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| Lennart Damann Owner of High Tide Tonstudio  | Lennart Damann is the owner of High Tide Studios near Cologne (Germany). In his younger years he played in lots of bands and got his fingers on his first recording gear when he was 14. He later took over his schools recording studio and recorded school bands and events. He got his Degree in Audio Engineering from SAE Institute in 2012 and in 2011 he got the chance to take over part of the well known Coconut Studios (Weather Girls, Haddaway, Wolfgang Petry...) to start his own Recording Studio "High Tide Tonstudio" with one of his best friends. 2013 the studio buildings got sold and High Tide opened up a brand new facility in the old rooms of "Rüssmann Studio" which are known for the work with Brings, BAP, Höhner, Banaroo, Böhse Onkelz... The new High Tide Studio was planned by professional Acoustic Engineers (MB Akustik) but was entirely built by Lennart Damann, Jeff Kater and Dominik Hartmann (The High Tide Team at that time) themselves. Since then many national and international bands and stars made their way to High Tide. Including David Guetta, Ryan Leslie, Höhner, Mike Singer, Extrabreit. Some companies High Tide worked for are Samsung, LG, Galaxy Instruments, Fender, UEFA, Universal... High Tide and its partner Florian Richter installed a 3D Spatial SoundWave System by Fraunhofer IDMT and is a leading Studio for 3D Sound. www.hightide-studio.com | Der "staubige" Weg zum eigenen Tonstudio - vom Estrich gießen bis zum 3D Soundsystem - (german) Welcher angehender Tontechniker träumt denn nicht davon sein eigener Herr zu sein, sein eigenes Equipment auszusuchen und sich seine Räume so zu gestalten wie er will... kurzum, sein eigenes Studio zu haben. Ich möchte euch erzählen wie sich dieser Traum bei mir entwickelt hat und wie ich ihn verfolgt und verwirklicht habe. Bilder und Anekdoten aus all meinen Tonstudio Erfahrungen und des kompletten Baus des jetzigen High Tide Tonstudios sollen die Höhen und Tiefen aus Sicht eines Tonstudio Betreibers zeigen. Ich kenne jede Schraube und jeden Lötkontakt in meinem Studio mit Namen und kann euch sagen: "Ein eigenes Studio ist definitiv cool, aber es hat seinen Preis." Gerne stelle ich mich euren Fragen und versuche alle Gedanken aufzunehmen und mit euch zu besprechen. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Audio |
| Sebastian Robra Head Instructor Film at SAE Institute Hannover  | After finishing SAE Sebastian Robra worked as cutter and lighting technician, founded his own small company and finished further studies at Weimar. Ambitious projectes grew from the idea, that nothing is impossible. www.sae.edu | Basis für mehr (german) Sebastian Robra erzählt wie das Studium am SAE Institute Hamburg den Grundstein legte für mehrere große und kleine Projekte. Er zeigt praktische Beispiele von dem Spielfilm "Parasozial" bis zu dem 360°-Film "Bollos". Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Film & TV |
| Philipp Dominski Founder, Head of Sales at SEOPORT, KEODA  | Philipp has had more than 15 jobs in the past 10 years. He bottled gin in a distillery, worked as a musician, operated his own 18m partybus and somehow ended up as an online marketing expert. On the road he founded three companies, sold one of them and still operates the others. SEOPORT is an online marketing company that helps its clients to be the best result for potential customers. KEODA is a manufacturer of premium vocal booths and studio furniture. www.seoport.de www.keoda.de | Living the dream: How to make a living from your passion with basic online marketing knowledge Whether you want to make music, art, film or games for a living: You always want a roof over your head and a warm meal a day. But there is so much competition and the wages are way too low, so better go back to your 9 to 5 job and let dreams be dreams. But wait a second! There are loopholes. Maybe you can up your game or you are not searching for the right solutions. With just some basic webdesign and online marketing skills you can easily outrun your competition. If you add some entrepreneurial spirit and find your niche, there is nothing that can stop you from making a living from your passion. In this talk I will discuss basics in webdesign and online marketing (no expert knowledge needed), but also get into the business side of life. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Web, Business / General Topic |
| Lasse Järvi Writer/Editor at Recess Media  | Lasse Järvi is a Emmy-nominated filmmaker known for his writing and editing on HBO’s award-winning limited series The Defiant Ones, as well as the feature documentaries Surfwise, Transfatty Lives and Infamy. He is a graduate of Colorado College, where he studied under documentarian Doug Pray, who instilled in him a deep appreciation and understanding of film editing as writing. His native roots in Finland, combined with an upbringing in the United States, has provided him the perspective of a natural observer which exemplifies his work. When not in the studio in the US, Lasse can be spotted eating a sandwich at Kippo, a vegan cafe he co-founded with his family in Helsinki in 2009. m.imdb.com/name/nm1943023/ | How To Cut A Doc Without Butchering The Truth A discussion on the emergence of documentaries as mainstream entertainment, and the role of a Writer and Editor in non-fiction storytelling. Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Film & TV, Cross Media |
| Sven Brencher External Consultant for Adobe  | Sven is a Creative Cloud Certified Instructor and a Premiere Pro Master trainer from northern Germany. He works as a consultant for Adobe and he produces corporate videoclips with a high focus on 2D and 3D animations. More information can be found at www.svenbrencher.de | Story Telling with Adobe Creative Cloud Tools and Services Adobe Creative Cloud is the most complete set of Tools and Services for digital content creation. During this talk Sven Brencher will give you an overview of modern media creation workflows with smart Mobile Apps, intelligent Desktop Tools and creative Services. Discover new features that benefit from artificial intelligence powered by Adobe Sensei technology. These workflows will help you create better results and get more done in less time. We will cover a wide range of Creative Cloud tools from Story Telling with Adobe Spark, UI Design with Adobe XD and Video production with Premiere Pro. Be inspired with new capabilities in Photoshop and Illustrator and add powerful services like Typekit or Adobe Stock to your workflow. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Film & TV, Cross Media, Web, Animation |
| Shamila Lengsfeld Film Director | Film Producer  | Shamila Lengsfeld graduated from SAE Institute Cologne in 2016 with a Bachelor of Digital Filmmaking. She is a director and film producer and works in the fields of camera and VFX . Her Shortfilm 'Blake' (2017) won the LOS ANGELES FILM AWARD in the Category Best Indie, the EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHY Award for Best VFX and the GERMAN NEWCOMER FILM AWARD (Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis). www.shamilalengsfeld.com | Independent Filmmaking - Von der Filmidee bis zur Filmförderung (german) Shamila Lengsfeld erzählt über ihren Werdegang nach ihrem Filmstudium an dem SAE Institute Köln. Schwerpunkt wird das Low Budget Filmemachen anhand des Kurzfilmbeispiels "Blake" sein. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Film & TV |
| Niklas Berend Head Instructor at SAE Institute GmbH  | Engineer for technical computer science (Dipl. Ing. Technische Informatik) Many years of experience as lecturer in the following fields: - games programming - graphics and shader programming - web programming www.sae.edu | Modern web development - It is time to React! A practical approach to Facebooks awesome JavaScript library for building modern web applications. Type: Hands-On-Workshop Hitch: Advanced Vue or React - What to choose in 2018? (with Marten Stockenberg) A comparison and decision aid for web devolopers and those who are about to be. Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Web |
| Liz Mercuri Technical Evangelist at Unity Technologies  Alice Hinton-Jones Technical Evangelist at Unity Technologies  | Liz is a Technical Evangelist at Unity Technologies. Regularly engaging with the game development community, Liz has the fortunate opportunity to encourage and empower the next generation of game development talent. Whether she is mentoring at student game jams, delivering talks on the latest Unity features or getting involved in local initiatives to promote computer games as a viable career option, she realises the importance of empowering developers, instilling confidence and promoting diversity in the game development community. Alice is a Technical Evangelist at Unity who is passionate about programming and art alike, and she makes it her mission to emphasise both wherever possible. Having joined Unity, she is set on demonstrating how it can be used for creating engaging real-time experiences, such as the gameplay-rich, story-driven games she is excited about. unity3d.com | Creating 2D Worlds & Characters with Unity This talk will give an overview of the Unity 2D toolset. This includes, bringing your characters to life using a 2D character controller and 2D rigging and animation, setting up 2D cameras with Cinemachine and building rich interactive 2D worlds using Tilemaps. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Games |
