OTTAWA and GATINEAU, QC, Nov. 25, 2015 /CNW/ – The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), will host an event in Vancouver, on December 1, 2015, and in Montreal, on December 3, 2015, to kick-start a discussion on the discoverability of content.
The two half-day events known as En route to the Discoverability Summit: Content in the Age of Abundance, will gather experts from a variety of fields to generate preliminary ideas and strategies leading to the Discoverability Summit in May 2016
The event in Vancouver will focus on English-language markets while the event in Montreal will focus on French-language markets
Vancouver event
Date: December 1, 2015
Time: from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: The Chan Centre for Performing Arts, University of British Columbia, 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver
Moderator: Nora Young, host and creator of Spark on CBC Radio
Keynote speaker: Tony Chapman, Founder and CEO of Tony Chapman Reactions.
Expert participants:
The event will be live streamed, and can be viewed at www.discoverability.ca or on the CRTC’s YouTube channel
Note: Moderators, speakers and experts will be available for interviews on site
For media interested in attending the Vancouver event please contact Media Relations at 819-997-9403 or [email protected] by Monday November 30 at 5:00 p.m. A Media accreditation desk will be set up at the entrance of the event.
For media outlets interested in setting up camera equipment please contact us to make advance arrangements.
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Montreal event
Date: December 3, 2015
Time: from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: Phi Centre, 407 Saint-Pierre Street, Montreal.
Moderator: Matthieu Dugal, host and columnist on Ici Radio-Canada Première and TV5 Monde
Keynote speaker: Pascal Lechevallier, CEO of What’s Hot, a new media consulting firm.
Expert participants:
The event will be live streamed, and can be viewed at www.discoverability.ca or on the CRTC’s YouTube channel
Note: Moderators, speakers and experts will be available for interviews on site
For media interested in attending the Montreal event please contact Media Relations at 819-997-9403 or [email protected] by Wednesday, December 2, at 5:00 p.m. A Media accreditation desk will be set up at the entrance of the event.
For media outlets interested in setting up camera equipment please contact us to make advance arrangements.
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