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We Media Global Forum

The We Media Global Forum will bring together about 250 world leaders from business and government, forefront thinkers and everyday citizens to address some of the world's most pressing issues. This is a major event that will explore and celebrate the Digital Age, focusing on social networks, trust and collaboration across the entire media landscape, including culture, business, government and societies. The BBC and Reuters will broadcast portions of the program across all their international channels and across the Internet for a potential audience reach of more than 100 million people in 135 countries.

On May 3 the conference will convene in a soundstage at BBC Television Centre in West London; on May 4 it will be at the Reuters world headquarters in Canary Wharf. Confirmed participants include:


Richard Dreyfuss, Actor and Activist
Tom Glocer, CEO, Reuters
Mark Thompson, Director General, BBC
Scott Heiferman, Founder and CEO, Meetup.com
Carolyn McCall, CEO, Guardian Newspapers
Shoba Purushothaman, CEO, The Newsmarket
Paul Jacobs, CEO, Qualcomm (via satellite)

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Rafat Ali, CEO and Editor, Paid Content
Angela Beesley, Board Member, Wikimedia Foundation
Jeff Belk, SVP Marketing, Qualcomm
George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times of London
David Brain, European President & CEO, Edelman
Suw Charman, Executive Director, Open Rights Group
Jean-Marc Coicaud, United Nations University, New York
Dan Gillmor, Author, We The Media
Sue Howard, Executive Director, Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Wadah Khanfar, Managing Director, Al Jazeera
Rhami Khouri, Editor, Lebanon Daily Star
Dr. Michael Kraig, Stanley Foundation
Rebecca MacKinnon, Co-Founder, Global Voices
Richard Sambrook, Director of Global News, BBC
Dave Sifry, CEO, Technorati
Karen Stephenson, President, Netform
Bill Weiss, CEO, The Promar Group
Emma Williams, Director, Digital Content Coalition

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The Forum is an annual conference, first presented by The Media Center in 2005 at The Associated Press in New York, where the keynote speech was delivered by Al Gore, chairman of Current TV and former Vice President of the United States. Gary Goldhammer of MarCom Interactive said in his Below the Fold blog: “The 2005 We Media conference was a gorgeous blur, a non-stop serenade from modern media pioneers, practitioners and a few procrastinators about the coming Collaboration Age.”

We hope We Media becomes a Davos-like annual experience for innovators, executives, investors, statesmen, and other leaders and thinkers concerned about the role and application of media in a world connected by digital networks. We hope your participation will also be an opportunity to reacquaint you with The Media Center. We're a small but influential think tank seeding ideas and relationships to incubate innovation that enables a better-informed society. The Media Center conducts research, gatherings and works closely with members of The Media Center Network, a corporate consortium of supporters that includes Qualcomm, The Associated Press, Reuters and BBC.

web: http://www.mediacenter.org