| Luca Lange Graphic Designer / Lecturer / Coach at Lange Design  | Hi, my name is Luca, I don't live on the second floor but I believe in better education for today's generation. I work as a freelance multi-disciplinary graphic designer, specialized in branding, brand identity and strategy. I gained experience by working with 20th Century Fox, Studio Canal, start-ups and small to medium sized businesses. My passion however is to teach and to learn by teaching. I strive to my best ability, to give others value from what I know and by doing so I often teach myself. Before I decided to teach I went took various paths from being a military officer to working in a press agency, trying to ultimately find the profession suiting me. One thing stood out to me along the way of being taught in German and US American secondary schools, the military or even tertiary schools. Curriculums that are not designed to fit today's student generation. Within the frame of my Bachelor Thesis I started to researched students needs and teachers perspectives to find the perfect match and to sum it up in a didactically profound system. To this day and for however long I am going to teach others, I will keep tweaking and adding details from everyday experiences to ensure an up-to-date satisfying system. lucalange.design | The Future of Education – Building a Curriculum for the Digital Native Blended Learning, Hands On and Building Relationships How do we, as teachers, coaches, tutors or lecturers assure highly focused and motivated students? How do the students activate long-term memory? What does the curriculum need to look like for digital natives? And what makes a great teacher? A lot of questions, a lot of opinions. Teaching and especially the right way of teaching can be a very touchy subject. In my talk I will give you answers from my point of view and show you what I found to be an effective, student-centered method of teaching classes in a media-centered institution. In long-term research, interviews with international teachers and professionals and practical tests I worked on finding the best way to meet every parties needs in terms of teaching, curriculum and classroom structure. I am going to talk about Blended Learning, building sustainable relationships between teacher and students, practical classroom units, student-centered curriculum choices, didactic fundamentals, the importance of video units and how to design a curriculum for your own teaching scenarios. The talk is targeted at teachers, tutors, coaches, lecturers, supervisors and everyone who is eager to change education to the better. Students are also more than welcome to join us and share their perspective, as well as opinion towards the presented method. For Beginners, Advanced and Experts. Together we want to discuss the future classroom and even the future university that is designed to serve the students. Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Audio, Games, Music Business, Film & TV, Cross Media, Web, Animation, Business / General Topic |
| Hendrik Schwarzer Managing Director at Schwarzer & Mantik GmbH | Orchestraltools  Photo by Robin Lamprecht Tom Rußbüldt Managing Director at SCORING BERLIN GmbH  | Composer Hendrik Schwarzer was born in Freiburg/Breisgau in 1987. At the age of 16, Schwarzer composed his orchestral work in multiple movements “Expression of Pictures”, which premiered at the Konzerthaus Freiburg with the “Junge Kammerphilharmonie Freiburg”. Additional works followed, like the 90 minute orchestral work “Europe in Concert” and the piano suite “Homage to Friedensreich Hundertwasser”, which were performed among others in Munich, Zurich and The Hague. Since 2011, Hendrik Schwarzer has been composing numerous soundtracks for Europa-Park. Among these are the official park theme, the score for the Wodan attraction, the 40th Anniversary Parade, the EP Express and the musical “Spook me!”, all of them recorded with orchestras in Minsk and, since 2013 exclusively at the Teldex Scoring Stage in Berlin. 2015 saw the soundtrack to the animation short “The Time Carousel” and 2016 to “Happy Family 4D”. 2017 he wrote the film score to the international animation movie “A Monster Family” (Warner Bros.). With his company, Hendrik Schwarzer develops software and virtual instruments specifically modeled after his style of composing. Some of these are distributed through the label “Orchestral Tools” internationally. Numerous Orchestral Tools instruments have nowadays become an industry standard in Hollywood and are used by renowned composers worldwide. www.orchestraltools.com Prior to founding SCORING BERLIN GmbH, managing director Tom Russbueldt worked as an engineer at the Teldex Studio Scoring Stage since 2008. He is widely known for film music productions. Credits: THE REVENENT (2015) - Recording Engineer Ryuichi Sakamito, Carsten Nicolai, Graeme Revell A JOHN WILLIAMS CELEBRATION (2015) - Music Mixer John Williams RENEGADES (2017) - Recording Engineer Eric Serra HAPPY FAMILY (2017) - Recording Engineer, Music Mixer & Music Editor Hendrik Schwarzer Crooked House (2017) - Soundtrack Music Mixer Hugo de Chaire Detroit: Become Human (Video Game) - Recording www.scoringberlin.com | From MIDI to Live From MIDI to Live will be the topic of Tom Rußbüldt's and Hendrik Schwarzer's "Reality Check/Tools"-Workshop: a helpful lesson for stunning and time-efficient mockup programming vs. the real orchestral recording and its mixing. Get real-life examples of music that starts virtual in a box and goes on to the scoring stage with its final polish. This workshop is fully packed with many tips and tricks from the founders of Orchestral Tools and Scoring Berlin GmbH Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Audio, Games, Film & TV |
| Georg Tiefenbach Academic Coordinator MPP / Studiengangsleitung Master of Professional Practice at SAE Institute  Dominik Kammerer Head Instructor Audio at SAE Institute Stuttgart  Michael Riegert Planungsingenieur für Ton- und Medientechnik at theater projekte daberto und kollegen  Robert Meisel Master Student at SAE Institute Köln  Vadim Schlee Head of Department Game Art at SAE Institute Hannover  | Georg Tiefenbach is the academic coordinator and programme leader of the Master of Professional Practice in Cologne. His feature films for cinema and television are screened and awarded at many festivals like Berlin, Cannes, Busan and Venice. He’s producing and publishing film music with his own label TFM world-wide. Georg’s scientific book „Drama und Regie“ („Writing and Directing“) has become core literature in research and teaching. Dominik U. Kammerer is a passionate listener and producer of beats and vocal content and very intrigued by the hip hop culture. While being head of audio department at SAE Institute Stuttgart, he is currently participating in the Master's programme at campus Cologne surveying asthetics and perception of lo-fi artifacts and its implementation in modern arts and culture, thus participating in the panel discussion. Michael Riegert, a master student at the SAE Cologne, started his professional career as a systems-designer in 2016 after graduating with his Bachelor Degree in Audio Engineering from the SAE Institute in Munich. Though, I don’t create records, movies or content for different media formats, I feel deeply connected to the creative industry. Working in a professional environment that requires a lot of different skillsets, I am in a unique position of designing various kinds of high performing audio, video and multimedia systems. Those systems combined form the technical basis for art and performance to function, in big theatre or concert hall environments - because ideas should not be limited by technology. As an enthusiast for the highly discussed Immersive Audio my masters work focuses on the transport of emotions, in context by the gained experience of understanding and utilizing 3D Sound within and across the media industry. After finishing my Game Art studies at SAE Köln in 2017 I started my Master of Science Professional Practice at SAE Köln instant. Now, almost four years after starting my studies, I have a broad knowledge in the field of Virtual Reality and its technical implementation. In my continuing studies, I explore the limited freedom of movement by using Virtual Reality applications and the possibilities to make this restriction obsolete. sae.edu | Premium studieren für die Branche – Das Master-Studium an der SAE (Panel, german) In diesem moderierten Panel diskutieren der Studiengangsleiter Georg Tiefenbach und die Studenten vom Campus Köln Dominik Kammerer, Robert Meisel, Michael Riegert und Vadim Schlee vor und mit Publikum über Sinn und Zweck, Inhalte und Abläufe, Herausforderungen und Aussichten des Master-Studium. Type: Panel Hitch: Beginners | Audio, Games, Music Business, Film & TV, Cross Media, Web, Animation, Business / General Topic |
