Ottawa, Canada, Oktober 3rd, 2007
Participative Web: Creativity, Confidence and Convergence
OECD ICCP Technology Foresight Forum

Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 6th - 8th, 2007
Cable Congress 2007
Conference of Europe's Cable-TV industry.
Core Issues: IPTV, Quadruple-Play, Web 2.0
Chairman & Program Chair: Wolfgang Blau

Munich, Germany, October 19th, 2006
Munich Media Days 2006
"Weblogs, Podcasts und Communities: Is Journalism changing?"

Moderation:
Prof. Andreas Bönte, Director Planning and Development, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich

Katharina Borchert,Chief Editor Online, WAZ Mediengruppe, Essen
Wolfgang Blau, independent journalist, San Francisco
Götz Hamann, DIE ZEIT, Hamburg / Berlin
Peter Stefan Herbst, Chief Editor, Saarbrücker Zeitung, Saarbrücken
Christian Röpke, Leiter Electronic Media, Financial Times Deutschland, Hamburg

Cannes, France, October 10th, 2006
"Cable meets Content"
Expert Seminar, presented by the European Cable Communications Association,
Cable Europe.
Core Issues: IPTV, Triple Play, Web 2.0

Moderation:
Wolfgang Blau, Journalist

Peter Levinsohn, President, Twentieth Century Fox
Hal Richardson, President, Paramount Pictures
Dr. Manuel Cubero, President, Cable Europe
Duco Sickinghe, Chief Executive Officer, Telenet

Salzburg, Austria, September 29th, 2006
Speech: "Culture Change: Who's afraid of Web 2.0?"
Holtzbrinck Internet Summit 2006
Corporate Seminar for the executives of the Holtzbrinck internet companies.

Linz, Austria, September 2nd, 2006
ARS ELECTRONICA
"How pressure exerted by mass media to simplify
messages is ruining politics and democracy"
Symposium with:
Donatella della Ratta, Italy
Wolfgang Blau, USA
Oliviero Toscani, Italy

Linz, Austria, September 1st, 2006
PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA AWARD GALA
Moderation: Wolfgang Blau

Brussels, Belgium, April 27th, 2006
TV 2010 Digital and Beyond
Expert Seminar about the Future of Television, presented
by the Association of Commercial Television in Europe.

1. "Driving Innovation in Europe - Distributing Media in a Digital World"

Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer a.k.a. Blau

Dr. Holger Ensslin
Vice President Legal & Regulatory Affairs
General Counsel, Premiere AG, Germany
Bruno Thibaudeau
Directeur du dévelopment, Groupe Canal+
Brian Sullivan
Director New Product Development & Sales, BSkyB
Dr. Martin Emele
Head of Technologies, ProSiebenSat1
Xavier Marvaldi
Directeur Général, M6Web

2. "Programming 2010:
How to please advertisers, viewers, regulators and shareholders?"

Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer

Mr. Pjotr Walter
CEO TVN, Poland
Mr. Jose Eduardo Moniz
General Manager, TVI, Portugal
Pascal Breton
Directeur Général, Marathon, France
Pablo Romero
Head of Contents Digital+, Sogecable, Spain
Tullio Camiglieri
Director Communication & External Relations, Sky Italia
Kim Peat
Controller of Arts, Religion & Daytime, Five, UK

3. "ABC: Advertisers, Broadcasters & Consumers. What do viewers want?"

Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer

Gabor Kereszty
CEO, TV2, Hungary
Vincent de Dorlodot,
General Counsel, RTL Group, Luxemburg
Vincent Porter
The European Alliance of Listeners and Viewers, Euralva
Marcus Wilding
Vice President, Carat International, UK
Hubertus Meyer Burckhardt
Member of the Executive Board, ProSiebenSat1
John Nolan
Head of Commercial Programming, BCMA, UK

4. "New Competitors in 2010"

Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer

Kenneth Plummer
Director General, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Denmark
Jorma Miettinen
Senior Vice President Broadcasting, MTV-Oy, Finland
Manuel Kohnstamm
Managing Director Public Policy & Communications, Liberty Global
Holger Ensslin
Vice President Legal & Regulatory Affairs, General Counsel
Premiere AG

Vienna, Austria, March 2nd and 3rd, 2006
"Content for Competitiveness - Strengthening the European Creative
Industries in the Light of the i2010 Strategy",
Expert Seminar organised by the Austrian Federal Chancellory
in cooperation with the European Commission.

1. "European Content in a Global and Converging Environment"

Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer

Angela Beesley, Director Wikipedia / Ourmedia, USA
Susan Binns, Director, DG Informatoin Society, European Commission
Monika Lindner, General Director, ORF Broadcasting, Austria
Stefano Mauri, CEO Mauri Spagnol Publishing, Italy
Jan Moijto, CEO Beta Film & EOS Entertainment, Germany
Jens Redmer, Director Google Books Europe, Germany

2. "New Business Models for Content Distribution"

Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer

Sylvie Forbin, Vice President, Vivendi-Universal, France
Rudolf Fischer, Chief Operating Officer, Telekom Austria
Michel Lambot, President, Independent Music Companies Assoc., IMPALA
Tilman Lüder, Head of Unit, DG Internal Market, European Commission
Stepan Paul, University of Rotterdam, Netherlands
Lennart Wiklund, Senior Vice President, Bonnier Group, Sweden
Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, OECD, Geneva, Switzerland

