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Emerging Technology TECHNOLOGY drives CHANGE through DISRUPTIVE FORCES acting on the media industry. As media companies look more and more like tech companies and tech companies look more like media companies - the Emerging Technology Charter is to help Turner/TW take advantage of new technology, processes, systems, business models, and tools that will give it a competitive advantage in the evolving media landscape.

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An overview of Media Camp, Turner's incubator.

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Page 1: Turner - Corporate Innovation

Emerging TechnologyTECHNOLOGY drives CHANGE through DISRUPTIVE

FORCES acting on the media industry.

As media companies look more and more like tech companies and tech companies look more like media companies - the

Emerging Technology Charter is to help Turner/TW take advantage of new technology, processes, systems, business models, and tools that will give it a competitive advantage in

the evolving media landscape.

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Operational Alignment1. 2.Atlanta San Francisco

Product/Experience , Advertising and Technology Expertise from:• Google• Apple• Microsoft• Yahoo• AdobeRelationships with VCs, startups, and bell-weather companies to drive innovation

Extensive R&D Lab with:• 4 traditional platform

capabilities• 2 Dig cable,

Sat, IPTV• Complete end-end

broadcast capabilities• Digital Development

Team• Multiple web encoders

for OTT• Networking/

Operations Experts• Supports, tests, and

pilots innovations in Distribution, Advertising, and Analytics

• Sports Lab is part of this to build/test against distribution platforms like: Roku, Xbox, AppleTV, etc…

3. Media Camp

Turner’s “Outside-In” Innovation effort in Silicon Valley• Expanded to LA in

2013• Model aimed at

creating networking effect of startup ecosystem to work on technology and experience

• Weekly interaction with technology experts, entrepreneurs, and investors to extend innovation for Turner.

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Media Camp

Media Camp is an “outside-in” innovation effort to create a network effect of people, startups combined with internal team to work on problems and opportunities facing the evolving media landscape.

In using this approach to create a virtual “silicon valley”, we get unique and diverse approaches to drive seamless consumption of media across devices, platforms, and ecosystems – harvest and iterate on these ideas and spread out the risk and cost of innovation.

External InnovationHow Do We Tap Into Innovation Of Startup Ecosystem?

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2013

San Francisco Los Angeles

10 startups

(16 total alumni)

Lessons Learned

2012

San Francisco

•6 startups

•2 acquisitions by Apple and ShareThis

2014

San Francisco

Los Angeles

11 startups

(27 total alumni)

Media Camp – Snapshot