James Milward is the founder of the Emmy® Award-winning interactive agency, Secret Location, and a frequent speaker at international conferences around the world. An entrepreneur as well as a producer, James has developed and built several original concepts into successful IP and venture-funded businesses, including the mobile music discovery application, Herd.fm and FanViewr, a Facebook distribution platform for TV properties that extends and deepens the online experience for fans.

The company has won over 50 awards including a Digital Emmy® Award for “Endgame Interactive” and a Gemini Award (Canada’s equivalent to the Emmy®) for stormingjuno.ca. Other recognitions include multiple AToMiC, Creativity International, CASSIES and Marketing Awards as well as the shortlist for the Cannes Lion and multiple Webby Awards.

Called “One of the 13 People Who Made the World More Creative” by FastCompany’s Cocreate, Nonny is an Annenberg Fellow doctoral candidate in the Interdivisional Media Arts Program at the USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She has been pioneering Immersive Journalism, a groundbreaking brand of nonfiction that offers fully immersive experiences of the news using virtual reality gaming platforms.

Combining her communication and technology skills with her lengthy career as a reporter, Nonny believes newsgames can deepen the understanding of complex stories. Her most recent project, Hunger in Los Angeles, creates the feeling of “being there” as a real crisis unfolds on a food-bank line at the First Unitarian Church. Hunger was called “one of the most talked-about” pieces at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was an integral part of the Midway at ONA’s 2012 conference.