Digital Media Days 2020: Online Edition

Bethan Jinkinson is Executive Editor at BBC Ideas, a short-form video website aimed at 18-45s. BBC Ideas features digital videos from a range of genres, including psychology, philosophy, anthropology, science and history, and she and her team work hard to ensure that each film is engaging, shareable and genuinely informative. Earlier this year, BBC Ideas won Best Science and Education video channel at the Webby Awards.

Hanan Challouki (28) is a strategic consultant and Inclusive Communication expert. After graduating in 2015 with a Master’s degree in Strategic Communication, she realized there was not much diversity in the creative industry she wanted to enter. Driven by a mission to create a more inclusive world, she became an entrepreneur and created her own vision on marketing and communication in a super diverse society. She has worked with clients such as Brussels Airport, Telenet, KRO-NCRV and BNP Paribas and got listed by Forbes’ 30under30 for her innovative strategies.

Dmitry Shishkin is an award-winning and experienced leader in digital transformation, content strategy, organisation and culture change in a global setting. He spent 20+ years at BBC World Service helping it to grow its digital audiences to record levels before joining a travel startup Culture Trip where he worked as Chief content officer leading a decentralised network of content creators, finding scalable ways to commission and produce content including automation and machine learning.

Annelies Termeer is creative director of VPRO Medialab - a lab researching the storytelling potential of new technology for Dutch broadcaster VPRO. VPRO Medialab tries to tell exciting and original stories using technology like smart speakers, bots, AR, AI or messaging platforms, while simultaneously reflecting on the technology itself. In previous positions, Termeer developed online projects at film museum EYE and created digital strategies for Filmhuis Den Haag, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. She holds an MA in Film Studies from the University of Amsterdam.

Michael Bhaskar is a writer, digital publisher, researcher and entrepreneur. He is Co-Founder of Canelo, a new kind of publishing company based in London and Europe's fastest growing independent publisher, and was Writer in Residence at DeepMind, the world's leading AI research lab, between 2017 and 2019. He has written and talked extensively about publishing, the future of media, the creative industries and the economics of technology around the world . He has been featured in and written for The Guardian, The FT, and Wired and on BBC 2, the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4 and NPR amongst others. Michael has been a British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur and a Frankfurt Book Fair Fellow.

Tiphaine de Raguenel graduated from the Paris Institute for Political Studies. She began her career in the Carat/Aegis Media group where she is Consultant and Assistant Director of Advisory Missions to the producers and audiovisual broadcasters. In 2006, she joined the Lagardère Active Youth Pole as Director of the studies for Tiji chains, CANAL J, Filles TV and Gulli, before becoming, in 2008, Director of Studies of all television Activities of Lagardère Active. With a 4 year experience in this position, she becomes a marketing and new uses director within the same company. As such, she is responsible for studies, strategic and operational marketing, communication of brand names and new uses related to new consumption modes of chains and content (web, replay, tablet, mobile phone, connected TV). She joined France Télévisions in August 2012 as Director of Youth Activities. In October 2013, Tiphaine de Raguenel also became director of broadcasting and programs of France 4. Since January 2019, Tiphaine is head of Content for Young Audiences and animation. This new position implies that she now also handles teens & young adults programs for the digital platform francetv.Slash.

Riyaad Minty is the Director of Digital for TRT, the public broadcaster of Turkey. Previously with Al Jazeera, Riyaad was a founder of AJ+, one of the world’s largest news outlets for the digital generation and contributed towards the network’s global strategy as Head of Social Media. He is recognised as a leader in the space of digital media and regularly speaks at conferences and universities around the world. He joined TRT in Istanbul in 2016 to help build the digital arm of the network.

Jennifer Brandel is SVP of Global Partnerships and Co-founder of Hearken, a company that helps organizations around the world develop and operationalize participatory processes. Hearken took home the prize for "Best Bootstrap Company" at SXSW and won the News Media Alliance Accelerator. Brandel received the Media Changemaker Prize by the Center for Collaborative Journalism, was named one of 30 World-Changing Women in Conscious Business, is a Columbia Sulzberger Fellow, an RSA Fellow, a member of the Guild of Future Architects and the National Civic Collaboratory. Brandel is co-founder of Zebra’s Unite, a global movement and network of entrepreneurs, funders, investors and allies creating a more ethical, inclusive and collaborative ecosystem for mission-based startups. She also co-founded Civic Exchange Chicago which brings together civic startups in a collaborative learning community.