Dr. Markus Alsleben is a keynote and TEDx speaker, moderator, executive coach and expert for leadership development and transformation in global companies. He utilises innovative methods and custom-built formats to transform organisations through short-term interventions and workshops as well as multi-year transformation projects. 

Dr. Alsleben is teaching at KEDGE Business School for Executive MBA and Executive Education at Turkish German University in Istanbul. 

 Markus is German by birth and has lived in Germany, the UK, China, Hong Kong, Italy and now in Turkey. In his extensive career, he successfully managed large global teams across various cultures in senior executive positions in professional services and high tech. His current ventures focus on leadership development, innovation, and cross-cultural and agile management. 

He studied in Hanover, Germany, Birmingham, U.K. and Hong Kong and holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from the City University of Hong Kong and a Diploma in Economics from Hanover University Germany.

Markus holds a Harvard Higher Education Teaching Certificate, is a certified agile coach,  SCRUM master, certified OCAI, certified Hofstede Insights Organisational Culture Consultant, certified LEGO Serious Play coach and design thinking coach. 

Clients include: AIRBUS, BASF, Bayer, Balenciaga, Gemalto, Kering, Kornferry, L'Oreal, MAZARS, Pertamina, Postbank, Raiffeisen Bank International, Roche, SAFRAN, SAP, Salzburg Research, SwissRe, Subsea7 et.al.

He has 15 years of experience using a mix of qualitative and quantitative analysis to help organisations navigate complexity, reduce the risk of strategic choices, optimise business processes, align stakeholders and drive digital transformation to help businesses achieve their strategic goals. As a consultant and team leader, he has delivered ground-breaking digital products including social, video, and audio products as well as new digital platforms for businesses across North America, Europe and Asia including the BBC, The Guardian, Gannett, India’s Network 18 and Waggener-Edstrom UK.

He is a curious leader focused on increasing my emotional intelligence, my domain knowledge and my leadership skills. From 2020 to 2021, he pursued a master's degree in innovation management and leadership from the University of York. He graduated with distinction and earned an award for excellence for academic achievement.

Working in post-production since 1993, I’ve been witnessing the changes of a demanding but also highly creative industry. From tape to file, the passion for the emotional power of video and audio made me cross the Atlantic to learn more in the USA. By looking at the future while enjoying the present, I have been working on and leading the most complex projects of the RTP, such as the NOS ALIVE Music Festival, or designing editing networks and workflows. 

Mathias Behn Bjørnhof, founder of ANTICIPATE, is a leading expert in strategic foresight. With a background in innovation and a deep understanding of emerging trends, Mathias empowers organizations and individuals to thrive in an ever-changing world by guiding Fortune 500 companies, international institutions, and SMEs towards future readiness. As an experienced teacher in strategic foresight and anticipatory innovation, Mathias is dedicated to equipping business leaders with the skills to adapt to shifting paradigms, create meaningful change, and shape the future.

Fergus Bell is an experienced journalist, editor and leading expert in digital newsgathering, verification, newsroom innovation and collaborative journalism projects. 

Fergus’ experience spans both the business and editorial sides of the news industry. He has previously worked for CNN, ITN and spent eight years as a journalist and producer at the Associated Press, where he became their first International Social Media and UGC Editor. 

In 2019 Fergus co-founded Fathm, an independent news lab and consultancy working with broadcasters, publishers and media start-ups. He is also the co-founder of Pop-Up Newsroom, a framework for collaborative journalism projects that has seen success in the US, UK, India, Sweden and with the multi-award winning "Verificado" - an initiative designed to monitor for misinformation during the Mexican elections. In 2023 Fergus co-founded Syli, a non-profit journalism organisation dedicated to supporting the news industry to cover the climate crisis equitably and sustainably.

Fergus is a faculty member of the European Broadcast Union’s Academy and a graduate of the University of Leeds. He served on the Online News Association’s Board of Directors between 2020 and 2023.

Fergus is a graduate of the University of Leeds.

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Derek Bowler is the Head of Social Newsgathering at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), where he leads a global team of digital verification journalists and OSINT investigations specialists.

He has over 10 years of experience in discovering, verifying, and clearing eyewitness media for the EBU membership and other media organisations. Derek has produced documentaries, investigations, and projects using eyewitness media and visual forensics. He has also co-authored Eyewitness Textures: User-Generated Content and Journalism in the Twenty-First Century, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, and co-authored the EBU Eyewitness Principles and Guidelines.

He developed the Agile Newsroom event, a training model for visual verification skills, listed among the promising practices from Media and Information Literacy (MIL) training models in the Council of Europe’s Supporting Quality Journalism through Media and Information Literacy study.

