Future of Media Summit 2008 – Silicon Valley & Sydney

The third annual Future of Media Summit 2008 will link events on both sides of the Pacific to create insights into the future of media. Speakers include thought leaders such as Mark Scott, Managing Director of ABC, Loic Le Meur, CEO of leading firm Seesmic, Mark Dorney, CEO of Macquarie Media Group, Chris Saad, Chair of DataPortability.org, Ross Dawson, Chairman, Future Exploration Network, and many other US and Australian media leaders. It will be held Monday July 14 - 1 - 9 PM San Francisco time at the Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View CA. I would likely go it I was in the area but I will be celebrating Bastille Day back here in Boston.

Their Future of Media Summit Blog said that the UK and Australia lead the world in online advertising per capita. Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing. Denmark is third and then us laggards in the US come in fourth. Ross Dawson also said in the post that, "Another interesting statistic is that Canada spends little more than half the US per capita in online advertising. Possibly US advertisers accessing the Canadian market are not accounted for in these figures. Canada was in fact the first country in the world where broadband overtook dial-up in number of users, in 2003."