Event Programming

New Medici programs quarterly and annual events that intersect media and technology. Recent examples include:

• Producers Guild of America – New Medici will program direct the annual Produced By Conference held at Sony Studios in partnership with the CEA in 2012.
• Australia Government / Austrade Trade & Investment Commission - Programmed their inaugural G’Day USA Event “Digital Down Under / Silicon Coasts” conference days, celebrating media and tech partnership between LA and Australia) at CAA. Speakers include Yahoo! EVP Ross Levinsohn; Michael Jones, CEO of Science incubator (backed by Eric Schmidt, Google chairman), and former MySpace CEO, and related panels and pitchfest events.
• Digital Hollywood / iHollywood Forum Conferences - Programmed quarterly panels and media keynotes at CES, NATPE and CTIA markets. Developed 30-35 sessions and workshops over past eight years.
• X Media Lab Conferences - Advised XML, an internationally acclaimed digital media think tank and creative workshop, on media and digital programming, sponsor and social web initiatives to drive growth of their Asia and EMEA conferences. Mentored their New Zealand and Amsterdam conferences.
• LA Film Festival – Member of Film Independent planning committee, worked with Dawn Hudson to develop innovative, filmmaker friendly event site for annual festival.
• WPP / Ogilvy Entertainment “Architecting the Future” Event – Programmed and recruited top technology and pro social thought leaders for TED-like think tank for Ogilvy Big IdeaL initiative.
• USC Marshall Business School Alumni Event - Programmed their first-ever social media keynote panel with senior execs from Groupon, YouTube and Zynga.

On the lifestyle side, New Medici has orchestrated mid and large-scale events including the following:

• Los Angeles Food & Wine: 15K attendees over 4 days in concert with American Express Publishing
• The Taste of Beverly Hills
• Pebble Beach Food & Wine
• Various Google and Yahoo! wine tasting events

Services include soup-to-nuts function planning, programming high-end seminars with celebrity chefs and winemakers, managing service teams, press awareness and related logistical execution.