminating in three years as Head of Co-Production and Acquisition for BBC Children’s. He began his career marketing new plays in the theatre and spent five years as Stephen Daldry’s Head of Marketing at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

Dylan Collins SUPERAWESOME (UK) Dylan Collins (@MrDylanCollins) is CEO of SuperAwesome, the leading kids digital media platform that safely reaches over a quarter of a billion kids worldwide every month. An active investor and advisor across both kids media and technology companies, he is Venture Partner with Hoxton Ventures and sits on the board of the UK’s top-rated digital agency, Potato (recently acquired by WPP) as well as Brown Bag Films, Europe’s leading kids animation studio. Previously Collins founded Jolt Online Gaming, one of the pioneering social games publishers in Europe, acquired by GameStop (NYSE: GME) in 2009. He also founded DemonWare, the leading online games technology firm, which was acquired by Activision Blizzard (NYSE: ATVI) in 2007.

Sam Dahmani 3DDUO (FRANCE) Graduated from Stanford University, Sam Dahmani (38), began his career as a Telecommunications Engineer, and Deployment Manager at Nortel Networks EMEA, before creating his production company in Paris. Today, he is Associate Director in charge of the marketing strategy and the business development at 3DDUO, a video game company specializing in casual games, social games and cross-media animation games.

17 Ingeborg Degener CREATIVE EUROPE DESK MÜNCHEN (GERMANY) Ingeborg Degener has been the Managing Director of Creative Europe Desk Munich (formerly: MEDIA Antenna Munich) since 2003. Creative Europe Desk Munich is one of the information points of the Creative Europe Programme (2014-2020), a support programme of the European Union for the audio-visual industry as well as the cultural and creative sector. Ingeborg joined MEDIA Antenna Munich in 1997 as Project Manager after five years as Head of public relations at an international educational exchange organization based in Bonn. She holds a degree in English and German and drama studies.

Luca Fiore AZOOMEE (UK) Luca Fiore is Azoomee’s Content Executive and Education Specialist and one of the creators behind “Search It Up!” – the animated series designed to help children be smart, safe and kind online. At Azoomee, Luca manages the acquisition, commissioning and curation of content, applying his knowledge of child development and learning to Azoomee’s content strategy. Luca has degrees in Italian language and literature and developmental psychology from Georgetown University in Washington DC, as well as his Masters in childhood education from Fordham University. After graduating, Luca was a primary school teacher at Friends, in lower Manhattan, where he was an integral member of the faculty and an advocate for the effective use of technology in classrooms. Luca’s difficult decision to leave full-time teaching after five years was spurred by the desire to expand his horizons and spend time in other parts of the world. He has worked as a private education consultant in the US, Australia, and Europe before joining Azoomee. Luca brings his passion for technology and learning to the Azoomee platform, which aims to positively influence young children as they become full digital citizens.

José Carlos García ANIMA ESTUDIOS (MEXICO) José Carlos García is a founding partner at Anima Estudios, an animation studio based in Mexico City that has become the largest animation company in Latin America. He is the COO at the studio overseeing production, development, marketing, sales and new business. He also serves as Executive Producer of “El Chavo” animated show, which has broken several ratings records throughout Latin America and is now in its 7th season for a total of 135 half hours to date. He has been Producer and/or Executive Producer for 14 animated feature films including “Wicked Flying Monkeys”, “Kung Fu Magoo” and “Top Cat: The Movie”. He is also founder and CEO of FX Shop, a Mexico City-based company that specializes in VFX services for the Movie, TV and advertising industries. He has worked as VFX producer on 8 feature films and in over 40+ commercials. He was director of production at Alo.com and content director of the portal’s animation channel “Tirabala” from 2000 to 2002. Attended Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico with a major on Economics.

