Digital Media x New Radio Days: Online Edition

Anke Mueller is part of the Entertainment Media Partnerships Team at Facebook since July 2018 with focus on media and digital first publisher in Central Europe (DACH, Benelux, Eastern Europe), based in Berlin. Prior to FB she worked at the global MCN Studio71 leading the content and talent partnerships team and for entertainment production companies like FremantleMedia (UFA in Germany) and Endemol Shine and got to know many production houses of fiction and non-fictional TV content all over Germany.

Fränk Zimmer was born in Luxembourg and currently lives in Graz. He is a communications technician and studied musicology in Austria. As a freelance media artist, he has realised numerous media installations. He works as a producer and co-curator at ORF musikprotokoll.

Grace is a senior project manager working in the EBU's Digital unit, part of the Media department. She looks after all things platforms: PSM-owned, 3rd party platforms, and how those worlds collide. In her previous life, Grace was in advertising, changing the world one commercial at a time.
She is a novice gamer, a metaverse explorer, and an all-round curious human. 

Hamdhoon is the key 'digital guy' at ABU, leading digital conversations across the Asia-Pacific region. His forte is identifying emerging digital trends to help Asian broadcasters better understand and adapt to the shifting digital media landscape.

Ian Forrester is a well-known character on the digital scene in the UK and Europe. Living in Manchester, UK, he works for the BBC’s R&D Future Experiences team. He specialises in open innovation and new disruptive opportunities, by creating value with open engagement and collaborations with start-ups, universities and early adopters.

His current research covers:

1. The future of public service in the internet age, sometimes referred to as the public service internet. He approaches the dominant business model/narrative of the internet with a more human, ethical and public focus.

2. The future of narrative and adaptive storytelling, with a technology he calls Perceptive Media. This is a new approach to broadcasting, which pairs the best of broadcast with the best of internet technology, creating experiences like sitting around a campfire telling stories.

His diverse background makes him adaptive and flexible in any situation, with a relaxed and creative leadership style. He takes sustainability, data ethics and human potential seriously in his leadership and collaborations. Taking pride in his background, he champions inclusion and diversity where ever he goes. The Inclusive board recently named him one of the top 100 diverse tech leaders in the UK.

Ian is proud to have a non-traditional background in interaction design which he crossed over with development using XML & Semantic web technologies.

Having founded the dataportability.org group in 2004 and ran the quantified self group in Manchester in 2015, his track record stands him in good stead for a data-rich future.

News editor at PLAYZ, the multiawarded platorm directed to young audiences. For 10 years, involved in the creativity of content and the digital strategy related to the Eurovision Song Contest at RTVE.

Marit is Head of Product Development in NRK Radio. She has been working in User Experience and Digital Product Management for 20 years in a wide range of sectors.

Experienced Board Member with a demonstrated history of working in the broadcast media industry. Skilled in innovation strategy, open innovation and intrapreneurship, content creation, journalism and digital media. Deeply involved in collective work with public bodies, commercial organizations and NGOs of international scope.

Aleksandra Gojkovic specialises in audience research in emerging technology. She delivers industry-leading audience and market insight across areas such as immersive experiences, AI, smart speakers, and more. She has been leading BBC’s research into connected cars, ensuring a thorough understanding of audiences is at the heart of decision making.

Annika Ruoranen is a corporate-level Strategist for Yle, the Finnish National Broadcasting Company. Previously she has worked at the Yle News Lab, where she has held roles as Head of Change and Head of Audience Insight. She was a visiting researcher at the European Broadcasting Union in 2014, where she was part of a small team that produced the live Eurovision Debate. Her background is in journalism and throughout her career, she has worked bridging the editorial staff and their audience. She is passionate about improving journalistic work.

Anya is driven by understanding how technology, business, and design interact to design meaningful user experiences and creative digital services. She finds inspiration in trying to understand scenarios and how people act in them.

In the role she explores now, Anya leads Polestar’s explorative work from a service and systemic design perspective through partnerships, student relations and cross-organisational work. She also works with the continuous exploration of the in-car apps within Android Automotive for all Polestar markets.

Anya studied Interaction Design at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also a regular participant in panels and podcasts, as well as a regular lecturer at Hyper Island and Yrgo.

Barbara is a media expert with extensive journalistic, reporter and presenter experience. Since the beginning of the digital era, she has dedicated her time and attention to the transformation of radio into a media of social significance for new generations of audiences.

Bregtje van der Haak (1966) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, creative media innovator and journalist, with a special interest in technology and social change. She is a regular contributor to the long-running VPRO Backlight series on future affairs. She initiated and enjoyed many collaborative cross-media projects including Lagos Wide and Close (2005, with Rem Koolhaas and The Harvard Project on the City), T_visionarium Open City (2009), the Aftermath Project (2010, with Manuel Castells and Universita Oberta de Catalunya), the White Spots app (2016, with Richard Vijgen) and Archive of the Future (with NIBG, HNI and Werner Helmich, forthcoming 2022).

