“Stop acting like professional mourners. Start looking at underground innovation!” – quote from last week’s brainstorm.
Last week we invited 30 professional media enthusiasts, i.e. representatives from the Danish media business, for a networking brainstorm session. The end product was an unprecedented 25 pages of condensed inspiration and wake-up calls for this year’s conference. We’ve officially labelled the event ‘New Media Days Kick-Off’ and it’s become an invaluable annual feedback for us when aiming to meet – and go beyond – your conference expectations.
This year the majority of feedback confirms our notion that you, the guests, have grown weary of the usual suspects on stage, the redundant talks of how old media is dying and the lean-back conference experience in general. There’s an obvious craving for that exceptionally new and different perspective on future roads to follow – and there’s a go-getter will to rise from the executive chair and seek it out yourselves.
We edited together this video from the Kick-Off that gives a rough idea of where we’ll be focusing our organizing efforts the coming months (interviews are in Danish and no subs yet):
We love it. The feedback doesn’t alter our basic conference ambitions dramatically but sensing so strongly the enthusiasm for something unusual makes planning for this year’s conference way more fun and inspiring.
While we piece together the conference puzzle keep an eye on these pages for program updates and more. And get your ticket here while they last. We tend to run out a month before the opening act.
