The DPP Leaders' Briefing 2025 took place in London last week.
Senior executives from over 30 major media organisations from North America and Europe shared exclusive intelligence about their strategic priorities for the year ahead, providing unparalleled business insight tailored to both suppliers and content providers.
It was amazing to see so many of you over the two days, and to hear such honest, thoughtful insight from leaders across the global media industry. And to everyone who attended, your enthusiasm, your questions, and the energy you brought to every session made this Leaders’ Briefing a huge success. Thank you!
Here are some moments captured during the event.
After breakfast, the morning of Day 1 featured the following sessions:
- Headline Sponsor Keynote from nxtedition
- US Media Giants Part 1 with Warner Bros. Discovery, Nexstar Media Group & YouTube
- International News Companies with The Associated Press, Bloomberg, PA Media Group, Reuters
Adam Leah, Creative Director, nxtedition
James Crossland, EVP, Head of Global Content Operations, Warner Bros. Discovery
Justin Eli, SVP, Digital Business Strategy & Product Development, Nexstar Media Group
Mairi Brewis, Head of Mediaco & Responsibility Partnerships, UKI, YouTube
Richard Fish, Founder & COO, EIKON
Paul Shanley, Senior Director of Strategy, The Associated Press
Roman Mackiewicz, CIO, Bloomberg
Emily Shelley, CEO, PA Media Group
Matthew Keen, Head of Operations & Strategy, Reuters
Paul Charleston, Principal, Qvest
During lunch, two sessions took place in our lunchtime content rooms:
- Content Room 1 - Cloud for Media 2025: What the latest data tells us
- Content Room 2 - AI Showcase
We followed up lunch on Day 1 with the following sessions:
- European Media Companies Part 1 with France Télévisions, TV 2 (Norway), RTÉ
- The Media Tech CEO Survey with report sponsors Dalet and Mediagenix
- European Media Companies Part 2 with SkyShowtime, ZDF, TV4 & MTV
Skander Ben Attia, CTO, France Télévisions
Christian Birkeland, Chief Digital Officer, TV 2 (Norway)
Deirdre Temple, Head of Solutions, Technology, RTÉ
Anshul Kapoor, Head of Media, Telco and Games (TMEG) Market Development, Google Cloud
Fabrice Maquignon, CEO, Mediagenix & Mathieu Zarouk, VP, Product Management, Dalet
Josh Snow, CTO, SkyShowtime
Robert Amlung, Head of Digital Strategy, ZDF
Jannike Croona Broman, Head of TV Operations, TV4 & MTV
Emma Whitmore, SVP EMEA, Amagi
Rounding off Day 1, the last session was:
- US Media Giants Part 2 with Meta, Sinclair & Paramount, followed by networking drinks.
Sriram Srinivasan, Director of Engineering, Meta
Del Parks, President of Technology, Sinclair
Andy Bolding, VP, Product, Media Supply Chain, Paramount
Day 2 began with the following sessions:
- UK Media Companies with ITV, Channel 4, BBC & ITN
- The Media CTO Survey with Cognizant and Channel 4
- European Media Companies Part 3 with RTL Nederland, Sky & NRK
Paul Kane, Director of Technology, Content Supply & Distribution, ITV
Declan Toman, Digital Service Delivery & SRE Manager, Channel 4
Sinead Greenaway, Joint Acting CTO, BBC
Jon Roberts, CTO, ITN
Robert Nagy, CEO, nxtedition
Peter Elvidge, Director, Media and Entertainment, Cognizant & Grace Boswood, Technology & Distribution Director, Channel 4
Giovanni Piccirilli, CTO, RTL Nederland
Cristina Gomila, MD Content Technology & Innovation, Sky
Pål Nedregotten, CTO/CPO, NRK
Dom Wedgwood, CTO, Arqiva
During the lunchtime content session for Day 2, we looked back at the data from previous years of the Leaders' Briefing in:
- Leaders' Briefing Trends: What the data tells us.
We then wrapped up Leaders' Briefing 2025 with the following 3 sessions:
- Global Studios with Banijay Entertainment, Amazon Studios, Fremantle, UTKV & BBC Studios
- European Media Companies Part 4 with Hearst Networks EMEA, TF1 Group & SVT
- Global Streamers with Tubi, Netflix & TikTok
Damien Viel, Chief Digital & Innovation Officer, Banijay Entertainment
Schawn Belston, Head of Global Delivery, Amazon Studios
Thalia Crone, Global Head of Media Supply Chain & Operations, Fremantle
Andrea Amey, Chief Digital Officer, UKTV
Tim Bertioli, Director of Media Services, UKTV & SVP of Channel Technology, BBC Studios
Chris Saito, Chief Commercial Officer, VUBIQUITY
Matt Westrup, CTO, Hearst Networks EMEA & Heather Jones, Chief Creative Officer, EMEA and General Manager UK, Hearst Networks EMEA
Olivier Penin, Director of Innovation, TF1 Group
Adde Granberg, CTO, SVT & Lena Bjørnås, Director of Operations, SVT
David Salmon, EVP & Managing Director, International, Tubi
Matt Town, Head of Post-Production, UK, Netflix
Natalina Manni, Head of Global Publisher Strategy, Operations and Programs, TikTok
John Bradshaw, Field CTO, Cloud EMEA, Akamai