| Sylvie Kürsten Independent Filmmaker  | Culture journalist - Writer - Documentary filmmaker Sylvie Kürsten, born 1979 nearby Berlin, has studied Applied Cultural Sciences in Lüneburg. Since 2008, after the termination of her editorial traineeship at the Northern Public Broadcasting Station, she is working as free-lens journalist for cultural TV magazines like ARD ttt, ZDF aspekte, 3sat kulturzeit and NDR kulturjournal. Since 2011 she is also working as director for documentaries. For her film "The venus gone astray" within the 3sat-series "Art and crime" Sylvie Kürsten and her team was honored with the Grimme Preis der Marler Gruppe 2016, one of the most prestigious awards for German Television. Besides Sylvie Kürsten is moderating various events or is concepting own projects like the jazz-excursion "The Kennedy-Story" for the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker. Filmography 2018 „Wahnsinnswerke. Nora“, 3sat/Nordendfilm (13.10.18) 2017/ 2018 „The Art of Museums“, 2 of 8 issues: Munch Museum Oslo, Uffizien Florenz, arte/ORF/ Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion (November 2018) 2016 „Künstlerduelle: Michelangelo&Leonardo“ ARTE/3B-produktion 2015 „Flüchtlinge willkommen oder unerwünscht“ ZDF / emp 2014 / 2015 „Kunst und Verbrechen. Venus auf Abwegen“, 3sat/3B-Produktion 2011 „Als der Seemann noch nach Hause funkte“, NDR www.freistilberlin.de/sylvie-kuersten/ | More than a read threat - Deep structure in cultural documentary films The documentary film is usually regarded as a vehicle for conveying reality. But how can we mediate this reality without remaining merely factual? As a cultural journalist and documentary filmmaker, I have been working for more than ten years with the conviction that meaning can and must be conveyed in a sensual way. Sense and sensuality are not just linguistically related to each other. These dimensions can also be closely linked in film, for example through the so-called cinematic depth structure. Using the example of an episode of an eight-part documentary film series on international art museums that will soon be broadcast on public television, I would like to show how a story can be narrated subcutaneously on several filmic levels. How cognitive understanding is made possible through emotional understanding. How even documentary scenes can be provoked, how content can be emotionally deepened and expanded on a subcutaneous level through moods, music, verbal or visual wit. Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Film & TV, Cross Media |
| Christoph Rumpel Web Developer  | After trying my luck in the rock music industry for ten years, I decided it was time for a change of scenery. So I started studying Media Technology and discovered my passion for web development. Following this new found passion, I started to work as a backend developer at a Viennese Agency. For the last five years, I worked there with my favorite tools: PHP and Laravel. Since 2016, I am using these tools to build chatbots for messengers and custom website integrations. Since 2018 I am working on my own and I’m currently writing an Ebook about chatbots for PHP developers. I also share my experiences and current projects at Meetups and conferences. I love coding, teaching, surfing, and my Nintendo Switch. christoph-rumpel.com | The PHP Developer Stack for Building Chatbots Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat, Skype, and Telegram have more than three billion active users combined! This led messenger platforms to open their doors for application development on their chats and started the rise of these applications. We all know them today as chatbots. Chatbots are much more than a hype. They change the way we communicate with companies and are bringing customer support and personalization to a new level. But what does the technology behind look like? In this talk, I will show you all the tools it takes to build a chatbot in PHP. You will see what it’s like developing and testing chatbots for multiple platforms and how NLP (Natural Language Processing) services can help you to understand the user. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Web |
| Sam Battle Musician / Inventor at LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER  | LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER is musician / inventor Sam Battle. Rarely does a talent to show exactly what's in their heads to audience, Battle is a unique builder and performer who is able to make his dreams happen by building them. Sam has amassed millions of views on his youtube channel and appeared on TV shows across the world. His self built Furby organ and synth bike have been especially popular. www.lookmumnocomputer.com | “Don’t be scared to try it” This is a presentation about giving things a go and breaking more things than you make work to get to a point where you can starting making more things work than you break!!! Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Audio, Cross Media |
| Julian Meybohm CEO at Lyrebird Game + Audio GmbH  Christian Raters CEO at Lyrebird Game + Audio GmbH  | Christian Raters and Julian Meybohm are two, which have made it: As founders of Lyrebird Game + Audio they operate one of only a few studios that have specialized in game soundtracks. Their work does not only involve contract work - they are also developing games by themselves. At the moment they are working on a mobile game, which contains audio as part of the game. lyrebird-studio.com | Firmengründung nach dem Studium - wie geht das? (german) "Ich habe am SAE Institute studiert und würde nun gerne meine eigene Firma gründen, aber wie eigentlich?" Stellt ihr euch ebenfalls diese Frage oder steht bereits mitten im Prozess? Genau so ging es den beiden Audio Engineers Christian Raters und Julian Meybohm, als sie sich am Campus des SAE Institute Berlin kennen lernten. Welche Stolpersteine einem bei einer Firmengründung in den Weg gelegt werden können, wie man ohne vorangegangenen Auftrag bei Null anfängt, ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal kreiert und vom klassischen Dienstleister den Quereinstieg zum selbstbestimmten Spieleentwickler schafft, erzählen Euch die beiden Gründer der Lyrebird Game & Audio GmbH auf der Alumni Stage. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Audio, Games, Business / General Topic |
| Pierre Degardin Manager at SAE Institute Cologne  | Hi, I'm Pierre Degardin, Manager at SAE Institute Cologne. In this position, I have the unique opportunity to gather a lot of information on trends and tech from all media departments. Connecting the dots, I moved from beeing an audio gear nerd to being a digital technology enthusiast. www.sae.edu/ | Virtual Reality - Jetzt! In diesem Impulsvortrag werden die digitalen Technologien wie 3D Audio, 360° Video sowie AR-,MR- und VR Techniken beleuchtet. Wir beobachten wie sich unsere Gesellschaft mit diesen digitalen Trends massiv verändern wird und welche Anforderungen zukünftig auf Medienschaffende warten. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Audio, Games, Music Business, Film & TV, Cross Media, Web, Animation, Business / General Topic |
| Lukas Krebs Co-Founder at LeadFollow Games  Jannik Müller CEO at LeadFollow Games  | Lukas recently finished his bachelor‘s degree in games programming. Since the age of 7 he has built a firm understanding of programming in general and is continuously expanding his already deep knowledge about the Unity engine. Although being very technical, he also has an eye for aesthetics and polish. Jannik picked up programming as a hobby at the age of 13 and finished his first game 2 years later. He is currently working as a head-lecturer at the SAE Institute Frankfurt. The Unity engine is the tool of his choice since he started working with it 4 years ago. www.leadfollowgames.com | Das eigene Spiel in Freizeit – Wie man durchhält und fertig wird (german) Wer schon mal ein eigenes Spiel in Angriff genommen hat, der weiß, dass diese Projekte oft sehr schnell von anderen Ideen verdrängt werden und liegen bleiben können. In diesem Talk soll es darum gehen, wie man bei einem Langzeitprojekt am Ball bleibt, die Motivation aufrechterhält, sich organisiert und Entwicklung und Marketing unter einen Hut bringt. Und das alles in der Freizeit. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Games, Business / General Topic |
| Will Kent EMEA Pro Solutions Specialist at Focusrite | I've been working for Focusrite for 7 years, initially as a Senior Technical Support Engineer, dealing with enquiries relating to our Red, RedNet and ISA range products. I know work as the Pro Solutions Specialist for Focusrite Pro, in which I primarily deal with anything technical related to the sales process. I cover all of Europe, Middle East and Africa, visiting our distributors, as well as resellers and end users, which could be anyone based within Post Production, Live Sound, House of Worship, Install and Education. pro.focusrite.com | Audio-Over-IP - The future of Audio? A comparison of the different Audio-over-IP technologies that currently exist and how AoIP can improve and modernise traditional workflows, as well as discussing how things could look in the future. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Audio, Business / General Topic |
