Digital Media MBA

MARCH 22: Digital Media MBA Happy Hour at Bowery Wine Company

With winter weather still hammering NYC we thought that we’d brighten up your days with another great Digital Media MBA Happy Hour. Please join us again this month when we will be joined by Ben Lerer who is the co-founder of Thrillist, a leading daily email service that represents the evolution of both male lifestyle and local city guide content. Ben and his co-founder have built a profitable national brand that consistently sells out its ad space — at up to triple-digit CPMs — while other online publishers search for ways to unload their remnant ad inventory. If you want to hear about a true startup success story, please stop by and introduce yourself to this member of Inc. magazine’s “30 Under 30: America’s Coolest Young Entrepreneurs.”

We’ve been glad to hear that many attendees of our events have been making business connections as well as discovering potential job leads in NYC. We’re also thrilled that we’ve been adding new names to our membership list as word spreads that our happy hours are a fun and relaxing environment for meeting digital media MBAs from leading business schools as well as interesting execs from around the digital media community. If you haven’t come before, take this email as your
invitation to join the best group of Digital Media MBAs — and those who love them.

We’ll be returning this month to Bowery Wine Company where we will receive special happy hour prices on food and drinks.

You can RSVP here, or just show up.

Don’t forget to visit www.DigitalMediaMBA.com to check out our latest listings of jobs, events, resources and news.

ALSO: Our annual Career Event is in the planning stage for mid-April. If your company would like to interview leading MBA candidates for jobs in business development, marketing, strategy, finance and more, please email us at: careerevent@digitalmediamba.com. We also welcome companies as event sponsors. Contact us to find out more.

Digital Media MBA
A networking and socializing group for MBAs working in (or interested in) digital media and technology. Meet your peers working in interactive and digital media in a relaxed informal atmosphere.

This group is an ongoing effort to encourage networking and community among Columbia Business School’s Digital Media MBA alumni, as well as others in the field.

Professor Jeremy Kagan of Columbia Business School (Internet Marketing, New Media Master Class) and Doug Herman are your hosts.

2010 MBA Media and Entertainment Conference (February 26, 2010)

New York Games Conference September 30th…

Ridiculously priced but, hey, it is local… this conference has both interesting speakers and some panels that sound like they’re worth attending.  Of particular note: the monetization tracks’ discussions of business models, microtransactions, and other things you’re dying to hear about from those actually doing it.

Registration is here…

Located way downtown in Battery Park, they’ve got a hotel deal with the Ritz-Carlton for you if you need a room.  Seriously, someone need to remind these guys there’s a recession on.  Or maybe the games industry is just that good…

Open Video Conference June 18-19 at NYU

Open Video Conference

As internet video matures, we face a crossroads: will technology and public policy support a more participatory culture-one that encourages and enables free expression and broader cultural engagement? Or will online video become a glorified TV-on-demand service, a central part of a permissions-based culture? Web video holds tremendous potential, but limits on broadband, playback technology, and fair use threaten to undermine the ability of individuals to engage in dialogues in and around this new media ecosystem.

from our friends at the Participatory Culture Foundation

Here’s the conference details…

LAST CHANCE: Digital Media Conferences

There are two upcoming digital media conferences that are worth a look:

MBA Media & Entertainment Conference (http://www.mbamec.com/)
DATE: Friday, February 27

DESCRIPTION: The MBA Media & Entertainment Conference brings together the nation’s top MBA students and media, entertainment and related companies. The purpose is to foster informative dialogue about, and enhance networking within, the film, music, broadcast and cable television, sports and publishing industries. We thank McKinsey & Company for serving as our Knowledge Partner again this year, and thank our Gold Sponsors and Silver Sponsors for their generous support.

NOTE: According to the website the event is already sold out BUT if you’re already attending we welcome you to post blog entries on any of the panels/speakers you found interesting.

BRITE Conference ‘09 (http://www.briteconference.com/)
DATE: Wednesday, March 4 – Thursday, March 5

DESCRIPTION: BRITE  is a global series of conferences, workshops and leadership summits on branding, innovation, and technology. BRITE events bring together big thinkers from business, technology, media, and marketing to discuss how technology and innovation are transforming the ways that companies build and sustain grea,,t brands.

BRITE is presented by the Center on Global Brand Leadership. Founded at Columbia Business School in 1999, the Center has grown into a global partnership of leading business schools. The Center brings together researchers, corporations, agencies, and entrepreneurs to develop new thinking about the future of innovation and branding.

NOTE: There’s still room left to participate so click here to register now!