Media Futures Conference 2009
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Beyond Broadcast

Friday 3 July, Bloomberg Auditorium, London, EC2

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Gilles will discuss business strategies for IPTV and new content providers, and design as a strategic tool, illustrated by Method’s media interface design work for PBS video online and others.

  • John GillesJohn Gilles
    Vice President of Media and Entertainment
    Method, Inc.
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John Gilles is the Vice President of Media and Entertainment at San Francisco-based Method, Inc., which also has offices in New York and London. He is a media and entertainment executive who works at the intersection of games, television, Internet and mobile. He specialises in new product development, content production and digital content business strategy for leading media companies. At Method, Gilles recently led the design and development of Electronic Arts’ new social network for gamers, Rupture.

Gilles has more than 20 years interactive media experience. He has led interactive media for three cable networks: Comcast-owned G4TV, and its predecessors TechTV and ZDTV. Most recently he was responsible for helping launch Gameplay HD, a high-definition television channel that focused on video games (part of the Rainbow Media cable channel), and developed the personalised interactive programming guide MeeVee. He was also a TV reporter and producer on The Site, an hour-long TV programme devoted to the Internet revolution on MSNBC, as well as a technology correspondent for Wired News and Wired.com.

Gilles is a longtime mentor and strategic advisor at the American Film Institute, a voting member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and serves as Vice Chair of the Producers Guild of America Bay Area Chapter. He is a frequent public speaker and motivator of forums on advanced TV, video games, and convergent media.