München, 8. November 2007
Medientage München 2007
'Media Yourself: Trends beim User Generated Content"

Moderatiorn: Georg von Stein, Redaktion Stein, München

Keynote: Wolfgang Blau, San Francisco

Einführung: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess, Leiter Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik
und Neue Medien, LMU München

Podiumsdiskussion:
Konstantin Urban, Geschäftsführer Holtzbrinck Networks, München
Katharina Borchert, Chefredakteurin Online, WAZ Mediengruppe, Essen
Alfred Tolle, Geschäftsführer HobNoX, Cambridge
Arne Klempert, Geschäftsführer Wikimedia, Königstein im Taunus

Ottawa, Kanada, 3. Oktober 2007
Participative Web: Creativity, Confidence and Convergence
OECD ICCP Technology Foresight Forum
Speech: "How to not repeat the mistakes of the media industry - A few
thoughts on E-Government projects"

Linz, Österreich, 7. September 2006
PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA AWARD GALA
Co-Curator, Präsentation: Wolfgang Blau

Amsterdam, Niederlande, 6.- 8. Februar 2007
Cable Congress 2007
Kongress der europäischen Kabel-TV-Branche.
Schwerpunktthemen: IPTV, Quadruple-Play, Web 2.0
Chairman & Program Chair: Wolfgang Blau

München, 19. Oktober 2006
Münchener Medientage 2006
"Weblogs, Podcasts und Communities: Verändert sich der Journalismus?"

Moderation:
Prof. Andreas Bönte, Leiter Programmbereich Planung und Entwicklung, Bayerischer Rundfunk, München

Katharina Borchert, Chefredakteurin Online, WAZ Mediengruppe, Essen
Wolfgang Blau, freier Journalist, San Francisco
Götz Hamann, Redakteur DIE ZEIT, Berlin
Peter Stefan Herbst, Chefredakteur Saarbrücker Zeitung, Saarbrücken
Christian Röpke, Leiter Electronic Media, Financial Times Deutschland, Hamburg

Cannes, Frankreich, 10. Oktober 2006
"Cable meets Content"
Expertenseminar der European Cable Communications Association,
Cable Europe.
Podiumsdiskussion zu den Themen IPTV, Triple Play, Web 2.0

Moderation:
Wolfgang Blau

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

Salzburg, Österreich, 29. September 2006
Vortrag: "Culture Change: Who's afraid of Web 2.0?"
Holtzbrinck Internet Summit 2006
Interne Fach-Konferenz für Führungspersonal der
Holtzbrinck Internet-Beteiligungen

Linz, Österreich, 2. September 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, Österreich, 1. September 2006
PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA AWARD GALA
Moderation: Wolfgang Blau

Brüssel, Belgien, 27. April 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

Wien, 2./3. März 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, Österreich, 2. September 2005
PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA AWARD GALA
Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer

Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA, 1. Oktober 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, 18. Mai 2004,
Hamburger Dialog

"Search Engine Marketing"

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, 26. Juni 2003
"Marke DEUTSCHLAND - Symposium zu Deutschlands Außenwirkung"

Moderation: 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, 27. Mai 2003,
Hamburger Dialog
"ReVISION – Eine neue internationale Marke für Deutschland"

Idee und Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer

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

München, 14. Mai, 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.

München, 16. Oktober 2002
Medientage München
"Soziale Mobiltität: Was Bayern vom Silicon Valley lernen könnte"
Einstündiger Vortrag von Wolfgang Harrer, Journalist, San Francisco.
Veranstaltung der bayer. Staatskanzlei / GoToBavaria

Hamburg, 23. April 2002
Hamburger Dialog

"Kommerzielle Strategien für Medien-Websites"

Moderation: Annette Milz, Chefredakteurin "Medium Magazine"

Einführung: "Pay-For-Content Strategien amerikanischer
Zeitungs-Websites", Wolfgang Harrer, Journalist, San Francisco

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

Hamburg, 23. April 2001,
Hamburger Dialog

"Von Greenpeace lernen: Viral Marketing and Guerilla PR"

Idee und Moderation: Wolfgang Harrer, Journalist, San Francisco

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

Linz, Österreich, 31. Dezember 1999
Moderation einer TV-Show des ORF zum Jahrtausendwechsel, live aus dem
ARS Electronica Center.