First held in 1996, QuakeCon is the brainchild of id Software game fans that originally wants to get together with online friends and talk about their favorite games. Now the event is the premiere multiplayer gaming conference. More than 3,000 attendees partake in the huge exhibit area featuring E3 quality displays from the likes of Activision, Apple, Sega and many others. The BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) area, powered by LinkSys, also grew larger to a 1,300 seat LAN party, the largest of its kind in North America. In addition to conferences and seminars, QuakeCon hosts the $50,000 NVIDIA Championship Quake III Arena. For more information visit www.quakecon.org.

Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival - SICAF 2003, the most popular festival in Asia, will run August 12-17, 2003 with new and various programs in the city of Seoul where history and the modern day blend beautifully together.
With special programs and official contests for $50,000 in prize money, SICAF 2003 is waiting for the filmmakers around the world to participate in the festival.

Competition Categories

- Feature Film
(produced for the purpose of the theatrical release)
- Short Film
(within 30 min.)
- TV & Commissioned Films
(TV Series/TV Specials/Advertising or Promotional
Films/Educational or Industrial Films/Video Clips
etc.)
- Internet Animation
(produced for Interent use, ie. Flash etc.)

Wireless Developer 2003 offers speakers, workshops and sponsored programs targeted toward developers of wireless technology. The event is an opportunity for professionals to learn about marketing strategies, product roadmaps, SDKs and technical information to help them better run their businesses. The objective of the event is to

RDTA Films along with TheArtOfEvolution.com and Electric Rain (Erain) today announced VQ: VILLAINQUEST, The

G4, the Comcast-owned TV network all about video games and the gamer lifestyle, will hold G-Phoria - the network's location-based and on-air mega-event at the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood, California. Some of the industry's most highly anticipated video games are making a special appearance at G-Phoria, including: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Electronic Arts); MEDAL OF HONOR: RISING SUN (Electronic Arts); MADDEN NFL 2004 (Electronic Arts), FULL SPECTRUM WARRIOR (THQ); FINAL FANTASY X-2 (Square Enix USA); KARAOKE REVOLUTION (Konami); METAL GEAR SOLID: THE TWIN SNAKES (Konami); PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (Ubi Soft); STAR WARS: ROGUE SQUADRON III: REBEL STRIKE (LucasArts); MARIO KART: DOUBLE DASH!! (Nintendo) and FABLE (Microsoft Game Studios). The event will feature musical performers, famous presenters and a special surprise host. On August 8, 2003, G4 will air a 90-minute special accumulating the event

AlwaysOn's conference, AO2003: The Innovation Summit, will be held at Stanford Law School on the Stanford University campus. Participants will discuss and debate what it means to be "always on." The event will allow professionals to uncover new opportunities and get some deals flowing. To help facilitate the discussion, there will be 15 sessions to focus on the real market opportunities, some of which include: the wireless boom, the home area network, always on/always vulnerable, next generation networks - the next 3 years and beyond, the realtime network, how far can Linux and the open source movement go?, Hollywood versus Silicon Valley and journalists' outlook. Joining these discussions will be 60 speakers from such companies as 3COM, Palm, Electronic Arts Online Publishing, eBay, QUALCOMM and more. For more information go to www.acteva.com.

The North American IPv6 Global Summit, is taking place June 24-27, 2003 in San Diego, at the California State University of San Diego.
The next generation of the Internet (also known as Internet Protocol version 6 - the old Internet is version 4) will profoundly affect companies involved in online gaming, in telecommunications or in other heavy online traffic such as multimedia presentations. The new Internet will spawn a generation of opportunities, including jobs and yet-to-be-invented new classes of products.

The conference should be of interest to IT students and professionals, security specialists, network engineers and producers of hardware/software for servers.

The conference is sponsored by an elite group of technology giants, including Qualcomm, Cisco, HP, Nokia, NEC, Hitachi and Wind River. Keynote speakers include John Osterholz, Director of Architecture and Interoperability for the Department of Defense, Jawad Khaki, Vice President of Windows Networking for Microsoft, Larry Smarr, Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and Alex Lightman, CEO of Charmed Technology and author of Brave New Unwired World.

Switching over to the new technology has already been mandated by companies such as Sony, and by U.S. government agencies such as the Department of Defense. The new Internet has many major benefits, including built-in security, support for mobile platforms (including the ability to "roam" anywhere on the globe), more robust transmission (it transmits much larger chunks of data) and the availability of billions of new Internet addresses.

University support has enabled the conference to be especially affordable, at $279 for industry or $79 for students/government - special discounts are available for anyone reserving space before June 15. Information may be found on the conference website at www.usipv6.com.

The Illinois Institute of Art-Schaumburg will be hosting a pre-portfolio event for our upcoming graduates. Please join us on Monday, June 16, 2003 at The Stonegate Conference and Banquet Center, 2401 West Higgins Road, Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Come and view the portfolios of our upcoming graduates and find out more about our BFA degree programs in Interior Design, Multimedia & Web Design, Visual Communications, Media Arts & Animation, Digital Media Production and Game Art & Design. Please RSVP with how many people you'll be bringing to 847-619-3450. Everyone is welcome, we hope to see you there!

The Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) has announced an inaugural program honoring innovative work in screen-based integration of branded content, to take place June 9, 2003 at the MoMA Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street, as part of the 12th Annual AICP Show & Brand Integration Honors.

The AICP Brand Integration Honors, chaired by H. Mitchell Kanner of Integrated Entertainment Partners, LLC, (IEP), is the first program of its kind to recognize the creative product that results from the fusion of advertising and entertainment, and to highlight the innovative screen-based campaigns being generated that demonstrate this

Banff 2003, the 24th Banff Television Festival, takes place June 8-13, 2003 at the Fairmont Banff Springs in the Canadian Rockies. It is expected to draw over 1,800 producers, broadcasters, commissioning editors, content creators and other industry stakeholders from around the world who will take part in an array of plenary sessions, seminars, Master Classes, pitching and networking opportunities. Exploring the "State of Television" will be a major theme at this year's Banff Television Festival as the conference agenda introduces a week-long session strand. The sessions will take place Monday, June 9 through to Thursday, June 12, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm and 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm (Tuesday to Thursday) (Mountain Time) in the Theatre of the Fairmont Banff Springs Conference Centre. For more information go to www.banff2003.com.