| Lasse Nipkow CEO at Silent Work GmbH  Tom Ammermann General Manager at New Audio Technology  | Lasse Nipkow (Dipl. El. Ing. HTL) is regularly holding lectures and giving workshops on multi-channel recordings since 2008 at international conferences like AES, Tonmeistertagung and ICSA. Since 2010 he has improved his empirical research in the field of applied psychoacoustics for 3D audio (Auro 3D / Dolby Atmos) and realized many Auro 3D recordings in classical music as well as created sound design for animation movies and Dance Music. He publishes his know-how about 3D audio to support the sound engineers in their work. www.silentwork.com Grammy-nominated music producer, Tom Ammermann, began his journey as a musician and music producer in the 1980s. At the turn of the 21st Century, Tom produced unique surround audio productions for music and film projects as well as pioneering the very first surround mixes for headphones, which quickly established his brand Headphone Surround 3D and reputation as an immersive audio producer. Currently, Tom is working on developing new technologies in spatial audio whilst offering workshops and presentations at high-profile international audio conferences. Some References: Terminator 2, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Expendables I-III, 5th Element and Kraftwerk 3D. www.newaudiotechnology.com | Modern Music Production for immersive / 3D formats More and more music productions in 3D / immersive audio are realized native. In contrast to upmix strategies, thereby the potential of 3D / immersive audio can be fully achieved musically, and it can be used to create new forms of creativity. However, it is not trivial to deal with the large number of audio channels and with new binaural headphone virtualizations meaningfully. Lasse and Tom are making 3D / immersive audio productions, recordings and presentations since more than a decade on various conventions all over the world. During this new session they will combine their knowledge and experience in 3D / immersive audio to explore main aspects of spatial audio psychoacoustics, production & missing strategies and tools in this comprehensive lecture. The audience will hear samples from new electro artists to famous dance artists like Booka Shade and Grammy awarded Kraftwerk tracks. Type: Hands-On-Workshop Hitch: Advanced | Audio |
| Tobias Neumann Producer, Sound Engineer & DJ at Apollo Studio  | Tobias is studio-owner and has 25 years of experience in music writing, producing and mixing. He is also a well-known international DJ for House & Techno since 20 years. www.apollostudio-berlin.com | Analog in a digital world – producing electronic music In this session Tobias will give insights in the realization of an electronic music production at Apollo Studio. He will explain his approach and workflow, why which outboard equipment was used and how the entire equipment collaborated. Tobias will also discuss the cooperation with musicians, labels and producers and how own visions of sound aesthetics interact with ideas the customer comes up with. At the end there will be space for Q&A. Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Audio, Music Business |
| Roman Lüth Producer  Daniel Hoeft Artist / Label Owner at Gamper & Dadoni / RedGreenYellow  Flo Bauer Music Producer at Chefboss  | Multi-award winning SAE Alumni Roman Lüth (33) has been working as producer and audio engineer since 2009. His credits include artists like Helene Fischer, Giorgio Moroder, Ben Zucker, Michelle and Kerstin Ott. He is also winner of the SAE Alumni Award 2017 for Best Music Production. romanlueth.de/ Hi, my name is Daniel Hoeft and i am one half of the german producer duo "Gamper & Dadoni" and label owner of "RedGreenYellow". As an independent artist, we gained over 200 million streams on Spotify, Soundcloud & Youtube. We toured the world and gained support by well known artists such as Kygo, Robin Schulz, Lost Frequencies, Felix Jaehn and many more. We released music with and for artists like The Aston Shuffle, Milow, Felix Jaehn, A R I Z O N A, Parov Stelar, Mark Wilkinson, Forest Blakk, Claptone, Laura Veirs, Paul Cook & The Chronicles, The Same, Anson Seabra, Daniel Ahearn and many more. Since day one we manage and self-promote our music and built quiet a big network connecting people all over the world. As a studied audio engineer i have a big passion for mixing but i also love to be creative, discover new music and enjoy communicating with all the different people in the related fields of the business. www.gamperdadoni.com Flo Bauer, Hamburg based Music & Video Producer of Chefboss and many big hits for Children. His Group Chefboss is well known for playing all the big Music Festivals in Germany like Rock am Ring or SonneMondSterne but also traveling around the World playing from Sziget Festival (Hungary) to Festivals in Uganda, Namibia and Canada. "Der Körperteil Blues" written and produced by Flo Bauer is one of the biggest German Hits for Children in the last 10 years (over 24 Million Views on YouTube). For both projects Flo produces the Music and the Videos and is also responsible for Social Media Strategy and the live production. instagram.com/flobauerhhcity | Überleben im Musikbusiness 2019 - Das Music Producer Panel (german) In diesem moderierten Panel diskutieren wir mit SAE Absolventen Flo Bauer, Roman Lüth und Daniel Hoeft Strategien, um im Musikbusiness bestehen zu können. Dabei beleuchten wir aktuelle Entwicklungen, die Produzenten, Audio Engineers und Labelbetreiber betreffen, gehen auf Dos & Donts ein und auf die Frage, was man mitbringen muss, um nachhaltig erfolgreich zu sein. Type: Panel Hitch: Experts | Audio, Music Business |
| Brian Dilg CRYENGINE Learning Manager at Crytek GmbH  | Brian Dilg was programming and building his own computers by the time he was ten years old, a decade before personal computers first appeared. He brings 30 years of teaching and curriculum development experience to his position as CRYENGINE Learning Manager, where his mission is to empower both game developers directly through courses and tutorials, and by helping users who also enjoy teaching what they know to the CRYENGINE community. www.cryengine.com | Building Your First Game with CRYENGINE V See for yourself how quickly and easily you can get a fully functional game up and running without writing a line of code using the same tools that produced games like the CRYSIS series, Hunt: Showdown, Ryse: Son of Rome, and the VR games The Climb and Robinson. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Games |
| Blake Jones DaVinci Instructor / Technical Sales Manager at VISION2see GmbH  | Over 25 years of experience as a technical director, colorist and film restoration specialist. Responsible for setting up grading and editing suites and for equipment acquisitions. Additionally I have extensive experience in writing books, white papers and instruction manuals. I am also highly experienced in conducting and setting up training courses and performing equipment installations. Specialties: post production management, color correction, non-linear editing, writing, training, consulting, public relations, editorial, sound, colorspace technology, image projection, digital image restoration www.vision2see.de | How to get started with Resolve / New on Resolve 15 The session will be addressed to everyone who is interested in color grading. You don´t need to have much experience with DaVinci Resolve. I will start with a quick tour that you get a feeling for the workflow. When you are a little familiar with the software I will show you all the new features coming with the big update on Resolve 15. This concerns Edit Page, Color Page, Fusion, Fairlight Audio and Deliver Page. I'm looking forward to see you guys! Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Film & TV |
| Enrico Schmidt CEO, Designer and Coder at play.HEART games  | I’m Enrico Schmidt, the founder, designer and coder of play.HEART games – an aspiring Leipzig-based indie studio that recently released its first title pixelBOT EXTREME! – the EXTREME! multitasking run and gun with a colorful twist. Besides play.HEART games I’m freelancing in the name of play.HEART Game Design & Development in all areas of Game and Level Design for various companies and genres, building on six years of work experience as a Game and Level Designer – including Lead Game and Level Design of Wooga’s Jelly Splash for over three years. www.playheart.rocks | How to finish, release and survive your first game pixelBOT EXTREME! began in early 2014 and took around four years of (part-time) development to finally see the light of the day. My talk will handle two topics: How to manage finishing and releasing your first own indie game without any budget and only one and a half people AND How to make most out of limited content through level design. Together we will go through our key learnings and Do’s and Don’ts on how to survive and achieve the realization of your dream project. Additionally we’ll dive a bit deeper into Level Design, investigating various design approaches and techniques to achieve a fun, innovative and unique user experience. Following that we’ll also examine what “Content is king” can really mean for your content-light project. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Games |