Derek holds a BA (Hons) degree in Journalism and New Media from the University of Limerick, certifications in Terrorism and Counterterrorism from Georgetown University, and Intellectual Property Law and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania.

Tim is the founder of the Oxford Programme on Negotiation. An experienced practitioner and teacher on all aspects of negotiation, Tim has taught on various programmes at Saïd Business School and he is a Visiting Professor at the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, China. Tim has extensive public and private sector experience and is also the Chairman of the negotiation consultancy, TCA Limited.
 

Michael Curling has lived and breathed radio for most of his life. At the age of 10 he built a radio studio in his bedroom and broadcast on a loudspeaker to his long-suffering family. By the age of 17 he was working for BBC radio where he quickly discovered a joy for breaking with the established technical and editorial norms, designing and implementing studio tools that are still in use today in the BBC. In the early nineties he was dragged kicking and screaming in to a bi-media age where he discovered the joy of creating content for both TV and radio. His freelance career, which now spans well over 10 years, has taken him around the world with athletics, horse racing and skiing and he enjoyed his own home-coming at London 2012. Michael has won awards for his sound design and radio production in a world shared equally between sport and music radio. Michael has a burning desire to create rich content for online, radio and TV audiences. His latest exploits have seen the birth of EBU’s Storyboard tool - first developed when he was part of an award-winning team at a hackathon in Stockholm.

Alex’s training work ranges from delivering bespoke creative leadership training to broadcast commissioners, to offering personal development tips to 200 lively teenagers.  She has launched a creative network in the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; Ashe . She has also designed a strategic innovation model that has been adopted and that she continues to teach across all digital teams in the BBC.  She has earned the trust and respect of senior leaders in media and entertainment with an innovative and empowering one-on-one leadership development programme. Recently, she has coached production teams to pitch for and win business worth over £15 million.

Alex works with a number of other organizations, including; The Welcome Foundation, Amnesty International, The NHS, Cambridge University, The Royal British Legion, L’Oreal, BP, Moneysaving Expert, IMG, Coca-Cola and Pernod-Ricard. During her career with the BBC, Alex produced major events such as The Olympics, The General Election, The Grand National and Wimbledon.

Evie Daniels is a psychologist, communication skills trainer, and creator of theatre interventions, in both healthcare and corporate setting. Throughout her career, Evie has conducted countless interviews with children, specializing in those who have endured trauma from sexual abuse, domestic violence, and wartime experiences. She now trains healthcare professionals nationwide in conducting conversations with children about child abuse. Her dedication to giving children a voice led her to train journalists in child interviewing techniques, notably influencing youth news programs in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Owen Darbishire is the Rhodes Trust Associate Professor in Management Studies (Organisational Behaviour and Industrial Relations) at Saïd Business School and Sue Cormack Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.

Gerben Dierick is Chief Information Security Officer at VRT, and co-chair of the EBU Media Cyber Security group. He has worked in and lectured on cybersecurity for over 20 years. Gerben enjoys digging deep into the technical details as well as working on the human and policy level.

 

Philip is a video journalist who has worked on a range of content from BBC documentaries to sports programmes and travel videos.  He specialises in lightweight cameras as well as smartphones and pocket cameras.  He is also an experienced trainer and is involved with a project for the BBC's Outreach department which works with young people interested in the media.  Philip splits his time between London and Buenos Aires.

Pedro is a Software Developer, Trainer and Consultant, with over 20 years of experience in the broadcasting industry.

Pedro started his career as a researcher at INESC and then became one of the founders of MOG Technologies, where he worked for 15 years, most of which as the CTO. He led the development of many innovative products, such as the MXF::SDK and mxfSPEEDRAIL, as well as several bespoke projects.

He has also been actively involved in standardisation and EU research projects since he started his career.

He is a member of the Eurovision Academy faculty, where he has trained over 200 people in subjects like MXF, File-based workflows and Live-IP.

Pedro has an MSc in Telecommunications and Computers.

Paul has 20 years’ experience in the field of communications, education, and capacity-building, helping private and public sector organisations achieve their full potential. He has worked alongside some of the world’s best known organisations across multiple sectors, including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, Emerson, IBM, and British Telecom through to smaller and mid-size companies.
 

I lead the BBC’s Responsible AI team. Our role is to ensure that the BBC’s use of AI aligns with our values, priorities and legal and regulatory obligations. We co-ordinate overall governance of AI to ensure responsible internal development, procurement and use; provide tools and support to turn principles into practice with teams across the BBC; and work to build a culture across the whole organisation of using AI responsibly. Previously I worked in the BBC’s conversational AI team, after many years travelling the world as a radio reporter and producer with a passion for technology.

