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The DPP Tech Leaders’ Briefing is the pre-eminent business intelligence event for the media industry.
13 & 14 November 2019
The 4th annual Tech Leaders' Briefing is a two-day conference and networking event bringing together the supplier and content provider community.
30 senior executives from major media organisations will share exclusive intelligence about their priorities. No other industry event provides so much focused insight in one place, all tailored to suppliers and content providers.
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Day One
Mark Harrison
CEO
DPP
What it means to be a news provider is changing. The ability to work at speed is generating new audience engagements. These are companies living right in the fast lane of content creation.
Bevan Gibson
CTO
ITN
Tim Bertioli
SVP - Global Media Operations
VICE Media Group
Ian McLaren
Technical Director
Reuters
Mark Rogers
General Manager - Europe
BuzzFeed
Lunch
The EMEA market may be the most complex in the world – with some of the greatest opportunities. You can’t afford to miss what these companies have to share.
Adde Granberg
CTO
SVT
Grant Franklin Totten
Head of Media & Emerging Platforms
Al Jazeera
Darren Long
Group Content Processing Director
Sky
Industry professionals from the Rise membership debate the key themes emerging on Day 1
Helen Stevens
Operations Officer, Content Supply & Distribution, ITV
ITV
Stephanie Wheeler
Key Account Manager
Deluxe
Megan Johnston
Commercial Manager
Splice
Jessica Dahan
Head of Growth
Imagen
Carys Hughes
Design Engineer (Emerging Technologies)
Sky
The DPP is proud to share an exciting new talent initiative from Rise
Carrie Wootten
Managing Director
Rise
Afternoon Break
'Demographic Disruption: Changing beliefs and behaviours in the new generational landscape'
Eliza Filby
Speaker, Writer, Consultant - Generations Expert and Historian of Contemporary Values
Sports content is where innovation tends to happen first. These may be the most important trendsetters of all.
Florian Diederichsen
CTO
DAZN
Barry Flanigan
Chief Product Officer
COPA90
Andy Beale
Chief Engineer
BT Sport
See the trends emerging on Day 1 build before your very eyes!
Join our speakers and attendees for drinks and quite possibly the best industry networking of the year. Enabled by:
Day Two
Mark Harrison
CEO
DPP
The world’s biggest companies are tech companies. And they now also sit at the heart of the whole media ecosystem. Hear their unique perspectives.
Usman Shakeel
Head of Global Media and Entertainment Solution Architecture
Amazon Web Services
Rainer Kellerhals
Managing Director - Media and Communications EME
Microsoft
Glyn Smith
Head of International Product for Media and Entertainment
Alibaba Cloud
Mario Cavestany
Vice President - Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment Industries
IBM
Anshul Kapoor
Head of Media Broadcasting Solutions
Google Cloud
This second session will brilliantly demonstrate the complexity and opportunities of the EMEA market.
Martijn Van Dam
Member of the Executive Board
NPO
Matt Westrup
SVP Technology & Operations
A+E Networks EMEA
Robert Amlung
Head of Digital Strategy
ZDF
Lunch
The second of our North American sessions brings together some of the most famous broadcasters in the world.
Simon Farnsworth
CTO, Broadcast Technology & Operations
Discovery Communications
Renard Jenkins
VP Content Transmission
Warner Media
Richard Friedel
EVP Engineering
Fox Television Stations
'Can we avoid extinction?'
Emily Farnworth
Head of Climate Change
World Economic Forum
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These are companies that get billions of video views a month - redefining what it means to be a content provider.
Kate Burns
CEO
Brave Bison
Tamar Riley
Vice President - Audience
Refinery29
Jamie Bolding
Founder & CEO
Jungle Creations
The UK tech leaders always give it to us straight. Hold tight for a lively session.
Matthew Postgate
Chief Technology & Product Officer
BBC
Tom Griffiths
Director of Technology - Operations & Distribution Platforms
ITV
Sinead Greenaway
Director, Broadcast and End User Technology
BBC
Orpheus Warr
Chief Technology Officer
Channel 4
The final trends are in! Join four senior industry leaders as they analyse what the last two days tell us.
Craig Dwyer
VP Global Cloud & SaaS Practice
Avid
Juliet Bramwell
Head of Telco & Media UK&I
Google Cloud
Peter Sykes
Strategic Technology Development Manager
Sony
Noel Penzer
VP - EMEA
Fastly
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