Media Makers Meet Earth Shakers
Stories meet solutions. Creators meet changemakers. Ideas become collaborations.
How can media help people understand what is changing, find the people working on it, and build what comes next?
The IMX — An International Media Exposition & Experience
Where media makers meet change makers to turn stories, ideas and solutions into projects, partnerships and progress.
The future is ours to shape.
Imagine a world where:
- Healthy choices are accessible for all, not privileges.
- Our human rights are realized and protected;
- Communities produce, own and distribute their own affordable, clean and renewable energy systems;
- Our food systems are owned, produced and distributed by the communities where people live, work and play;
- Communities share wisdom and knowledge so that together, we can improve the quality of life towards an ecologically sensible coexistence;
- Communications and information systems serve the public good–and hold power to account;
- Communities restore their local economies and their ecosystems
- Our methods of production transform from extractive, exploitative and colonized systems, to regenerative and circular systems;
- Innovation serves human well-being.
- The environment is recognized as essential to public health.
- The success of healthcare is measured by healthier lives.
- Transportation and Mobility systems are dedicated to enabling swift movement for all people
This isn’t some 1960’s hippie pipe dream; there are communities around the world living and developing improved systems, services and policies that serve all life without harming our planet which sustains us.
- We have extraordinary knowledge.
- We have dedicated practitioners and communities already demonstrating new approaches.
- What we need is to connect the knowledge, change the incentives, remove the barriers, and put proven approaches to work.
We have built this project to bring us closer towards establishing that.
A world that works for all is closer than you think.
The main purpose should be to create the meeting place and springboard where:
Media makers — journalists, filmmakers, producers, podcasters, creators, publishers, broadcasters and storytellers
meet
Earth shakers — scientists, social entrepreneurs, innovators, community leaders, human-rights advocates, systems thinkers, educators, NGOs, funders and solution builders.
Discover → Connect → Develop → Fund → Produce → Distribute → Act
Make the connections created by the sessions the main event.
The IMX Exchange
Before attending, every participant answers three questions:
- I am working on…
- I am looking for…
- I can offer…
Mobilized then matches participants.
For example:
- A climate scientist needs a filmmaker.
- A filmmaker needs financing.
- A foundation needs credible projects.
- A broadcaster needs programming.
- A community has a story.
- A journalist needs local sources.
- A social entrepreneur needs visibility.
- A production company needs distribution.
IMX connects the chain.
The virtual event becomes the catalyst; Mobilized News becomes the year-round infrastructure.
To make it effective, Every session must answer:
What can we do with this?
And ideally produce at least one of four outcomes:
A project. A partnership. A funding opportunity. A pathway to an audience.