DPP Executive Summit 2024

The Executive Summit is a closed, invitation-only event for speakers at the 2024 Leaders’ Briefing featuring selected executives from the content provider community.

19 November 2024, London

In Person

The Executive Summit is a small, closed, invitation-only event on the eve of the Leaders' Briefing, designed for selected executives from the content provider community.

*Please note that we will not be accepting any invitation requests for this event*

Liz Bales

British Association of Screen Entertainment

CEO

Dennis Buhr

SVT

Head of Production Development

Peter Elvidge

Cognizant

Director, Media and Entertainment

Larissa Görner

Proximus Media House

CTO

Rebecca Jackson

Caretta Research

Marketing & Business Development

Mike Kralec

Sinclair

SVP & CTO

Matt McDonald

Warner Bros. Discovery

Group SVP, EMEA Broadcast Services

Jeff Moore

Ross Video

EVP & Chief Marketing Officer

Sarb Nijjer

Banijay UK

COO

Atul Phadnis

Vitrina AI

Founder & CEO

Jon Roberts

ITN

CTO

Beatrice Rossmanith

Vitrina AI

Director of Insights and Data Solutions

Eve Sherlock

TikTok

Content Lead - LIVE

Imogen Wall

Google Cloud

Media Lead

Joe Zaller

Devoncroft Partners

Founder

DPP Executive Summit 2024

The DPP Executive Summit is a special, invitation-only event for senior leaders from media organisations. The Summit features insights of special relevance to those in management roles in content companies. This year we explore three main themes: the priorities facing Media CTOs heading into 2025; the way the media market is being shaped by business and consumer trends; and the seismic changes taking place in production.

Tuesday 19 November 2024

12:00 - 13:00 Registration, lunch, and networking

13:00 - 13:10 Welcome and context

Edward Qualtrough

Editorial Director

DPP

Mark Harrison

Founder & Chief Content Officer

DPP

13:10 - 14:00 The DPP Media CTO Survey 2024: The key findings

26 CTOs from 20 countries participated in the DPP’s Media CTO Survey 2024. We share their unique insights into their current priorities and challenges. - before some of the participants explore those insights. Further speaker to be announced.

Edward Qualtrough

Editorial Director

DPP

Larissa Görner

CTO

Proximus Media House

Jon Roberts

CTO

ITN

Mike Kralec

SVP & CTO

Sinclair

14:00 - 14:30 The DPP Media CTO Survey 2024: What does it mean for the market?

Industry experts identify some of the Survey’s important messages for both media organisations and vendors.

Peter Elvidge

Director, Media and Entertainment

Cognizant

Imogen Wall

Media Lead

Google Cloud

Joe Zaller

Founder

Devoncroft Partners

14:30 - 15:00 Three ways the media industry is reshaping

Disruption is the change we underestimated. This session invites us to take notice of three important trends with important implications for the media industry.

Rebecca Jackson

Marketing & Business Development

Caretta Research

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00 The global film & TV production outlook

Film and TV production faces unprecedented challenges. This exclusive session provides key trends shaping the industry, including production financing shifts, regional growth dynamics across EMEA, the Americas, and APAC, and insights into the content supply chain.

Atul Phadnis

Founder & CEO

Vitrina AI

Beatrice Rossmanith

Director of Insights and Data Solutions

Vitrina AI

16:00 - 16:30 Is live content saving or killing TV?

Live content drives innovation, audiences and revenue - and the volume and range of it grows every year. Is it the content form that will keep TV relevant? Or is it the form that will most hasten its demise?

Jeff Moore

EVP & Chief Marketing Officer

Ross Video

Eve Sherlock

Content Lead - LIVE

TikTok

Matt McDonald

Group SVP, EMEA Broadcast Services

Warner Bros. Discovery

16:30 - 17:00 Is production efficiency a contradiction in terms?

At a time of financial constraint, the most direct area of cost saving is production budgets. But will those savings ever be achieved by efficiency? Or does the very culture of production make it immune to such a concept?

Sarb Nijjer

COO

Banijay UK

Dennis Buhr

Head of Production Development

SVT

17:00 - 17:30 Audience trends: Who’s watching what where?

Ultimately the media industry is shaped by the behaviours of consumers. So what have they being doing in 2024 - and what does it suggest for 2025 and beyond. The DPP and BASE share key insights.

Mark Harrison

Founder & Chief Content Officer

DPP

Liz Bales

CEO

British Association of Screen Entertainment

17:30 - 18:30 Networking Drinks