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SPEAKERS AND SESSIONS

11:15 — 12:30 Keynote Address - East Hall

Syd Mead Presents: n2it

In Svd's own words The premise of the presentation, using examples of my own work throughout my fifty-plus yearcareer, is that 'STORY' is the initial inspiration starter for ideas. I contend that ideas need arationale and I have found that having a 'story' premise is key. STORIES take place in the STORYWORLD. I make the point that movies are to story telling what the symphony orchestra is to music,the most elaborate format we have for coaxing belief. Once we establish the STORY and theWORLD in which the STORY takes place we need to furnish that WORLD with all the stuff we have inour familiar world. That in turn leads to my presentation of 'movies that were never made' asthreaded my way through the strange world of movie production. As an 'almost never made'movie, BLADERUNNER deserves to be exploited, especially since Sir Ridley Scott has recently goneon record as announcing that he will direct a 'sequel' to his iconic 80's noir film.

12:30 — 1:00 Networking Lunch BreakA selection of light lunch options available for purchase

1:00 — 2:00 Building Games and Teams from "The Gateway to the Pacific Rim" - East Hall

Conan Reis, Agog Labs (Port Alberni)

Conan is a 20 year video game industry veteran and entrepreneur. His career as a mad computer

scientist has spanned the West Coast's creative epicenters of Vancouver and San Francisco

developing games for companies including Electronic Arts, LucasArts and most recently UnitedFront Games working on "Sleeping Dogs". He specializes in game artificial intelligence and making

the tools and guts used to make games including world editors and his own game programming

language. He has returned to his home town of Port Alberni and shares his experience on working

remotely and creating digital works with far-flung teams comprised of creative eccentrics.

2:00 — 3:00 Plugging in the Next Generation of Programmers - Lions HallJim Rutherford, Taptonics (Nanaimo)

Jim is a veteran programmer who has worked on several platforms including the Microsoft Surface,

Blackberry 10, PC and Mobile. He believes in introducing the next generation of programmers at a

young age to materials that are interesting and relevant to them. Join Jim as he talks about making

programming interesting and simple to understand.

2:00 — 3:00 Getting Money: Funding Options for the Creative Industries - OAP RoomRobert Wong, BC Film Tax Credit, Film Tax Credit

Robert Wang is the Vice President of BC Film + Media. Join him as he teaches us about the tax

credits and financial incentive programs available to digital media companies in BC.

TBC, Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED)Tax Incentive Program

2:30 — 3:00 AAA Video Development - East HallRaphael Van Lierop, HELM Studios (Cornox Valley)

3:00 — 4:00

Raphael is an industry vet having worked on titles like Mass Effect 3, Warhammer 40,000: Space

Marine, Farcry and host of other games, Join him as he talks about his move to Vancouver Island

where he is currently building a team of the game industries elite including Art Directors from

Blizzard. Raphael shows us you don't have to be in Vancouver or San Francisco to be world class.

Entrepreneurs Unplugged - East HallRaphael Van Leirop, HELM Studios (Cumberland)HELM Studios has worked on Mass Effect 3, Farcry and Company of Heroes

Clive Goodinson, Pixton Comics (Parksville)Pixton Comics has created an online comic-making platform with an intuitive click -n -drag interface

Rob Fell, Hyper Surge Studios (Parksville)Hypersurge Studios produces advergames for Lego and apps for the BCC

Shelley Voyer, Zuzee Interactive Inc. (Victoria)Zuzee is a safe creative social networking site for tween girls

Jason Kapalka, Founder of PopCap Games (Courtenay)PopCap Games created Bejeweled, a huge-hit gem-swapping game

In this session we gather some of the Vancouver Islands most successful local digital mediaP ntrpnrpnetirc for a OR,A ahnut husiness. From online comics. social networking and adverEamine.

4:00 — 4:30 The Mechanics of Excitement - East Hall

Malcolm Mckinnon, Intumetrics (Vancouver)

Thinking your game or product will be engaging and fun is different than knowing it. Intumetrics

has developed biophysiological testing that can measure exactly how much fun a player is havingwith your game or Now excited they are about your product.

4:00 — 5:00 Cosplay Costuming Design (OAP Hall)

Reva Dawn Schmidt, The Aspen Project (Qualicum Beach)

Reva recreates the costumes of characters from popular anime and comic books. Her work is

Hollywood quality and at this session she demonstrates how it's done.

4:00 — 5:00 Game Audio Design (East Hall)

Michael Sokryka, Independent (Parksville)

Michael has worked on some of the most iconic video games of our time including; Castlevania,Contra and Altered Beast as well as a host of console titles for EA. Here he shares his process,

knowledge and interesting stories from his lengthy career in the industry.

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Syd Mead's BIO

Sydney Jay Mead was born in St. Paul Minnesota, July 18th, 1933 but spent only a few years there before movingto what would be the second of many homes throughout the western United States prior to graduating from HighSchool in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1951. After serving a three year enlistment in the U.S. Army, Syd Meadcontinued on to the Art Center School in Los Angeles, (now the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena) where hegraduated with great distinction in June of 1959. He was immediately recruited by the Ford Motor Company'sAdvanced Styling Studio under the management of Elwood Engle which he left after 2 years in order to accept avariety of assignments to illustrate books and catalogues for large corporate entities such as United State Steel,Celanese, Allis Chalmers and Atlas Cement.

