We are excited to announce three keynotes that will knock your socks off!

The Day the Universe Changed

How 2016/2017 turned Gen Z’s emotional landscape upside down, and the doors this opens for more emotionally relevant media platforms and content.

For the last 10 years, US research firm The Family Room has been mapping the shifting emotional landscape of Gen Z youth. And for the first eight, these core hopes, fears, dreams and anxieties remained remarkably constant.

And then came 2016, which triggered the start of some astonishing shifts in the Passion Points Gen Z kids and teens are most focused on, leading to implications for the kids media industry that cannot be overstated. In this kick-off keynote, TED Talk speaker and Family Room CEO George Carey will track these shifts in Gen Z’s emotional landscape, exploring how they will impact the where, how and what of youth media consumption, and recommending strategies for kids media players to reflect this new reality and elevate the emotional relevance of their properties and platforms with today’s kids and teens.

Geena Davis returns to Kidscreen Summit

After delivering a knock-out keynote address at Kidscreen Summit 2016 that had audience members rethinking their approaches to gender and diversity in the development process, activist and Oscar-winner Geena Davis is returning to the

event to unveil exclusive new research from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media. Her latest study seeks to examine how products are being marketed to boys and girls through the use of brand mascots. It will analyze and identify current trends in the marketplace and look at how the way brands portray different genders negatively or positively affects the way children perceive gender roles.

In Conversation with Marty Krofft: Kids Entertainment Legend

Brothers Marty and Sid Krofft first hit the kids media spotlight in the '70s as creators of some of the most original and decade-defining shows, including H.R. Pufnstuf and The Land of the Lost.

In 2015, the duo came back in a big way, starting with Mutt & Stuff (Nickelodeon), and then the reboot of Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (Amazon Studios), and now the upcoming Myam’s WonderLab (starring The Big Bang Theory’s Myam Bialik). Marty Krofft is coming to Kidscreen Summit to share his lifetime of experience with attendees, delving into the brothers’ development process, how the business has changed, and the secrets to keeping kids watching.

Don’t forget the discount!

Sign up before Dec 22 to catch our $1,795 Early-Bird rate and benefit from:

• $200 off your Kidscreen Summit pass
• Unlimited access to our 30 Minutes With… buyer briefing sessions
• Up to two Speed Pitching meetings with buyers
• More Cocktails with…choices for building relationships with buyers
• Lunching with… opportunities to meet consumer products partners
• An invite to our Kidscreen Awards ceremony & after-party
• Breakfast and lunch on all four event days

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