Carsta Maria supports traditional and digital media companies in Central Europe in the entertainment segment to achieve and constantly evolve the set strategies on their Facebook and Instagram presences. Carsta Maria is a true (Social) Media advocate. She studied Media Studies in London, has worked as a journalist herself and, in her last role before joining Facebook, she was Director Social Media at ProSiebenSat.1.

Christian Hufnagel is co-founder of the SWR Audio Lab, a small unit of the German broadcaster that develops ideas and prototypes for the future of radio. Connected cars are one key focus. He is in charge of the coordination of future radio projects and leading the development on smart speakers and voice interactions across the ARD network in Germany. Christian is specialized in distribution, UX, strategy and content.

Dan currently looks after the 'TV' bits of social media at the BBC, crafting strategies that help bring more young people to iPlayer by promoting all the good stuff on social. When he's not doing that, you might find him watching the telly (it's okay, that's his job).

At the BBC, Eli has produced digital content for radio stations, commissioned podcasts, and is now focused on in-car distribution - despite not having owned a car since 1992.

Emma Chiu leads Wunderman Thompson Intelligence, the agency’s in-house futures and innovation think-tank. She consults with clients to build long-term strategies based on qualitative and quantitative insights that incorporate cultural and behavioural change, sector innovation and zeitgeist shifts. Clients include Microsoft, Shiseido, Unilever, Samsung and Nestlé.

Emma’s remarkable foresight and thought leadership have attracted the attention of global publications. She has featured in The Telegraph, New York Magazine and Vogue. She is a member of the WARC Awards and Creativepool 2020 judging panel. In addition, Emma regularly speaks at international conferences, including SXSW Interactive, Adobe Max and Pause Fest.

Eric Nuzum is the cofounder of Magnificent Noise and creator of iconic podcasts. Over the past 16 years, he has made podcasts that routinely top the charts, appear in yearly “best of” lists, win awards, and generate hundreds of millions of downloads

Jeroen Verspeek is Head of Audience Measurement at the BBC, where's involved in the UK’s industry audience measurement as a board member of BARB and RAJAR. His team have set up BBC’s bespoke cross-platform measurement tool Compass along with Ipsos. The team are responsible for BBC's brand trackers, the daily quality tracker Pulse and cross-media trackers for children. Before working for the BBC, he was Head of the Audience Research Department of NPO in the Netherlands.

After a Bachelor of Arts in Radio-TV from the University of Houston, Johan joined SVT in 1995 as a video editor for the local news station in Gothenburg. In 1991, he started exploring the Internet, still in its early days, and worked on different web projects for the following decade. In 2010, he became Head of Distribution Strategy for SVT with a mission to align the strategic thinking on online distribution and broadcast. Johan joined the SVT Commissioning Board as Head of Digital Strategy and Commissioner of Video Services for Interactive Platforms in 2015. Since 2018, he has been the Head of Digital Partnerships responsible for SVT’s strategic relationships with online platforms and operators and trend analysis focusing on business intelligence.

Johanna Rüdiger is Head of Social Media Strategy at DW Culture & Lifestyle, making sure DW’s social platforms reach as many people as possible. She developed DW’s first TikTok channel „Berlin Fresh“. She is also a Creator herself and spends her free time shooting TikTok videos.

Media research professional since 1997. More research than professional. Still loving the never ending challenges understanding the audience.

Léa Besson is a Senior Media Analyst in EBU's Media Intelligence Service, she focuses on the analysis of digital and online topics.

Lydia Leipert, journalist, is burning for digital storytelling and lives in Munich. She holds a degree from Humboldt University Berlin in history, politics and spanish and is a graduate of Berlin Journalism School. She worked and lived in Spain and the UK. Since 2017 she is - in a Jobshare tandem - responsible for a digital team of the public broadcast Bayerischer Rundfunk.

His job is basically to help make sure Yle is going in the right direction at the right speed. He also helps translate strategy into something everybody understands. It requires a joint effort from both the strategy team and the corporate management.

Previously, Mika was the Head of Yle News Lab. He also led the newsroom as a managing editor in Yle News and worked in the business news department for 10 years.

Rob Smith is the Managing Director at The Pudding, a digital publication that makes data fun. A librarian, art historian and reformed publicist, when he’s not working at The Pudding, you’ll find him making his own puddings—and pastries and cookies and cakes—at home in Brooklyn.

Yasmina Al-Gannabi is currently working for DW as an Audience Development Manager, Social Media Security Officer & Trainer. She trains Journalists and NGOs around the world on social media, storytelling, countering hate speech and digital safety. She works hard so that her Collie Zorro can live his best life.