In 1970, he launched Syd Mead Inc. in Detroit, Michigan to accommodate the high caliber of offers he received,most notably the PHILIPS ELECTRONICS. As the principal of his newly formed corporation in the 1970's, Syd Meadspent about a third of his time in Europe primarily to provide designs and illustrations for Philips of Holland.Together with his roster of major American clients, he continues to make his creative mark, internationally.Throughout the 1970's and 1980's, Syd Mead, Inc. provided architectural renderings both interior and exterior, forsuch clients as Intercontinental Hotels, 3D International, Harwood Taylor & Associates, Don Ghia, and Gresham &Smith, to mention a few. His architectural clients have recently expanded to include the New York firm of Philip

Koether Architects for which he designed the interior of a Manhattan eatery.

Design activity accelerated after the corporate and personal move to California in 1975. In 1979, projects began toinclude work with most major studios, on such feature films as Star Trek: The Motion Picture, followed by,Bladerunner, IRON, 2010, Short Circuit, Aliens, Time Cop, Johnny Mnemonic, and most recently, "MissionImpossible-3" starring Tom Cruise for director J.J. Abrams. Beginning in 1983, Syd began to develop close workingrelationships with a number of majorJapanese corporate clients, including; Sony, Minolta, Dentsu, Dyflex, Tiger,Seibu. Mitsukoshi, Bandai. NHK and Honda as well as contributing to two Japanese film projects, The New Yamato

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combination has become a Syd Mead trademark and has been seen in everything from concept cars for Ford

Motor Company to futuristic "Hypervans" which have been the subject of his latest full color illustrations.

Syd Mead continues an active schedule of one man shows, which started with an invitation to exhibit at

Documenta 6, Kassel, West Germany in 1973. His work has since been exhibited in Japan, Italy, California, and

Spain. In 1983 in response to an in invitation from Chrysler Corporation to be a guest speaker to their design staff,

Syd Mead assembled a selection of slides to visually enhance his lecture. The resulting presentation was a

resounding success and has since been expanded and enhanced with computer generated imagery specifically

assembled at the requests of such clients as Disney, Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue, Pratt University, the

Society of Illustrators., and many others both academic and corporate around the world, In March of 2010, Syd

completed a four city tour in Australia to capacity audiences at each venue.

Always an advocate of new technologies, Syd Mead has expanded his horizons to include computer illustrations

and graphics by mastering a variety of Softwares. Beginning with the official poster of the 1991 Concours

d'Elegance "Eyes on the Classics" in Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Mead has attempted to utilize the latest in available

techniques to their best advantage. In 1993, a digital gallery comprised of 50 examples of his art with interface

screens designed by Syd Mead became one of the first CD ROM's released in Japan in 1992 and in 2004 in

response to many requests, cooperated with the Gnomon School of Visual Effects to produce a 4 volume, "How

To" DVD series titled, "TECHNIQUES OF SYD MEAD" which continues to be sought after by designers around the

world.

His one man show, "Cavalcade to the Crimson Castle" consisting of 114 original paintings and illustrations,

enjoyed a three month showing at the Center for the Arts in San Francisco in the Fall of 1996. The highlight of the

show turned out to be Syd's presentation and lecture attracted an audience that exceeded the available capacity

of the auditorium. Subsequent personal appearances at schools across the country have attracted record

numbers. "SYD MEAD PROGRESSIONS" a travelling one-man-show of his work, is now in the planning stage to

mark the 40th anniversary his work. This touring exhibition is currently scheduled to premier in Glendale,

California at the Forest Lawn Gallery of Fine Arts in January 2012.

In February 1998, Syd Mead relocated his studio to Pasadena, California, where he continues to be involved in a

variety of design projects. including publication of two books, SENTURY,(in 2001), and SENTURY II in 2010 as well

as a documentary of his career with director Joaquin Montalvan, "VISUAL FUTURIST", released in May of 2007 on

DVD. Mead attributes success in an astonishing range of creative activities to the premise that imagination...the

idea, supersedes technique. "There are more people in the world who make things than there are people who

think of things to make."

Town of Qualicum BeachMEMORANDUM

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TO: John Marsh, Financial Administrator/Deputy CAO FOR: In-Camera Meeting April 17, 2013

FROM: Heather, Deputy Corporate Administrator

SUBJECT: Select Committee on Family Day Celebration

RECOMMENDATION:

THAT Council appoints Rob Ferguson, Marilyn Sims, Grayson Codlin, Jess Butler, WalterHoogland, Sabrina Krauchi, Marissa Jordan, and Susan Lewis as the eight members at-large on the SelectCommittee on Family Day Celebration, for a term ending in October 2014.

PURPOSETo appoint the members a t-large invited to serve on the Select Committee on Family Day Celebration.

BACKGROUND

The Community Charter provides authority for Council to establish and appoint advisory bodies includingselect committees.

On February 25, 2013, Council adopted the attached Terms of Reference for the Select Committee on FamilyDay Celebration, establishing a select committee of nine, with eight members at-large and CouncillorLuchtmeijer, to provide input and advice to Council and staff on the Town's participation in the Family DayCelebration.

The Terms of Reference established the meeting schedule, mandate and membership, including invitingeight people to serve as members at-large, with terms to expire in October in the year in which a generalelection is held.

DISCUSSION

Staff have contacted the following eight individuals who have historically volunteered to organize FamilyDay or have recently joined the group and agreed to serve on the Committee:

• Rob Ferguson• Marilyn Sims• Grayson Codlin• Jess Butler• Walter Hoogland

Town of Qualicum BeachApril 17, 2013 Special Council Meeting -CLOSED PortionSelect Committee on Family Day CelebrationPage 2 of 2

ALTERNATIVES• Invite other members of the public to serve as members at-large• Amend the Terms of Reference• Other action as directed by Council

Heather SvensenDeputy Corporate AdministratorReport Writer

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