3. "Growth and Employment in the Content Industries"

Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer / Eva Weissenberger

Jacques Toubon, Member of European Parliament, Eurimages, France
Anne Bucher, Head of Unit, DG Information Society, European Commission
José Isaías Rodríguez García-Caro, Vice-President, Employers’ Group
of the European Economic and Social Committee
Klaus Goldhammer, CEO Goldmedia, Germany
Harald Hartung, Head of Unit, DG Education and Culture, European Commission
Heinrich Bleicher-Nagelsmann, European Trade Union Confederation
Antonis Kastrissianakis, Director, DG Employment, European Commission
Natalja Kazlauskiene, Director, DG Regional Policy, European Commission
Michael Söndermann, Task Force for Cultural Statistics, Germany

Linz, Austria, September 2nd, 2005
PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2005 AWARD GALA
Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer

Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA, October 1st, 2004,
BMW U.S.-Headquarters
Annual Conference of BMW's Corporate Communication Directors

"Participatory Journalism: Why new technologies and open-source movements are forcing old-school media to redefine their roles"

A 45-minute dinner speech by Wolfgang Harrer, followed by a Q&A Session.

Hamburg, Germany, May 18th, 2004,
Hamburg Dialogue,
Annual Conference on Public and Corporate Communication

"Search Engine Marketing: Strategies that work"

Concept and Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer

Volker Gläser, Head of Search, YAHOO Germany
Holger Meyer, Sales Director Germany, Austria, Switzerland, GOOGLE
Stephane Perino, Agence Virtuelle, Geneva/London/Paris
Niels Dörje, Corporate Marketing Manager, SCOUT 24, Germany

Berlin, Germany, June 26th, 2003
"Trademark GERMANY - An industry symposium for Germany's new branding"

Moderation: Ms. Sandra Maischberger, ntv

Discussion:
General Stephen Kretschmer, Director of the German Army's Center for Leadership (Zentrum Innere Führung), former Commander of the Multinational Brigade in Bosnia.
Wolfgang Harrer, Journalist
Professor Axel Börsch-Supan, University of Mannheim, Economic Policy Advisor.

Hamburg, Germany, May 27th, 2003,
Hamburg Dialogue, Conference on Public and Corporate Communication
"ReVISION – A new international brand for Germany"

Idea and Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer

Josef Joffe, Chief Editor DIE ZEIT
Christoph Keese, Chief Editor FINANCIAL TIMES GERMANY
Claus Strunz, Chief Editor BILD AM SONNTAG, Hamburg
Stephan Scholtissek, Country Managing Director, Accenture Deutschland
Hans-Erich Bilges, Vorstand & Gesellschafter, WMP Eurocom AG, Berlin
George Marion, Berlin Correspondent, LE MONDE, Paris/Berlin

Munich, Germany, May 14th, 2003,
Munich Network, (Association of Munich Venture Capitalists)
"Hightech-Location Germany - Strategies for the Future"

Moderation: Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Director, Odeon Center for Entrepreneurship at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München:

Discussion:
Dr.-Ing. e.H. Uwe Thomas, Staatsekretär im Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Science)
Wolfgang Harrer, Journalist, San Francisco
Timo Summa, Director, SME Envoy, European Commission
Christian Wedell, President Copan GmbH, Munich, Palo Alto, former Director of Microsoft Europe.

Munich, Germany, October 16th, 2002
Medientage München / Munich
"Social Mobility: What Bavaria could learn from Silicon Valley"
A one-hour speech by Wolfgang Harrer, Journalist, San Francisco.
Upon invitiation of the State of Bavaria's Foreign Investment Promotion Agency

Hamburg, Germany, April 23rd, 2002
Hamburg Dialogue, Conference on Public and Corporate Communication

"Commericial Strategies for Mass Media Web-Sites"

Moderation: Annette Milz, Chief Editor "Medium Magazin"

Introduction: "Pay-For-Content Strategies of American Newspaper Web-Sites",
by Wolfgang Harrer, Journalist, San Francisco

Discussion:
Mathias Müller von Blumencron, Chief Editor, SPIEGELonline
Wolfgang Harrer, Journalist, San Francisco
Susanne Fittkau, Fittkau&Maaß Agency, Hamburg, Germany
Mr. Patrick Zeilhofer, Director Online, RTL-Television

Hamburg, Germany, April 23rd, 2001,
Hamburger Dialog, Conference on Public and Corporate Communication

"Learn from Greenpeace: Viral Marketing and Guerilla PR"

Idea and Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer, Journalist, San Francisco

Discussion:
Sylvia Paull, President, Berkeley Ventures Inc., Piedmont/USA
Fouad Hamdan, Director of Communications, Greenpeace Germany
Stefan Mauerer, Board, Häberlein und Mauerer AG, Germany
Cyriac Röding, Chief Marketing Officer, 12Snap AG (Mobile Content)

Linz, Austria, December 31st, 1999
Moderation of Millenium-TV-Show for Austria's National Broadcasting Corporation ORF about Y2K-related news-events, live from the ARS Electronica Center.