Agenda 2018

08:00 - 09:15 | Registration, Networking Coffee & Meetings

09:15 | Audience call & welcome

09:30 - 10:45 | Opening Keynotes

• 09:30 - 09:55

  • 09:30 - 09:55

    The Amazonification of media

    • 
      Troy Young, Hearst Digital Media

• 09:55 - 10:20

  • 09:55 - 10:20

    Transforming Hong Kong's newspaper of record to build a digital powerhouse – South China Morning Post

    • 
      Gary Liu, South China Morning Post

• 10:20 - 10:45

  • 10:20 - 10:45

    Top media innovation trends from around the world

    • 
      Juan Señor, Innovation Media Consulting Group

10:45 - 11:05 | Networking coffee break

11:05 - 12:15 | Audience engagement / Exploring new opportunities

• 11:05 - 11:15

  • Atrium Stage

    11:05 - 11:15

    Set your content free – a Q&A on the future of storytelling

    • 
      Mark van de Kamp, Escenic

  • Specialist Stage

    11:05 - 11:15

    If only I knew this before – Insights from a Media & Salesforce Executive

    • 
      Stan Sugarman, Salesforce.com Inc

• 11:15 - 11:35

  • Atrium Stage

    11:15 - 11:35

    Using emerging media formats to super-charge audience engagement

    • 
      Maureen Hoch, HBR.org, Harvard Business Review

  • Specialist Stage

    11:15 - 11:35

    From magazine publisher to data business

    • 
      Pauli Aalto-Setälä, Aller Media Oy

• 11:35 - 11:55

  • Atrium Stage

    11:35 - 11:55

    Differentiation in an age of 'efficient journalism'

    • 
      Molly Miller, ALM Media

  • Specialist Stage

    11:35 - 11:55

    How traditional media know-how helped VISUAL STATEMENTS become a profitable social media publishing business built on e- commerce and native ads

    • 
      Benedikt Böckenförde, Visual Statements
    • 
      Kerstin Schiefelbein, VISUAL STATEMENTS

• 11:55 - 12:15

  • Atrium Stage

    11:55 - 12:15

    Facebook and publishers: business models for a digital future?

    • 
      Guido Bülow, Facebook Germany

  • Specialist Stage

    11:55 - 12:15

    AI and the future of work

    • 
      Linda Ligios, Springwise Intelligence

12:15-12:20 | 5-minute interval

12:20-13:00 | Revenue strategies / AI and media innovation

• 12:20 - 12:25

  • Atrium Stage

    12:20 - 12:25

    Tons of content: Who can read it all?

    • 
      Jens Gützkow, PressMatrix

  • Specialist Stage

    12:20 - 12:25

    Don’t manage performance marketing by yourself

    • 
      Sabrina Spielberger, digidip

• 12:25 - 13:00

  • Atrium Stage

    12:25 - 13:00

    Panel discussion: The pivot to reader revenues

    • 
      Stefan Betzold, Axel Springer Digital News Media Germany
    • 
      Grzegorz Piechota, Harvard Business School and Reuters Institute, University of Oxford
    • 
      Abi Spooner, Dennis

  • Specialist Stage

    12:25 - 13:00

    Panel discussion: Let's talk machine learning, chatbots, automated journalism, localisation and intention management

    • 
      Johan Åhlund, jabberBrain
    • 
      Margaret Ann Dowling, Create and Translate.org
    • 
      Dr. Markus Peschl, University of Vienna; theLivingCore

13:00-14:15 | Networking lunch break

14:15-15:05 | Exploring new business / Tech adoption in the newsroom

• 14:15 - 15:40

  • Atrium Stage

    14:15 - 15:40

    A new kind of media for a new generation

    • 
      Melissa Rosenthal, Cheddar Inc.

  • Specialist Stage

    14:15 - 15:40

    Balancing editorial instinct with technological innovation: a conversation with IMG’s Juan Senor on the evolving role of analytics in the modern newsroom

    • 
      Juan Señor, Innovation Media Consulting Group
    • 
      Em Kunze, Content Insights

• 15:40 - 15:05

  • Atrium Stage

    15:40 - 15:05

    Lessons from Schibsted's money-making video machine

    • 
      Helje Solberg, VGTV - Shibsted

  • Specialist Stage

    15:40 - 15:05

    What newsrooms can learn from fact-checkers about innovation and collaboration

    • 
      Mark Stencel, The Reporter's Lab; Duke University

15:05-15:10 | 5-minute interval

15:10-15:50 | Blockchain / Revenue strategies

• 15:10 - 15:30

  • Atrium Stage

    15:10 - 15:30

    Blockchain and the future of media

    • 
      Ingo Rübe, BOTlabs

  • Specialist Stage

    15:10 - 15:30

    How Insider Inc. helps readers and generates revenues through commerce

    • 
      Breton Fischetti, Business Insider

• 15:30 - 15:50

  • Atrium Stage

    15:30 - 15:50

    Civil is about to launch a decentralized marketplace for sustainable journalism using blockchain technology

    • 
      Daniel Sieberg, Civil

  • Specialist Stage

    15:30 - 15:50

    How, after quitting their jobs, 50 journalists built a new and profitable news business