Jérôme Frizzera-Mogli is Director of Innovation and Business Development and researcher at the EDHEC Augmented Law Institute. A graduate of EDHEC, former lawyer from the Paris Bar, certified coach at the School of Practicing Psychologists, Jérôme Frizzera-Mogli has 18 years of experience in Internet and technological projects, in particular as an Accenture consultant, manager of 2 start-ups (leaders in their market) and account manager in investment funds.
He has been working for 5 years on the transformation of legal professions. In particular, he supports law firms in their onboarding, talent development and transmission strategies. He also works for Les Echos Formation and The School of Life Paris.
 

Michael Gates is Vice Chairman of Richard Lewis Communications. He is an internationally recognised teacher and writer on cross-cultural management, and a regular speaker at corporate and government events.
 

Jacqui brings with her 18+ years of military logistic and supply chain experience, with the addition of a second career in Humanitarian First Response with UK Government and International NGO including earthquakes, cyclone, and hurricane response.  

She has managed deployable staff on mission, been on mission herself, and managed the need for expeditionary supplies & equipment for staff as well as humanitarian aid deliveries.   

Jacqui acts as a representative of RPS Partnership who provide specialist training services to a range of multinational clients to give you peace of mind in our challenging world especially those working in fragile, hostile, conflict and post conflict countries.

Mal is Managing Director of UK based security and training company, Prime.While he is extremely focussed on developing the business Mal’s real passion is to pass on knowledge to others through training.His successful army career of 22 years included time with UK Special Forces, completion of the French Commando selection and global experience of specialist training and operations.Mal then moved into training management for telecommunications company Newbridge Networks Ltd, latterly Alcatel, with a global responsibility for specialist technical training.

After a move to working with the broadcast media industry in 2000, he then created Prime in 2003.

Peter has held several prominent positions involving high level negotiation, lobbying, organizational leadership, and the defence of strategic interests. He has notably provided legal and legislative services in the US law firm Morrison & Foerster, represented the Danish Ministry of Trade and Industry, and managed competition files when seconded to the European Commission. He has also long directed the European Centre for Lawyers and Judges in Luxembourg where he fostered the learning and development of officials and legal professionals who are involved in the complex proceedings of decision-making, implementation, and enforcement, within the EU and well beyond. He holds a Master in Law.

Clive is an acknowledged expert in service design, design thinking and digital and technology innovation who has led award-winning design teams for companies around the globe. Clive started in design consultancy Ideo in London and San Francisco before co-founding design company Tangerine with Martin Darbyshire and future Apple design chief and RCA Chancellor Jony Ive. He went onto build and lead design teams for Orange, Samsung and Cisco and was Director of Service Design at Barclays.

As Director for Design at the Design Council, he created the Design Demand programme taking design into over a thousand UK companies and as a consultant has worked with the Cabinet Office Policy Lab and at Nesta. He has been a visiting lecturer at the RCA since 2017. In 2018 Clive was named in Creative Review's Top 50 as 'a passionate advocate for the transformational potential of design for some three decades.

Clive speaks at national and international conferences, writes articles and blogs and has published Smart Design, a book on design and technology. He was a trustee of the Royal Society of Arts and is Chair of the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards.
 

Alain has developed an expertise in negotiation and strategic influencing both academically and in practice. He has been teaching and researching on negotiation mechanisms at various universities; in particular the processes prevailing within and between international or regional organisations, national public entities, or stakeholders in policy-making. He has also been preparing and working along with teams of operatives and decision-makers involved in multilateral legislative processes; the negotiation of international agreements; conflict resolution; and the advocacy of interests of third countries, regions, and international organisations. He has already carried out several training activities on the advocacy of Public Service Medias for the EBU Academy. He holds a Phd in Political Science and a Master in International Public Affairs from the University of Louvain, as well as two Masters from the College of Europe.

Experienced Senior Manager and Business Director within the Cyber Security field with extended management responsibilities from technical teams to principal consultants: development of strategies, development of products, services and solutions, processes and metrics, staffing plan, recruitment and operational management (cost, budget and efficiency).

Currently General Manager at Senthorus and Leading the strategy, business development, marketing, partnership and sales activities at ELCA Security. Previously Director at Kudelski Security responsible for overseeing all Cybersecurity Advisory Services and Operations activities for the EMEA region. Acting as a trusted advisor for CISOs (from SMB to billion dollars companies).
 

