Who Attends XMediaLab?

XML is cross-disciplinary: so we deliberately make sure there is always a mix of traditional media people, along with a mix of experts in computer games, mobile content, animation, interactive TV, advertising, digital cinema, social media, and virtual worlds.

We are also proudly cross-cultural. You'll find people from all over the world in X|Media|Lab.

Participants at XMediaLab have included internationally renowned filmmaker Shekhar Kapur; The Director of ‘Shrek the Third’, Raman Hui; the Founder of Flickr, Stewart Butterfield; the Chairman of Reliance Entertainment, India's largest media conglomerate; from Google; The Guardian; the BBC; Al Jazeera; Disney Internet Group; the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; the Director of Oprah’s digital media; the CEO of China’s biggest animation company; Wikipedia; the CEO of the world's number one Bollywood portal Hungama.com; Al Gore's Current TV; Bebo.com; America's biggest talent agency, ICM; the Founder and President of Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation; Lonely Planet; 5-times Emmy Award winners, Schematic from LA; the Beijing Film Academy; China's No. 1 tertiary institution Tsinghua University; the British Council; the UK's biggest ad agency BBDO; the Chairmen of world leading games developers, Eidos and Codemasters; New York's Parson's New School of Design; Nokia's Research Center (from Finland and Beijing); Intel's Digital Home Group; Lucas Arts; Dreamworks; Pixar; the CEO’s of China’s Virtual Economic Zone; the American Film Institute; USC Games Lab; and so many others.

What an embarrassment of riches! And what a genuine kaleidoscope of the world’s digital media industries. No one does that like XML – we pioneered it!

Our job is to get the most outstanding set of people into the room. After that, it's all up to you.