Futurist Gerd Leonhard presents his vision on The Future of Music & Media at the Plugg 2009 Conference, addressing topics such as copyright vs usage right, the flat rate for digital music, convergence, mobility, the new digital content economy, advertising 2.0, compensation not control, and much more. Details at http://tinyurl.com/d9ew4a Plugg 2009 was a great event - lots of great speakers and conversations; one of the best conferences I've been to in the past 9 months. Here is the PDF with my presentation; this deck actually includes some slides that I was not able to actually show due to timing constraints: Future of Media Gerd Leonhard @ Plugg 2009 PDF 15MBYou can use #plugg to find twitter updates on Plugg (btw I'm @gleonhard). If you liked my talk at Plugg, please feel free to connect with me: *but be sure to mention the Plugg connection. Thanks. Check out another ~30 slideshare decks here, videos are here (Blip.tv - download to iPod, too). If that's not enough to keep you busy for a while... here is more Free Content from me;)
The Wall Street Journal calls Gerd ‘one of the leading Media Futurists in the World’. Co-author of the influential book ‘The Future of Music’ (2005, Berklee Press), author of ‘Music2.0’ (2008), ‘The End of Control’ (2007) and 'The Future of Content' (2011), Gerd's background is in music; in 1985 he won the Quincy Jones Award and subsequently graduated from Boston's Berklee College of Music (1987). Since 2002, following a decade as digital media entrepreneur and start-up CEO, Gerd speaks at conferences and seminars around the globe on the Future of Media, Content, Technology, Business, Advertising, Telecom, Communications and Culture. Since 2011, Gerd's area of expertise also includes important "green" topics. Gerd's keynotes, presentations and think-tanks are renowned for his hard-hitting and provocative yet inspiring, motivational style. With engagements in 43 countries since 2003, Gerd has addressed over150'000 professionals, and is considered a key influencer. His diverse client list includes Nokia, Google, Sony-BMG, Telkom Indonesia, Siemens, Kuoni, RTL, ITV, the BBC, France Telecom/Orange, Deutsche Telekom, The Financial Times, DDB, Omnicom, the European Commission, Nokia Siemens Networks and many others. Gerd is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (London). He resides in Basel, Switzerland. www.futuristgerd.com www.thefuturesagency.com www.twitter.com/gleonhard www.gerdtube.net
