Who attends?
Delegates
DIS is an international, English-medium forum for key decision-makers and senior executives in strategic and operational capacities in media and related industries from across the globe.
Around 35 per cent of the delegates are from Germany, 45 per cent from the rest of Europe and the rest from around the world. They are made up of senior level strategic and operational managers, consultants, academics and rising media stars.
They have learnt from and been inspired by DIS's unrivalled line up of speakers. They have networked and shared ideas, built relationships and done business.
You can too.
Speakers
Speakers at DIS come from from various part of the world, leading businesses in different shapes and sizes. Speakers in recent years were from organisations and brands such as:
A:
AJ+, USA
Aller Media, Finland
Amazon, Luxembourg
Atlantic Media, USA
AwesomenessTV, USA
Axel Springer, Germany
D:
Dennik N, Slovakia
Dennis Publishing, UK
G:
G+J, Germany
Google, Ireland
J:
Jaunt VR, The Netherlands
M:
Meredith Corporation, USA
Mic, USA
Mozilla Foundation, USA
Q:
Quartz, USA
T:
The Economist, UK
The Foundry, UK
The New Yorker, USA
The New York Times, USA
The Next Web, The Netherlands
The Onion, USA
The Washington Post, USA
Thomas Cook Media & Partnerships, UK
TU Media, Norway
Twitter, UK
W:
Weber Shandwick, USA
Wolters Kluwer, Italy
B:
BBC, UK
Bleacher Report, USA
BMW, Germany
Bloomberg, USA
Bonnier, Denmark
Business Insider, USA
BuzzFeed, USA
E:
Editorial Perfil, Argentina
Egmont Publishing, Denmark
H:
Handelsblatt, Germany
Harvard Business School, USA
Harvard Business Review, USA
Hearken, USA
Hearst Digital Media, USA
Hotnest, China
Hubert Burda Media, Germany
HuffPost, USA
K:
Kommunal Rapport, Norway
N:
NBC News Digital, USA
National Geographic Partners, USA
NowThis, USA
R:
Refinery29, USA
Reuters Institute, Oxford University, UK
Ringier Africa, Kenya
U:
University of Vienna, Austria
C:
Cannes Lions, UK
Carmel Ventures, Israel
Centaur Media, UK
Cheddar Inc., USA
CNN, USA
Condé Nast, UK
Crosscut Ventures, USA
F:
Facebook, USA
Financial Times, UK
Future, UK
I:
IDG, UK
L:
LinkedIn, USA
P:
Panoply, USA
Paris Match, France
Politico Europe, Belgium
S:
Sanoma, The Netherlands
Schibsted, Norway
Singularity University, Poland
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
Spain Media, Spain
Storyful, Ireland
Stanford University, USA
V:
VICE, Germany
Vikatan Media Group, India
Vivendi, France
Sponsors and exhibitors
As with delegates and speakers, sponsors and exhibitors come from many parts of the world. They are media/tech innovators in own right and have one thing in common: using DIS as a premium environment to reach and engage with some 600 decision-makers from 35+ countries to build networks and do business.