| Fabian Russ Composer and Creative Director at www.fabianruss.de  | Fabian Russ works as a composer, sounddesigner and “orchestronics” practitioner at the interface between classical and electronic music. His focus is on classical-electronic hybrids combined with spatial audio during the live shows. www.fabianruss.de | Orchestronik - Electrifying the Classics with Circular Sound I am going to talk about the very beginning of an Orchestronik-project until the moment of realization. This will include the financial aspect as well as the artistic point of view and work. I will also present the Orchestronik-workflow. Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Audio, Music Business, Cross Media |
| Thorsten Schmiedel Gameplay Programmer at Ubisoft Blue Byte  | I am Gameplay Programmer at Ubisoft Blue Byte for Anno 1800. In 2015 I graduated from SAE Institute Cologne as Bachelor of Game Programming. During the studies I helped to found the indie studio (and game) "Looterkings" as a Head of Programming, which was awarded the SAE Alumni Award for Best Game Production in 2016. After 4 years of professional experience in the games industry I was able to see the best (and worse) of the two worlds of indie and AAA development. I love to share this experience with students and aspiring game developers to help them get in the industry and decide whether AAA or indie is the suitable solution to them. www.bluebyte.com | Indie vs. AAA Dieser moderierte Vortrag wird die Unterschiede zwischen Indie und AAA Game Development beleuchten. Es wird diskutiert, welche Kenntnisse aus beiden Bereichen gewonnen werden können, um Studenten auf ihrem Weg in die Gameindustrie zu unterstützen. Es werden Schwierigkeiten, Hindernisse und Chancen präsentiert, um einen Einblick dafür zu bekommen, wie es ist Teil eines Indie- oder AAA-Teams zu sein - und was das insbesondere für Programmierer bedeutet. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Games, Business / General Topic |
| Michael Schade Co-Founder & CEO at ROCKFISH Games GmbH  | In 2014, Michael Schade and his long-term business partner Christian Lohr founded ROCKFISH Games, an independent gaming studio based in Hamburg, Germany, specializing in creating high-quality original PC and console games in Unreal Engine 4. Together with their former team behind the critically acclaimed Galaxy on Fire mobile games series on board, they had a wildly successful Kickstarter for EVERSPACE in 2015. Thanks to the winning formula of combining AAA-style visuals with roguelike elements and innovative storytelling, the fast-paced 3D space shooter became a surprise hit on Steam, Xbox and PS4. http://rockfishgames.com | Effective Social Media and Influencer Marketing on a Budget Thanks to digital distribution, social media and streaming platforms, the art of video games marketing has changed significantly over the last few years. New players keep entering the scene, which makes it even harder to pick the right marketing channels for small to mid-sized indie developers and even big publishers. In this hands-on talk, Michael Schade, CEO of ROCKFISH Games, will share his best marketing stunts on Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, and imgur, which helped to make EVERSPACE, the studio’s debut title, an indie surprise hit on Steam, Xbox and PS4 with over 600,000 copies sold and still selling strongly. Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Games |
| Tsahi Liberman Headmaster & Head of Studio at Tiltan School of Game Design & Development  | Tsahi is a veteran game developer, designer and narrative writer involved in the gaming industry for over 15 years, creating educational games for children for the grandest global companies in the world, such as Disney, Nickelodeon, BBC, PBS kids, Cartoon Network, Sesame Street, Tabtale, Compedia, and many more. Tsahi was also until recently, a part of GameIS’ core team, the Israeli game developers association, managing the content for conferences and the international relations between Israel and other international gaming industries, for the last 11 years. He is also involved in creating interactive activities and games for diversity, whether it is the representation of women in games, peace through gaming, or educational games for Syrian refugee, where he won several prestigious prizes, the latest is the UN prize for innovation for his involvement with “Games for Peace” project. Additionally, Tsahi is the Headmaster of the 3-year Game Design and Development program in Tiltan College, Haifa, and head of Studio “Funnel Entertainment” developing a full scale game for PC and Consoles, called “Grime”, an action RPG dark unforgiving world, drawing inspiration from Sumerian mythologies and games such as Dark souls, Salt & Sanctuary, and Hollow Knight. http://tiltan.co.il/en | Peace is just a F2P Game - Using Games to Teach Peace and Tolerance Peace, the final frontier. For many, it’s a notion they haven’t known before. What if we could change our children’s lives through education using digital games, and teach them, from an early childhood, about peace and tolerance towards each other? In my talk, we will dream in pixels a colorful journey through various conflict zones and their "peace-telling" games, searching a formula for a better world. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Games |
| Charlie Bauerfeind Producer at Sound-Consulting & Services  | - Karl Rudolf Bauerfeind, born 05/30/1963 in Erlangen, West Germany - 1969-1980 classical piano-lessons with private teachers - 1973-1980 drum-lessons with private teachers - 1980-1986 working as a drummer in various bands - 1981-1986 engineered various record- and pre-productions and demos for local bands - From January 1987 to March 1989, studying Music, Production & Engineering at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA - From September 1988 to March 1989 assistant engineer at "Downtown Recorders Boston" - From Summer 1988 to March 1989 worked as a free-lance engineer for demo- and recordproductions in studios in Boston and New York - Since June 1989 working as a producer/engineer - Credits: Blind Guardian, Helloween, ARP, Saxon, Rage, Hammerfall, Motörhead etc. http://www.sc-services.de | Controlled Mayhem! .....or a shovel full of dirt !! I will present you concepts and techniques to create great performances in Hard Rock and Metal productions and ways to control the Mayhem that goes along with this approach. To fix and adjust these performances I will show you the usage of Izotope RX software. Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Audio |
| Sven Bliedung CEO at Volucap GmbH  | Sven is a CG industry veteran and Director of the volumetric Studio - Volucap. He founded a high-profile visual effects company called VFXbox. Later he founded a company with focus on immersive media called SLICE production Studios. He is also the founder of the Virtual Reality Association Berlin Brandenburg (VRBB e.V.) and today he is also CEO of Volucap, the first commercial volumetric capture studio in mainland Europe. His credits include various projects such as "The Raven", "Marvel's The Avengers" and "Cloud Atlas". http://www.volucap.de | Volumetric capture of animated Humans Volucap shows the latest research in volumetric capture technology, with a look at the challenge of creating photorealistic human characters. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Games, Film & TV, Cross Media, Animation |
| Jamshed Djurabaev Senior Concept Artist at Lucasfilm  | My name is Jama Jurabaev. I work as a senior concept artist in the film industry. http://www.jamajurabaev.com | VR for artists In this lecture i will show attendants how to use VR tools in movie production as an artist. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Film & TV |
| Nico Nowarra CBDO at Experimental Game GmbH  | Nico Nowarra worked as a journalist and author for over ten years. He has written and co-developed numerous audio dramas and video games. He is also a book author and has published over a thousand journalistic articles. As a lecturer he has taught storytelling, journalism and moderating at various universities. He is now the Chief Business Developer at Experimental Game. http://gamebook.io | The Future Of Digital Storytelling - Tools, Pipelines And Concepts Games like Lifeline, City of Love or The Wayne Investigation have a lot in common. They all are modern interpretation of a classic genre: The Text Adventure. They all are driven solely by their narrative and in the case of digital assistants the complete game design and experience depends just on the story itself. Creating an exciting game experiences for these platforms is especially challenging. Instead of using the full palette of graphics, text and audio to interact with the game, these formats limit themselves to only one dimension - either text or voice. The developer needs a better understanding of the interplay between user interface, user experience and game design to achieve the same degree of immersion. During the lecture I will talk about the challenges in designing a story driven game for Alexa & Co that delivers a narration that reacts to the player’s input in a satisfying way while keeping the story consistent. Also I will take a foray into how to monetize a story driven game with Free-to-Play mechanics: From the art of creating meaningful choices, the user is willing to pay for, to the creation of more content and a premium story experience. Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Games |
