About the Greenlight Summit

[Jason Manley]

The Greenlight Summit: May 21-27 2012- 100 Industry Leader's Presentations, Greenlight Pitch Sessions, Master Classes, the most important online training and networking event in the business. Available Worldwide, Live and On Demand

The Greenlight Summit creates a direct worldwide connection to important leaders from the evolving entertainment industry, including games, film, and associated trans-media fields. This global conference provides brilliant daily keynotes, over 100 speaker presentations, concentrated departmental talks, as well as secure greenlight pitch and mentor sessions. The program includes gripping discussion, informative Q&A periods, shared post-mortems and career days too.

Track topics include I.P. Development, Production, Art, Design, Technology, Management, Marketing, Public Relations, Media and Business, This important event is brought to life within an easy, proven, secure, online tool suite that is conveniently available 24/7. This allows even the busiest professionals to match their schedules, catch the talks live or On Demand, set their meetings and connect in a meaningful way.

Companies and participants conveniently take full advantage, without the airports, and the heavy budget impact of flights, hotels, taxis, or other expenses. An internet connection, computer, headset/mic and registration gets it all delivered, right into your office, living room, studio, classroom or coffee shop, no matter where on earth you are.

Want to connect for business, opportunity, or learning like you would at any other trade event? Want to show your wares, find vendors, or your pitch your ideas to those who can help? Choose registration options to schedule and secure private breakout rooms for easy online meetings or contact any of the hundreds of participants on the fly.

Within this setting, attendees may virtually share applications, video, screens, webcam, voice, text, white boards, and redline tools to quickly get the point across, understand the ideas of others, and get better.

Those who remain inspired, up to date, and focused will find greatest immediate and long term success. The latest answers, insights, inspirations and opportunities exist here. Early Registration discounts end March 1 2012.

Participation is limited. For further information please contact:

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To provide opportunity, and a flexible way for professionals and students to better the careers, improve success, and deepen creativity in the entertainment, games, mobile, social, film, animation, and transmedia industries.

A partial list of speakers (from a total of 100) include the following leaders:

JOHN STEVENSON: CO-DIRECTOR- KUNG FU PANDA
ALEXANDER SEROPIAN: FOUNDER- BUNGIE and WIDELOAD GAMES, FORMER PRESIDENT, DISNEY INTERACTIVE
JEFF BRAUN: FOUNDER OF MAXIS and FORMER PRESIDENT OF EA
CAREEN YAP:VP of LICENSING AND BIZ DEV - KONAMI
JAY DEE ALLEY: DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT DEV.- CAPCOM
JASON MANLEY: FOUNDER- CONCEPTART.ORG,TAD,BRILLIANT COLORS
KEITH BOESKY: PRESIDENT OF BOESKY AND COMPANY
LORNE LANNING: CO-FOUNDER- ODDWORLD
SHERRY MCKENNA-CO-FOUNDER- ODDWORLD
MEGAN GAISER: CHIEF CREATIVE STRATEGY OFFICER-HER INTERACTIVE
HEATHER HAZEL: SENIOR PRODUCER- POPCAP GAMES
CHRIS AVELLONE: LEAD DESIGNER/OWNER- OBSIDIAN ENTERTAINMENT
J.E. SAWYER: LEAD DESIGNER-OBSIDIAN ENTERTAINMENT
STEVE BOKKES: LEAD DESIGNER- SONY ONLINE
JOSEPH OLIN-FORMER PRES. ACAD OF INTERACTIVE ARTS AND SCIENCES
JOHN ENGLISH: FOUNDER/EDUCATOR- TAD/ILLUSTRATION ACADEMY
BILL DUGGAN: AUTHOR- STRATEGIC INTUITION
JOSEE LALUMIERE: GM NEWBREED VFX
RON LEMEN- ARTIST/EDUCATOR- THE ART DEPARMENT
MARIO WYNANDS: FOUNDER- SIDHE INTERACTIVE
MARSHALL VANDRUFF: EDUCATOR- THE ART DEPARTMENT
JEFFREY T. MAKOFF: SENIOR PARTNER- VALLE-MAKOFF LLP.
JEFFREY ROSE Esq. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTORNEY
ODED PALLED: CEO- ROCKET NINJA
MILES THOMPSON: MEDIA PUBLISHER
RAJESH RAO: CEO, DHRUVA INTERACTIVE
STERLING HUNDLEY: AWARD WINNING ILLUSTRATOR- THE ART DEPARTMENT
JASON DELLA ROCA-GAMES CONSULtANT=FORMER HEAD OF IGDA
SEAN KAUPINNEN- CEO, IDEA- GAMES INDUSTRY BIZ DEV GURU
TIM DONLEY: CREATIVE DIRECTOR- THQ/VIGIL GAMES
BRIAN REID: FOUNDER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR-OSIRIS
JOHN SCHINDEHETTE: SENIOR ART DIRECTOR, WIZARDS OF THE COAST
JANE RADSTROM AND DORIAN ITEN: FACULTY, THE ART DEPARTMENT
and many more!

