Kre8tif – The last event I went for the year 2009
Back dated to 7-9 December 2009. MSC Malaysia kre8tif is the last event I attended in year 2009. Kre8tif Digital Conference, in the mission to showcase the best work from the Malaysian creative industry, and to invite many international industry experts to share their experiences, knowledge and ideas, for instance, Mr John Stevenson’s, the Director of KungFu Panda, gave a very insightful knowledge and experiences on the making of KungFu Panda. “Story is King”, the phrase denotes that the fundamental of a successful interesting animation lies within the story.
There is a clear cut motive that I intended for the event. My ultimate mission is to get at least 1 broadcasters contact or any potential investors so that we could sell our idea. I am not a natural born salesman, and i felt like Tom Cruise in “Mission Impossible”. of course the secondary missions will be understanding the industry’s future trends, competitors, technical knowledge and other information, etc.
However, while I was wandering around the event. Talking around, bullshitting around, throwing name cards (the ninja way). I had a very weird feelings walking up to competitors (specially the local’s one). for example, if i walk up to them, showing my name card, ask them how are they doing lately, seeking advice in the industry. Will they tell me the truth? So i tried on with one of the company, and I regret immediately, and I felt that I will never get the right answers. To me, I believed being sincere and truthful to the person i met is a kind of respect, however by showing my name card to the competitors, the information i get from them will be vastly filtered, so what’s the point of being sincere? Maybe I am too ingenuous to think that there is a day that we might had a chance to cooperate on a certain project. On the other hand, one of the most funny thing that I found out is, that some of the local companies, they complete their products first before selling it. Some gotten grant to developed a series of animations from MOSTI. but when I ask if they have secured any sales contract from the broadcasters, surprisingly the answer is ‘No’, and they told me the industry works that way. ???????!!!! WTF, I don’t believe!!! What if happens when the final product completed, and broadcasters do not like it? Anyway, they had the capital and resources. So is not up to me to judge. But I think I will do it in a different way.
Back to the mission. There is a session given by for broadcasters representative regarding on the industry. I feel lucky that the 3 largest local broadcasters has 2 turn up for the session, Mr. Zainir Aminullah executive director from Astro, Malaysia, Syafiq Al Fonse from RTM Malaysia, and lastly Tim Brooke-Hunt, Executive Head of Children’s Content for Australia’s ABC Television. I paid full attention to their talks, however, my mind keeps bothering me to “take their name cards”, “take it or you live hungry and miserable”~!!!! Right after the sessions ends. Oh gosh, people is like swarm of bees. I was just pancaked and squeezed out from the scene in seconds. I didn’t know they are even more hungrier people than me. However, I did manage to get their names cards, and we are in the process of setting appointments with Astro and RTM. Phewww~~~ Mission Accomplished.
Final conclusion, the event is a fun and awesome experience I never had before. I learnt a lot from the gurus, the competitors and the industry players.
For more information and the summary of the speakers presentation. follow this link: AnimationXpress
I’ve won a Maxtor 80GB Portable Hard disk
Yes! I have won a Maxtor 80GB Extended Hard disk from an event hosted by webmastermalaysia.com, and proudly sponsored by exabytes.com. Thanks to Mr. Adrian Oh from NeoWave.com.my, one of the speaker for this event, that has a magical finger, and luckily pick me up as the first price winner for the Maxtor 80GB Portable Hard disk.
I seldom and not very actively involve in such events though I have been to a few just to network around. Social Networking is essential for all entrepreneurs whether they like it or they don’t. From here I met a lot of pro-bloggers, webmasters, internet entrepreneurs, some technical gigs and SEO experts, exchanging ideas on how to make more money online, how to prevent fraud, internet marketing, etc etc. And you will be surprise that these people are earning more income than people that has a full-time day job.
Featured speakers for these events are Famous bloggers, Mr C.F.Liew from liewcf.com, Microsoft experts, Mr. Rohan, e-Commerce specialists, Mr. Adrian Oh from Neowave.com.my and web/graphic designer, Ikram Omar from filament-phase.com were all sharing their knowledge in their areas of expertise.
LiewCF, he is not what i have expected, he is not a very well speaker or presenter, he doesn’t speak very well English and in fact his English is kind of broken; However, he is earning an USD X,000 (he don’t want to disclose), which is more than his previous job employment with his blog liewcf.com, and he is now a full time blogger. Looking at C.F.Liew, which makes me to conclude that, “You do not need a well spoken or written English to blog“, as liew mentioned, as long as, your readers understands, and you yourself understands, you can make a difference with blogging.
Rohan, speaks of Microsoft SilverLight, mentioned on a camp called Silverlight camp, which i am quite looking forward to it, however, i can’t manage to get his email and blog details, hope someone that is reading this could update me on the silverlight camp in malaysia.
Neowave, Adrian Oh, The guy that i can’t miss to mention him, without his magical finger, I don’t even get a 80GB hard disk for FREE. Adrian is an expert in eCommerce, selling things over the internet, and he runs a company that provides eCommerce solutions. He is sharing to us on fraud prevention and his personal experience in handling fraud situations. I believe his sharing is very practical to every webmasters that would like to earn a penny over the internet. Visit his site for more information on eCommerce @ Neowave.com.my.
Last but not least, Ikram Omar’s “Grid Design for the Web” had really inspired me that how shall we design our site, and i like the way he redesign theStar website, and is much better than the existing site design.
some other sites recommendation from the people in this event:
Eddie Law’s eLawyer.com.my, a site that provides law jobs over the internet. you can visits his blog for some law tips at laweddie.com
Mr. part time, Lam Poh Ee, founder of the famous part time portal asiaparttime.com. a direct competitor to Iamfreelancer.com
Home Tuition Care, the founder Andy Low. The sites provides free home tuition matching tuition for parents.
The famous freelance job portal, IamFreelancer.com, founder Elvin Lok was there as well.
last but not least. LetARoom.com, which is a site that I am partnering with asiaparttime.com founder, mr. part time, to provide free service allowing everyone including students, teachers, executives, working adults to post their rooms or houses for rent, and for those to wanted to rent a room to search for a room or houses.
Photos and Pictures are grab from webmastermalaysia.com, exabytes.com, asiaparttime.com, IamFreelancer.com, eLawyer.com.my and Home Tuition Care.
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