Events: Interactive

North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, home to some of the world's leading companies in the $38 billion global videogame industry, is hosting its first videogame technology showcase and career fair. Local videogame companies will be recruiting to fill more than 100 positions in technical, marketing and sales departments. The event will feature more than a dozen companies and university departments within the greater Triangle area that are creating technology and content for the videogame and interactive media industries.

Participants include: * Emergent Game Technologies

The Barcelona International Television Festival (FITB) is a three-day screening for children and young people from around the world: documentaries, animations, TV programs and series. Two prizes: UNICEF and CREATIVE will give awarded. The program includes MEDIA LITERACY, screenings from the ITC service of the department of education of the autonomous government of Catalonia and the exhibit of secondary school news programs, commercials and fiction videos organized by the Blanquerna Communication Department of the Ramon Llull University.

As a featured component of Los Angeles' International AFI Film Festival, AFI DigiFest is presenting two interactive media showcases highlighting the latest innovations in digital media and their real-world applications. Presented at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' beautiful Linwood-Dunn Theater, the two days of presentations and seminars will be filled with some pretty dazzling stuff. Here's the program:

6Sight 2007 is presenting the future of imaging. The two-day conference includes presentations, technology demonstrations and panel discussions, with several key topics organized into "clusters" that bring different approaches to bear on the same issues, providing more stimulation and engagement amongst the speakers and the audience. Visit www.6Sight.com for more detailed information.

VIEW Conference is an annual event dedicated to the world of: digital content, computer graphics, 3D animation, visual effects, design and videogames.Highlights from the schedule: from Pixar Animation Studios, the Director of Photography, Sharon Calahan; Paul Topolos, digital matte painter for the film

NASSCOM is hosting Animation & Gaming India 2007 at Hotel Grand Hyatt, Mumbai. Animation & Gaming India 2007 will provide a platform for delegates to get real-world information about the animation and gaming industry directly from top industry professionals. It is structured to ensure that the topics are concurrent with the present-day needs of the industry and will forecast the changes and needs to come.

The 9th Annual TV Show Europe 2007 highlights multi-platform interactive TV. The event will take place at the Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I in Barcelona. Speakers include: Erik Lumer, ceo of Babel Networks (Italy); Miles Beckett, exec producer/creator of "LonelyGirl15," Telegraph Ave. Prods. (U.S.); Robert Marsh, svp, interactive and telephony, Fremantle Media Licensing Worldwide (U.K.); and Santiago Miralles, gm, CCRTV Interactiva (Catalunya). For more information, visit www.itvshoweurope.com/.

Video Games Live is coming to London thanks to Microsoft Xbox 360, IMG Artists and Raymond Gubbay, in association with the Southbank Centre. It will be the opening event of the London Games Festival. The biggest scores from the most iconic games will be performed by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall at 7:30pm. Tickets can be bought from the Royal Festival Hall box office on 0871 663 2500, or www.southbankcentre.co.uk/calendar?action=production&production=17937&pe....

Imagination meets innovation at FITC Hollywood, a festival for new media designers and developers.

Two days of panels and presentations featuring top creative and business talent working in animation, motion graphics, online video, rich media and the Web.

Highlights include:* Over 50 presentations and panels* Presentations from Adobe and Joshua Hirsch (bigspaceship.com)* Pre-festival workshops* Free "Get A Job" evening event* Parties and other networking opportunities

NATPE is hosting a free web seminar titled "Understanding Mobile Media: Untapped Opportunities and Hidden Challenges." The one-hour event will take place at 9:00 am PT.

In this hour, John Puterbaugh, Founder/Chief Strategist at Nellymoser, and Adam Zawel, Chief Collaborating Officer at INmobile.org, will show you how to successfully overcome the hurdles of going mobile and staying there, by focusing on the following:

* Getting the Lay of the Mobile Land - Where to start and what you need to know

The India Digital Networks Summit will look into the growing concern over heightened competition, fragmentation and costs in the media sector. In its third year, sponsored by both the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and the Telecom Regulatory Authority in India, the event helps producers navigate regulation, TV channel proliferation and fragmentation, CAS, DTH, broadband, investment, expansion strategies and returns. For more information, visit www.media-partners-asia.com.