According to KISSKollector.com, GENE SIMMONS will be one of the keynote speakers at the The Next BIG Idea – The Future Of Branded Entertainment – Harnessing The Power Of Movies, Television, Music, Sports And Games Conference at the Renaissance in Hollywood, CA, on January 17. For $795 a ticket, this conference will learn you “everything you want to know about branded entertainment and non-traditional advertising”. The other keynote speakers include such hot shots as Audi’s director of marketing, the publisher of The Hollywood Reporter, Mercedes-Benz’ general manager, Universal Music Mobile’s vice president and William Morris Agency’s associate media director. Gene will be on between 2:45 and 3:30 pm, interviewed by Billboard’s Melinda Newman.

On his website Gene states: “Working on some Big New Ventures -- to be announced soon. In the meantime, for those of you who will be on this side of the Coast, I will be a Keynote Speaker at the Branded Entertainment Conference to be held at the Renaissance in Hollywood on January the 17th. Generally, it's not open to the public, I'm told. It seems confined to a few hundred CEO's and decision makers in corporate America. I'll be talking about the "Gene Simmons Brand"... sound like I'm full of myself? You bet. Pick up an issue of Billboard, Brandweek or other industry magazines and you'll see the full pager that gives you all the details. We will also be filming the event for our Gene Simmons Family Jewels/A&E; show. On the way to a (..gulp) vacation... Not really. I don't do vacations and don't want any. I love what I do and a vacation would only take me away from what I love doing: Staying busy. But we are going snowboarding to a vacation resort... and bringing our GS Family Jewels camera crews along for the festivities.”

Although Gene doesn’t want to reveal yet what his next magazine or some of his other “big new ventures” will be about, the Branded Entertainment Conference website reveals in their bio on Gene the title of his forthcoming magazine (Gene Simmons Game magazine) and that Gene’s brand new television network NG-TV (No Good TV) goes on the air in the summer.