Henrik Keith Hansen has worked with editorial leadership, management and organisational development primarily in public broadcasting for almost ten years at mid-management and top-management level at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Altogether he has 20 years of experience from the media industry.

Today he is a senior management consultant and leadership trainer. He is part of the faculty of trainers at EBU and also works as a management consultant and trainer for a number of big international, national and regional European broadcasters.

His leadership and management specialities are: Creating and implementing visions and strategies, creating and leading the fully convergent newsroom, organizational development, change management, branding of company identity and key values, communication strategy, workflow and editorial procedures, recruiting, HR and staff development, coaching, feedback.

Nils Hanson was between 2003-2018 the editor-in-chief of Mission Investigate at Swedish Television (SVT), The program, aired prime time one hour a week, 39 times a year, makes a great impact on the Swedish society. During the last two years of his leadership, the program won ten in-ternational awards. He has himself received seven investigative awards. Today Nils continues work as an editor for Mission Investigate. He regularly teaches investigative methods all over the world and has written a book on the subject.

Linn is a digital strategist and project manager at SVT Sports. Linn has worked with gender balance in the sport newsroom since 2015.  Since then, she has been a guest speaker and a trainer in this field for both international and national media companies as well as sports organisations.   

Virginie Herz is France 24’s Foreign Affairs Editor and host of Actuelles, a weekly show on women reshaping the world. A French and German dual national, Virginie studied political science, European affairs and journalism in France, Germany, the UK and Spain. She started her career as freelance correspondent in Thailand, and later reported for French public TV. She joined France 24 at its launch in 2006. As a senior reporter, she has covered a broad array of international crises, conflicts and high-level summits. Her report on the Guinean putsch leader, “Dadis Camara”, was nominated for two major French awards. She was the Gold winner of the Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize for broadcast journalism at the 2018 UN correspondents association awards.
 

Thomas Hinrichs has been Managing Director Programming Information of Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation, part of the ARD network) since 2014. He has played a key role in driving forward one of the biggest reorganization processes within BR and has set up the first program directorate on a cross-media basis, which meant decisive changes for the news departments. Hinrichs is also responsible for the most successful radio program in Bavaria, BAYERN 1. Besides he is in charge of BAYERN 3 and of PULS, BR's cross media youth program. On top of that he leads BR's digital units. As AI and data-driven journalism are becoming increasingly important, he has established the Data, AI and Automation Lab department.

Before that, he was Second Editor-in-Chief at ARD-aktuell for eight years. And he worked in various editorial departments since 1990 as a TV journalist and as a correspondent in Bonn and later in Berlin for the ARD.

Sofie Hvitved, Senior Advisor & Futurist. Sofie is an expert in media & technology. She is currently working on the future of the Metaverse and how it will affect our lives. She has a solid strategic background in the media industry working with new media formats. Sofie is MA in Media Science from Aarhus University and has a solid strategic background in the media industry, among others from DR Strategy & Projects, and as project manager on the media conferences New Media Days & Radio Days. In addition, she has been working with magazine publishing, digitisation and technology and have handled a wide range of consultancy projects worldwide, where she draws on her broad knowledge in both theory and practice from the media and travel industry.

Ville Juutilainen is a journalist specialized in data-driven stories, visualization and new forms of storytelling. Juutilainen works at the Finnish Broadcasting Company’s (Yle) data and interactives team in Helsinki.

Majd works as an investigative journalist for different news programs with diversity of subjects. Most of the stories he works on are related to the Middle East and North Africa region.

He is a specialized researcher in UGC outsourcing and verification methods. How to create news stories and verify UGC during breaking news.

He conducted several investigative news stories on the conflict in the Middle East and the refugee crisis in Europe. He is also responsible for the verification of a lot of the user-generated and social media content that makes its way on the VRT outlets across TV, digital and radio. "Belgium fighters in Syria and Iraq" and "the business of refugee smuggling" are two investigative topics he is working on based on information gathered and verified from the user-generated and social media content.

Rowan Kerek Robertson was the Social Media Lead for BBC Television from 2011 to 2014. She is a social media consultant, producer and trainer with over 15 years of wide-ranging experience in the field of online communications.

Her work has involved setting the social media direction and strategy for very well-known broadcast brands including Doctor Who and BBC Earth, as well as ones without the benefit of global attention. While at the BBC, Rowan worked on hundreds of social media projects and was a key member of the BBC’s social media leaders, setting corporate direction, strategy and guidelines. She is also a highly experienced digital producer, writer and a keen content strategist. She has a unique and practical insight into the potential of successful social media, as well as the risks and required resources.