| Leonidas Chantzaras Senior A&R at Universal Music  | Leonidas Chantzaras started out as an artist in the 90‘s signing two record deals. After his artist career he became a producer and songwriter achieving 25 Gold and Platinum Records and signing 2 publishing deals. The next step in his career was establishing his own management and publishing company. In 2014 he then joined one of the biggest indie publishers in the world, Imagem as their Senior A&R. Free a year and a half he took over the senior international A&R position. After 4 years he switched to Universal Music Germany to take over the Senior A&R Position at Polydor/Island. https://www.universal-music.de | The realities of the music business In my session I will discuss the following issues: - What does it take to make it in todays Music Business? - How to use social media and how important is it? - DIY is the way to go - No goes in the music biz Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Music Business |
| Gary Marlowe CEO at garymarlowe.com  Gorka Oteiza Founder and Director at SoundTrackFest  | A musical storyteller, who became known for his unusual combinations of Electronica and Orchestra, the award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Gary Marlowe works primarily for films. Among his most recent recognitions is a Nomination for Best Music at the 6. German Documentary Film Music Awards 2018. Marlowe began playing piano at four, shared the stage with Iggy Pop and The Ramones with his band later, became a No.1 hit songwriter, and is a producer for several top acts. Following studies in Ethnomusicology in Berlin, he studied Composition for Film in Siena, Italy, with Oscar winners Luis Bacalov (“The Postman”) and Nicola Piovani (“Life is beautiful”), winning the Emma Contestabile Award in his final year. More awards include five nominations at the Jerry Goldsmith Awards, nominations at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards (2012), and the Max Ophüls Preis, for Best Film Music (2017). In addition to his work as film composer and producer, Gary Marlowe develops his own music installations, aural frames, in co-operation with visual artists (such as Richard Nonas and Gianni Moretti). International exhibitions include the Biennale di Venezia. In 2013, Gary Marlowe was chosen by the World Soundtrack Academy, to compose and perform a commissioned piece with The Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Ghent Film Festival (alongside Angelo Badalamenti, Mychael Danna, James Newton Howard, Clint Mansell, Dario Marianelli, Gustavo Santaolalla and Howard Shore). Marlowe is lecturing as a docent in various academies, such as the SAE School of Audio Engineering. He is a Berlinale Talent Alumnus, a member of the World Soundtrack Academy, and the European Film Academy. http://www.garymarlowe.com Founder and director of film music site SoundTrackFest, an independent source of information and a growing reference for film music festivals and concerts, Gorka Oteiza has always been interested in soundtracks. Born in Bilbao (Spain) and graduated with a Computer Engineering degree after 5 years at Deusto University, he took complementary musical studies and two years of piano, that made him shift his mind into film music world and journalism. Gorka has attended and covered many European film music festivals in the last 10 years (Fimucite, Ubeda Festival, Cordoba Festival, MOSMA, Hollywood in Vienna, Film Music Prague, Krakow Film Music Festival, SoundTrack_Cologne, World Soundtrack Awards…), collaborating with Spanish film music websites and festivals, writing articles, reviews, and keeping track of live events. During these years Gorka has interviewed many renowned composers such as Lalo Schiffrin, Alexandre Desplat, Danny Elfman, James Newton Howard, Bruce Broughton, Cliff Martinez, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Christopher Young, Trevor Jones, Marco Beltrami, Rachel Portman, Jeff Beal, Diego Navarro, Brian Tyler, Jeff Russo or Łukasz Targosz among many others, but he is still dreaming of an interview with his lifetime idol: John Williams. www.SoundTrackFest.com | The Future: Critics, Bloggers, Influencers ARE WE BUILDING THE FUTURE - or are we just making BUBBLES AGAIN? Award-winning composer Gary Marlowe discusses what it takes to write properly about music, especially about music for media. Topics such as COMPETENCE, ETHICS, STYLE and HYPE promise an entertaining, insightful panel with hands-on advice from two seasoned experts. Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Audio, Games, Music Business, Film & TV, Cross Media, Web, Business / General Topic |
| Timo Berg Senior Animator  | My name is Timo Berg, I am an Animator who worked for the last 8 years in different animation studios in europe on some of the highest grossing animation feature films. I am happy if i can share a little bit of my knowledge and experience with whoever is honestly interested in the art of animation. | Tips & Tricks how to survive as an animator in Europe Animation is not rocket science. But not everyone has the persistance or the guidance to become a feature film animator. I will give a few little tips and tricks and show some examples how I and everyone who is truely interested in the art of animation, and is willing to put in the effort and the time, can get their feet into the world of animation. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Animation |
| Michael Liebe CEO / Outreach Games Europe at Booster Space / Kickstarter  | Michael Liebe is CEO and founder of Booster Space, the company behind #gamesweekberlin, VR NOW Con & Awards, Game Cinema, Womenize! and many other events driving to connect business, technology and culture of games, VR and other media. Since 2016 the company started to also develop games and DUEL VR is the first outcome (early access). Michael is an advocate of crowdfunding and supports Kickstarter as Outreach Games in Europe since January ‘16. In the times before Booster Space he initiated the indie games and art festival, A MAZE., the Digital Games Research Centre of the University of Potsdam (DIGAREC) as well as the Computer Games Collection of European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam, the European Masters program, Ludic Interfaces and others. Until 2012 he was Advisor – New Media at the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and responsible for marketing and networking for the “New Media” industry in the German capital region where he also worked on establishing the games:net berlinbrandenburg. He holds an M.A. in European Media Studies, is advisor and jury member and works as university lecturer. http://www.booster-space.com | "Crowdfunding x Public Funding x Other Money Sources" - the smart funding mix. Projects have different phases of development which connect with different types of funding. It is all about the right time and the smart mix of funding sources. In this talk I will focus on the potential role of crowdfunding in a bigger scope of funding a creative media project. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Games, Music Business, Film & TV |
| Kai Bodensiek Lawyer at Brehm & v. Moers  | Kai is a partner of the media law firm Brehm & v. Moers. He is head of the Games and IT appartment of Brehm & v. Moers Berlin and advises companies from the games and general IT and media industrie since many years. His clients are publishers and developers from all over the world doing business in Germany as well many different kinds of service providers for the games industry. He was the in-house counsel of the GAME Bundesverband (German Games Business Association) until it merged in 2018 with the BIU (Federal Association for Entertainment Software) to become the game Verband. He is a regular speaker on Games and IT conferences and reads law as part of the master class of Universiät Potsdam / Filmuniversität Babelsberg and Erich Pommer Institut. http://www.bvm-law.de | Current Legal challenges for Games Businesses / Top 10 mistakes in development contracts The session shall either cover the current legal issues in fall 2018 or be a top 10 list for errors typically made when negotiating and drafting development agreements. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Games, Business / General Topic |
