Speaker and Consultant onMedia Convergence and Media StrategyJoachim Graf was born in 1960, is married and has three children. He studied sociology and politics at the University of Munich. From 1980 till 1983 he worked as the Federal Managing Director of the Deutsche Jugendpressee.V. (German Youth Press). Thereafter until 1986 he was the Configuration ControlManager at the Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt(German Research and Experiment Laboratories for Aerospace). From 1986 till 1989 heworked first as an Editor and later als the Deputy Chief Editor of the magazine „HappyComputer“ published by Markt & Technik Verlag.Since 1989 he lives and works in Munich as a Publicist and Editor, Trend-Scout, Consultant,Speaker and Author. Among others he wrote „Murphys Computergesetze“ (Murphy´sComputer Laws) and numerous market studies on the multimedia industry of Germany,Switzerland and Austria. He is a lecturer and teacher at the Macromedia Academy in Munich.1991 he founded together with his partner Daniel Treplin HighText Verlag (HighTextPublishing). The company provides knowledge services and trend-scouting on topics andissues in the realm of Interactive Media und Media Convergence. HighText runs the internetbasedmagazine iBusiness (www.iBusiness.de) and a distribution, production and consultingservice for Online PR (www.press1.de).Since 2003 he is the Spokesman of the Board of the FIWM Förderkreis IT- und MedienwirtschaftMünchen e.V. (Association for the Promotion of the IT- and Media Industry ofMunich).During the years 2006 and 2007 he gave speeches on the following topics and event:"Marketing auf dem Weg zu Web 3.0" / Dialog Marketing Forum, Vienna, Austria"Crash der Konvergenzen" / Media in Transition, Munich"Web 3.0 im Tourismus" / Marketing-Kongress, Bolzano, Italy"Chancen und Herausforderungen des Onlinehandels nach Web 2.0" / Versandhandelskongress,Wiesbaden)„Monitoring IuK-Wirtschaft“ Expertenworkshop zum Zweiten Nationalen IT-Gipfel, Berlin."Making business with Europe" (ICT Africa, Addis Abeba)
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