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I have been participating in WeMedia events for years. I think the world of Andrew and Dale who started pulling this together when they were with the American Press Institute a few years back. WeMedia is an eclectic mix of leaders from new and traditional media and technology and marketing and…. That’s the point. It’s not another echo chamber event.

You should consider attending - especially as I have a neat code that gets you in at “friends of Ogilvy” pricing: WM-OGV.

• WeMedia 2010 - register here or find out more (don’t forget our code)
• When: March 9-11
• Where: Miami
• What: We Media Miami is an innovation conference, focused equally on “We”  and “Media” - and how to innovate in business and society through innovative uses of media and communication technology. We Media has a strong interest in the future of news and journalism. But we explore innovation through media more broadly, with participants and ideas from many fields, including entertainment, healthcare, politics, marketing and social activism. We have an overall focus on Game Changers: People, projects, ideas and organizations leading change and inspiring a better world through media. We explore media not simply as an instrument of business or an outcome of technology but as a means of sweeping social impact and human improvement.

The BBC will conduct a live global broadcast of the program World Have Your Say originating from/during our conference.

The conference includes senior executives and thought leaders from media and other companies;  journalists; social activists and NGOs; public broadcasters; investors and tech companies; independent media creators; healthcare; government; and a number of early-stage entrepreneurs, including finalists for a seed investment challenge we organize called PitchIt! That effort is supported by the Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation, and for the past two years we’ve conducted it in collaboration with Ashoka’s Changemakers community.

Here are some of the participants for this year:

- Tom Curley, CEO, The Associated Press
- Michael Wolf, Vanity Fair columnist and founder of Newser
- Byron Reese, Chief Innovation Officer, Demand Media
- Francois Ragnet, Global Director of Innovation, Xerox
- Richard Sambrook, Director, BBC World Service
- Alberto Ibarguen, CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Bob Ross, President, Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation
- Jim Kennedy, VP Strategy, The Associated Press
- Oren Michels, CEO, Mashery
- Jeff Belk, Founder, ICT168 Capital; former SVP, Qualcomm
- Ben Ilfeld, Co-Founder, Sacramento Press
- C. Renzi Stone, CEO, SaxumPR
- John McKinley, Founder, LaunchBox Digital and CEO, OurParents
- Ben Berkowitz, Founder, SeeClickFix
- Jacob Colker, Founder, The Extraordinaries
- David Mathison, Author, Be The Media
- Juliette Powell, Author, 33 Million People in a Room