Maxim Jago FUTURIST
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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Future Construct podcast. I am your host, Amy Peck, and we're still in our Futurist series with talking with a lot of people who are spending a lot of time thinking about technology and our collective future. And today I have a good friend and colleague, Maxim Jago. Welcome, Maxim. Nice to see you.
Thank you. Very happy to be here.
So Maxim, you are a futurist. You're the founder and CEO of the Creativity Conference, which I just attended in New York, which is fantastic. And you'll be doing another virtual version soon. You're a film director. And something that you don't share a lot, which I'm going to just out you, is that you are one of the world's foremost experts on Adobe Premiere Pro. Oh,
yeah. Yeah.
Adobe flies you all over the world to teach people and you've written their books and trained. I mean, how many people do you think you've actually trained in Adobe Premiere Pro? All
of them, Amy. All of them. Literally all of them. I write the official book on Premiere Pro, which is the classroom in a book, and the official book on Adobe Audition, which is their audio software. And I recorded 2,300 tutorials on post-production, also for Avid and Grass Valley for EDIUS.
But for
Adobe, actually, if you open up Premiere Pro, you'll find me inside it. And a lot of people, they don't see my face. So if I use my radio voice and say something like, now let's open up the file menu and add some clips to the timeline, people start freaking out because I've been in. I know this guy. Well, they learned Premiere Pro. So I've been working with Adobe for quite a few years on that stuff. And so, yeah, yeah, I know it pretty well. I wrote some of the exam questions, that kind of thing.
Oh, good. That's amazing. So, you know, I like to start out by just, you know, talking about everyone's, which it's always the case, this circuitous journey to get sort of where they are today. So, you know, how did you, first of all, get into, you know, filmmaking and the evolution into tech and then, you know, really being focused on the future and then the Creativity Conference?
Well, I got lucky really. When I was a kid, I decided I was going to be a film director when I was 30. I won't go that far back. But when I was 13, I thought, yeah, film director, sure. And I had no idea what that meant. But I was wise enough to think I'd better get some other skills too. So I got some IT skills.
Who is Maxim Jago and what is his background in film and technology?
And then I ended up paying my way through film school paying my rent by doing tech support for Microsoft, actually, in a call center. And that just taught me an enormous amount of technology. And I began a dual career where I was making films as an indie filmmaker and increasingly doing more and more advanced high-level technology work. I ended up European tech support trainer for 3Com, big tech company at the time, and doing third level support, which was quite an experience. And then I decided, you know, I really, I need to focus on filmmaking. And I did that for a long time. But I increasingly would be consulting on future technology for media and doing keynotes and speaking. And I kind of got, you know, I ended up writing the book on Premiere Pro, which is a long, boring story.
And then I was known for media tech and post-production. And then that gradually I'd be talking about future and emerging technology like XR and AI and that sort of thing. And I had a friend at NASA. who would always introduce me to people as a futurist. And after about a year, I was saying, why do you keep doing that? And he said, well, look, I work at NASA. In my opinion, you're a futurist. So, okay, fine. I'm a futurist.
And so you
shall.
And so you shall. Cake for everybody. So I just started consulting more and more and more on future and emerging tech.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:02
2
Who is Maxim Jago and what is his background in film and technology?
3:02–5:15
3
How did Maxim become a leading expert on Adobe Premiere Pro and what contributions has he made?
5:15–9:33
4
What path did Maxim follow from indie filmmaking to becoming a futurist and consultant?
9:33–24:01
5
What is the Creativity Conference and how does its unique speaker brief shape the event?
24:01–32:19