Florida Creatives – Creating a Community of Innovation

Location

The Employ Florida Banner Center for Digital Media and its Partners are hosting Florida's First Annual Digital Media Workforce Summit at the Seminole Community College Center for Economic Development. This statewide summit is designed to involve industry, education, workforce and economic development leaders in a day-long multidisciplinary exploration of the future of Florida's digital media industry, its workforce and the education and training approaches needed to stay at the cutting edge.

• Meet your counterparts in related fields
• Learn about best practices and the latest technologies
• Collaborate with experts to find uncommon solutions to common issues

Download Show 20
flcreatives_20_edcwakefield.mp3
Length: 38:32

Jennifer Wakefield is the Director of Public Relations for the Orlando Economic Development Commission (EDC). In this inteview with Ryan Price, she shares a number of exciting industries taking root all over Central Florida, including Film and Digital Media, Helath and Biomedical, Military Simulation and Training, and of course the Entertainment industry.

Shameless Links:

• Orlando EDC
• Metro Orlando Film and Entertainment Commission, headed by Suzy Spang Allen
• Film in Florida, the Governor's office of Film and Entertainment
• Employ Florida Digital Media Banner Center
• Florida Interactive Entertainemnt Academy Downtown
• Enzian FilmSLAM
• Orlando Film Festival
• Florida Film Festival
• Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitor's Bureau
• Nemours Children's Health Care
• Burnham at Lake Nona
• City of Orlando Community Venues
• UCF College of Medicine
• Orlando Health and Adventist Health System
• Winnie Palmer Hospital
• Disney Children's Hospital
• Institute for Simulation and Training
• IITSEC Conference
• National Center for Simulation
• Engineering & Computer Simulations
• Texture Magazine
• Global Robotics Institute
• Florida Creatives on iTunes