Rowan was the first person to develop social media training for BBC Television, back in 2006. She now works independently with the BBC Academy, including recently having rewritten one of the BBC’s core social media training courses. She also delivers bespoke social media training courses for a range of organisations including the UK-wide Digital Cities initiative.

Rowan started working in the online social world in 2001. Having been hands-on as a community manager, host and moderator, she has spent years helping people meet their needs in this area, from beginners to experts.

Cho has over 20 years of experience in leading and participating in country scenarios projects. He advises on political trends and political risk, and leads the external environment assessments for Shell’s country reviews. He was actively involved in developing the 1995, 1998, 2001 and 2005 sets of Shell Global Scenarios, the 2008 Shell Energy Scenarios and the 2013 New Lens Scenarios.

Jyri Kivimäki is an AI Coach at Yle, the Finnish Public Media Company and an expert on how to take advantage of AI in everyday work. Jyri has worked for many years as a multiplatform sports journalist, editor and producer. Over the past year, Jyri has been active demystifying AI, training & coaching colleagues from the newsroom to all corners of the media company. Jyri excels in making AI accessible and relatable to individuals across all skill levels.

Pavlo Kondratenko is a project manager, specialised in media production over IP networks at EBU Technology & Innovation. His background is in network engineering. He is a document editor of PICS for the SMPTE ST 2110 standards suite.

Ievgen Kostiukevych is the member of EBU Technology & Innovation team.

He is working on topics of Media over IP with a shift into Audio over IP topics, AES67 and SMPTE ST 2110-30 interoperability challenges.
He has 8 years of experience in broadcasting and sound production industry, including experience in change management, solutions architecture and AoIP integration.

Ievgen is a member of SMPTE and AES.

Uli Köppen is Head of the AI + Automation Lab and Co-Lead of the investigative data team BR Data at German Public Broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. She and her teams are investigating AI and automation for algorithmic accountability reporting as well as using this technology for data-driven journalistic products. The teams are building on the lab experience to form a strategy for using AI and automation for journalism.

Uli Köppen is Head of the AI + Automation Lab and Co-Lead of the investigative data team BR Data at German Public Broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. She and her teams are investigating AI and automation for algorithmic accountability reporting as well as using this technology for data-driven journalistic products. The teams are building on the lab experience to form strategy for using AI and automation for journalism.

Trudi works with leaders to support them with the achievement of their strategic objectives. She has over 20 years’ experience as a practitioner, educator and researcher in strategy, strategic foresight and scenarios. Prior to joining Oxford in her current capacity, Trudi served as Director and Head of Strategic Foresight at the World Economic Forum, and Consultant for Strategic Foresight at the OECD.

Pierre is senior representative of corporate interests and a professional accredited lobbyist with scientific expertise as an academic. He is the Secretary-General of several European associations and a manager at Orgalim, the European Technology Industries Association. He is a member of the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence set up by the European Commission. He has contributed to a number of strategic papers and communication campaigns. He holds degrees from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, the Free University of Berlin, and the College of Europe. He has lectured at the European Institute of Public Administration; he has been teaching lobbying and advocacy for more than 10 years at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Lille.

Dr. Steven MacGregor is an international speaker, bestselling author, wellbeing pioneer and leadership development expert. He has over 20 years of experience in wellbeing and positive leadership, is an advisor for McKinsey & Company and has worked with dozens of the world’s leading organizations.

He delivers inspiring keynotes and workshops around the globe, sharing his vision of life/work with health, wellbeing, and sustainable performance at the core. He draws on a PhD in design thinking, an Honorary Professorship at the Glasgow School of Art and several hundred sessions teaching at the world’s best business schools.

He is the author of a trilogy of books in the wellbeing space; Sustaining Executive Performance, Chief Wellbeing Officer, and The Daily Reset, is a former international Duathlete and national champion, and hosts the Chief Wellbeing Officer podcast.

Gianclaudio Malgieri is Associate Professor of Law and Technology at EDHEC Business School in Lille (France), where he conducts research at the EDHEC Augmented Law Institute and teaches data protection, intellectual property, ICT law and business law. He is also a lawyer and was a doctoral researcher at the Research Center for Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he was responsible for the European project H2020 PANELFIT. In 2019, he is the only European academic to receive the Future of Privacy Award. He is also an external expert for the European Commission for the evaluation of ethics and data protection and was deputy editor of Computer Law and Security Review.

Russell assists with situational awareness training and security consultancy, working with UK based security and training company Prime, at both a domestic and international level. He completed 20 years in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces including extensive service working with the UK’s Airborne and Special Forces.