    • 
      Tomas Bella, Dennik N

15:50-16:20 | Networking coffee break

16:20-17:55 | Media innovation / Brand transformation and development

• 16:20 - 16:30

  • Atrium Stage

    16:20 - 16:30

    Consequences and technology development of AI

    • 
      Dieter Reichert, censhare

  • Specialist Stage

    16:20 - 16:30

    ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’

    • 
      Koos Hussem, President & CEO

• 16:30 - 16:50

  • Atrium Stage

    16:30 - 16:50

    Speed and innovation: Using technology to drive growth at The Washington Post

    • 
      Matthew Monahan, Arc Publishing, Washington Post, USA

  • Specialist Stage

    16:30 - 16:50

    Building ALT.dk

    • 
      Sara Wilkins, ALT.dk - Egmont Publishing

• 16:50 - 17:10

  • Atrium Stage

    16:50 - 17:10

    Saving Libelle

    • 
      Hilmar Mulder, Libelle - Sanoma

  • Specialist Stage

    16:50 - 17:10

    How Olive feeds foodies' desires across multiple platforms

    • 
      Laura Rowe, Immediate Media Co.

• 17:15 - 17:55

  • Atrium Stage

    17:15 - 17:55

    How The New York Times develops and grows its customer base

    • 
      Ben Cotton, The New York Times

  • Specialist Stage

    17:15 - 17:55

    Privacy, the EU and the future of advertising

    • 
      Oliver von Wersch, Founder and CEO, vonwerschpartner Digital Strategies, Germany

  • Atrium Stage

    17:15 - 17:55

    Brands as media owners

    • 
      Stuart Adamson, Thomas Cook Media & Partnerships

17:55-18:00 | Wrap

18:00-20:00 | Networking drinks, dinner buffet & meetings

08:00 - 09:15 | Networking coffee and meetings

09:15 - 09:30 | Audience call and welcome back

09:30 - 10:45 | Strategy

• 09:30 - 09:55

  • 09:30 - 09:55

    AI and the future of society

    • 
      Chris Boos, arago

• 09:55 - 10:20

  • 09:55 - 10:20

    High-speed disruption, real data, the scourge of fake news. How to win as a digital publisher

    • 
      Dr. Andreas Wiele, Axel Springer

• 10:20 - 10:45

  • 10:20 - 10:45

    What next for platforms and publishers?

    • 
      Vivian Schiller, Weber Shandwick; Scott Trust, USA

10:45 - 11:15 | Networking coffee break

11:15 - 12:00 | Exploring new opportunities/ Voice-activated devices

• 11:15 - 11:20

  • Atrium Stage

    11:15 - 11:20

    How to engage your audience with “Google for restaurants”

    • 
      Ilkka Lavas, City Magazine, Improve Media, TableOnline, EatAndTheCity

  • Specialist Stage

    11:15 - 11:20

    Give your journalists the tools produce professional content – any time, anywhere

    • 
      Pablo Herrero, Vizrt

• 11:20 - 12:00

  • Atrium Stage

    11:20 - 12:00

    Single sign-on across industries – the opportunity for publishers

    • 
      Donata Hopfen, verimi

  • Specialist Stage

    11:20 - 12:00

    Storytelling on voice-activated devices

    • 
      Alexander Bregman, Google

  • Atrium Stage

    11:20 - 12:00

    Three ways forward for modern advertisers

    • 
      Bernhard Glock, MediaLink

12:00 - 12:05 | 5-minute Interval

12:05 - 12:55 | Media models / Exploring new opportunities

• 12:05 - 12:15

  • Atrium Stage

    12:05 - 12:15

    Changes in consumer behaviour in using and paying for content

    • 
      Nikolay Malyarov, PressReader

  • Specialist Stage

    12:05 - 12:15

    Freewall: The third monetisation strategy because well-funded journalism matters

    • 
      Prash Naidu, Rezonence

• 12:15 - 12:35

  • Atrium Stage

    12:15 - 12:35

    It's digital ... but not as we know it

    • 
      Julian March, Future plc

  • Specialist Stage

    12:15 - 12:35

    How the rise of Visual Search will impact on your media business

• 12:35 - 12:55

  • Specialist Stage

    12:35 - 12:55

    How IDG's global pivot to hyper- vertical publisher can work for you

  • Atrium Stage

    12:35 - 12:55

    Using real-time algorithms for data-driven content monetisation

12:55 - 13:40 | Networking lunch break

13:40 - 15:20 | Audience engagement

• 13:40 - 14:00

  • 13:40 - 14:00

    How CNI Digital's global social media works to reinforce local brand loyalty and enhance storytelling

    • 
      Hannah Ray, Condé Nast International

• 14:00 - 14:20

  • 14:00 - 14:20

    Bleacher Report's recipe for reaching millennial men

    • 
      Lee Walker, Bleacher Report

• 14:20 - 14:40

  • 14:20 - 14:40

    Snap judgements: Snapchat and The Economist's digital strategy

    • 
      Lucy Rohr, The Economist

• 14:40 - 15:00

  • 14:40 - 15:00

    How the Social Listening via Brandwatch influences Marketing and Product decisions at the BBC

    • 
      Will McInnes, Brandwatch
    • 
      Jenny Woods, BBC

• 15:00 -15:20

  • 15:00 -15:20

    The remarkable transformation of Atlantic Media's National Journal

    • 
      Kevin Turpin, National Journal - Atlantic Media

15:00 - 15:15 | Wrap