OUR UPCOMING EVENTS
TODAY!
Wed, January 30, 6p
Golin, Downtown LA
Golin, Downtown LA
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Join us to discuss how to better use data insights and analytics to optimize your PR campaigns, from using big data and AI to social media listening. Speakers include Kelly Hopler of Golin, and Jonathan Durkee of Twine Data. We will discuss how you can use data insights and analytics to optimize your PR and marketing campaigns.
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February 27, 12:30-2p
The Mayor's House: Getty House
The Mayor's House: Getty House
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Digital LA members are invited to the LA Mayor's House! Join us as we highlight LA Mayor Eric Garcetti's Evolve Entertainment Fund, a public-private partnership co-led by Director Ava DuVernay, dedicated to building career pathways into film, TV and music for women, people of color, and low-income Angelenos via paid internships, educational programming and focused mentoring. This event at the LA Mayor's House includes a panel of stu
dents from Evolve's pilot year sharing their first hand experiences from the program and the debut screening of the short documentary featuring five of the Evolve fund's aspiring filmmakers who visited Sundance Film Festival in January.
FREE RSVP by Friday Feb 1 to get on our list
(waiting list after Feb 1)
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February 12, 6p
Beach Bar at Ala Moana Surfrider, Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu
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Aloha Hawaii! We're going to Hawaii on Feb 12 at the Beach Bar at Ala Moana Surfrider Waikiki to chat chat digital and take sunset beach pics. Tell your Oahu friends!
FREE RSVP
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CALL FOR SPEAKERS for our UPCOMING EVENTS
Digital LA - Health Tech panel in February.
CALL FOR SPEAKERS
for our annual Health Tech panel. If you have medical devices, wearables, apps, IOT that is health related and can speak to it on our panel, email info@digitalla.net with HEALTH as subject and a brief description of what you've done in the past year.
Digital
LA - Fitness Panel in February
. CALL FOR SPEAKERS for our annual Fitness panel, from fitness apps to fitness YouTubers and influencers who can share how they use social media to increase healthy behaviors. If you're a fitness influencer or YouTuber, email info@digitalla.net with FITNESS as subject. We are also looking for a venue to host this event, like a gym group exercise room for an hour.
Digital LA - Meet the SXSW Pitch Teams. Meet some of the 7 LA startups that will be heading to SXSW to participate in the SXSW Pitch in March. We are looking for a venue to host this event, like a coworking space. Email info@digitalla.net with TEAMS as subject.
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LA Tech News
Two immersive experiences have opened near the arts district in downtown LA, so we're officially rebranding this area as the Immersive Arts District in DTLA, along with Two Bit Circus.
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Alita Experience: opened in downtown LA this past weekend. You and your friends travel to the world of Alita: Battle Angel in this two-hour immersive experience where you complete more than a dozen tasks to get points and emerge victorious. Lots of cool cyborg photo opps too! Our Digital LA team had a blast. See our
review.
Samskara at Wisdome.LA. The Samsara immersive art experience transports you to other worlds via 360 dome projections, VR, art gallery, and live band with hula hoop artist at Wisdome LA, a pop-up venue with 5 domes in downtown LA. Our Digital LA review
digitalla.net/samskara
Hack-A-Wish LA. Dollar Shave Club and Make-A-Wish teamed up this weekend for the first Hack-A-Wish hackathon to create tech solutions for children with critical illnesses. Team Genie won. See our
article.
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Gibson's NAMM JAM
include a lineup of rock legends sharing the stage, including Billy Gibbons, Nancy Wilson, Peter Frampton, Robby Krieger, Emily Wolfe, Black Pistol Fire, Cam, Jared James Nichols, Toby Lee, Lauren Ruth Ward and more. Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top rocked the stage with his red guitar. Peter Frampton was the surprise performer at Gibson guitar's party during NAMM, on Thursday Jan 24, at the Grove of Anaheim.
Seven LA companies at SXSW Pitch will be participating in the annual SXSW Pitch on March 9-10 in Austin.
Congrats
to finalists Acciyo (custom contextual news) and Fan Controlled Football League (fantasy sports).
FCFL pitched at our previous Digital LA - Blockchain Summit event! Alternates include: Screen Door (real time team collaboration), Lucidity (blockchain digital ads), Immersive Systems (esports stats app), Tris Holdings (App store shopper chat), and Mobalytics (AI esports coach for gamers). See our article.
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CONFERENCES
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JOBS
Get or place a job on our
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Upper Diamond - Marketing & Project Coordinator (LA). Project / Marketing Coordinator with a 'can do' attitude, who wants to make an impact and has a keen interest in learning, marketing and storytelling. If that sounds like you then you will thrive in this 12 year old company still run like a small startup.
