Between Facebook, iPods and cell phones, in comparing the daily lives of college students now to the lives of college students a decade ago, one thing is clear: Technologies in communications and arts are shifting. Because of this shift, students who plan to pursue these fields have to keep up with these fast-paced changes.
With this thought in mind, Patty Alvey, Director of the Temerlin Advertising Institute, and Sean Griffin, Assistant Professor of Cinema-Television, are bringing several key executives in the communications and arts fields in “Revolutions per Minute: Emerging and Converging Media Technologies,” an event that will help students learn how to use technology to break into the business.
“I think most of our students will enjoy the opportunity to meet the president of Fox Television, or the producer of Ugly Betty, or a senior vice president of the largest talent agency in the world [the William Morris Agency],” says Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, Jose Bowen.
The senior vice president of the William Morris Agency, Lewis Henderson, is a graduate of the SMU class of 1988.
The student forums will also feature several other SMU alumni, including Mary Alice Haney, class of 1993, who is now E! Style’s “Ambush Makeover” host. Alex Griswold, a 2006 SMU graduate, will speak about his current position as national sales coordinator for Spotrunner.com.
Other speakers will include leaders from Microsoft, Yahoo! Studios, Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Reveille Motion Pictures and Around the World Productions among others.
“Revolutions per Minute” is the first event of its kind on the SMU campus and with Meadows’ wide variety of majors, the school provides a perfect platform for such an event. Organizers hope the event will help students applying for jobs gain the upper hand when it comes to these new technologies.
“Revolutions per Minute” is exclusively for SMU students and will take place Monday starting at 8:30 a.m. with breakfast and introductions for the panel and faculty. Two hours of student forums will begin at 10 a.m. in the Owens Art Center, Greer Garson and Umphrey Lee Buildings.
Student forums will include:
Wireless Connections: Breaking into the Business of Entertainment
(Umphrey Lee Building, Room 241)
Lewis Henderson, SVP, William Morris Agency
Cyndi McClellan, SVP, Research & Program Strategy, E! Entertainment
Jimmy Dunne, President, Inspire Entertainment
Mary Alice Haney, E! Entertainment, moderator.
That’s E-Entertainment: Spotlighting your talent in the digital age
(Greer Garson Building, Third Floor, Room 3527)
Blair Westlake, CVP, Media & Entertainment Group, Microsoft
Sam Bloom, Camelot Communications
Drew Buckley, GM, Yahoo! Studios, moderator
Richard LeVine, Accenture
This E-Space Available: Product Placement and Advergaming
(Owen Arts Center, O’Donnell Hall, Room 2130)
Ray Clark, CEO, The Marketing Arm
Howard Owens, managing director, Reveille LLC
J.J. Richards, GM, Entertainment & Devices, Xbox, Microsoft
Ed Wilson, President, Fox Television Network, moderator
CAREERS.COMM: Breaking into the advertising, journalism, media business
(Owen Arts Center, O’Donnell Hall, Room 2130)
Ed Wilson, president, Fox Television Network
Graham Larson, vice president, Reveille Motion Pictures
Alex Griswold, national sales coordinator, Spotrunner.com
Burton Roberts, executive producer and partner, Around the World Productions
Lewis Henderson, senior vice president William Morris Agency, moderator
Shifting Foundations: New Media & Entertainment Business Models
(Umphrey Lee Building, Room 117)
Drew Buckley, GM, Yahoo! Studios
Cyndi McClellan, senior vice president, Research and Program Strategy, E! Entertainment, moderator
Tom Kalahar, president, CEO, Camelot Communications
Brian Jones, senior vice president and regional manager, NexStar Broadcasting Group, Inc.
