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Jeff Gomez is the world’s leading sci-fi and fantasy world designer. As CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, he has the greatest job in the universe: he designs the mythologies of some of the biggest blockbuster story worlds in all of pop culture, and helps to extend them across multiple media platforms.

As the most renowned Transmedia Producer in the entertainment industry, Jeff has worked on blockbuster movies, hit videogames, major toy brands, and theme park attractions. He also serves as an advisor and consultant on global trends in technology, youth culture, and social media to visionary filmmakers, studio heads, publishers, licensing agencies, C-suite executives, and government leaders.

As a producer accredited by the Producers Guild of America, Jeff served as a creator for the story worlds of Magic: The Gathering, Turok Dinosaur Hunter N64, Hot Wheels World Race, and Coca-Cola Happiness Factory. Jeff has also worked on such exciting franchises as Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean, James Cameron’s Avatar, Hasbro’s Transformers, Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man, Microsoft 343 Studios’ Halo, Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and most recently the global multiplatform revival of Tsuburaya Productions’ Ultraman.

Jeff’s proprietary transmedia methods have also been applied to educational and geopolitical causes, accelerating positive self-organized social movements and increasing resistance to crime, violence, and corruption. Through applications of his Collective Journey and transmedia population activation models, Jeff has helped optimize communications for large non-profits such as World Vision, and address crises in Mexico, Colombia, Australia, and the Middle East North Africa region.

Growing up on the rough streets of New York City, Jeff has always championed the causes of young people. His Never Surrender! seminars teach kids how to deal with bullies, and he regularly provides career counseling to imaginative and neurodiverse teens and young adults who are facing challenges in life.

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• NEVER SURRENDER!: FROM THE SHADOWS TO THE STARS: THE POWER OF STORY IN A STREET KID’S LIFE
  This is the inspiring story of Jeff Gomez, who was born and raised on the streets of New York's dangerous Lower East Side, and who grew up to become the world's leading transmedia producer of such blockbuster entertainment franchises as Pirates of the Caribbean, Avatar, Spider-Man, Transformers, Men in Black, and Halo.
  Jeff will detail the challenges he's faced, including struggles against abuse and school bullying, and how these physical, psychological, and spiritual trials helped him to realize a new vision for how to tell stories in the digital age.
  Honest, raw and gritty, this talk will also outline the specific strategies Jeff developed to face and overcome extraordinary adversity, what he had to do to become the producer of popular video games and comic books, and how he finally became CEO of world-renowned Starlight Runner Entertainment and landed jobs on some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters of the past decade.
  At the conclusion of the talk, Jeff will personally answer all questions. His unforgettable story is a must for anyone who has ever wanted to realize a dream.
  Jeff has performed his Never Surrender! talk to over 300,000 grade school, high school, and university students and educators across the world. He started his career as a primary school teacher, and is also currently an adjunct professor for the City University of New York.
  Neurodiversity: Jeff Gomez lives with OCD, and performs as a coach to young people on the OCD, Asperger’s, and autism spectrum. There is a version of Never Surrender! which more strongly emphasizes Jeff’s journey from debilitating OCD to his embrace of his neurodiversity and how he uses it to create, write, and produce spectacular story worlds.
• THE POWER OF TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING: CREATING BLOCKBUSTER STORY WORLDS & BRAND NARRATIVES IN THE AGE OF PERVASIVE MEDIA
  In this exclusive seminar, Jeff Gomez the world’s leading producer of blockbuster transmedia franchises, will introduce you to the process of conveying messages, themes or storylines to a mass audience through the artful and well-planned use of multiple media platforms.
  Now being adopted by big media and corporations around the world, transmedia is a method of communication and brand extension that creates intense audience loyalty and long-term engagement, enriches the value of creative content, and generates multiple revenue streams.
  In recent years, the value proposition of transmedia storytelling has been proven again and again with such implementations as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones. The global demand for producers familiar with the process of incubating, developing and producing this type of content for studios, networks, and corporations is on the rise. The practice is also gaining traction in fields as diverse as marketing, advertising and publicity, independent cinema, corporate and brand narratives, and in education, activism, and geopolitics.
  Responding to this demand, Starlight Runner now provides this exclusive introductory seminar designed to convey the process of developing and producing highly successful transmedia story worlds—no matter the size of your budget.
  The talk is especially directed toward aspiring professionals in film, television, animation, web video, marketing, advertising, writing, apps and video games, and immersive entertainment. This is a rare opportunity to spend time learning from Jeff Gomez.
  Jeff has performed versions of this seminar at M.I.T.’s Futures of Entertainment Conference, the Produced By Conference, the Game Developers Conference, Turner Entertainment Networks, IBM, Globo Network, Kidscreen Summit, London Book Fair, O’Reilly Tools of Change, Televisa, BBC, and Cinekid in the Netherlands, as well as to such corporations as The Walt Disney Company, 20th Century Fox, Microsoft, The Coca-Cola Company, Sony Pictures, and Wieden+Kennedy.
• Creating Blockbuster Worlds - Transmedia Master Class
  Time: 6 Hours, plus 1-Hour Lunch Break Audience: Media, Telecommunications & Entertainment Professionals, Marketing & Advertising Professionals, Writers, & Serious Media Students Media: Apple MacBook Air Keynote Address w/Sound
  This exclusive seminar is a 6-hour survey of best practices in the field of multi-platform narrative creation. Transmedia storytelling is the vanguard process of conveying messages, themes or storylines to a mass audience through the artful and well-planned use of multiple media platforms and product lines. It is a philosophy of communication and brand extension that creates intense audience loyalty and long-term engagement, enriches the value of creative content, and generates multiple revenue streams.
  Seminar will be presented in two 3-hour blocks with a 45-minute break between them. Points of clarification can be requested during the talk, but a more substantial Q&A will be offered toward the end of each session.

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