C3PO actor Anthony Daniels to star at TEA's SATE conference
POSTED 11 Sep 2015 . BY Tom Anstey
‘A Conversation with Anthony Daniels’ moderated by Scott Trowbridge, creative executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, will be the highlight of this year’s event
Anthony Daniels, the only person to appear in all seven Star Wars films where he portrayed protocol droid C3PO, is set to star at this year’s annual Storytelling Architecture Technology Experience (SATE) Conference kicks off in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania next week.
First making its debut in 2007, the annual SATE conference, hosted by the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA), has gone from strength-to-strength and this year comes to the Carnegie Mellon University, offering a two-day international gathering of themed entertainment and experience design creators, producers, owners and operators.
‘A Conversation with Anthony Daniels’ moderated by Scott Trowbridge, creative executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, will be the highlight of this year’s event.
Trowbridge, who is responsible for strategic concept development and integration of the Star Wars franchise at Disney’s parks and resorts, will interview Daniels onstage in an ‘Inside the Actors Studio-style’ talk, with the two sharing stories exploring the changing role of technology and the effect it has had on museum installations and rides. During the session, they will also talk about the opportunity ‘Star Wars in Concert’ provided to widen the brand’s fanbase and how technology and multimedia expanded that experience.
Loren Barrows, director of Business Development at Alcorn McBride, and Shirley Saldamarco, president of Interactive Media Productions and faculty member of Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center, are acting as co-chairs for the event, while Smithink president Linda Smith, Forrec’s Anthony Van Dam, Electrosonic’s Paul Kent and Walt Disney Imagineering’s Cory Rouse will act as segment chairs.
This year’s SATE conference takes place 17-18 September. For more click here.
It’s been a big weekend for Disney, after the company announced details for its first
Marvel attraction, a Toy Story-themed expansion at Hollywood Studios and the long-
rumoured plans for a Star Wars land at two of its US theme parks.
The Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) is holding another of its SATE (Storytelling,
Architecture, Technology, Experience) Academy Days in September, this time hosted at
the 2015 Milan Expo.
Disney CEO Robert Iger has revealed details about the company’s sixth theme park resort,
with Shanghai Disneyland set to include Star Wars and Marvel experiences when it opens
in China in Q1 of 2016.
Numbers from the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, (ALVA) show that Royal attractions
saw a huge increase in visitor numbers during 2023 – the coronation year of King Charles III.
Off the back of the success of the first round of Everyday Heritage Grants in 2022, Historic
England is funding 56 creative projects that honour the heritage of working-class England.
Universal has revealed it will be adding new Harry Potter attractions, alongside Super Nintendo
and How to Train Your Dragon worlds to its Florida resort.
Cruise Ship Interiors (CSI) invites cruise lines, shipyards, design studios, outfitters,
and suppliers to take part in CSI Design Expo Americas in Miami, Florida, the region’s only
event dedicated to cruise ship interior design. [more...]
C3PO actor Anthony Daniels to star at TEA's SATE conference
POSTED 11 Sep 2015 . BY Tom Anstey
‘A Conversation with Anthony Daniels’ moderated by Scott Trowbridge, creative executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, will be the highlight of this year’s event
Anthony Daniels, the only person to appear in all seven Star Wars films where he portrayed protocol droid C3PO, is set to star at this year’s annual Storytelling Architecture Technology Experience (SATE) Conference kicks off in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania next week.
First making its debut in 2007, the annual SATE conference, hosted by the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA), has gone from strength-to-strength and this year comes to the Carnegie Mellon University, offering a two-day international gathering of themed entertainment and experience design creators, producers, owners and operators.
‘A Conversation with Anthony Daniels’ moderated by Scott Trowbridge, creative executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, will be the highlight of this year’s event.
Trowbridge, who is responsible for strategic concept development and integration of the Star Wars franchise at Disney’s parks and resorts, will interview Daniels onstage in an ‘Inside the Actors Studio-style’ talk, with the two sharing stories exploring the changing role of technology and the effect it has had on museum installations and rides. During the session, they will also talk about the opportunity ‘Star Wars in Concert’ provided to widen the brand’s fanbase and how technology and multimedia expanded that experience.
Loren Barrows, director of Business Development at Alcorn McBride, and Shirley Saldamarco, president of Interactive Media Productions and faculty member of Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center, are acting as co-chairs for the event, while Smithink president Linda Smith, Forrec’s Anthony Van Dam, Electrosonic’s Paul Kent and Walt Disney Imagineering’s Cory Rouse will act as segment chairs.
This year’s SATE conference takes place 17-18 September. For more click here.
It’s been a big weekend for Disney, after the company announced details for its first
Marvel attraction, a Toy Story-themed expansion at Hollywood Studios and the long-
rumoured plans for a Star Wars land at two of its US theme parks.
The Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) is holding another of its SATE (Storytelling,
Architecture, Technology, Experience) Academy Days in September, this time hosted at
the 2015 Milan Expo.
Disney CEO Robert Iger has revealed details about the company’s sixth theme park resort,
with Shanghai Disneyland set to include Star Wars and Marvel experiences when it opens
in China in Q1 of 2016.
Numbers from the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, (ALVA) show that Royal attractions
saw a huge increase in visitor numbers during 2023 – the coronation year of King Charles III.
Off the back of the success of the first round of Everyday Heritage Grants in 2022, Historic
England is funding 56 creative projects that honour the heritage of working-class England.
Universal has revealed it will be adding new Harry Potter attractions, alongside Super Nintendo
and How to Train Your Dragon worlds to its Florida resort.
Cruise Ship Interiors (CSI) invites cruise lines, shipyards, design studios, outfitters,
and suppliers to take part in CSI Design Expo Americas in Miami, Florida, the region’s only
event dedicated to cruise ship interior design. [more...]