Digital Media Days 2018
Connecting with Inspiration (Prague, 7-9 March)
Get a glimpse into the EBU Digital Media Days: watch this short video from last year's event in Lisbon!
Digital Media Days is an exciting forum and networking event for all media with a focus on the digital future. Come together and get inspired by creative ideas.
The Digital Media Days brings together commissioning and producing editors in all kinds of departments, creative staff and planning editors - young talents, newcomers and media experts. We aim at creating dialogues between communities and colleagues of different areas and genres.
Select your areas of interest and join us in Prague for an amazing experience and take along a bunch of inspiration for your programme and to empower public service media for the future.
For more information download the 2018 Schedule Overview (.PDF)
WHAT WILL THE EVENT OFFER?
The Digital Media Days will present:
- Inspiring cases and the latest trends in storytelling in all genres
- Hands-on experiences and best practices for digital productions
- Specialized workshops that allow you to connect and work together on specific topics
WHO IS IT FOR?
Digital Media Days is not just for digital experts. We also aim at creative storytellers and producing or commissioning editors in all media, departments and genres.
Schedule Overview
For more information about the general planning of the conference days please download the Schedule Overview (.PDF)
Programme
Wednesday 7:
Welcome evening
Come together for a stimulating evening.
Meet, connect and share your experience with your colleagues.
There will be music, food and some magic conversation starters with Abracademy.
Abracademy is a Learning and Development company. They use wow-inducing magic combined with skilled facilitation as a tool to help people, and organisations, to grow. These L&D programmes shift mindset and unlock learning with great results.
Day 1 - Thursday 8:
Conference Day
The main conference will discuss new trends in digital media as well as storytelling innovation and producing for a diverse audiences.
The afternoon will offer two hubs in parallel. The conference session will focus on working together and creating digital content with new tools and technology. The hands-on session concentrates on inspiration for a new public service horizon: Developing new formats, learning from failures and how to create content together with creative communities.
Download the preliminary Conference Day & Interactive Session's programmes.
Day 2 - Friday 9:
Workshop Day
This day is reserved for EBU Members only.
Interactive sessions for young audiences, news content, voice-user interfaces and digital storytelling with AR and VR will allow you to exchange ideas and best practice, as well as opportunities to work together in these fields.
- Formats for young adults (programme.PDF)
- Digital storytelling with AR/VR (programme.PDF)
- News content for digital platforms (programme.PDF)
- Voice-users interfaces (programme.PDF)
- Wrap up for EBU Science & Knowledge Experts (programme.PDF)
Registration
Sorry, the event is sold out!
According to the capacity of our venue we are now fully booked!
However, we would be delighted to have you all on board. If you are interested to join the event, we can add your name in a waiting-list in the case of cancellations or any options at all to add more colleagues, you will be notified and invited to join on a first come first served basis.
Please address your request by email to Caroline Sellier (sellier@ebu.ch).
CANCELLATION POLICY
Cancellation should be addressed by email to Caroline Sellier (sellier@ebu.ch)
However, the following charges will apply:
Until 21st February: 50% of the fee of the registration before its cancellation
After 21st February: 100% of the fee of the registration before its cancellation
Accommodation
Czech Television has negotiated preferential rates with Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel, Panorama Hotel and Corinthia Hotel.
The final cut-off date is 22nd January 2018.
All delegates are responsible for their own hotel bookings and payments directly with the hotel.
Hotel booking information (.PDF)
Practical information for participants
Contact
Venue
Conference Day Speakers
Noel Curran
Director GeneralNoel took up the role of Director General of the EBU in September 2017.
Noel is the former DG, Managing Director of Television and Editor of Current Affairs of RTÉ, Ireland's national television and radio broadcaster. As Director General, he radically restructured RTÉ following the financial crisis that began at the end of 2008 and successfully positioned RTÉ as a robust digital media organization.
A strong and long-time advocate of public service media, Curran is also an award winning investigative journalist and producer. As an editor and producer, Noel's programming won numerous awards for journalism and he was Executive Producer on a range of live television events, including the Eurovision Song Contest in 1997, general election coverage, live entertainment series and factual programming.
Noel attended Trinity College, Dublin, and graduated from Dublin City University in both European Studies and Communications, specialising in national and international broadcasting policy. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Dublin City University.
Noel is married to the singer and former Eurovision Song Contest winner Eimear Quinn and they have two daughters.
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Camille Pollie
Head of OpenVRT, VRT, BelgiumNot applicable
Damian Kavanagh
Controller, BBC 3, United Kingdom
Denisa Kollárová
Director of Marketing and New Media, CT, Czechia
Thomas Müller
Head of Youth, BR, Germany
Nick Wrenn
Head of News Partnerships (EMEA), Facebook, UK
Mark Egan
Mobile-video consultant, journalist and trainer
Damian Machaj
Multimedia Content Producer, Czech Radio Creative HUB, Czechia
Steve Gibbons
Head of User Experience and Design, BBC, United Kingdom
Frauke Langguth
Head of ARD Text, ARD, GermanyFrauke Langguth is a multimedia journalist with extensive experience in print and TV, radio and online media (Radio Fritz, ORB / rbb and ORBOnline / rbb-Online). Since 2008, she has headed up ARD Text at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg in Potsdam. Her responsibilities include the ARD Text newsflash service on the leading nationwide channel, DasErste, which for more than eight years has been the most successful German teletext service. Frauke is also an expert on accessibility. ARD Text provides subtitles for numerous programmes on the first and third ARD channels, with a focus on live subtitling. Other areas of responsibility include media development, social media, interactive television and smart TV (HbbTV).
Stan van Engelen
Editor-in-chief, VPRO, Netherlands
Julien Pain
Editor-in-Chief of Modules, France Info, France
Brecht Vaes
Head of Digital, Studio Brussel, Belgium
Davide Di Stadio
Creative and Content Production Manager of Digital Inclusion Unit, RAI, Italy
James Morgan
Strategic Partner Manager (EMEA), CrowdTangleUnited Kingdom
Simon Gooch
Head of P3 and Head of Music Strategy, SR, Sweden
Petr Dvořák
Director General, CT, Czechia
Omid Habibi
Portal Director, SharedStudios, United States
Kaave Pour
Co-Founder & Creative Director, SPACE10, Denmark
Lucie Macháčková
Head of On-Air Promotion, CT, Czechia
Hanne Kautto
Head of YleX, Yle, Finland
Alexandra Brenkman
Senior Media Analystbrenkman@ebu.ch
Tuyet Nguyen
Senior Manager Innovation, Cross Media Products & Services, RTBF, Belgium
Manuel Thalmann
Head Of Format Development, Young Audience Department, SRF, SRG SSR, Switzerland
Robert Candra
Creative Producer, Czech Radio Creative HUB, CR, Czechia
Gwenaelle Boissel
Head of Marketing, BBC, United Kingdom
Elia Rodrigues
Responsible for Multimedia content, RTP, Portugal
Alberto Fernandez
Digital Content and Transmedia Director, RTVE, Spain
Wilfried Runde
Head of Innovation Projects, DW, Germany
Jirák Jan
Media Studies Professor, University Charles and Metropolitan Prague, Czech Republic
Petr Kopecký
Senior editor, CT, Czechia
Karla Grace Geci
Head of Media Partners Programs, Facebook EMEA, UK
Mike Wendling
Editor, BBC Trending, BBC, United Kingdom
Kreeta-Maria Kivioja
Journalist, Yle News Class, FinlandPRESENTATIONS
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