AboutFest NYC - success with game changers and visionaries at large

Laurie Gordon  Director Montreal International Aniimation Film Festival, Android Jones digital artist, Geurgui founder FULL DOME 

A wonderful FESTForums inaugural conference in New York City held at Time building. Producers Laurie Kirby and Stuart McNaught brought together some of the coolest people in film and music festivals, wone and art.

Challenging and enticing conversation was captivated 300 participants who attended with enthusiasm.

Android Jones is one of the best digital artists in the world today who tours around the world with Ful dome 360 technology creating shows at the Vatican to installations at Coachella and more.

Lesa Ukmanis an entrepreneur, author, professor and journalist.

Lesa Ukman gave great talk on sponsorship and new challenges in the ever changing models of financing and brand support and strategies.

She launched IEG in 1982 unleashing the idea that businesses which deepen bonds with customers, prospects, employees and other stakeholders by partnering with the things they love--sports, arts, entertainment, nonprofits--outperform their competitors by a huge margin. 

IEG's ideas, ideals, publications and services spawned an industry that today is worth more than $55 billion and changed marketing for good and forever.

IEG, now part of GroupM, is the industry’s leading provider of sponsorship research, analytics, consulting and training. With unduplicated access to both the buy-sides and sell-sides of the business, the company enables sponsors and rightsholders—on a local, national and global level—to maximize partnership investments.

A cross section of multi -diciplines and engaging topics from sponsoring to engaging community was stimulating and sometimes even rough as panelist dared to challenge each other.