18 Bob Higgins FREMANTLEMEDIA ENTERPRISES (USA) Bob Higgins is EVP at FremantleMedia. A long time champion of children’s programming, Bob oversees the creative direction for FremantleMedia’s kid’s business, as well as managing content, including acquisitions, development and sales of TV and digital programming. Current programming includes “Kate & Mim-Mim”, “Bitz and Bob” and “Tasty Tales of the Food Truckers”. Before FremantleMedia, Bob served as Head of Creative at Wildbrain and prior to this, he was Senior Vice President, Programming and Development for Cartoon Network’s kids’ businesses. While at Cartoon Network, Bob managed the development, production, acquisition and programming departments and oversaw new original animated series, shorts, Cartoon Network features and specials. Among the many accomplishments during his tenure with the network, Bob oversaw the development, production and launch of a number of hit series, including “Chowder”, “Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends”, “My Gym Partner’s A Monkey”, “Ben 10” and “Camp Lazlo”. Bob has also served senior roles with Classic Media, Sony Pictures Family Entertainment (SPFE), Columbia TriStar Television and Nelvana Communications.

Eric Huang MADE IN ME (UK) Eric Huang is Development Director at Made in Me, an award winning digital agency in London specialising in children’s entertainment. Starting out at Disney Publishing in LA – where he worked for six years – Eric moved to Melbourne as Managing Editor at Penguin. He then joined toy company Funtastic’s new book division as Publisher, after which he re-located to the UK as Head of Licensing at Parragon. In 2007 Eric took up a role at Penguin UK, where he worked for six years as one of the children’s publishers and looked after Penguin’s licensed publishing, IP, and co- production businesses. Eric joined Made in Me in 2013 from Mind Candy. He looks after IP development and creative partnerships around creating and launching digital brands.

Sylvain Joly APELAB (SWITZERLAND) Passionate about movies, comics, video games and new technologies, Sylvain focused his research on new forms of storytelling for interactive areas. After studies in illustration, graphic design, and a Master’s degree in interaction design, he co-founded apelab in 2014, a company specialized in interactive storytelling for virtual reality and space- based experiences.

19 Ulla Junell ROVIO ENTERTAINMENT (FINLAND) Ulla Junell works as producer in Rovio Animation Company. Rovio, the creator of “Angry Birds”, is a global industry- changing entertainment media company that creatively combines digital with physical, breaking the boundaries of traditional content delivery. In Rovio, Ulla’s focus is on TV and digital series productions and new IP development, ensuring that the stories and characters entertain and touch fans across the distribution platforms. Prior to Rovio, Ulla has worked in various production roles at Finnish broadcasting company YLE and for over twenty European feature, TV and commercial production companies.

Stefan Kreutzer REMOTE CONTROL PRODUCTIONS (GERMANY) Stefan Kreutzer started in the music industry as a tour booker with epm productions, later moving on to indie tour promoter target concerts, working with as exciting and different artists as Alice Cooper, Slash from Guns N’ Roses, Scooter, UB40, Lil’Kim, Cypress Hill, etc., eventually becoming the Agent of German Rapstar Sido, his Aggro Berlin label colleagues, punk rapper K.I.Z., Culcha Candela and others at piranha media’s event department. After a sabbatical earning a Master’s Degree in Contemporary History and publishing a well-received book on the German political strategy in the Near East during WWI, he returned to piranha media to head the Film & Games department and to be marketing manager and editor-in-chief of Burger King’s customer magazine KING bringing it to its most profitable years. Having always been a passionate geek about movies, TV series, games and comics he found the perfect place to act out on it as business development manager with Europe’s major games developer family Remote Control Productions where he oversees joint venture possibilities with the TV/Movie industry.

Daniel Mathiasen LEGO (DENMARK) Daniel is a distinguished member of Santa’s Workshop – with a specialty in unfinished toys, toys that need a child’s touch to be finalized. In this capacity he has aided the LEGO Company with products within digital/physical play, such as LEGO Studios the Movie Maker set, LEGO Mindstorms, LEGO Bionicle, LEGO Nexo Knights, LEGO Dimensions and many more. A key question he struggles with: How do we utilize the digital platforms inherent creative power, to enable kids to create digital content, not just consume content – and kill weird aliens? Working within early product and experience innovation – in the intersection between Experience Design, Business Development and Strategic Intent – serving as Concept Director, digital/physical experiences with the LEGO Company.

