Sree Sreenivasan

2012 Event

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Apr072010

Sree Sreenivasan is a tech evangelist and skeptic (he can explain how he's both) specializing in explaining technology to non-techies.

He is a professor and dean of students affairs at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches in the digital media program (he has also been teaching entrepreneurship at the J-school and digital-media marketing for an MBA Master Class at Columbia Business School). He has been on the faculty for 17 years.

He is a contributing editor at DNAinfo.com, a Manhattan-news startup he helped launch in 2009 with Joe Ricketts, the founder of Ameritrade and whose family just bought the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field.

In March 2004, Newsweek magazine named him one of the nation's 20 most influential South Asians; and in 2009 he was named one of AdAge's 25 media people to follow on Twitter and was one of 22 professors named to the "top 100 Twitterers in Academia, by OnlineSchools.org.

Digitas, the top global integrated brand agency, builds active brands for some of the foremost companies in the world. In 2012 Digitas was named OMMA Magazine's Agency of the Year and The Drum's London Integrated Agency of the Year. The agency also counts Agency of the Year honors from the Festival of Media, BtoB Magazine, and Les Agences de l’Année, France, and has been named to the Advertising Age Digital A-List among its many awards. Digitas also operates the brand content platform, The Third Act:, producers of first and most well renowned event on digital content, The NewFront; and, Prodigious Worldwide, the world’s only standalone, global digital productions company. With sister agencies Starcom MediaVest, ZenithOptimedia, Denuo and Razorfish, Digitas is a member of Publicis Groupe's VivaKi—a global digital knowledge and resource center that leverages the combined scale of the autonomous operations of its members to develop new services, new tools, and new partnerships. Publicis Groupe [listed on the Euronext Paris Exchange - FR0000130577 - and part of the CAC 40 index] is the world's third largest communications group. With activities spanning 104 countries on five continents, Publicis Groupe offers local and international clients a complete range of advertising services. Web site: www.publicisgroupe.com