DPP Executive Summit 2025
The Executive Summit is a closed, invitation-only event for speakers at the 2025 Leaders’ Briefing featuring selected executives from the content provider community.
17 November 2025
In Person
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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*
DPP Executive Summit 2025 Programme
The DPP Executive Summit is a special, invitation-only event for leaders from media organisations. The Summit features insights of special relevance to those in senior management roles in content companies. This year we explore three main themes: the priorities facing Media CTOs heading into 2026; how and why consumers choose which services to watch; and the intriguing picture emerging from the DPP’s work on the cloud for media. The interactive format of the afternoon will enable a wide range of contributions from our attendees, who are drawn from a huge range of media organisations from Europe and the US.
12:00 Registration, lunch, and networking
13:00 Welcome and context
Edward Qualtrough
Editorial Director
DPP
Mark Harrison
Founder & Chief Content Officer
DPP
13:10 The DPP Media CTO Survey 2025: The Key Findings
33 CTOs from 19 countries participated in the DPP Media CTO Survey 2025. We share exclusive insights into their current priorities and challenges.
Edward Qualtrough
Editorial Director
DPP
Peter Elvidge
Director, Media and Entertainment
Cognizant
Further speaker to be announced
13:40 Discussion: What CTOs really think
The DPP facilitates a discussion among the attendees of the key findings of the Media CTO Survey 2025.
14:30 Executive Interview
Speakers to be announced
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 How consumers choose what to watch, and why: exclusive research findings
Hub Entertainment Research, in partnership with the DPP, has carried out international research into the TV choices made by consumers. The findings are shared exclusively for DPP Executive Summit attendees.
Jon Giegengack
Principal
Hub Entertainment Research
Mark Harrison
Founder & Chief Content Officer
DPP
16:00 Discussion: Are we as consumer focused as we think?
The DPP facilitates discussion about the findings, and what they mean for content services today.
16:30 The Cloud for Media 2025: The questions it raises for content companies
DPP CEO Rowan de Pomerai shares exclusive insights about the state of cloud adoption and cloud services in the media industry in 2025, drawing on the DPP's Cloud Native Distribution and Cloud Native Live Production insight reports — as well as the DPP's recent Tech CEO and Media CTO research.
Rowan de Pomerai
CEO
DPP
17:00 Discussion: Has the cloud conversation changed?
The DPP facilitates a discussion about its research into cloud for media, and what it suggests for content supply chains.
17:30-18:30 Networking drinks