Thereafter Russell forged a second career as a security and training consultant, living and working in south, central and north America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

Dr. Eleonora Maria Mazzoli is a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), an honorary policy fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, and Senior Policy Manager at Ofcom. She has a PhD in “Data, Networks and Society” from the LSE and she specializes in digital media and platform regulation, with an interdisciplinary academic and professional background in media economics and broadcasting policy. Prior to her current roles, she worked as an independent advisor and research consultant for think tanks, research groups, and public institutions, like the Council of Europe, and she was European affairs advisor in the Legal and Policy Affairs department of the European Broadcasting Union and the international relations department of RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana.

Georgie is a media/arts leader who has researched and shaped creative industries’ dynamics, programs and policy for 20 years. Most recently, she was acting CEO of AFTRS (the Australian Film, Television and Radio School) where she led Strategy and facilitated new thinking about Australian storytelling, industry practices, innovation and the Creative Economy push. Until 2016, she headed up Strategy and Communications at Screen Australia, and prior to that, was Manager of Policy and Research at Australia’s multicultural public broadcaster SBS. With an applied research Doctorate of Cultural Research, a Masters of Arts in Communications, an MBA underway and strong practical knowledge of the screen, arts and media industries, Georgie translates between ideas, research and practice. Georgie is on the Board of Diversity Arts Australia and the Advisory Board of QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre.

Charlie spent 15 years in the British Army, leaving in 1997 at the rank of Major. In the immediate years prior to his departure he managed the Army's prime intelligence cell in Northern Ireland for 2 1/2 years and then became Second in Command of the 1st Bn Irish Guards.

For 3 years he worked for Railtrack PLC as Facilites Manager and in 2002 Founded Objective Team plc, now Objective Travel Safety.

Specialties: Overseas safety training for business travellers, NGOs & journalist operating in hostile and/or post conflict countries. Risk assessments and general secuirty advice.

Objective Travel Safety ltd specialises in providing safety training for a range of clients working or travelling abroad. They offer hostile environment courses for journalists, NGOs and business travellers operating in conflict and post conflict countries. In addition they run courses for expedition and gap year students. Their business clients include BAe Systems, Exxon Mobil, the European Broadcast Union and they trained Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman prior to thier Long Way Down and Round expeditions.

 

Director-General of Radio Bremen (ARD) until 2019. Editor-in-chief of the national news program ZDF heute-journal. Head of Program Management of Television at Hessischer Rundfunk (Frankfurt a.M.). Program manager TV program “hr fernsehen” (Hessischer Rundfunk). Program manager radio program „hr1 – Das Informationsradio“ (Hessischer Rundfunk). ARD foreign-correspondent for the Iberian Peninsula and  Czechoslovakia (Madrid, Prague). Research trips to Central America, USA and the Philippines. Radio reporter, editor and moderator at Hessischer Rundfunk. Research / working stays in Mexiko, Israel and Palestine. Studies of history, politics and sociology (MA) in Freiburg, Berlin, Mexico D.F. and Frankfurt a.M. Teaching at HKB Hochschule der Künste Bern, Switzerland. Working for European Broadcasting Union (EBU): "Peer-to-peer reviews on Public Service Broadcasting Values" (RTE / Ireland, Cesky Rozhlas / Czech Republic).
 

 

Brendan Miller is a filmmaker specialising in explainers and films about politics. He has produced films for The New York Times, the BBC and the Financial Times.

He is the author of the Video Ideas email list, designed to give video journalists and nonfiction filmmakers regular ideas and inspiration from different corners of the internet. brendanmiller.co.uk 
 

Jeremy Myerson is the first-ever holder of the Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design, with a remit to encourage 'design that improves quality of life'. An academic, author and activist in design for more than 35 years, he began his working life as a journalist and was founder-editor of Design Week in 1986. He co-founded the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the RCA in 1999, and his research interests focus on the role of design in social, demographic and technological change. He was director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design from 1999 to October 2015.

A graduate of the RCA, Jeremy Myerson is the author of many books, chapters, papers and articles on people-centred and inclusive design. He is also director of the WORKTECH Academy, a visiting fellow at the Oxford Institute for Population Ageing, and sits on the advisory boards of design institutes in Hong Kong, Switzerland and Korea.

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Tove Mylläri is the AI Innovation Lead for the Finnish Broadcasting Company - Yle. She is a long-standing technology and innovation professional, keynote speaker, and the host of Yle’s AI Demo Event. At the recent Nordic Women in Tech Awards, she was the winner of the Innovator of the Year Award 2023. She also received the WomanITy Award in 2022 for her work in tech.