Weissman-Markowitz Communications - PR Account Coordinator
(Burbank) - PR coordinator needed to work with top PR firm that runs PR campaigns for awards ceremonies, film festivals, streaming services and more. Clients include Art Directors Guild (photo right: ADG Awards), the International Cinematographers Guild, Make-Up Artists and Hairstylists Guild, Prime Video, cable and streaming networks as well as many foreign and independent films.
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OUR RECENT EVENTS
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6 Keys to Branded Content.
Digital content creators and filmmakers discussed how they create and distribute content for top brands including Paramount, Nickelodeon, Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA, Toyota, Kellogg's, Walgreens, Hot Pockets, and Kleenex today at our Digital LA - Branded Content and Social Media panel last week at Industrious Century City. Speakers included Brian Fisher, co-founder of Warp Zone; Carrie Stett, director at Washington Square Films, and Matthew Celia of Light Sail VR. Speakers described how they conceptualize campaigns with brands, and then create content with digital marketing and distribution, social media and influencers, often-integrated from the beginning. See our
article
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Digital LA - Digital Drinks at Mandalay Bay
We had a blast at our Digital Drinks at
Mandalay Bay's eyecandy lounge during CES. Attendees included: Oracle cloud, Samsung events, ad tech, digital agencies, livestream production, and influencers. We enjoyed Digital Drink specials at the bar, and traded notes on fave CES booths and parties. See our recap
article.
LA based companies represented at CES in Vegas last week. Ring and Belkin had booths on the main show floor. Video Amp and Pluto TV had booths in the content-based C-suite. Several LA VR experts spoke on VR Fest panels. Plus we attended the CES VR Fest Opening party at OMNIA, closing party with Tiesto at Hakkasan, the Instagram party, Facebook party, Jukin Media / Tubefilter party, and many more. See our recap of the show floor, panels, and parties in our
CES 2019 article.
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Digital LA Holiday Party. We had blast at our Digital LA - Holiday Party at Two Bit Circus. Attendees from Paramount Studios, VR startups, agencies, startup founders, filmmakers, designers, developers and more enjoyed holiday cheer, VR games, space escape rooms, 4-person air hockey, gingerbread drinks, and friends from LA MBA Club at the new Two Bit Circus micro-amusement park in downtown LA. Tag yourself or friends in our
pics. Two Bit Circus opened up this fall as a micro-amusement park for social and interactive games, including VR, escape rooms, food, and more.
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Our
Toys Go Digital
panelists, with experience working on Star Wars, Power Rangers, GI Joe and other toys at Mattel, Hasbro and Jakks, described how toys use digital from development to YouTuber influencer unboxing videos at our Digital LA - Toys panel at Toy-Zilla toy store over the weekend. The panel was our first panel in a toy store, just in time for the holiday season. Several of the panelists picked out toys they had worked on, to have on display as we conducted the panel. Speakers said that toy development to social media marketing shares much in common with film and TV development. Summary of our panel, including What's Hot and What's Not this holiday season in our
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8 Startup Tips.
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tartup Founders and investors gave startup tips at our Startup Founders panel with Yale Tech, hosted at Techstars LA offices in Los Angeles on Nov 1.
Speakers included: Techstars LA Managing Director Anna Barber, and three startup founders Athan Slotkin of Hotsauce restaurant discovery app, Aly Moore of Spott.AI click content to buy merchandise platform, and Cristina Poindexter of Maslo voice-AI empthy tool, currently at Headspace. See their 8 startup tips in our
article
and video.
LA's cannabis tech startups are growing in discovery, operations, and delivery, said speakers at our Digital LA - High Tech panel at Phase Two coworking space in Culver City. Experts from Weedmaps, WebJoint, Baker, White Buffalo and more shared their insights. Speakers discussed how digital tools help with customer relationship management, direct marketing, operations, and measuring ROI. White Buffalo presented a handy checklist of guidelines for cannabis marketing, which is very different from other subject. See
article.
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6 Cryptocurrency Innovations and trends to watch include increase ease of use, access, mobile, and education, said expert speakers at our Digital LA - Crypto Innovators panel at the EOS Lynx / WorkCoin offices. Speakers included Michael Terpin of Transform Group, which has helped more than 150 cryptocurrency companies with their launch campaigns; Ann Greenberg of Entertainment AI; Ira Herman, product manager of host company EOS Lynx / WorkCoin mobile EOS wallet app; and Mark Jeffrey of Guardian Circle app. See our
article.
Our all-star speakers describe the top innovations and trends they are watching in our Facebook live
video.
