What is Edutech Summit at Digital Hollywood?

Edutech Summit Empowering Innovations in Lifelong Learning is a high profile symposium, demo showcase and networking event that celebrates digital, mobile, social media, gamification and video innovations and the entrepreneurial innovators who are revolutionizing the American education system.  In its inaugural debut, we are bringing together the best of two worlds – the world of education and high-tech innovators who will discuss the need to change the current thinking and applications utilized to collaborate, teach and engage today’s students everywhere.  It is aligned with Digital Hollywood, the premiere entertainment and technology event in the country, and is held in Los Angeles and New York City – the expected Digital Hollywood attendance for Los Angeles is 2,500.

What happens at the Edutech Summit at Digital Hollywood?

This Symposium encompasses a one day event of panel sessions, demo showcases a private dinner and networking opportunities focused on bringing together leading voices in the education arena and entrepreneurial technologists that are revolutionizing education via mobile video and on-demand to connected devices in classrooms, dorms, homes and on the go.   Also included is a Mobile App/Games Hack-A-Thon for Education Challenge/Demo Day, adding a “hands-on” component to creative product development and a showcase.

Why is Edutech Summit at Digital Hollywood?

Discoverability - The strategy behind launching the Edutech Summit platform at the Digital Hollywood series is brilliant.  Digital Hollywood has built its reputation on connecting the best in every major studio, technology company, cable, satellite and communications company, retailers as well as content developers and programmers for all entertainment industry medias and markets.  It is past time to connect the best of Digital Hollywood with the educators shaping the minds of our future innovators; we see this as a win-win for all involved.

Some of what we plan to cover:

• Transmedia of Education (3D, Games, eTextbooks, Video, AR, and more

• Massive Open Online Classes (MOOCs)

• Crowd-funding Educational App and Video Games

• Strategies for Mobile Learning 

•   Monetizing Smart-phones and Tablets and other Connected Devices 

•   New Wave on Indie Publishing

•   Social TV Experience for Education

•   Internet TV Mobile Video Streaming and Flips Classroom

•   Investing Risk Capital in Startups in Education

• How to Earn Money with Online Classes

If you need insight on the best way to Find, Fund and Build the Next Big Mobile Apps, eBooks and Games that will change the Education Area….then you must come!:

•   Curriculum Developers

•   Content Buyers

•   App / Game Developers

•   Authors/Publishers

•   API Developers

•   UI/UX Experts

•   Social Media Networks Executives

•   Media and Entertainment Executives

•   Educators

•   Parents/Parent Organizations

•   Schools/ School Systems

•   Libraries

•   Granting Organizations/ Not-For-Profit Orgs

•   Policy Makers

•   Brands/ Agencies

•   Venture Capitalists

•   Broadcasters

•   Talent Agencies

•   Consumer Electronic Companies

•   OEM/ Tablet Devices Manufacturers

•   M-Commerce/T-Commerce Networks International Content Distributors

•   Edutech Companies