COMDEX is one of the top conferences for IT professionals. The event will deal with the future direction of the industry, key advances and new innovations. This year

Wizard World Texas is a pop-culture expo featuring some of the biggest names and companies in comic books, toys, anime, manga, video games, film and television. Wizard World events are produced by Wizard Conventions Inc., a sister company of Wizard Entertainment Group, which publishes a number of magazines for the collectibles market, including INQUEST GAMER, TOYFARE, ANIME INSIDER and the comics publication WIZARD. For more information visit http://www.wizarduniverse.com/conventions/texas.cfm.

The 2nd Annual Art Festival will have two workshops called "New Techniques for All in the Arts" and "Presentation Techniques". The Art Festival includes All in The Arts -- singers, writers, poets, painters, photographers, illustrators, dancers, musicians, sculptors, storytellers, mimes, actors, actresses, dancers, clowns, etc. are invited to attend and display and perform your works. The most spectacular highlight of this Art Festival is that we will have an art agent there to sign you up. For more information contact Help 2 Succeed, 1115 N. Scottsdale Road Suite #104, Tempe, Arizona 85281, or e-mail: help2succeed@consultant.com.

The e.magiciens / European Gathering of Young Digital Creation is a festival organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Valenciennes held from 26th to 28th November 2003 at the theatre Le Ph

The I Castelli Animati Festival highlights animation in all its forms from commercials to features films. The international competition awards the following prizes: grand prize, special jury prize, best debut short film, best European short film, audience prize, Fabrizio Bellocchino prize, best Web animation and best non-narrative short film. The Italian competition will give a grand prize and special jury prize to the top Italian productions. The event includes exhibitions, retrospectives, conferences and screenings. This year

January 13, 2004 Deadline: November 12, 2003 Celebrating a small niche of the advertising industry, the Website Gamespot.com is hosting the First Annual Game Commercial Awards. The contest hopes to recognize the best and most creative gaming commercials on television. Game companies are invited to enter any and all TV commercials, which will be viewed and voted on by GameSpot's audience of nearly 900,000 daily unique gamers. Commercials will be promoted on GameSpot.com between Thanksgiving Day November 27, 2003 and New Year's Day, with the winners announced on January 13, 2004. Online entries must be received by Wednesday, November 12, 2003.

Seybold Seminars New York 2003 will be an intimate gathering of media technology professionals. This year

Co-Produced by Future Media Concepts and Videography Magazine, The DigitalMediaDC Conference runs December 2-4, 2003 at the New Washington DC Convention Center. The Conference features over 75 expert-led training sessions targeted toward professionals in the Broadcast, Video and Multimedia arenas. Sessions will help digital media professionals maximize their skills in the the latest post-production software including Avid Media Composer

The Western Show is dedicated to the technological advancements that will drive bottom lines for the cable, Internet, telephone, computer, satellite, broadcast, motion picture or new media industries. This, the 36th edition of the event, will be the last. The National Show has grown so much that the National Cable & Telecommunications Association decided there was only need for one show. The Western Show is allows people to network in timely educational seminars, interactive roundtables and CableNET '03, a gathering of demonstrations by companies from various industries as part of a educational exhibit. The 2003 program will cover the latest developments in these areas: digital cable services, high-speed Internet, video-on demand, HDTV, digital rights, security, retail CPE and POD, sports programming --

AnimationHQ is hosting a chat with talented and veteran animator, Heidi Guedel. She spent time at Disney, Don Bluth Productions and Warner Brothers. She has worked on many Feature Animation titles including The Secret of NIMH, The Fox and the Hound, An American Tail, and Quest for Camelot. In addition, she did character layout for Rough Draft Studios (Futurama), worked in multimedia at Vortex Media Arts, and worked on videogame animation for the classic 80's laserdisc games "Dragon's Lair" and "Space Ace". The chat will take place on Saturday, December 6th at 8 pm EST. You can go to http://animationhq.net/v2/features/events.htm for more information on him and the directions on how to get to the chat room located towards the bottom of the page. Don't miss it!