Prime Time 2016 Lines Up Kenyatta Cheese for Closing Keynote

OTTAWA/TORONTO: Creative technologist Kenyatta Cheese, co-founder and creative director at consultancy Everybody at Once, is slated to deliver the closing keynote for the 2016 edition of the Canadian Media Production Association’s Prime Time in Ottawa.

Prime Time is a conference for producers, business leaders and decision makers in the TV, film and digital media industry that will be held February 3 to 5 at The Westin in Ottawa. Cheese is recognized as an audience-development expert and is also known for co-creating the internet meme database Know Your Meme. He is also founder of Unmediated.org, a blog that tracks trends in decentralized media.

Prime Time has also added other speakers to its lineup, including Ling Lin, the head of content partnerships at Google Canada; Randy Stein, partner of creative at Grip Limited; Corrie Coe, the senior VP of independent production at Bell Media; Jay Bushman, the chief creative officer and founder of The Horizon Factory; and Sandra Rodriguez, documentary filmmaker and fellow at MIT Open Doc Lab.

“We are thrilled to welcome Kenyatta Cheese to the outstanding roster of speakers at Prime Time," said Reynolds Mastin, the president and CEO of CMPA. "His unique take on the role of human connection in how we find, choose, consume and share content encourages us to see the audience in a new, fresh and unforgettable way."