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SUMMARY:DIGITAL MEDIA
DESCRIPTION:  [The Youth Movement: Digital Media's Leaders and their I
	deas Thursday\, November 20\, 2008 THIS MEETING IS FREE\, THERE WILL B
	E NO CHARGE to attend\, however\, pre-registration is preferred! Regis
	ter Online at http://www.entretechforum.org\, walk ins are welcome! Pl
	ease note the location of this meeting is at: Northeastern University 
	- Room 440 Egan Research Center 120 Forsyth Street\, Boston MA 02115 M
	eeting Overview A panel of the region's young\, dynamic digital media 
	company founders and CEOs will discuss a wide range of topics relating
	 to their personal careers\, their experiences running their companies
	\, where they get their best ideas\, and the future of the digital med
	ia industry in Boston. The panelists are backed by some of the leading
	 firms in the venture capital industry and are all on aggressive growt
	h paths. The panel will be moderated by Professor Terrence Masson\, a 
	member of the faculty at Northeastern. The panelists will discuss: The
	ir personal career path to their leadership position and their thought
	s on preparing young people to follow in their footsteps. The hot new 
	digital media trends and business models and how they keep their compa
	nies innovative and competitive. How they convinced venture capitalist
	s and angels to back their companies. The role universities do or shou
	ld play as a source of talented employees and new ideas. How to make B
	oston a world-class center for digital media companies. Moderator: Ter
	rance Masson\, Director of Game Design: NU Author of "CG101: A Compute
	r Graphics Industry Reference" (2007 Second Edition) www.cg101.com 20 
	years of production experience\, since 1994 running own consulting com
	pany "Digital Fauxtography" as a Creative Producer\, Director and VFX 
	Supervisor. I've come up through the ranks on about 20 feature films a
	s well as many commercials and video game projects including three Sta
	r Wars movies and getting SouthPark started. Member of the Producers G
	uild of America\, the Visual Effects Society and have been active in S
	IGGRAPH since 1988\, most recently as the 2006 Computer Animation Fest
	ival Chair and currently as SIGGRAPH 2010 Conference Chair. www.visual
	fx.com Panelists: Karen Ong\, CEO and Founder\, MyHappyPlanet.com Kare
	n is a language and travel enthusiast. She speaks five languages and h
	as traveled to over 100 cities in 6 continents. This passion for langu
	ages and different cultures led Karen to start MyHappyPlanet.com - a s
	ocial media site for language learning and cultural exchange. MyHappyP
	lanet.com is a continuation of Karen's interest in building global bus
	inesses. Prior to that\, Karen led the turnaround of Olay's skin care 
	and Clairol's hair care business in Southeast Asia\, Australasia\, and
	 India. She also worked in a family business\, responsible for sales a
	nd product outsourcing in China. Brian Balfour\, CEO\, Viximo Brian Ba
	lfour is a serial internet entrepreneur and active member of the Bosto
	n tech community.Brian is currently founder of his fourth startup\, Vi
	ximo\, a company focused on the emerging virtual goods industry. Vixim
	o is funded by North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. Brian
	 was also a founding member of Betahouse\, a co-working space for tech
	 entrepreneurs located in Cambridge. Brian specializes in online commu
	nities and blogs at www.SocialDegree.com. Matt Lauzon\, Co-Founder and
	 CEO\, Paragon Lake Matt Lauzon founded Paragon Lake in 2006 as a stud
	ent at Babson College. Lauzon enrolled at Babson because of its reputa
	tion as the number one school in the world for entrepreneurship educat
	ion and leveraged all the college had to offer while exploring various
	 business opportunities. Paragon Lake was born when Lauzon and a fello
	w student uncovered a niche in the jewelry industry at the intersectio
	n of e-commerce and mass customization. Serving as co-founder and CEO\
	, Lauzon took Paragon Lake from an idea incubating in a Babson dormito
	ry to become an institutionally funded company in just two years. Bria
	n Shin\, Founder/CEO\, Visible Measures Brian Shin is the founder and 
	CEO of Visible Measures\, the independent third-party measurement firm
	 for Internet video publishers and advertisers. Brian has co-founded s
	everal successful Internet software companies\, including web-based co
	llaboration technology vendor Creative Aspects\, which was acquired by
	 Medsite Inc. (now WebMD)\; and The Cambridge Intelligence Agency\, a 
	web-based email response management solution provider that was acquire
	d by marketing services company MSGi. Brian also co-founded technology
	 strategy consulting firm Infraweb\, Inc. where he served as President
	\, and was an early member of the team at Allaire Corp. which went pub
	lic in 1999 and was subsequently acquired by Macromedia.\n
LOCATION:Postal code 02115\, United States @ Boston, Massachusetts 021
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