Building Cross-Medium Story Worlds

Speakers for this event

• Eric Shamlin

  Eric Shamlin

  Eric W. Shamlin is a three-time Emmy-, two-time Peabody-, and sixteen-time Cannes Lion-winning creative executive. Throughout his career he’s worked at the intersection of traditional storytelling and emerging technology; delivering high-profile collaborations across the entire media ecosystem. His day job is Executive Vice President at MediaMonks while spending his spare time giving back as a Governor of the Emmys, an Advisor to SXSW and a guest lecturer to UCLA.  

• Jillian Rothman

  Jillian Rothman

  Vice President of New Business & Ventures at Warner Music Group

  Jillian is the Vice President of New Business & Ventures at Warner Music Group where she leads partnerships, development and strategic execution across new media and emerging tech. Prior to this role, Jillian was an attorney at Ropes & Gray, LLP, and clerked on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. A graduate of the University of Michigan two-times-over, Jillian is a native of New York City, which she says is the world’s best place to escape, but also to return.  

  Vice President of New Business & Ventures at Warner Music Group

• Laura Mingail

  Laura Mingail

  Founder Archetypes & Effects

  Laura Mingail founded Archetypes & Effects to help brands and storytellers transform audience touch-points into magic moments. Drawing on her award-winning experience leading marketing and new business initiatives at Entertainment One, Disney Junior, and PepsiCo, she now develops impactful audience engagement strategies for clients across storytelling mediums. 

  Founder Archetypes & Effects

• Richard Cormier

  Richard Cormier

  Director General, Creation, Distribution & Marketing and Chief Programming Officer National Film Board of Canada

  Richard Cormier has worked for more than three decades in audiovisual production and postproduction, content creation, and as an innovator in the uses of technology for creative purposes, both in Canada and the United States. As Director General, Creation, Distribution and Marketing, and Head of Programming for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), he oversees the implementation of a programming vision and objectives within production, distribution, marketing and business intelligence teams. 

  Director General, Creation, Distribution & Marketing and Chief Programming Officer National Film Board of Canada

• Tony Patrick

  Tony Patrick

  Worldbuilder, Writer, Immersive Creator

  Tony Patirck is an NYU ITP/IMA professor and DC comics writer whose world-building company ‘Continuus’ builds artistic/virtual/community projects with communities, companies, and institutions. 

  Worldbuilder, Writer, Immersive Creator