You're Invited to a world of new possibilities for the creation, distribution and promotion of entertainment and media--become an integral part of the event series that started the Revolution.....Welcome to your future."

THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY AS WE ONCE KNEW OF--IS OVER. WELCOME TO YOUR FUTURE. THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES FEBRUARY 21 AND 22 IN WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA!

IF THERE WAS ONLY ONE SHOW TO ATTEND TO ENABLE YOU TO CREATE A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE IN A CHANGING ENTERTAINMENT AND MEDIA ENVIRONMENT, WELCOME TO YOUR FUTURE....."THIS IS IT!

"Executives and leaders in the entertainment and media worlds must think their business models order to find profitable financial models, causing everyone to re-create their business models. We are at a critical time in our world as we now have the tools to create, market, distribute and sell our own creations. Now we need to imagine how we will have sustainable business models."

Ten years ago, a promoter/producer from New York created an event that literally helped to change the entertainment business forever. That event, the New York Music and Internet Expo lasted three significant years and culminated at Madison Square Garden before it developed into GEMS: The Global Entertainment and Media Summit. For several years, the worlds of music, film, and media kept their eyes on this event as it paved the way for the future of entertainment and media.

Ten years after its inception, we're inviting you to participate in what has been considered the leading event dedicated to helping pave the way for creative talent to maintain creative control of their projects while balancing commercial success. The times are changing, and now more than ever, we need to think about how we will maintain and create sustainable careers in our fields. Welcome to the next generation of forward thinking experiences as GEMS Presents "The Big Picture."

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There is no doubt, the way we reach the consumer with our message has forever changed. With the entire entertainment and media industries in transition, it has become an absolute necessity that the businesses and people who work in entertainment reinvent themselves in order to survive in the long run.

GEMS addresses these important issues and provides its audience with enlightenment and the access they need to new opportunities.. By bringing together visionary leaders from the music, film and media worlds, GEMS has proven it provides a productive forum of ideas and new distribution concepts that when acted upon, help facilitate positive change and effective growth in new areas for the entertainment industry. GEMS is an incredible synergistic experience – combining great innovative thinkers from film, music, video, DV and multimedia worlds. Two full days of highly productive seminars and keynotes, product demonstrations plus a trade show floor with some of the latest developments in the creative marketplace.

PROMOTE YOUR COMPANY TO A WELL QUALIFIED AND HIGHLY TARGETED, EFFECTIVE AUDIENCE

BRING YOUR CD'S, DVD'S, PRESS KITS, BUSINESS CARDS AND NETWORK LIKE CRAZY!

From idea to distribution, immerse yourself in an audience featuring:
• Music Industry
• Producers
• Directors
• Videographers
• Perform ing Artists
• Filmmakers
• Songwriters
• Music Video Directors
• Managers
• Agents and Talent Directors
• Engineers
• Media
• New Media
• Developers and Programmers
• Cross Platform Entertainment Solution Providers
• Entertainment Attorneys
• Advertising & Public Relations Professionals
• Venture Capitalists & Advisors
• Digital Cinema Companies
• Video Companies
• Gaming Companies
• Entrepreneurs

CREATE THE RELATIONSHIPS YOU WANT: GET BUSINESS DONE EFFECTIVELY! THE MEDIA LOVES GEMS!

Hot topics at our events bring the media in droves! Previous media attention includes:

• The New York Times • Washington Post • CNN • Fox News
• MTV • VH1 • ABC • Billboard

PREVIOUS PARTICAPANTS INCLUDE
Apple, Panasonic, The Hollywood Reporter, HBO, Yahoo!, Napster, The Sundance Channel, BMG Music, LOEWS, Cablevision, Microsoft, Rapstation, SONY, American Federation of Musicians, AFTRA, AOL Movies, ASCAP, Audiofile, Berklee College of Music, Big Meteor Publishing, Billboard Live,, BMI, Bob Ezrin Productions, Bowienet, Brickwall Management, Broadjam, Buy Indies, Chrysalis Music, DMX Music, Download Card, EMI Music, Epic Records, Everfine Records, Everquest, EZTV Media, Grammy.com; Hank Shocklee Productions, Harry Fox Agency, Heavy Hitters Music, Human Rights Action Network, It’s A Gas Marketing, iv Management, John Scher, Kayos Productions, Lembo Entertainm ent, Les Paul, Lightstone Entertainment, Lot 47 Films, Lycos, Media Channel, Megaforce Records, Microsoft, Midem, Music Business Registry, Open TV, Panasonic, Pileated Pictures, Popkomm, Quark Records, Radio Free Virgin, Radio Woodstock, Rainnaker Management, Ray Kurzweil, Razor and Tie, Real Networks, RFM , Interactive, Robert Fripp, Screen Actors Guild, Shanachie Records, Skateboard Marketing, Song Catalog.com, Songwriters Hall of Fame, SONY, Sound Advisors, Starpolish, Subverse Music, TEC Casting, Tech TV, The Agency Group, The Firm, The Garland Appeal, The Planetary Group, The Royalty Network, Tom Tom Club, UltraStar,

