Amy Webb at PhIJI: November 30th at 5:30 p.m.

Amy Webb

Webbmedia Group CEO Amy Webb stole the show with her Tech Trends presentation at the Online News Association conference in Washington, DC, last month, and is coming to PhIJI on November 30th with an update.

Please note the early 5:30 p.m. start time and join us at the Tuttleman Learning Center (TL-303AB), at the corner of 13th Street and Montgomery Avenue on Temple’s main campus. (Map)

Here are a few of the tweets that were flying around room in Washington during Amy’s presentation:

jackiesauter: I’ve been at this #techtrends workshop for 15 minutes and @webbmedia is already my hero. #ona10
dorsey: @webbmedia Killed it at #ona10. Such a great presenter, high energy, cool swag, awesome ideas and useful tips. #techtrends FTW
meghannCIR: @webbmedia is blowing my mind with our ability to search social media sites. #ona10 #techtrends
jackiesauter: mind = blown. #techtrends #ona10

You can also read a little more about the presentation with Nieman Storyboard.

Webbmedia Group CEO Amy Webb is an author, speaker and future thinker, adapting current and emerging technologies for use in communications. She has spent more than 15 years working with digital media, founding several web-based companies and now advising various startups, retailers, government agencies and media organizations as well as Webbmedia’s clients all over the world.

Amy began her career as a reporter/ writer with Newsweek (Tokyo) and the Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong) where she covered emerging technology, media and cultural trends. She has contributed to the New York Times, NPR, Economist, Philadelphia Inquirer and many publications and broadcast shows. Her work has been recognized with awards/nominations from Webby, Editor & Publisher, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Society of Professional Journalists, W3 and IAVA. She has a M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and holds a B.A. in political economics from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. She also earned Nikyu Certification in the Japanese government-administered Language Proficiency Test and speaks fluently.

Amy serves on the Board of Directors for the Online News Association, the SXSW Accelerator Advisory Board, Knight-Batten Advisory Board, the Advisory Board for Temple University’s Journalism Program and the Advisory Board for the International Center for Journalists. She is one of the Knight News Challenge judges. Amy is also a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Interactive Media Peer Group) and serves as a judge for the Emmy® awards. She has been on the adjunct journalism faculty at University of Maryland, Temple University, Tokyo University and University of the Arts.

Clients have said that Amy has “an encyclopedic knowledge of the tech industry,” and “immediate access to all of the latest and most important trends.” She appears regularly on a number of broadcast shows, and is a keynote/ featured speaker at conferences and industry gatherings around the world.

For contact info and more, see Amy’s bio page.