Registration is open for Georgia Tech’s FutureMedia Fest 2010, an interactive “mash-up” to explore and enable new paradigms in how content is created, distributed, and consumed in a converging media world.

The four-day event to be held October 4-7 will include speakers who are leaders and pioneers in their sectors from entities including Google, The Coca-Cola Company, HP, The Weather Channel Companies, The Economist, Turner Broadcasting, AT&T, IBM, Discovery Channel, GPB Media, the US State Department, Academy Award-winning animation and performance capture specialists from the movies “Avatar” and “Lord of the Rings,” plus over 20 Georgia Tech research groups.

Faculty in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture (LCC) have been instrumental in shaping the conference. Panel participants from the school include Ian Bogost, Director of the Digital Media Graduate Studies program on the Gaming panel, Rebecca Burnett, Director of the Writing & Communications Program on Digital Media Skills, and Professor Janet Murray on Storytelling. LCC and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs will participate in the Research Demos at TSRB on Wed, Oct 6th.