A Look at the Sessions

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We’re still hard at work but we want to share our tentative schedule and sessions, which we’ve posted to our schedule page. Sessions we’re planning include:

Transforming The Business Media Brand
Consumer Business Magazines: What Does it Take?
Deal or No Deal: The Latest from Dow Jones
Advertising: Where Should the Money Go?
Deals: What’s Next?
Technology Business Media
The Disruptors
The Business of Video News

Full descriptions are on the schedule page. You can contact us here, on the Register page, to get a jump on registration, which opens formally next month. (Our last conference, Economics of Social Media, sold out well ahead of the date.)

Thanks to everyone for all the input. Got any feedback? Contact us at fobm AT contentnext.com

Our FOBM Conference: Date: Oct 30th, Venue: Waldorf-Astoria, NYC; Early Speakers Confirmed

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We promised a fall conference on the Future of Business Media and now we can fill you in on the finer points — date , venue and an already excellent slate of speakers with additions to come. A reminder:  FOBM is an executive-level one-day conference focused on the future of business and trade media, with all the changes brought along by digital media and consolidation deals.

The date: Oct 30th.

The venue: the historic and grand Waldorf=Astoria in New York City (Remember, when it was built the Art Deco was ahead of the curve, just as we are.)

Program and speakers:  We’ll keep updating you here and on the conference website. Some early confirmed speakers:
»  Chris Ahearn, President, Reuters Media
»  Neil Ashe, CEO, CNET Networks
»  David Carey, Publisher, Conde Nast Portfolio
»  Bob Carrigan, President, IDG Communications
»  Gordon Crovitz, EVP, Dow Jones and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal
»  Larry Kramer, Founder, CBS MarketWatch
»  David Levin, CEO, United Business Media
»  Roger McNamee, Managing Director, Elevation Partners
»  Alan Meckler, CEO, Jupitermedia
»  Scott Moore, SVP, News and Information, Yahoo
»  Paul Rossi, Publisher, Economist, North America
»  Tad Smith, CEO, Reed Business Information
»  Greg Strakosch, CEO, TechTarget

E-mail us at fobm AT contentnext.com with your ideas on other speakers and discussion topics. For underwriting the conference, e-mail our business side at advertising AT contentnext.com. We have started filling up some key sponsor positions, so if you want to get in on the action, act fast to get the vantage slots.

The Still-Nebulous Idea of The Conference

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The Future of Business Media, an executive-level one-day conference exploring the future of business media and, as an adjunct, how B2B media is changing with the rise of the individual business consumer.We’ll look at, among other things: consolidation in the business media industry; the future of business magazines (the buzz surrounding Portfolio, along with the incumbents and their response to it); the future of business news and TV, including CNBC, Bloomberg and the imminent launch of the Fox Business News Channel; business news companies such as Dow Jones, Reuters, AP, and their future; primarily B2B companies migrating online, such as IDG, Reed Business, VNU, United Business Media and others; the online-only services such as Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, Google Finance, business aggregation and search services (both open and subscription) and others; trade media blog companies such as ours, Gigaom, SeekingAlpha and others and their effects on traditional business media; and other related topics. Of course, this is a fluid sketch; it will evolve as all of you help us shape it with your ideas.

With EconSM, our first conference held two months ago, we tried to bring the online editorial sensibilities that you seem to like (sharp, smart, cutting through spin, to the point) and mix it some of what we have achieved with the our now-regular mixers. Once again, we’ll take professional production, mix it with a not-deadly-serious (read “not boring") environment, community involvement before and during, and the editorial underpinning explained above. At the same time, we’ll provide value to sponsors beyond just setting up booths (access to a senior audience, not a “vendor talking to a vendor” crowd).

E-mail us at fobm AT contentnext.com with your ideas.