The Innovation Cycle: How Convergence Affects Global Media and Broadcasting

The Innovation Cycle: How Convergence Affects Global Media and Broadcasting

About the Speech:

Over the last 150 years, the global media and communications sectors experienced recurrent cycles of open and closed phases of innovation and consolidation: the broadcasting, telephone, film, computing, and network industries all display similar patterns of convergence.
This keynote presentation will be based on Prof. Wu’s forthcoming book, which offers a new perspective on the cycle of innovation in media.
In his presentation, Prof. Wu wll outline and explain the drivers of innovation and synergies that exist between converging media platforms.

About the Speaker:

Prof. Tim Wu
Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School, the chairman of media reform organisation Free Press, and the co-author of ‘Who Controls the Internet?’ (Oxford U. Press, 2006).
He is noted for coining the phrase ‘Net Neutrality’ which has become a highly influential principle in internet governance. Wu was recognised in 200 as on of 50 leaders in science and technology by Scientific American magazine. In 2007, Wu was listed as one of Harvard University’s most influential graduates by 02138 magazine.
Tim Wu is also an expert on media law, copyright, and international trade. He previously workd for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry in Silicon Valley, and was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.
Wu regularly writes for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Forbes, and Slate magazine. He is also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.