Caroline is an experienced trainer and security and risk management consultant, who has trained UK and foreign nationals both in the UK and overseas. She brings over 25 years of experience to RPS and has worked in Africa, the Middle East and South America, providing management and security training and advice for a broad range of companies and NGO’s; from large global media Corporations to oil and construction multinationals, as well as international charities, NGO’s and some Governments.

She is the former Head of High Risk Safety and Security at the BBC, where she advised journalists and other BBC staff on travel security and other security related matters.

Caroline undertook a PGCE in 2008, is a qualified teacher and achieved qualified teacher status (QTS) in 2009. She is a member of the General Teaching Council and a qualified trainer. She provides Train the Trainer courses.

She also has vast first aid experience and is a first aid trainer.

Active since 2012 in the Broadcasting industry, first at RTS the french speaking Swiss National Broadcaster as a software developer, Sébastien Noir evolved to lead the development of multiple digital products and mobile applications.

He then became the Product Manager of the VOD Platform PlaySRG for Switzerland, coordinating development teams, and delivering multilingual products for the different linguistic region.

In 2017, he joined the European Broadcasting Union to work as Product Owner for PEACH, the Personalisation and Recommendation System developed by Broadcasters for Broadcasters.

He is now head of Software engineering in EBU Technology and Innovation Department, coordinating teams and developments effort of innovative Services like PEACH, EuroVOX, and the EBU News Pilot making use of artificial intelligence.

Rubina Pabani is a video producer and podcaster and is currently working as the Head of Short Form at ITN Productions, makers of Channel 4 News and the Oscar nominated For Sama.
Her role includes pitching to broadcasters and platforms and making short form video and podcasts.

She has made a range of video content for BBC Three, Channel 4 and Snapchat and has co-hosted a podcast called Brown Girls Do It Too on BBC Sounds.
She was selected to be part of the Edinburgh Television Festival’s Ones To Watch scheme in 2019 and her work has won a Mind Media Award and a Broadcast Digital Award. 
 

Christophe is secretary to the EBU's Radio Sport Group which is concerned with all matters pertaining to radio sports rights acquisition policy and coverage of sports events. The Radio Sports Group helps promote and coordinate cooperation and to draft policies which enhance and protect Members' interests.

Michele Pekar is an international education management professional and senior trainer in negotiation and leadership, with 20 years of experience in higher education in the USA and abroad. She is a coordinator and service provider for executive courses, and develops, negotiates and manages programmes in higher education in Asia, Europe and North America.
 

IT security engineer at ARGE Rundfunk-Betriebstechnik's Information Security and Technology dept. (common subsidiary of ARD and ZDF in Germany).
Jakob started as a broadcast system engineer (mainly testing NLEs/Storage) and shifting focus to security over time.  Since 2012, Jakob has been working full time in IT security covering topics such as Penetration-Testing Broadcast (and other IT-) Systems, building custom testing-software and auditing concepts and deployments. Furthermore, Jakob has been giving training courses on IT security and pushing open source software. Jakob is active in EBU MCS group with focus on security testing.
 

Rafael is a world-leading expert on scenario planning. As a researcher and advisor, Rafael has worked extensively with NGOs, corporations, inter-governmental organisations, governments and think tanks. He is the author of several books and many scholarly papers, and he is on the editorial boards of three scenario planning journals.

Simone-Eva Redrupp is Adjunct Professor & Key Note Speaker & Business Coach at INSEAD. She has partnered with Erin Meyer (INSEAD) and The Culture Map methodology for over two decades.

With a lot of humour, she coaches international leaders to leverage cultural differences as assets in addition to helping multicultural teams improve their cross-border collaboration in a global environment.

Accompanying Executive Boards in their strategy around Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) have been her most recent projects: linking company values to inclusive leadership behaviors. She also contributes to research on the topics of: Cultural Agility, Unconscious Bias and Inclusive Leadership and Global leadership.

Simone-Eva is tri-cultural (English, French, German). She was educated and worked in five countries on two continents.  Originally from the financial & hospitality services, and the consulting field, she held senior operational, and key account management positions with multinational companies (Citibank, Disney, Club Med, etc.). She now designs and facilitates sessions with Fortune 500, CAC 40 and DAX multinationals and International Business Schools. She has partnered with Erin Meyer (INSEAD) and The Culture Map methodology for over two decades.

Simone-Eva holds a bachelor’s degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas, coursework from the Albert Ludwigs Universität in Germany, an MBA/MIM (Master in International Management) from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona.  As a Co-Active Business Coach, she is also certified on psychometric tools like the: MBTI, Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), the Global Competency Inventory (GCI), etc.

