Season’s Greetings
I want to take the opportunity of our last newsletter in 2010 to send you my personal regards and warm wishes, and also to give you my thoughts on the past year.
First of all, our relationship with our community is the most important gift of our business, and I thank you for continuing to join with us. You have made 2010 an amazing year for Createasphere. On a daily basis, I am personally touched by the generosity and kindness of our community. Your vibrant involvement at our expos, workshops and on our website has been stunning and my personal commitment is to give you every motivation to remain engaged through the value Createasphere presents.
2010 was a year of many “firsts” for Createasphere. We launched our Digital Asset Management Conferences in Los Angeles and New York with hundreds of the industry’s thought leaders in attendance. Createasphere truly went global this year, with our Cinema India Expo in Mumbai and education workshops in Singapore. With the launch of the Panasonic 3D Production Workshop in Singapore, I estimate that over 1000 students have participated in Createasphere’s workshops. You can expect our 2010 line up of education and workshops in 2011 and with some new exciting surprises.
In response to the changing demands of our industry and the needs of our community, we continued to grow our education, and launched three new workshop series in 2010; Canon’s EOS Moving Image Workshop, Panasonic’s 3D Production Workshop, and the Artemis Camera Stabilization Workshop. The Post Production Master Class premiered to outstanding reviews, and we continue to produce our popular REDucation workshops and ICG’s Data Management Seminars. I am proud to look back on the more than 100 days of education this year and see even more need for high quality education in 2011. I want to note that the growth of our workshops happened with lots of air miles and hotel nights filling the agenda of our workshop team and our esteemed instructors. I appreciate their tireless dedication.
Createasphere’s Entertainment Technology Expos returned to Universal City in Spring, NYC in September and Burbank in November and continue to show strong growth. We were proud to continue presenting strong lineups of panels, keynote speakers, the best exhibitors and sponsors in the business. We were also exceedingly happy to see the exponential growth of product releases and announcements made at the shows. We will once again in 2011 roll out the trio of Entertainment Technology Expos with great speakers, dynamic exhibitors, the newest products and engaging networking.
The launch of our Digital Asset Management Conferences and the DAMMY Awards in NYC was a great success. We are excited to present more offerings in this industry through our conferences, webcasts and awards in addition to Createasphere’s Digital Asset Management eNewsletter that launches this month.
2010 was also the year of online gathering for Createasphere with our highly successful and dynamic webcasts with a wide selection of topics. We will be presenting a full calendar of webcasts in 2011 and I invite you to explore the outstanding content that is archived from 2010.
And finally, in 2010 we completed the eighteen-month branding transition from HD EXPO to Createasphere. The transition to Createasphere was envisioned as a broadening of our mission, to open up opportunities and enable us to deliver events and gathering that were not limited in name by a technology.
Our tag line says it all, and inspires what we strive to deliver – Createasphere – A world where entertainment technology and creative vision converge. In 2011 we will do our best to build up our industry, deliver the most valuable products and serve our community. I thank you for your patronage, attendance and support! We wish the best to you and your family in this holiday season and look forward to seeing you in 2011.
Kristin Petrovich Kennedy
