Asia Content Business Summit slated for 20-22 Feb in Pattaya, Thailand

The Asia Content Business Summit 2011 will be hosted by Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC) under the Ministry of Culture, Thailand for the first time this year jointly along with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industries of Japan. The summit will be on 21-22 Feb  at the Amari Orchid Pattaya on the topic, Creating a cross- border content market for the Asian Content Industry in order to creative space for creative industries including film, music, film TV games, animation etc. Representatives from Korea, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Japan would be participating at the summit. 

The first day will focus on trade policies for sectors like Film, Animation, Games, Ebooks, Social Media and will also include the private sector business matching. 40 Thai companies will be inviting their Asian Partners for the event and the business matching will be held on the 2nd day. 

Talking to AnimationXpress Asia Pacific, Lak Taechawanchai from TACGA shared, “ACBS is a high level forum which has been carried forward from Japan a few years back and we are proud to host it this year in Thailand. Ministry of Culture, Department of Intellectual Property (DIP), under Ministry of commerce and TACGA have come together for this summit to focus of the trade policies and business matching and for Asian companies to come together and collaborate creatively. We expect around 150 participants and welcome one and all to Thailand.”

Here is the Schedule of the summit - 

ACBS Day 1 : Monday 21 February 2011

09:00 - 09:05: Opening of the meeting.

(a) Statements by representative(s) of the Government of Thailand;

- Vice Minister of Culture

- Minister of Culture

09:05 - 09:10: (b) Statements by representative(s) of the Government of Japan.

- METI

09:10 – 09:15: Organizational matters:

(a) Introduction of the new ACBS members.

- Philippine

09:15 – 10:15: Status of the implementation of the 2010 activities in each country/region:

4 countries (Alphabet order)

(a) The implementation and encouragement of international co-productions;

(b) Human resources program for foreigners;

(c) Possibilities of a joint marketing survey;

(d) The main distribution, promotion and merchandising style;

(e) Subsidy programs or funding information which is available to foreign 

companies.

10:15 – 10:30: …….Tea Break…….

10:30 – 11:30: Status of the implementation of the 2010 activities in each country/region:

- 4 countries (Alphabet order)

(a) The implementation and encouragement of international co-productions;

(b) Human resources program for foreigners;

(c) Possibilities of a joint marketing survey;

(d) The main distribution, promotion and merchandising style;

(e) Subsidy programs or funding information which is available to foreign companies.

11:30 – 13:00 : Enforcement against Pirated Copies:

11:30 – 12:50 : (a) Policy and Procedure on the enforcement against pirated copies in each country/region;

12:50 – 13:00 : (b) Introduction of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

13:00 – 14:00 : Lunch

14:00 – 19:00 : Company presentation.

- Presentations by industry leaders or influential figures, who work with cultural contents, from the educational / health care / environmental / media sectors.

- Presentations by industry leaders or influential figures, who work with cultural contents, from the educational / health care / environmental / media sectors.

- Focusing on the overseas development of content (including books, e-books, music, mobile games and so on)

- (For example: supposed presenter) Game programmers, TV or film producers, Publishers, Distributors, Online  game developers etc…

19:00 – 21:00 : Reception Welcome Dinner Party

ACBS Day 2 : Tuesday 22 February 2011

09:00 – 12:00 : - Future of the ACBS

(a) Proposals from countries/ regions on potential ACBS hosts and partners

- Closure of the meeting:

(a) Information of the 3rd meeting of the ACBS.

13:00 – 16:30: Business matching session

- Opening of the session.

- Free discussion.

- Closure of the session.

- Leave of ACBS members from Pattaya city to Suwannabhummi airport