Powered by the most advanced online college in art and entertainment intellectual property development, www.theartdepartment.org

Organizers of the Greenlight Summit include those responsible for SXSW Interactive, The International Art and Design Symposiums, The Illustration Academy and AnimFX New Zealand.

Proceeds go to the improvement of industry education, scholarships, community development, and training for the art and entertainment fields.

Contact: infoATgreenlightsummit.org
Website: COMING SOON!
This is an ONLINE Event! Imagine a TED talks for our fields, with master classes, greenlight pitch sessions, portfolio reviews and more! Hopefully this gives you a picture of what this is all about!

[OldJake666]

Where will this take place, though? Is it an online only event?

[jpacer]

pld:

This is awesome. As someone who is never able to attend any workshops due to location (I never seem to have enough cash to pay for the event AND a plane ticket AND hotel room), this sounds like a dream come true. Hopefully, I can pull it together for this.

Thanks, Jason, and all the people of TAD and CA for putting this together.

[Jason Manley]

pld:

This is awesome. As someone who is never able to attend any workshops due to location (I never seem to have enough cash to pay for the event AND a plane ticket AND hotel room), this sounds like a dream come true. Hopefully, I can pull it together for this.

Thanks, Jason, and all the people of TAD and CA for putting this together.

You hit the nail on the head. The workshops would end up costing folks up to 2k USD to attend and nowadays that can be tough. It is going to be a great show. Just wait til you see who the other speakers are!

[Jason Manley]

And Jake it is an online event so as many people who can come can be there. It also allowed me to gather speakers who would not be able to come otherwise.

[jimshred]

Sounds interesting.

When the event is over hopefully you can post some notes on the highlights of everything.

Would like to hear about some of the greenlight pitchs.

Cheers, Jim

[Jason Manley]

Hope you can join us.

[Grace]

Do you know of any examples of what might be covered within art, design and production? I have purchased quite a few download and streaming classes, and am curious as to what I could expect from a conference verses the downloads and TAD intro classes. Are they different? Similar?

(P.S. I work in producing art for theme park projects (concepts and graphic design), so not all of the business stuff transfers to that world... but building art skills and technique is helpful for wherever you are within entertainment... I am always looking to build my proficiency in art and catch up on some of the "traditional" art training that I missed, having been a Digital Media/Computer Animation major with only a few drawing classes. Thanks for all of the great videos so far!)

[Jason Manley]

This is not the same program as what we do in the intro classes.

The art side will cover a variety of topics associated with creating worlds and universes...no matter what medium you create for.

For what you want, you should also consider taking Marshall Vandruff's anatomy class and the figure classes from TAD. You will level up. I have taken his anatomy class on three occasions and it is fabulous.

