2019 schedule

	The Beach	Life’s A Beach	Cloud Promenade
13:00	Doors open, mingle & chat
13:45	Opening session Justine Solomons
14:00	Ambient literature: stories everywhere Kate Pullinger #ambient	How the web broke content business models – and how we’re fixing it Katie Vanneck-Smith, Tortoise Dom Young, Agate	Tools of the storytelling revolution Simon Trigg, Shorthand
14:30	Digital literature in the age of social media Aki Schilz	From ASOS to Zoopla: discoverability strategies from around the web Candide Kirk, Novellic	Book sprints: 10 writers working together in five days… Joe Reddington
15:00	The democratisation of storytelling Nosa Eke	Understanding stories through reading behavior analysis Justo Hidalgo	Killer content strategies Jonny Kaldor, Pugpig
15:30	Break
15:45	A crash course in narrative design Chris Bateman	Engaging museum audiences with slow stories Anna Faherty Danny Birchall, Wellcome	When characters come alive: chatbots in storytelling Guy Gadney, To Play For
16:15	Procedural generation for humans Jon Ingold, inkle	Truth & beauty: telling stories with data Duncan Clark, Flourish Simona Fautre, Moody’s	Applying Hollywood shapes to digital journeys Hari Patience, Accenture
16:45	Will machines take all the storytelling jobs? Michael Bhaskar Tom Chatfield	Make Our Book: a new kind of author, a new kind of publisher Emma Barnes, Consonance #sideprojectfriday #makeourbook	Audience engagement and the power of immersive storytelling Adipat Virdi
17:15	Break
17:30	The impact of storytelling: the pleasures, pains, practicalities and ethics Jane Gauntlett	Digital storytelling: past, present, and who knows what’s next? Chris Meade Jim Pope	Irreality: the coming age of miracles Michael Kowalski
18:00	Be more pirate Sam Conniff Allende
18:30	Together we go further Justine Solomons