17th Eurovision Academy Assembly

Olivier Basso, Professor/Coach, Aden Executives - Concervatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam)

Olivier Basso has an extensive experience in designing and facilitating training and development programmes. He provides individual strategic coaching for entrepreneurs and executives in large companies such as ST Microelectronics, L’Oréal, Société Générale, Sodexo, Thalès, EDF, Edison, Accenture.

He is also an affiliated professor in Change and Leadership at CNAM University (Paris, France) and a guest faculty member in the Mandel Social Leadership MBA Program at Ben Gurion University (Israel).

Frédéric Olivier, Head of RTBF Academy, RTBF, Belgium

Since May 2013, Frédéric Olivier has been setting up, launching and piloting the Learning & Development Academy of the Belgian broadcaster RTBF.
Other responsibilities:
- Eurovision Academy committee chairman (EBU, Geneva)
- Fortef Committee member (RTBF, FTV, Radio France, RTS, TV5)

Dan Healy, Director of Sales, Head of RTE 2fm. and Co Founder and Shareholder of iRadio and KCLR 96FM, Ireland

Group 1: Programme Development

Moderator: Brendan Miller, Digital & TV producer, Mentorn Media

• RTE development unit by Birthe Tonseth, Producer Director, RTÉ
• SVT’s News for newcomers by Katia Elliott, Executive producer, SVT
• MTVA: Response to migration crisis by Balazs Bende, Senior editor, MTVA

Group 2: Make it change

Moderator: Frédéric Olivier, Head of RTBF Academy and Chair of the committee of Eurovision Academy

• BBC and FTV: New newsrooms/new news channel: redefining the role of training by Mark James, Training Manager, BBC Academy and Didier Desormeaux, Head of department, FTV University
• Setting up BNR Academy by Irena Lazarova, International Relations expert, BNR
•  SR investigative journalism by Camilla Alfredsson, Head of Training, Human Resources, SR

Group 3: Snapchat

Moderator: Justin Kings, Eurovision Academy faculty member

Group 4: Live streaming

Moderator: Mark Egan, Eurovision Academy faculty member

Group 5: Advocacy

Moderator : Frédéric Frantz, Business Training Manager, Eurovision Academy

• FTV: Summer season campaign by Eve Dumumieux, Internal communications director, FTV, France
• RTÉ: Let’s get emotional! by Tracey Diamond, Central Brand & Marketing Manager, and Joseph Hoban, Head of Communications & Brand Development, RTÉ
• Czech TV clear advocacy strategy by Barbora Smutná, Executive Director, Human Resources, CT

Group 6: Make it digital

Moderator: Mark James, Training Manager, BBC Academy

• BBC Make it Digital by Jessica Cecil, Controller, BBC
• BBC: Lessons post Brexit by Jonathan Spencer, Creative Director 3D/Viz/VR, BBC
• SVT: Virtual Reality by Michael Wall, Film producer, SVT

Roman Rackwitz, CEO, Engaginglab GmbH and Board of Directors, Schultheiss Software AG

Roman is a gamification forerunner. He has been leading the first established gamification agency within the German speaking countries (D-A-CH) Engaginglab.
He was rated top 10 gamification guru in the world by the agency Rise.Global.

by Frank Barth Nilsen, Chief Learning Officer and Head of Training Department, NRK

Frank Barth-Nilsen has been the Chief Learning Officer at NRK since 2014. He has been Head of the Training Department since 2010 and is still running the department. Frank first joined NRK in 1995, working as a reporter in news and politics. He has worked on developing digital storytelling and has been a regional editor in chief. One of his major responsibilities now is to develop NRKs learning strategy.

Bernard Rappaz, editor-in-chief for TV and multimedia news and current events, RTS
Bernard joined Télévision Suisse Romande (RTS) in 1992 to set up a business desk for the TV news, heading the desk from 1993 to 1997. From 1997 to 2001 he lived in Washington DC working as TSR correspondent. Besides working on the TV news, he produced a documentary for the Temps Présent series that won the Prix Média Idée Suisse.

As TSR multimedia editor-in-chief since 2001 he had led the team in charge of portals tsrinfo.ch and tsrsport.ch that also recently created TV magazines Nouvo and Géopolitis.

Glen Mulcahy, Head of Innovation, RTE
Glen Mulcahy is Head of Innovation with RTÉ Technology, Ireland's national public broadcaster, and over the last five years he has inspired and driven the growth of mobile journalism within RTÉ's newsroom and across other European broadcasters. Glen is the founder and event manager of RTÉ Mojocon and he leads RTÉ's mobile journalism project (“mojo”). Glen is at the forefront of engaging with new technologies and working up solutions for how such technologies can transform the way traditional media organizations work. Glen's currently working on 360/vr and immersive storytelling. 

Brendan Miller, digital & TV producer, Mentorn Media
Brendan has a background in online video and social media. He is currently making 15 short films for BBC Three and has made online content for the Financial Times and independent fact-checking organization Full Fact. Until 2015 he was series producer of Free Speech, a political discussion programme for BBC Three aimed at their target audience of 16-34 year olds. He produced online content including social media campaigns, infographics, and viral videos (the most successful getting over 4.5m views).