Christophe Roquilly, Ph.D, is a law professor at EDHEC Business School. He also holds the position of Director of the EDHEC Augmented Law Institute and Honorary Dean of Faculty and Research. His research and publications focus on the relationship between law and strategy, the place of law in business and legal performance, the evolution of legal professions through technological change, law and innovation. He is co-creator of the Augmented Lawyer Skills Framework. 

Alexandre is a Data Scientist and AI project Engineer at the EBU Technology and Innovation department. He holds a Master's Degree in Statistical Signal Processing as well as Data Science. He has an extensive background in Research and Development acquired within Nasdaq listed high tech companies. During his 18 years of experience, he contributed to research projects and innovative product design involving machine learning and signal processing. He has 12 patents granted and four publications in conferences. He is a data enthusiast, passionate about algorithms designed to extract meaningful information from a large dataset.

Cynthia’s research explores the nature of future-orientation, methods for handling uncertainty, and the intersections between sustainability and innovation. As a social scientist, she investigates the social, ethical and political dimensions of emerging technologies. She leads the Center for the Study of Futures at Arizona State University.

 

Hannah Storm is a media consultant, specialising in journalism safety, wellbeing and leadership. She is the Founder and Co-Director of Headlines Network, a community to improve mental health conversations in the news media. She is the former CEO and Director of the Ethical Journalism Network and served as Director of the International News Safety Institute. She began her career at Reuters, and has spent more than two decades working internationally across diverse forms of media, including broadcast, print and digital. Her book 'Mental Health and Wellbeing for Journalists: a Practical Guide' is published by Routledge in 2024.

Willem Vermost recently moved to VRT as Design & Engineering Manager. Prior to this role, he was the subject lead of the transition to IP-based studios at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). With 20 years of experience in broadcast, he is an expert and project manager of international strategic, expert groups and events. Willem has a master in electrical engineering and a master in applied computer science. He worked on several projects, including the multi-award winning VRT Live IP proof of concepts, the JT-NM Tested Program. He acted as deputy in the JT-NM admin board and the AWMA board of directors. As a faculty member of the EBU Academy, he provides training on the transition to live IP-based media facilities and is passionate about the underlying mechanisms of IP-based media. Willem started the open-source project EBU Live IP Software Toolkit project (LIST) which has grown into an international project.

Lovisa is an advisor and futurist engaging in the futures of cities through explorative, speculative, and critical practices. With a background in architecture, her work lies at the intersection of design, storytelling, and research focusing on the future of architecture, cities, and the impacts of urbanisation. Furthermore, she is invested in exploring how future studies and design can become complements to each other and how it can act as an aid for our imagination in different practices and processes to facilitate dialogs around extraordinary imaginaries of tomorrow, alternatives to the present and the many challenges facing us today.

Malinda’s professional experience spans senior roles within the corporate, political, philanthropic and NGO sectors. Before joining the Doc Society team, Malinda was Executive Director of Good Pitch Australia and Shark Island Institute from 2013-2019. During her time as Executive Director of Good Pitch Australia, Malinda raised more than $AUD14 million in philanthropic grants and built over 400 strategic partnerships for 19 social impact documentaries including: That Sugar Film, The Hunting Ground, Frackman and Gayby Baby. 

Malinda’s work in Australia transformed the social impact documentary landscape, proving the case that documentary film can serve as a key strategic tool to shift consciousness, change behaviour and influence policy. Her contribution has been formally recognised in a number of awards including the Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence, and the B&T Women in Media Award for Social Impact. In 2018 Malinda delivered a TEDx talk on the role that social impact documentary and campaigns can serve as a tool to strengthen democracy.

Malinda has worked as a mentor for pitch and impact workshops including Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and Good Pitch programs in South East Asia, Miami, Mexico, Brasil, Kenya and Colombia, an impact consultant at IDFA Festival, and on the jury a number of festivals including Festival International du Film documentaire Océanien (FIFO), Hawaiian International Film Festival, Antenna and Environment Film Festivals.

Malinda is Executive Producer of 2040 (dir. Damon Gameau), The Final Quarter (Dir. Ian Darling), and Big Deal: Is Our Democracy for Sale? (Dir. Craig Reucassel). She also currently serves as Deputy Chair of The Caledonia Foundation, Board Director of Australian Communities Foundation, and is Trustee of The Reichstein Foundation. Malinda is an adviser to Mannifera Democracy Funders Network, served on the Screen Australia Gender Matters Taskforce (2020 - 2022), and the Editorial Advisory Board of Pro Bono Australia (2020-21).