Digital Media at the Crossroads (DM@X) is Canada’s annual conference on the developing data, policy debates, and critical decisions shaping the country’s digital media, entertainment, and publishing industries.
Held since 2015, it was founded by five academic partners, the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, the MBA Program in Arts, Media and Entertainment Management at York University’s Schulich School of Business, Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Creative Industries, OCAD University, and the University of Toronto’s Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. DM@X is guided by a steering committee whose members include past and present leaders of the CBC, CTV, TVO, APTN, Telefilm Canada, TIFF, the Juno Awards, the Documentary Organization of Canada, and PEN Canada, and a member of the federal Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel.
Each conference features exclusive industry insights prepared for DM@X by Nordicity, a research and strategy firm for the cultural and creative sectors, and Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission commissioners have repeatedly chosen DM@X for public remarks. The program brings regulators, industry leaders, creators, guilds and unions, researchers, and students together on the most urgent issues of the year.
DM@X is supported by leading educational and creative institutions, including ACTRA, the Directors Guild of Canada, the Writers Guild of Canada, SOCAN, Music Canada, the Canadian Media Producers Association, the Association of Canadian Publishers, the Canadian Journalism Foundation, Interactive Ontario, and the Rotman School of Management. Find the full list of DM@X sponsors below.
Meet the leaders from Canadian media and culture who guide DM@X.
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Questions about registration, sponsorship, or media? Write to the DM@X team.