TV Kids Summer Festival to Feature FAST Focus

The TV Kids Summer Festival, which you can register for here free of charge, has lined up a session on FAST channels featuring pocket.watch’s David B. Williams and WildBrain’s Lara Ilie.

Williams is senior VP and general manager of channels for pocket.watch. Ilie is VP for revenue share and transactional at WildBrain. Together, the executives will discuss how kids’ content distributors should be approaching the FAST segment.

Taking place June 6 to 9, the TV Kids Summer Festival will feature keynotes and panels with leading executives and creatives discussing the major trends in the children’s programming business. It will be streamed live and available on-demand on TVKidsSummerFestival.com. Unlike other events requiring hefty registration fees, attendance to the TV Kids Summer Festival is free. The inaugural festival attracted more than 1,700 participants.

These executives join a roster of speakers already announced that includes Disney’s Ayo Davis, M6 Group’s Maud Branly, BBC Studios’ Cecilia Persson, Builder Brothers Dream Factory’s Drew and Jonathan Scott, media cartographer Evan Shapiro, Superprod’s Clément Calvet, Mediawan’s Julien Borde, Dandelooo’s Emmanuèle Pétry-Sirvin, HARI’s Sophie “Kido” Prigent, Moonbug’s Nicolas Eglau and Andy Yeatman, Cyber Group Studios’ Raphaëlle Mathieu, The WIT’s Bertrand Villegas, Sinking Ship Entertainment’s Matt Bishop, Toon2Tango’s Ulli Stoef, Banijay Kids & Family’s Delphine Dumont, ZDF Studios’ Katharina Pietzsch, Mondo TV’s Luana Perrero, 9 Story Media Group’s Katrina Hitz-Tough, Epic Story’s Ken Faier, Aardman’s Rob Goodchild, Cookbook Media’s Rob Bencal, Kidoodle.TV’s Brenda Bisner, HappyKids’ David Di Lorenzo, Canela Kids’ Maggie Salas-Amaro and Playground’s Daniel Nordberg. Look for more announcements to come.

You can register for the TV Kids Summer Festival here, free of charge.

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