| Sebastian Fleer Producer Rainbow 6 at Ubisoft Blue Byte  | Sebastian Fleer is heading the Rainbow 6 team at Ubisoft Blue Byte as Producer. Before taking over this role, he was directing the company's F2P portfolio and was in charge of the Live section of the Uplay PC platform. Prior to his time at Ubisoft, Sebastian worked for Deepsilver, Bigpoint and Ascaron, gaining experience in the fields of production, live operation, publishing and even outsourcing. Since he joined the industry, he was responsible for a variety of titles in different business models and on platforms from browser to console. http://www.bluebyte.com | Pitching in the Games Industry - Do's and Don'ts to leave a memorable mark and get a Deal To get a deal for a funding or a publishing contract in the games industry is often a walk on the edge. Team sizes, financial resources and even a companies' future might rely on placing the right pitch and getting an agreement. During the stages of preparation, presentation and negotiation there are quite a few potential obstacles to overcome, which are not necessarily obvious. This talk is intended to provide some insight and best practices for the pitching process itself, but it even more takes care of the surrounding factors in detail. Expectation management, projected presence and priming for the unexpected are key elements of a successful pitch. And especially during the tension of the preparation phase, these are often underestimated and therefore prioritized lower in favor of content, which is only half the foundation to get a "go!" Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Games, Business / General Topic |
| Arne Ludwig New Business at headtrip immersive media GmbH  | Arne Ludwig is responsible for NEW BUSINESS at headtrip Immersive Media GmbH in Cologne / Germany. Headtrip is one of the leading producers of digital media in Germany. From the first concept to production and programming up to the finished product, headtrip acts as service provider and sparring partner for all the themes in virtual reality, 360-degree production and augmented reality. The team includes award-winning filmmakers and software developers all with many years of experience in TV, film and IT productions. Thus together headtrip offers workshops and designs and realizes digital media. headtrip exhibits in trade shows and in company events. Clients include Mercedes Benz, Arvato, ADAC, Samsung, Cornelsen, Deutsche Telekom, KVB, ProsiebenSat1 and Bundesliga among others. http://www.head-trip.de Arne is a VR evangelist and currently president of the First German Business Association For Immersive Media. http://www.edfvr.org The EDFVR has more than 100 active members and partnership with german VR companies, Universities and Institutions. Arne has a been working for more than 20 years as a producer, lecturer and consultant for the film and media industry. He is an alumni of Cologne Media Arts Academy and studied International Production postgraduate at International Filmschool in Cologne. http://www.filmportal.de/en/person/arne-ludwig_f303a3a8893cf2eee03053d50b375fcc Arne’s first produced feature STATUS YO! premiered in Forum at Berlinale in 2004. He has been producing and co-producing over a dozen feature films and documentaries worldwide. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1618413/ In 2015 he joined VR Agency and Production HEADTRIP as Chief Sales Officer and feels this position to be like a VR Evangelist. In his own words Arne is extending HEADTRIP’s vision VIRTUAL REALITY - WELL TOLD as follows: „Take it as a fact. A world without VR is unimaginable.“ He has taught Virtual Reality at University of Mainz and Film Production at International Filmschool in Cologne. Arne is a VR consultant for the EU, the Cologne Digital Hub as well as the Co-Production Market of Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale). www.headtrip.rocks | Digital Realities - Human Interactions The question is not whether digital realities are coming but how and how fast! Also, what is the human perspective of it? We will experience all kinds of state of the art XR, IOT, AI and other Digital Realities. Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Cross Media, Business / General Topic |
| Julian Kern Fullstack Developer at Thomann Code&Cookie Factory  | Julian Kern started his career as specialist for event technology, but quickly returned to his personal spare-time roots: The web. The the following six years, Julian worked in agencies implementing custom solutions for Michelin, Kärcher and Edeka. As Lead UI developer he also helped developing the Mercedes Benz used car search and online car configurator, both build responsive, interactive and with state of the art JavaScript. Recently he found a way to combine both passions, and started working for the biggest online retailer of music instruments and professional event equipment: Thomann. His experience ranges from developing complex CSS design systems, over modern JavaScript driven web applications, to continuous integration and deployment automation. Besides his full-time work, Julian works as a freelancer since 2013 for several customers, published blog articles and open source projects. He currently is most passionate about building hard- and software for the Internet of Things (IoT), and smart home automation. https://juliankern.com | Surviving Berlin winter with JavaScript - building a smart thermostat with Node.js and IoT hardware JavaScript is around for quite some time, for 23 years to be precise. It used to be the ugly duckling in the land of the beautiful code swans - until 2009, when the first Node.js version was released. Things have changed a lot since then, and thanks to Node.js JavaScript has changed as well - it made huge steps forward and isn't "web-only" anymore, but running even on computers that fit in your pocket. This talk will give you a roundup about current IoT hardware, the state of JavaScript and how to combine both. Basic JavaScript knowledge is not required but a plus. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Web |
| Sebastian Gsuck CEO, CVO & Managing Director at MediaApes GmbH  Nûjîn Kartal CINO, Immersive Audio Spezialist at MediaApes GmbH  | Sebastian Gsuck is a specialist in 360 concepts and audio content. As an audio engineer he worked in many different music studios and different areas which lead him to the head of a commercial agency. He is a co-founder of the MediaApes GmbH and is a co-publisher for BMG. He manages and produces different artists and works on 3D Audio concepts (Headphone 3D and Wave Field Syntheses). His dream is to make culture available to everyone and to bring state of the art experiences to people. He also believes that combining different technologies and experts brings ideas to life. Coming from the studies of humanities as well as sound and Musicproduction, Nûjîn gains furthermore the know-how in the field of immersive and audio technologies. Always with the aim to work in the field of passion: For him that's Media, Culture & Arts. Finding new ways to deal with and combine technologies and even more than that creating emotions to let the technology vanish for the comsumer. He now feels home in the field of immersive concepts to combine technologies, arts and social interests. http://mediaapes.de | 3D Audio, Arts and Business - Technologies and the potential of the future immersive & Audio Industry - Best Practise and Cases What is 3D Audio, what is immersive content, how to get it to life and create new experiences for entertainment and industry. There are endless tools and possibilities but not every tool is suitable for every case. What are the possible cases in combination of audio and visual technologies (VR / AR / MR) and is the potential of immersive technologies. Is the industry ready yet? Are you ready? Creating new smart products and generate new business cases. Let’s build the markets of the future? Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Audio, Cross Media, Business / General Topic |
| Mandy Jerdes Quality & Project Manager, Media Designer at Retrobrain R&D UG  | After finishing my Game Art studies at SAE Hamburg I started as Technical Artist at the company XYRALITY GmbH. Nearly three years later I have entered a new occupational field. Now I‘m employed as Quality & Project Manager and Media Designer at Retrobrain R&D UG. Additionally I’m working as lecturer for project management at SAE. https://www.retrobrain.de/ | Perfekter Karrierestart in die Gamesbranche (german) Game Studium abgeschlossen und was nun? Wie gelingt der Einstieg in die Gamesbranche? Was muss ich bei der Jobsuche beachten? Ich teile meine Erfahrungen und gebe Tipps zu Lebenslauf, Portfolio, Netzwerk- und Branchenkentnisse und die beste Vorbereitung auf Bewerbungsgespräche. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Games |