Since creating GEMS and its predecessor, The New York Music and Internet Expo, our events have captured the true creative spirit of industry transformation dedicated to the development of quality long-lasting entertainment. From the beginning stages of the Music Revolution in 1999 to our events today, immerse yourself in one of the most progressive think tanks dedicated to helping both artists and industry, performing artist and filmmaker---create the type of career that lasts a long, long time.

CAPTURE THE SPIRIT OF INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION
Thought provoking and mentally stimulating panel sessions include cutting edge topics such as:

* Music Meets Film: Film Meets Music: Licensing Your Music Effectively
* The On-Demand Future
* Alternative Channels Of Distribution
* High Definition And 24P
* Placing Music In Film And Television
* The Filmmakers Roundtable
* Effective Team Building And Networking
* So You've Made a Record. Now What?
* Managers And New Media
* Which Route To Go: Major Or Independent?
* Maintaining Creative Control At A Time Of Consolidation
* The Realities Of Distribution
* How Offline Enhances The Online Experience
* DV Or Not DV
* Dealmakers
* Creative Positioning
* Taking Matters into Your Own Hands: The Do It Yourself Artist, Filmmaker, * Composer and Media Executive
* Forward thinking and Innovative Distribution
* Innovative Public Relations and Publicity: Getting to the Top of the Priority List
* The Sustainable Career at a time of Change: Embracing Change with an Open Mind
* Balancing Artistic Integrity with Commercial Success
* Thinking Globally, Living Locally
* The Future is in Your Hands
* Media, New Media and YOu at a time of radical change, convergence, layoffs and consolidation. Where are the new opportunities and possibilites?
* Entertainment with a Mission: Taking Your Stand for your Cause
* That's a Wrap: And Now What?
* The On-Demand World and You
* Becoming the Media

GET BUSINESS DONE AT GEMS
Promote new products
• Secure mailing lists
• Introduce your product to the media
• Introduce your service to a well-targeted audience
• Secure new contacts
• Create new creative and business alliances
• Launch new products
• Secure media attention
• Promote, market, demonstrate and sell your products and services
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In March, 1999, a small yet powerful grassroots event called The New York Music and Internet Expo was launched to promote the beginning of the artists revolution. It was an incredible time to be creative. Performing artists, for the first time, were leaving their record companies, record companies were suing the dot com's, and an industry that was in control, was losing their ground.

The Global Entertainment and Media Summit was launched in 2002 as the next generation of empowering events dedicated to providing honest and accurate, timely and empowering information to artists around the world on how to take control of their careers.

Now it's 2007 and some things have changed. Radio consolidation and the mergers of major record companies have caused numerous companies to hold on to old business models that haven't worked in thirty years.

It's a perfect time for the independent artist, filmmaker, musician. Things are changing rapidly. And the artist with the best information dedicated to furthering their career while maintaining total creative control--is in power.

The Entertainment Business as we once knew of it, is over. Radio is hardly playing new music. The studios are releasing the same movie over and over again. Television is at the worst state it's been in for years. But for the independently thinking creative artist and industry, there's an incredible opportunity.

As the major companies have consolidated and radio airwaves have become controlled by a few mega-conglomerates, there are still new and exciting opportunities for those who know how to take advantage of opportunities, and those who know how to create them.

GEMS was created to provide a forum for the exchange of views, ideas and contacts in the independent music, film, video and multimedia worlds of the entertainment and communications industries in a context of innovation, reinvention, and the creation of possibility for sustainable careers and a revolution in marketing and distribution.

Previous speakers, panelists and participants have included recognized leaders in media, humanitarianism, music, film and video.

Welcome to your future:
With an entire industry in transition, it has become an absolute necessity that the entertainment industry creates realistic new opportunities and possibilities by reinventing itself in order to survive in the long run. The Summit will not only address these important issues, but provide its audience of music, film and media artists and industry with enlightenment and new opportunities to gain the access they need.,

By bringing together visionary leaders from the music, film and media worlds, it is our intention to provide a productive forum of ideas and new distribution concepts that when acted upon, can help the industry grow effectively. that helps to facilitate change for the industry,