Regarding the biz stuff not being applicable...oh the contrary. Given what you do, I will bet that you are going to have dreams of your own and if you have this information you are better prepared to do so. My biggest problems I encountered in the industry came from not understanding business back then. This event provides the necessary kinds of content that cannot be found in any other art school. The more you know about your rights, negotiation, strategy, promotion, marketing...all of that comes back to you having the best opportunities you can get. I can understand where that perspective comes from but I can tell you from experience...it is entirely valuable to your path.

Hope to see you there!


Jason

Do you know of any examples of what might be covered within art, design and production? I have purchased quite a few download and streaming classes, and am curious as to what I could expect from a conference verses the downloads and TAD intro classes. Are they different? Similar?

(P.S. I work in producing art for theme park projects (concepts and graphic design), so not all of the business stuff transfers to that world... but building art skills and technique is helpful for wherever you are within entertainment... I am always looking to build my proficiency in art and catch up on some of the "traditional" art training that I missed, having been a Digital Media/Computer Animation major with only a few drawing classes. Thanks for all of the great videos so far!)

[Grace]

Thanks, Jason. I appreciate your perspective, and also the fact that these talks are available On-Demand... Very helpful for those of us who are busy all day, and I am sure also for people in very different time zones. You all are doing great stuff! I will look at my budget over the next few days and decide how to roll! :-)

[Jason Manley]

Thanks Grace! Looking forward to it too!!! See you there!

[ZsMann]

I'm seeing data here that is conflicting. The post says you can receive early registration until the first, but the poster /image posted says until the 5th. Which is it?

[Tomahawk Monkey]

How long will we be able to view the on-demand videos before the licencing ends? Till the end of the conference?

[Jason Manley]

How long will we be able to view the on-demand videos before the licencing ends? Till the end of the conference?

We will allow access for at least 60 days after the conference. We are working to have this as flexible as possible.


Thanks for asking.


Jason

[Jason Manley]

I'm seeing data here that is conflicting. The post says you can receive early registration until the first, but the poster /image posted says until the 5th. Which is it?

Early Registration is until March 15th. That is the latest we could extend it. Do get the registrations in as soon as you are able, as we do believe this event will fill up.

Super excited to have you all with us! We are going to have one hell of a good show.


Jason

[smokenmirrors]

Just curious on how this event will "fill up" as people are essentially paying for an online pass vs. physically attending the event. Is there a digital fire marshal thats has a bandwith limit to how many people can log in at once? Also are the various speakers staggered with their presentations or are they happening simultaneously? And how much interaction/q&a/feedback will these sessions allow? and what will the turn around be for the uploading of these presentations from the live times?

thanks

[Jason Manley]

We are keeping the total headcount limited so the participants can get as much out of it as possible. Personally, I want those who attend to say...that was flat out incredible.

The speakers are staggered. If you miss one for whatever reason, you can catch it on Demand too.

There will be specific Q&A sessions as well as portfolio reviews and such, which are all about interaction. The talks are like the TED talks, they are about listening to the truth of what the speaker has to say.

Turnaround time for uploading? It's all live...and the on demand are immediate. There will be a few mins break between talks, but not more than five. We have this system down well and it is very easy for everyone to use to connect, share, learn...etc....

Best,


Jason

Just curious on how this event will "fill up" as people are essentially paying for an online pass vs. physically attending the event. Is there a digital fire marshal thats has a bandwith limit to how many people can log in at once? Also are the various speakers staggered with their presentations or are they happening simultaneously? And how much interaction/q&a/feedback will these sessions allow? and what will the turn around be for the uploading of these presentations from the live times?

thanks

[Tomahawk Monkey]

So before the summit starts are we going to submit some portfolio images into your own system to be reviewed or do we redirect the speakers and reviewers to our own website?

[vibhas_virwani]

but i (and most other people here ) have shitty absolutely internet connections here in India , :/ i feel so underprivileged for such an event :/

[Kitten Poker]

Hello ^_^

There was some mention of a talk this evening.... is this happening? if not I can go to sleep soon ^_^

Thanks ^_^