20 Lucy Murphy SKY (UK) Ms. Lucy Murphy has been Head of Kids Content at Sky since November 2015. Ms. Murphy served as the Creative Director and Head of Content at Azoomee. She has over 20 years of experience in producing and brand managing shows for children’s and family audiences. She was also involved with the development of Sky’s new kids app which launched in early 2016. As a Producer, Script Editor and Development Executive, she has worked on over 500 episodes of children’s shows ranging from “Horrid Henry”, “The Gruffalo” and Aardman’s “Tate Movie Project” for a diverse slate of clients from small indies to major international media groups.

Jérôme Nougarolis CROSS RIVER PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) Jérôme Nougarolis, 42 years old, started his career back in 1994 as a producer of magazines and documentaries for several French and international broadcasters. Since 2009, he has been involved in animation within Cross River where he started to produce TV series which seek to have a different economic model for the digital media. This work has led him to think of Cross River’s projects as cross and transmedia projects. “Transformice” which is produced only for a digital ecosystem and “Will” which is produced for TV are 2 complementary illustrations of what the company is trying to achieve.

Cédric Petitpas GOOGLE (UK) EDHEC Business School graduate. Started in Feature Film production, International Sales and Home Entertainment in France (StudioCanal) and Germany (Kinowelt). Worked 10 years at Paris-based animation production studio Gaumont Animation (formerly Alphanim) successively as Business Affairs, Marketing & International TV Sales Director and VP of Consumer Products & Business Development. Joined YouTube London’s Kids & Learning team in 2014 as Strategic Partner Manager for Northern Europe.

21 Guilhem Ravet LAGARDÈRE ACTIVE (FRANCE) Guilhem started his digital career as Digital Contents & Offers Expert at the consulting firm NPA Conseil. He joined the TV activities (Gulli, Canal J, Tiji, Mezzo, Elle Girl, MCM) of Lagardère Active in 2012, to work on non-linear offer and social media. After having developed, among others projets, the catch-up offer Gulli Replay and Gulli’s first synchronized second screen experiences (“Redakai” & “Gu’live”), Guilhem was appointed as Deputy Director of New and Social Media in 2014 and then Chief Digital Operations Officer in August 2016. In this context, he put together the non linear exploitation and the digital development strategy for the company’s channels, launched the SVoD platform GulliMax with Chocolapps, co-produced the web series “Les Tactiques d’Emma” with FabLabChannel and developed the interactive application “MyJ”. Guilhem graduated from Sciences Po Toulouse and from Paris Sorbonne with a two year master’s degree in Media Law and Content Management.

Christine Reinaudo FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS (FRANCE) Christine Reinaudo holds a Master of Business Law and a postgraduate of Media Law from Paris II Panthéon Assas. She began in 1996 at Medialab as Administrator of Production. In 1998, she joined Metal Hurlant Production and Sparkling* as Head of Post-Production and Production Manager. She became Advisor of youth programmes at France 5 in 2006, and in 2008, she was appointed Acquisition Manager in the joint Direction of children and youth at France Télévisions. Since December 2011, she is responsible for hybrid and new formats.

Orion Ross THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY - EMEA (UK) Orion Ross is Vice-President, Content – Animation, Digital & Acquisitions at Disney Channels EMEA. He joined Disney’s London team in 2008, and is responsible for the creative development and production of original animated series for Disney Channel, Disney XD and Disney Junior, as well as original content for digital platforms and regional acquisitions. Recent projects include “Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja”, “Boyster”, “Miraculous Ladybug”, “Rolling with the Ronks”, “PJ Masks”, “Counterfeit Cat” and “Mega Awesome Super Hacks”. Previously Orion developed original programming for Turner’s Asia Pacific entertainment networks including “Exchange Student Zero” for Cartoon Network, “Galli Galli Sim Sim” with Sesame Workshop, and the arts format “M.A.D.” for Pogo.

