About the Festival
The Festival of Media is the world's first festival of
media creativity and innovation. As the premier annual gathering
for the global media and communications industry, attracting around
700 delegates from over 40 countries, attendees experience two days
of inspiring conference sessions, an exhibition of new media
opportunities, a global awards ceremony showcasing the best in
creative media thinking and unrivalled networking
opportunities.
The Festival of Media was launched in 2007 in Venice.
In its first year, it attracted the international media community's
most senior directors and was welcomed as an important new addition
to the media business calendar. With the enthusiastic support of
the industry, The Festival more than doubled in size and outgrew
its original location, moving to Valencia, Spain. In 2009, The
Festival of Media Awards were added to The Festival line-up
and showcased more than 600 entries from over 50 countries. The
2010 Festival survived the onslaught of volcanic ash from
Iceland, with delegates braving travel chaos to attend and making
it one of the most memorable occasions in its history.
In 2010, The Festival of Media LatAm was the first
regional launch of The Festival brand. Selling out with more than
550 industry leaders in attendance from across the Latin American
region, the inaugural Latin American Festival took place in October
2010 in Miami. With Latin America now being one of the engines of
global growth and a cradle of innovation, optimism and opportunity,
global brands are waking up to the region and The Festival has
established itself as the only event with 'media' as its focus and
enabling an essential dialogue among all the key stakeholders
within Latin America, including Brazil.
Celebrating its fifth anniversary in 2011 as a
firmly established event on the international calendar, The
Festival of Media Global relocated to the stunning new location of
Montreux, Switzerland, where it will be held once again on 15-17
April 2012.
The Festival of Media agenda is designed to address the
challenges we face as an industry; seek out the global visionaries
shaping our future and gain their insight, and reflects the new
opportunities that are developing for innovative, effective media
communication around the world.