The DPP's 9th annual Leaders' Briefing, the media industry event of the year, brought together the supplier and content provider community for two days of valuable insights and high quality networking.
Senior executives from over 30 major media organisations each shared three priorities for the next year. It was the biggest and best Leaders' Briefing to date.
Here are some photo highlights from across the two days:
We had a great opening keynote from Giordano Koch, Managing Director at HYVE, a Qvest company.
Giordano Koch - HYVE, a Qvest company
Rowan de Pomerai - DPP
Day 1 continued with European Broadcasters Part 1 which featured Sky's Cristina Gomila, Proximus Media House's Larissa Görner, and Mediaset's Luca Poloni.
Cristina Gomila - Sky
Larissa Görner - Proximus Media House
Larissa Görner - Proximus Media House
Luca Poloni - Mediaset
Next up, the European Broadcasters Part 2 session featured RTE's Deirdre Temple, RTL Nederland's Ygor Geurts and Ingeborg Voetberg, and ARD's Stephan Heimbecher.
Deirdre Temple - RTE
Deirdre Temple - RTE
Ingeborg Voetberg- RTL Nederland
Ygor Geurts - RTL Nederland
Stephan Heimbecher - ARD
This was followed by the European Broadcasters Part 3 session which featured Yle's Sanna Tornivaara, SVT's Adde Granberg and Lena Stormvinge, DR - Denmark's Radio's Daniel Vestergaard, and NRK's Pål Nedregotten.
Sanna Tornivaara - Yle
Adde Granberg - SVT
Lena Stormvinge - SVT
Daniel Vestergaard - DR - Denmark's Radio
Pål Nedregotten - NRK
The penultimate session on day 1, 'Global Content Providers Part 1', featured BBC Studios/UKTV's Tim Bertioli and Andrea Amey, Amazon Studios' Schawn Belston, and DAZN's James Pearce.
Tim Bertioli - BBC Studios/UKTV
Andrea Amey and Tim Bertioli - BBC Studios/UKTV
Schawn Belston - Amazon Studios
James Pearce - DAZN
Finally, on day 1, Global Content Providers Part 2 featured Warner Bros. Discovery's Jonathan Tortora, The Walt Disney Company's Barrie Godwin and Jennifer Mayo, and NBCUniversal's Megan Mauck.
Jonathan Tortora - Warner Bros. Discovery
Megan Mauck - NBCUniversal
Day 2 began with the session 'European Broadcasters Part 4' featuring TF1's
Olivier Penin, Hearst Networks EMEA's Matt Westrup and Julie Mitchelmore, and ZDF's Robert Amlung.
Olivier Penin - TF1
Olivier Penin - TF1
Matt Westrup and Julie Mitchelmore - Hearst Networks EMEA
Robert Amlung - ZDF
The next session 'News and Current Affairs' featured The Associated Press' Paul Shanley, ITN's Jon Roberts, and TV2's Morten Brandstrup.
Paul Shanley - The Associated Press
Jon Roberts - ITN
Morten Brandstrup - TV2
DPP's Mark Harrison then presented the DPP Special Session: Key Trends From the Leaders’ Briefing alongside Encompass' Marc Bruce.
Marc Bruce - Encompass
Following this, the 'Broadcasters from the Americas' session featured Sinclair's Mike Kralec, A+E Networks' David Klee, and TelevisaUnivision's Ralf Jacob.
Mike Kralec - Sinclair
Ralf Jacob - TelevisaUnivision
David Klee - A+E Networks
With only one more session to go, Global Content Providers Part 3 featured Tubi's David Salmon, TikTok's Natalina Manni, and YouTube's Mairi Brewis.
David Salmon - Tubi
Natalina Manni - TikTok
Natalina Manni - TikTok
Mairi Brewis - YouTube
And finally, the DPP Leaders' Briefing 2024 ended with the 'UK Broadcasters' session featuring BBC's Sinead Greenaway, ITV's Simon Farnsworth, and Channel 4's Wayne Charran.
Sinead Greenaway - BBC
Simon Farnsworth - ITV
Wayne Charran - Channel 4
