News brief: Olympic ceremony mastermind at Children’s Media Conference

The Children’s Media Conference will be opened by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the kids writer who jointly created the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony.

Cottrell Boyce will give the opening keynote at the event this July as it heads into its tenth year. His screenwriting credits include Welcome to Sarajevo and he has penned several kids books including Millions and Cosmic.

Anna Home, Conference chair, said: “Our theme for 2013 is ‘Are we there yet?’ Here we will take stock of the innovation in funding, making, distributing and consuming content over the last decade and we’ll look at where kids’ media is going and, in this world of constant change, if there is indeed a destination to get to.”