3 October 2024

AI & Filmmaking

Interested in the fields of audiovisual media and visual arts? Don't miss the opportunity to learn how Generative AI applications, including Runway and Stable Diffusion, are utilised in film production. The JMSC is inviting three scholars from the University of Television and Film Munich — Dr Sylvia Rothe, Pauline Leiningera and Jenny Huang — to share their knowledge and present their tools on Generative AI applications in motion capture, music visualisation and story visualisation.
23 September 2024

BBC x AI – How the BBC approaches the age of GenAI?

Are we approaching the age of Generative AI? Since the skyrocketing popularity of AI in 2023, there have been countless discussions on how AI can revolutionise our world on both sides of the spectrum. To help us understand how media corporations utilise GenAI, the JMSC invites Peter Archer, a trailblazer leading the BBC's work on GenAI, to share his expertise and insights on how the media giant approaches this emerging technology.
9 September 2024

AI, Emerging Technologies and Innovative Journalism

Emerging technologies like AI and virtual realities have been revolutionising the media ecosystem and affecting many aspects of the content we consume every day, from breaking news to investigative stories. To help us understand how AI and other emerging technologies shape future content, the JMSC is hosting a series of conversations with international leading experts, kicking off with Gina Chua, a longtime pioneer in media innovation.
9 July 2024

Jing Yang

MJ 2012, Jing Yang, Asia Bureau Chief, The Information
Award-winning journalist Jing Yang left journalism twice, and twice she came back. At the Wall Street Journal, she took a leading role in a series of investigative reports on China’s regulatory clampdown on tech companies, which won two SOPA awards and other recognitions from American press organisations. She is now the Asia bureau chief of The Information, a technology and business online news media.
9 July 2024

Natalie Wang

MJ 2012, Natalie Wang, Founder and Editor, Vino Joy News
Natalie Wang founded Vino Joy News, an English-language online media company dedicated to the wine business in China, in 2019, after covering the industry for half a decade. She was recognised as one of the 50 most influential women in the wine and spirits industry in 2021 by the Women in Wine and Spirits Awards. The Vino Joy News editor was the only Chinese journalist nominated for the 2023 Wine Communicator of the Year at the International Wine and Spirit Competition.
9 July 2024

Pip Stewart

MJ 2010, Pip Stewart, Motivational Speaker
Pip Stewart quit her corporate job in London in 2009 to study at the JMSC. She turned her three-month adventure through Guyana’s rainforest into a book, “Life Lessons From the Amazon.” While trekking through the jungle, she contracted leishmaniasis, which motivated her to raise awareness of the neglected disease and its impact on local communities. Pip is now a motivational speaker and writes children's books that encourage family adventures and a love for nature.