ATTN TO ALL Media ATTN TO ALL Media interestee this is a speaker for you to meet and to listen to!!

The ROTARY CLUB OF BURNABY is hosting and would like to present to you:

ROTARY CLUB OF BURNABY WEBSITE: https://www.rotaryburnaby.org/

Our guest speaker this Friday at Fortius will feature Rudy Buttignol, President and CEO of Knowledge Network, B.C.’s public broadcaster; President of the BBC Kids Channel; Graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University; documentary filmmaker and independent writer; Officer of the Order of Canada

Buttignol's career spans more than four decades. At the beginning of his career, he worked as an independent producer, director, writer and editor of documentary and children's programs, and later as a commissioning editor, television programmer, and broadcast executive. He has been called "Canadian broadcasting and documentary guru" and "friend of the auteur in Canada and abroad". Buttignol is acknowledged for his roles developing Canadian cultural policy related to documentary film funding and broadcasting[13] and advancing the creative documentary genre in Canada[14] and on the world stage. Rudy Buttignol originated the idea behind the 2014 television series Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH. He stressed the distinction between the genre of the series, which is a documentary, and that of reality-based entertainment.

Rudy Buttignol works from within the Canadian media system to improve and protect it. He has published criticisms of the governance of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Buttignol has moved beyond policy on public broadcasting to Canadian federal policy governing the cultural industries. He has raised the alarm about the gradual dismantling of the Canadian media industry in the face of ever-increasing dominance by a handful of powerful American corporations. Buttignol has gone on the record against the Silicon Valley Internet giants (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and especially Netflix) being allowed to operate in Canada, and other countries, free from regulation and taxation.

Credits: wikipedia

More info on https://www.knowledge.ca/about/president-ceo

LOCATION: N.B. Vancouver "B" Meeting Room - Fifth Floor- 3713 Kensington Ave · Burnaby, BC

You don't want to miss this...

Afterwards, we have some spare time to network

OPTION - For lunch - can you purchase it at the cafe upstairs