2012 World Congress of Science & Factual Producers : Melbourne, Australia December 1-4

Schedule

The full schedule of sessions, market events, social events, and member services for the upcoming Congress in Washington will be available in October 2012. Sessions, events, and session participants are subject to change without notice.

Below are links to useful documents from the 2012 Congress are available for download below.

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Industry event times and locations
Time Session
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Tuesday, Nov. 27
12:00 pm - 05:30 pm WCSFP Member Lounge Open
12:00 pm - Steering Committee Nominations Open On Site
12:00 pm - 09:00 pm Registration and Information Desk Open
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Micro Meeting: Tangled Bank Studios - A Production Company of HHMI
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm Happy Hour
03:00 pm - 04:00 pm Micro Meeting: Media Central
03:00 pm - 04:15 pm Around the Channels in 80 Ways
04:15 pm - 05:15 pm Micro Meeting: Wellcome Trust
04:30 pm - 05:30 pm Meet the Mentors
05:30 pm - 06:30 pm Micro Meeting: FINAS National Film Development Corporation Malaysia
07:30 pm - 09:30 pm Welcome Reception
Wednesday, Nov. 28
08:30 am - 05:30 pm WCSFP Member Lounge Open
08:30 am - 06:30 pm Registration and Information Desk Open
08:45 am - 10:30 am Welcome and What’s the Buzz
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 12:00 pm The Great Plane Crash: An Accident Waiting to Happen?
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Storytelling - Then and Now
11:00 am - 11:30 am Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Nina Tuominen (YLE)
11:15 am - 11:45 am Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Bill Gardner (PBS)
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Sparks of Inspiration: David Pogue
12:30 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch
12:45 pm - 01:30 pm Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Shin Yasuda (NHK)
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm Meet Discovery
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Micro Meeting: CCTV
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm Interactive Storytelling
02:00 pm - 02:30 pm Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Adrian Wills (UKTV)
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm The King of Testostereality: Lights, Camera, Adrenalin with TV’s Most Manly Man, Thom Beers
02:15 pm - 02:45 pm Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: John Godfrey & Joseph Maxwell (SBS)
03:00 pm - 03:30 pm Sparks of Inspiration: Steven Johnson
03:30 pm - 04:00 pm Coffee Break
04:00 pm - 04:30 pm Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: David Royle (Smithsonian Networks)
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Champagne on a Beer Budget
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Succeeding in US TV *But Were Afraid to Ask
04:30 pm - 05:30 pm Speed Dating 1
05:30 pm - 06:30 pm Happy Hour
06:30 pm - Steering Committee Nominations Close
07:00 pm - 11:00 pm Night on the Potomac
Thursday, Nov. 29
07:45 am - 08:45 am Breakfast with Discovery Channel/EPI
08:00 am - 08:45 am Meet PBS
08:30 am - 05:00 pm WCSFP Member Lounge Open
08:30 am - 05:00 pm Registration and Information Desk Open
08:30 am - Steering Committee Voting Opens
09:00 am - 10:30 am International Turf Wars
09:30 am - 10:30 am The New New Media
09:30 am - 10:30 am Co-Production Surgeries 1
10:00 am - 10:30 am Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Brad Kohlenstein (Science Channel)
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
10:59 am - 12:29 pm Co-Production Surgeries 2
11:00 am - 11:30 am Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Jill Fullerton-Smith & John Hay (Channel 4)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Where Did We Go Wrong? Science TV in the Age of Denial
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Drama Budgets, Mega Ratings, Ideas Wanted - Where’s the Catch?
11:15 am - 11:45 am Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Wen Liu and Yuan Tian (CCTV)
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Suzanne McKenna, Mark Reynolds, Philipp Schmid (BBC Worldwide)
12:30 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch
12:45 pm - 01:30 pm Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Caroline Behar, Ann Julienne & Thierry Mino (France Télévisions/France 5)
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Micro Meeting: Chinese Intercontinental Communication Centre (CICC)
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Mary Ellen Iwata (The Weather Channel Companies)
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Micro Meeting: EBU/CERN
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm Meet National Geographic
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm High Noon: Moment of Truth for Historic TV Brands
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm Archive is the New Black
02:00 pm - 02:30 pm Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Lindsay Cowan Dotchison & Ken MacDonald (Discovery Channel Canada)
02:15 pm - 02:45 pm Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Hélène Coldefy (ARTE France)
02:59 pm - 03:29 pm Sparks of Inspiration: Marco Tempest
03:00 pm - 03:30 pm Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Evan Hadingham (NOVA/WGBH)
03:30 pm - 04:00 pm Coffee Break
03:59 pm - 04:59 pm Meet the Unicorns: What the Under 30s are Watching
04:00 pm - 04:30 pm Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Andrew Solomon (ORF)
04:00 pm - 05:00 pm China: New Home of Factual?
04:15 pm - 04:45 pm Close Encounters of the Funding Kind: Madeleine Carter & Michael Mavretic (National Geographic Channel)
04:30 pm - 05:30 pm Speed Dating 2
05:00 pm - 05:30 pm A Special Announcement from Discovery and NHK
09:30 pm - Late Night Out
Friday, Nov. 30
08:30 am - 02:00 pm WCSFP Member Lounge Open
08:30 am - 02:00 pm Registration and Information Desk Open
09:15 am - 10:30 am The Colonies Fight Back
09:15 am - 10:30 am Show Me the Money: New Sources of Funding for Factual Programming
10:00 am - Voting for Steering Committee Closes
11:00 am - 12:15 pm Live On Trial
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm Live From the Future: The Top Ten Space Stories That Will Change History
12:45 pm - 01:45 pm Lunch
01:45 pm - 02:45 pm WCSFP Members Plenary

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