Michael Rueger RAVENSBURGER (GERMANY) In 1999 Michael Rueger left his daily routine as a producer of TV shows and commercials (e.g. BBDO) behind and turned towards interactive media, and cross-platform worlds. Before he joined Ravensburger in 2013, first as Head of Content and Creative Director at Ravensburger Digital, and current as Creative Director at Ravensburger MakeLab, he worked many years for media houses, theme parks and toy companies to create new forms of user experiences, and storyworlds. He is a regular speaker at international conferences such as Medienwoche@IFA – Berlin, FMX – Stuttgart or First Motion – Tallinn. Michael received several industry-awards and nominations, like the Toy Innovation Award 2010 (for TipToi). Michael is married, and has two great kids Jim and Len, who share his passion for toys and stories. Fred Seibert FREDERATOR NETWORKS (USA) Fred Seibert is the founder of Frederator Networks, co-founder of Thirty Labs, and a serial media entrepreneur. He was the first creative director of MTV and the last president of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. Fred was the founder of Next New Networks (acquired by YouTube). He’s on the board of directors of Sawhorse Media, and was the first investor in Tumblr. Frederator Networks is Channel Frederator, the leading online cartoon network, Frederator Studios, an independent production company with hits on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, Cartoon Hangover, the home of “Bravest Warriors” and “Bee & PuppyCat” (the most funded web series Kickstarter in history), and Frederator Books. Frederator distributes hundreds of independently owned, animator operated, YouTube channels. Thirty Labs is a technology start-up studio, focused exclusively on video innovations.

Tuomas Sorjamaa KAIKEN PUBLISHING (FINLAND) Tuomas Sorjamaa is Licensing & Acquisitions Manager at Kaiken Publishing, a Rovio Company based in Helsinki. Kaiken Publishing is an IP accelerator specialising in telling stories in the best way possible: licensing third-party brands for print & digital publishing, discovering & developing original IPs for book publishing & other media, and creating new content for publishers & platforms. At Kaiken, Tuomas handles licensing sales and new IP acquisitions and development. Previously he has worked as writer, editor, and children’s publisher, overseeing projects ranging from picture books to transmedia storytelling and alternate reality gaming. Tuomas holds master’s degrees in both intellectual property law and English language and literature.

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Christian Davin CHRISTIAN DAVIN PRODUCTION (FRANCE) He started as representative of Antenne 2 in Canada for sales and co-productions. In 1984 he founded Lumière and in 1989 he became Head of France Animation. He founded Alphanim in 1997 and sold it in 2007 to Gaumont, he produced more than 900 half-hours of animation both for TV and cinema theatres. He is President of CARTOON since 2009.

Christophe Erbes KIDS MEDIA ©NSULTING (FRANCE) Christophe Erbes was born in 1963 in Paris and studied Mathematics, Telecommunications Science and Economics. After some scientific research in Montreal, he worked for Canal+ International in Paris. He was then responsible for the kids and short films department at PREMIERE (now SKY Deutschland) in Hamburg before becoming Head of Programmes at S-RTL / Disney in Cologne. After being Deputy Managing Director and Head of Programmes of Nickelodeon Germany, he was Managing Director at Jetix (now Disney XD) in Madrid, London and Munich. He lives in Marcousin (Dordogne) and is an international Media Consultant focusing on children content strategies. He sits on a few boards (Stuttgart Animation Festival, German Kids Film Association) and regularly hosts media festivals and podium discussions, organizing for kids channels worldwide the Global Kids Media Congress in Angoulême. He develops and writes for original and classic TV and film properties for children and, under his pseudonym Theo de Marcousin, he’s a successful kids books author: see on FaceBook – and maybe like?! – “Oscar & Hoo”.

John Lomas-Bullivant KICKBACK MEDIA (UK) John Lomas-Bullivant is the Founder of Kickback Media a children’s IP company which helps businesses operating in the children’s media space understand how to create and develop content that can move from one medium to another. John has over 25 years’ experience working in children’s media with experience gained at Senior Executive level at Fireback Entertainment, TV-Loonland, Pearson Television and HiT Entertainment. John began espousing a transmedia approach to content creation as far back as 2002 when he set up Kickback Media which was founded on the principle “Character is King not the Medium”.

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