The Keynote Speaker and WAVE Awards ceremony to be held at the Cable Center in Denver, CO, on Oct 24th, 2008

WAVE Awards - the Western Access Video Excellence Awards - are your opportunity to showcase your best work along with other community media producers in the Alliance for Community, Western Region's six states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada and New Mexico.

Keynote Speaker: David Mathison, Author of Be the Media

"David Mathison's BE THE MEDIA is a text and bible on how modern methods permit every person and organization to reach an audience that only a few years ago was reserved for the multi-billion dollar media conglomerates. It is a reference for uninhibited and unlimited methods that use print, computers, and the whole spectrum of devices right at hand in almost every community and household. It shows how to spread ideas without the traditional massive presses, major networks and commercial studios."

- Ben H. Bagdikian, Author, The New Media Monopoly; Pulitzer prize-winning journalist; Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley