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- Picture Workshop 9 December 2:30 - 4:30PM
Realistic Acting & Character Formation
This intensive workshop focuses on building a dramatic character from the inside out. Abdel Moneim Amayri shares his expertise on how to prepare for a role, not just through external appearance, but by understanding the character’s inner life, emotions, and journey. Participants will learn how to craft fully realized, authentic dramatic characters.
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- Creator Economy Fireside 10 December 11:20 - 11:50AM
The New Global Aesthetic
The next big ideas in visual culture aren’t coming from Hollywood or Paris—they’re emerging from Nairobi, Beirut, Mumbai, and Medellín. In this session, creators and image-makers from across the world explore how local perspectives are transforming global storytelling. From the languages of TikTok and street photography to the craft of short documentaries, they unpack how authenticity, access, and identity are reshaping what the world sees—and believes.
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- Media Fireside 10 December 10:00 - 10:30AM
Advancing Human Possibility in the Agentic AI Era
Exploring the Agentic AI Era, where AI reasons, adapts, and collaborates with humans to transform media and business. This fireside examines how AI amplifies human empathy, creativity, and storytelling while safeguarding authenticity, equity, and trust.
Central Stage - Media Workshop 8 December 2:30 - 3:30PM
MOJO
This introductory session in Mobile Journalism (MOJO) equips participants with the essential skills to produce professional news content using only a smartphone. Through hands-on exercises, attendees learn how to capture high-quality video and audio, conduct interviews, edit stories on mobile apps. The course is ideal for journalists, content creators, and communication professionals eager to embrace fast, flexible, and cost-effective storytelling tools.
Workshop Room 2 - Creator Economy Panel 8 December 2:55 - 3:15PM
Blueprints of Belonging
In a world where content shapes identity, what makes audiences feel they belong? This session explores how creators and producers design connection through storytelling, community, and emotion. Featuring Stas Natanzon and Mohamad Hosam, the conversation unpacks how digital storytelling, humor, and culture-building turn viewers into participants. Together, they reveal how creators can craft spaces online or off that feel human, inclusive, and unforgettable.
Impact Stage - Music Fireside 8 December 3:10 - 3:25PM
The Universal Language Connecting a Divided World
At a time when words divide and algorithms amplify differences, music remains one of the world’s last true bridges, uniting billions through shared rhythms and emotion. This session’s focus is on music’s enduring role as a global connector, exploring how sound becomes story, how emotion becomes economy, and how artists become ambassadors of something greater than entertainment. Audience members learn how data, digital platforms, and live experiences can bring us closer rather than further apart. Music may be an industry, but it is also a common language. It’s one that still has the power to rebuild trust, empathy, and belonging in a fractured age.
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