Canvas8 ‘The Changing Face of Media’
Wednesday 16th September 2009
Last week our Ramsey spoke at ‘The Changing Face of Media’, an event hosted by Canvas8 at London’s Host Gallery. The theme was emerging technology. Based on speaker experiences, the theme everyone came along to hear about was: how can brands best use technology and not be used by it?
First up was top media futurist, Gerd Leonhard, who gave a rousing talk about what’s in store technology wise. One of the most interesting things he mentioned was O3B, a Google backed satellite venture that will deliver the web to the whole of Africa and remote parts of Asia and the Far East – in 2010. (O3B stands for the world’s other 3 billion not connected to the web yet). Gerd’s talk was pretty mind blowing, and his blog has more great topics well worth reading.
Next to speak is surely one of the brainiest guys in the biz, David Bausola, creator of several new media firsts, including the famous “where are the Jones’s?” campaign for Ford, and more recently Purefold, developed in partnership with Ridley and Tony Scott’s new venture, Free Scott. David spoke eloquently about Purefold – an open media franchise /platform, for brands, developers, filmmakers, anyone in fact, who wants to collaborate over Purefold’s central theme “what does it mean to be human?” itself a reference, appropriately enough, to Blade Runner. You can find out more about the super interesting Purefold over at ag8.com
Finally, Ramsey gave us a wonderfully clear exposition of how brands can avoid technology ruling them by attending to a simple enough philosophy ‘Move fast, Strike hard’. Ramsey highlighted the need to believe in an idea and take an agile approach to developing it, so you can at least keep pace with the latest trends and technologies, if not outpace them. But you have to really believe in the idea (ergo it needs to be a good one).
All in all 3 excellent presentations and a fab fun evening. A big special thanks goes out to our wonderful hosts, Canvas8, who looked after everyone superbubbly.
For more photos of the event check out Marina’s wonderful set over on flickr.
Ramsey speaks at JBoye 08, Denmark
Monday 5th January 2009
Back in November our Ramsey flew over to Aarhus, Denmark, home to Hans Christian Andersen, Fried Meatballs & The Little Mermaid to speak at the jBoye 2008 Conference.
The event was billed as an ‘Open minded conference with a campus like atmosphere for IT professionals’ hosted at the stunning Aarhus Museum of Art.
Ramsey’s topic for discussion: ‘Challenging projects’
One project that seemed to fit the bill pretty well was our work for Promise Communities, which involved multiple agencies, an overseas build, a client who needed to find out how to translate their idea into a digital reality combined with a concept which had never been done before.
There were a lot of elements that could have gone wrong and different pulls from many people made it challenging stuff. But with a clear vision and a well scoped plan as our blueprint for the build, the project was delivered on time, on budget and has been a great success.
All of us were involved in the process and it gives us a lot of pride when we see it being nominated for Innovation award’s.
Overall jBoye 08 was one of the highlights of our speaking engagements for 2008. Ramsey’s personal highlights included meeting his lovely fellow speakers, Tony Wood (VisionWT), Jens Hofman Hansen (Creuna), Jesper Munkholm (Valtech) and Josh Mortensen (LoveFilm).
A big thanks goes out to all the people behind jBoye and everyone who was entertained by what Ramsey had to say.
Head hits New York!
Friday 12th December 2008
A few weeks back Head were one of 21 UK digital companies selected to go over the pond to New York for 2008′s government sponsored Digital Mission. Ramsey, our MD, pitched Head’s digital capabilities and latest innovations to top US investors and other VIPs.
We got an awesome reception and a lovely little write up over at Interactive KnowHow on why we started, our culture and more of those vicious rumors that our office is “the happiest place on earth” awr thanks guys!
See the original post back here.
Head chosen for Digital Mission to New York
Thursday 11th September 2008
Head were one of 21 UK digital companies selected to go on this year’s government sponsored Digital Mission to New York. From 15th-19th September, Ramsey Khoury, Head’s MD, pitched the agency’s digital capabilities and latest innovations to top US investors and other VIPs.
For a nice little round up of article’s check out the following links..