Interviews and news

From 9 March, FIPP and VDZ will run a series of five two-weekly online seminars.

The postponed Digital Innovators' Summit 2020 will run online for the first time and take place alongside the 43rd FIPP World Media Congress from 2 to 30 September.

The media as an industry is more than ready to embrace the challenge of Coronavirus. Following on from a decade of digital transformation, media companies are highly adept at evolving at a rapid pace. The current unprecedented times could present...

VDZ and FIPP, joint organisers of the Digital Innovators’ Summit (DIS), are today announcing that the 2020 edition will be postponed until September. This is due to the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 virus outbreak.
 
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At DIS 2020 Peter will be explaining how „Wer liefert was,“ a 90 year old company reinvented itself as an agile internet enterprise. Here he talks of the potential of new technology like AI and AR in the b2b space as well as his ambition to create in...

At DIS 2020 Marcus will be presenting with Alexander Babing, Director New Business of Unitb, the company who built the web CMS and delivery platform for Ringier’s Swiss German-language daily newspaper Blick. Together they will discuss how Blick...

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Doris Ke, Founder at Business of Women, is an authority on the intricacies of the Chinese media and ecommerce worlds. At DIS 2020 she will be discussing social media growth hacking, and the  lessons media companies can learn from China’s Key opinion...

Erica Anderson is among those who have made the move from tech giant to innovative publisher. At DIS 2020 Erica will talk about how to build new media brands and products across multiple, inter-connected channels.

At DIS 2020 Oliver von Wersch, the founder of media consultants vonwerschpartner and a veteran of several high profile European publishers, will attempt to bring some clarity to GDPR.

Rebekah Billingsley is Global Innovation Director, Cedar Communications a UK based company that has innovated in the use of the new generation of data tools.

Scott Lamb explains Medium’s publishing strength and the centrality of building relationships between readers and editorial entities. He also looks back at his time at BuzzFeed and offers his views on how venture-backed media entities, like BuzzFeed...

There are now only days left to sign up for DIS2020 in Berlin with our exclusive Early Bird offer, shaving 400€ per ticket off the eventual rate! This offer ends on Friday 31 January.

Almar Latour, Publisher for Barron’s Group and EVP at Dow Jones, is a US-based Dutch national with a 360 degree view of financial and business media and where it is heading.

At DIS 2020 the company's chairman and managing director, Matthias Bauer, will outline his vision for the Vogel of tomorrow - a company that works across digital, print, events and more while at the same time is very focused on nurturing and...

The Digital Entertainment Group monitors the changes and advises its members on how to respond. At DIS 2020 we are going to be welcoming the group’s President and CEO Amy Jo Smith who will talk about what media more widely can learn from the changes...

Kaspar Szymanski will present his SEO vision at DIS 2020.

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Hazel Baker is Global Head of UGC Newsgathering at Reuters, and leads a team which sources user-generated content from across the globe. At DIS2020, she will be focusing on the process Reuters undertakes to ensure that its UGC is not just newsworthy,...