| Thomas Ott CEO / CTO at Echtzeit GmbH  Patrick Möchel CEO / Art Management at Echtzeit GmbH  Rajan Wegmann CEO / Sales Management at Echtzeit GmbH  | Thomas Ott has profound experience in the field of education through his work as head of the Game Art & Animation department at SAE Zurich. His profound programming knowledge makes it possible to implement individual customer wishes in a targeted manner. In cooperation with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, he deals with problem solving in research using machine learning and artificial intelligence. Patrick Möchel worked as a 3D artist at Crytek GmbH in Frankfurt am Main. Here he contributed to Crytek's internationally successful title Crysis 2, published for PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, among other projects. His subsequent work for Sony Studio Guerrilla Games Amsterdam included Killzone: Shadow Fall, the Sony exclusive title for the release of Playstation 4 and the preproduction for Horizon: Zero Dawn. Rajan has been gaining experience in architectural visualization for almost 10 years. In addition to the handling of CAD planning data and the corresponding visual implementation, his wealth of experience also includes training, marketing and sales. In addition, he completed training in game art and 3D animation at the SAE in Zurich. http://www.echtzeit.swiss | Von der SAE zum eigenen Start-Up (german) Thomas, Rajan und Patrick haben nach dem Studium an der SAE ihren Traum vom eigenen Start-Up verwirklicht. Ihr Unternehmen Echtzeit GmbH befasst sich modernen Technologien, um die visuelle Kommunikation in der Industrie, mittels Prozessoptimierung und direkter Endkundeneinbindung zu revolutionieren. Hierbei liegt der Schwerpunkt auf VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality) und Machine Learning Technologien. In diesem moderierten Panel gehen wir der Frage nach wie die Idee zum Unternehmen entstand, wie die drei sich als Team gefunden und aufgestellt haben und wie die ersten Schritte zur Kundengewinnung aussahen. Dabei gehen die drei auch auf Stolpersteine ein, die ihnen auf ihrem Weg begegnet sind. Type: Talk with moderation Hitch: Advanced | Business / General Topic |
| Sebastian Moench Senior Product Specialist International at Steinberg Media Technologies  | After successfully completing his studies in studio recording, film sound and interactive music Sebastian started working as a sound designer and composer for games. In 2009 he joined Steinberg Media Technologies, a leading developer of audio software and hardware. As Senior Product Specialist he trains e.g. staff of game developers, recording studios and musicians within Germany and abroad. Sebastian has several years of experience in game audio and teaches this topic at SAE Hamburg. http://www.steinberg.net | Game Audio Production - From Creation to Integration This seminar will introduce you to the production and integration of audio for computer and video games. Here is a brief overview of the topics we will talk about: - Game audio basics - Dialogue recording - Sound Design - Music for games - Integration: Getting the sound into the game We’ll have a look at the complete pipeline using a practical example, starting with asset creation in the DAW Steinberg Nuendo, handing over to the Audio Middleware Audiokinetic Wwise, and finally the actual integration into the Game Engine Unity. No previous knowledge of this topic is required. Knowledge of general audio engineering will be helpful, but is not mandatory. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Audio, Games |
| Marten Stockenberg Head Instructor Webdesign & Development at SAE Institute GmbH  | In the past i worked as a freelance Web Developer, nowadays iam full-time at SAE. I love good and simple code that is what i try to share with others. http://www.sae.edu | Progressive Web Applications with Vue.js Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are applications build with HTML / CSS and JavaScript. The technology was coined in 2015 by rances Berriman and Google Chrome engineer Alex Russell. The main goal is to make your website "App-like". The key feature of a PWA is the offline acessability of your website and all the data. We will explore how easy it can be to build a progessive Web-App with the Vue.js Framework. Type: Talk Hitch: Advanced | Web |
| Andrew Elmsley CTO at Melodrive  | Andy is co-founder and CTO of Melodrive, an AI adaptive music system for games and interactive media. Prior to founding Melodrive he completed his award-winning PhD research in machine learning and music at City University of London, where he focused on real-time rhythm generation with deep learning. He is on a mission to use AI to extend what human composers are capable of, redefining what music can be, and transforming gaming and interactive media in the process. http://melodrive.com/ | How AI will change music in VR and video games Is it possible for machines to compose interesting music? Can we leverage intelligent machines to help people with no musical skills to create music? What’s the best use of machines in music creation? What's the impact of music on interactive content? These are some of the questions we’ll explore in this session, which focuses on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for generating music for Virtual Reality (VR) and video games. At the beginning of the talk, I’ll give a brief presentation about video game music and the impact of AI on music creation. I’ll provide a short overview of what has been done in this field to date, and analyse what are the weaknesses and strengths of using AI for generating music. The core of the presentation will be about how AI can enhance people’s musical creation abilities, regardless of their musical skills. I'll introduce the concept of Deep Adaptive Music and show the results of research we conducted at Melodrive about the impact of music on engagement in VR. Towards the end of the presentation, I’ll introduce Melodrive - an AI music system that is able to create music in realtime for interactive content like video games and VR experiences from scratch. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Audio, Games |
| Daniel Zeitler Founder at Tale Of Mind  | Hi, I’m Daniel Zeitler founder of »Tale Of Mind«, a non-profit initiative established to create a better digital life for humanity. Advancing thoughtful solutions for mindful technology that value peoples time and intentions as the central goal. Before, I worked as a multi-awarded art director in Stuttgart and had the privilege of doing great things with rad people from Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Konami Digital Entertainment, Thyssenkrupp & more. http://www.taleofmind.com | The good, the bad & the dirty – Are we designing for humanity's best self? Do we build meaningful products that solve consumer problems? How can we redesign the digital world? How often does technology interrupt us from what we mean to be doing? We spend an astonishing amount of time distracted by notifications and pop-ups. Instead of helping us, it feels like technology is wreaking havoc on our lives. You will explore the dark patterns of user interface design. Principles of persuasive and habit forming psychology. Why design needs ethics and how we can impact the world through mindful technology to create a better everyday life for the many people. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners | Cross Media, Web, Business / General Topic |
| Karim Bhorania CEO at Jamahook Corporation  | Visionary soul musician rocking on a dream and shaping the future on how music will be made. From garage band vocalist to technology leader produced my way up focusing on new tech trends in an industry called music technology. Love, passion, dedication and patience opens up doors and keeps me going. Today working with partner companies Fraunhofer IDMT, Selise Software and Swiss Cooperative Society of Music Authors and Publishers SUISA, building bridges and overcoming boundaries between music producers, musicians and artists opening up new opportunities of collaborating through patented unique algorithms and new music tech solutions. It's all about the love of the music. Karim http://www.jamahook.com http://www.kreammusic.com http://www.hook-a-land.com http://karimbhorania.tumblr.com | Jamahook - The Sound Playground How new technologies and creativity go hand in hand and open up new opportunities for professional music producers and musicians as well as amateurs and newbies. Jamahook has created a worldwide unique algorithm that brings together sounds that match. For content creators it is a new source for selling creations and productions and at the same time it is a sound networking platform that interactively brings together music producers, musicians and music lovers only through the sound of their music. The core technology of Jamahook called Sound Match has the ability to recognize any sound and analyze its attributes (BPM, key/harmony, mood/timbre and rhythmic pattern). Then it suggests matches in form of loops, beats, tracks or accapellas that go well with your reference track. Jamahook does not only save essential time in the music production process - more over it gets the best out of your content and is a new source for music producers and sound designers to make money, find collaborators and raise the fun factor in creating music. Type: Talk Hitch: Beginners to Advanced | Audio, Music Business, Business / General Topic |
| Achim Dunker Director, Cameraman, Author and Teacher  | Director, Cameraman, Author and Teacher Achimdunker.de | Lighting with reflect systems The new style of lighting a feature film. | Film & TV |
