Useful Information For Attendees

Whether your buying, selling or creating digital media nextMEDIA is the marketplace for you.

Tickets are still available for tomorrow's Content Day and The Digi Awards: Register now

nextMEDIA is happening Dec 3 & 4, 2012 and promises to bring together the best and brightest of Canada's digital media community.

Key information to help you make the most of your experience:

  • Schedule: Make sure you're where you need to be by viewing the schedule.
  • Find Delegates: Search and email other delegates.
  • Meetings: Book last minute meetings through .Connect. To log on to nextMEDIA .Connect, use the email address you used to register for today’s event as your username and the 4-digit pin on the front of your delegate badge as your account password.
  • Get Social: See what everyone else is saying about nextMEDIA by following @nextMEDIAnow and tag all of your tweets, photos and videos with our event hashtag #nm2012.
  • Wi-Fi: To access Wi-Fi at the Carlu, the network is Carlu and the password is nextmedia.
  • nextMEDIA Live Feed: Through the next two day's we will be posting updates, social mentions, images, videos and much more. Check out the live feed here.
  • Digi Awards: You get one free place at the Digi Awards as part of your nextMEDIA ticket. If you still haven't confirmed your place at the awards, you can do so here.
  • Press: Are you a member of the press looking for nextMEDIA and Digi Awards exclusives? Contact Rabya Khanan, Communications Coordinator, at rkhanan@achillesmedia.com to ensure you are in the right places at the right times to gain interviews with Canada's digital elite.
     
Key features of this year's nextMEDIA - Toronto include:

  • Keynotes by the infamous market researcher Dr. Howard Moscowitz and renegade author Cory Doctorow
  • High level attendance from the media buying community 
  • Participating digital brand managers from such organisations as GM, Walmart, Alliance Films, Beyond the Rack, MLSE
  • Media selling case studies in the mobile, social and cross-platform space from AOL, Buzzfeed and Blue Ant
  • RTB Activity Report and comScore Canadian digital activity report
  • Measuring the ROI of earned and owned media buying and coordinating it with paid
  • Mobile Monetization panel including JUICE mobile, Tapjoy, Millenial Media and Olive
  • Overview of the original online content initiatives from Youtube, Yahoo! and Rogers
     
Some of the media buyers and publisher attending nextMEDIA - Toronto include:

  • Sunni Boot, CEO, Zenith Optimedia
  • Tom Fotheringham, Director, Digital Solutions, OMD Canada
  • Veronica Holmes, President, Digital, Zenith Optimedia
  • Jeff Thibodeau, Senior Vice-President, Digital Media and Investment, MediaCom
  • Katie Atkinson, VP Communications Planning Carat, Head of Digital Trading, Aegis Media
  • Caroline Moul, Digital Media Strategist, PHD Canada
  • Veronica Holmes, President, Digital, ZenithOptimedia
  • Patricia Gray, Director, Digital Solutions, Media Experts
  • Alastair Taylor, SVP, Managing Partner, Strategy & Insights, MEC
  • Steven Alegrias, Director, Emerging and Social Media, UM
  • Azadeh Mahinpou, Director of Business, Media Contacts
  • John McCauley, Senior Director, Digital, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment
  • Lauren Jacob, Digital Marketing Manager, Alliance Films
  • Rob Assimakopoulos, General Director, Marketing and Communications, General Motors Canada
  • Drew Cashmore, Director of Digital Marketing & Customer Acquisition, Walmart Canada
  • Armin Huska, Managing Director, Digital, Mindshare
  • Jonathan Perelman, Vice President of Agency Strategy and Development, BuzzFeed
  • Jeremy Butteriss, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google Canada
  • Stephen England-Hall, Chief Client Officer, Syncapse
  • Graham Moysey, General Manager, Digital Media AOL Canada
  • Jason Tafler, Chief Digital Officer, Rogers Media
  • Jim Jones, GM & VP of Sales, Tapjoy
  • Chris Harris, Head of Social Media, Shaw Media
  • Mike Anthony, VP Sales, Mid-Atlantic, Millenial Media
  • Ryan Fuss, VP, Digital Solutions, Blue Ant Media
  • Gina Cothey, Senior Director, Head of Media Network, Yahoo! Canada
  • Mladen Raickovic, General Manager of Data-Driven Media, Torstar Digital
  • Andrew Casale, Vice President of Strategy, Casale Media
  • Howard Moskowitz, President, Moskowitz Jacobs Inc.
  • Cory Doctorow, Author, CorDoc-Co, Ltd
  • Jon Taylor, Senior Director, Bell Media Digital
  • Gina Cothey, Senior Director, Head of Media Network, Yahoo! Canada
  • Neil Sweeney, President & CEO, JUICE Mobile
  • Richard Cohene, Director of Marketing, Beyond the Rack
  • Raymond Reid, Managing Director, Neo@Ogilvy Canada 
 
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