What’s on the agenda?

Natasha Christie-Miller, Media Advisor, NED and Chair and FIPP Stage host

Andres Rodriguez, Founder and President, SPAINMEDIA and ARI, Spain

Alastair Lewis, Executive Director, FIPP: Consumer & Special Interest Media, WAN-IFRA

Jonathan Roberts, Chief Innovation Officer, People Inc., USA

Interviewed by Stig Ørskov, Chief Executive Officer, WAN-IFRA, Germany

Christian van Thillo, Executive Chairman, DPG Media, Belgium

In conversation with Colin Morrison CBE, Founder-Publisher, Flashes & Flames, The Global Media Business Weekly, UK

Juan Señor, President, INNOVATION Media Consulting, UK

Lucio Mesquita, Senior Consultant, INNOVATION Media Consulting, UK

Dmitry Shishkin, Independent Media Advisor and Board Member, WAN-Ifra, UK

Yulia Boyle, Founder and Principal, YPB Media, USA

Lulu Skantze, Publisher, Storytime, The Netherlands

Erika Heilman, Group Publisher and Senior Vice President , Harvard Business Review, USA

Laura Múgica Codina, Managing Director and Board Member, Unidad Editorial, Spain

Interviewed by Yolanda Ausín, General Manager, ARI, Spain

Enric Pastor, Founder and Editor, MANERA Ediciones, Spain

Kylie McCoy, VP Brand Partnerships

Roy Lee, Chief Of Staff, Newsweek, USA

Veebha Mehta, Chief Operating Officer, Crain Communications, USA

Interviewed by Käthe Lemon, President and Co-owner, RedPoint Media Group, Canada

Amanda Wigginton, Strategy and Insight Consultant, Amanda Wigginton Consulting Limited, UK

Kati Murto, Vice President, Brand, Marketing, Communications and Sustainability, UPM Communication Papers, Finland

Interviewed by Peter Houston, Publishing Director, Flashes & Flames // Media Voices, UK

Martin de Hues, Chief Commercial Officer, WoodWing Software, Netherlands

Cyndi Stivers, Director of Curation, TED Conferences

Guy Tasaka, Founder/Managing Partner, Tasaka Digital, USA

Interviewed by Paul Hood, Head of Publishing – House of Commons, UK

Anne Marie O’Keefe, COO, Mansueto Ventures, USA

Dr Rainer Esser, Member of the Supervisory Board, DIE ZEIT, Germany

Interviewed by Käthe Lemon, President and Co-owner, RedPoint Media Group, Canada

Adam White, Founder and CEO, Front Office Sports

Interviewed by Colin Morrison, Founder-Publisher, Flashes & Flames, The Global Media Weekly, UK

Georgie Holt, Co-founder and CEO, FlightStory, UK

Interviewed by Yulia Boyle, Founder and Principal, YPB Media, USA

A choice of ways to experience the city after hours. Gastronomy, culture or football – pick your adventure! Full details coming soon.

Jacqueline Loch, General Manager, Betakit and 101 Stage Host

Michelle Myers, Chief Revenue Officer, Wright’s Media, USA

Interviewed by Alastair Lewis, Executive Director, FIPP: Consumer & Special Interest Media, WAN-IFRA

Annelies Jansen, Senior Strategic Advisor, ProRata.ai, USA

Kevin Anderson, Director, Digital Revenue, WAN-Ifra, UK

Mark Howard, Chief Operating Officer, TIME, USA

Interviewed by Jez Clifford, Founding Director, Chrysalis Leadership, UK

Kerin O’Connor, Founder/CEO, Atlas

Louise Ioannou, Publisher, NatGeo Kids and NatGeo LIttle Kids Magazine, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand

Michael Smith, Chief Product Officer, Darwin CX, UK

Yana Zhuryk, Senior Membership Growth, Kyiv Independent, Ukraine

Jean-Paul Reparon, Managing Director, AgriMedia, The Netherlands

Stefanie Maier, Head of Events & Partnerships, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany

Nina Wagner, Group VP Publishing and Operations, Alive Publishing Group, Canada

Sharon Carter, Director, Ad Solutions, Condé Nast, USA

Interviewed by Matthew Snyder, CEO, Responsive Ads, USA

Işık Şimşek, Co-Founder & Publisher, Heepimiz, and

Ahu Serter, Co-Founder & Rights Holder, Heepimiz, Turkey

Michael Brunt, Co-founder, HBM Advisory, UK

Mads Holmen, Head of Product – Platform, Monetization OS, UK

Charlotte Cijffers, Chief Digital Officer, ITP Media Group, UAE

Yenan Wang, Lead Strategy Partner, Next Wave, and formerly Head of TikTok LIVE Europe Creator Network, UK

A choice of ways to experience the city after hours. Food, culture or football – pick what suits you. Full details coming soon.

A 60-minute interactive workshop led by WordPress VIP and NewsUK, exploring how AI is reshaping the role of the website and what publishers need to prepare for an increasingly agent-driven web.

The session will open with insights from WordPress VIP’s Future of the Web 2026 research alongside NewsUK’s global perspective on how publishers are adapting to AI-driven discovery and consumption. Attendees will then move into facilitated peer-to-peer discussions exploring how publishers can evolve their content, technology, and owned experiences to serve both human audiences and AI agents, followed by a group share-back.

This workshop will examine the evolution of SEO towards Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO), exploring the new principles, signals and content strategies that media organisations need to consider in order to maintain and strengthen their visibility across an increasingly AI-driven search ecosystem. The session will focus not only on generating traffic and clicks, but also on building authority, strengthening editorial brands and ensuring that the expertise, experience and specialist knowledge of journalists and media organisations are effectively recognised and surfaced by search engines and AI systems.

Participants will receive clear, actionable guidelines on how to adapt their content strategies to the changing search landscape, together with a practical exercise designed to help them understand and apply these principles in their own work. We will explore the growing importance of new content formats, including video and social signals, as well as how to interpret evolving algorithms and understand what AI-driven platforms are looking for.

The workshop will also address how to increase the likelihood of editorial content being surfaced in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and other LLM-based experiences, with the aim of positioning the publication and its journalism as authoritative, relevant and trustworthy sources for AI-generated answers.

This NewsLabs workshop skips the demos and slide decks. Over 90 minutes, Ivan Šarić, CEO of NewsLabs, works through four production tasks with the room, and everyone present publishes real content before the session ends. Bring a laptop, a story idea and something from your own archive or feed. You will leave with published work and a clear view of where the technology holds up and where an editor still has to step in.

• From raw video to a filed story. We take unedited footage or an interview recording, transcribe it and turn it into a structured piece with quotes, context and a headline. Attendees will work with their own clips.
• The full article, start to finish. From brief to finished draft: research, structure, house style, sourcing, headline and SEO. We look closely at the editorial checks that keep this defensible and at what a newsroom should never automate.
• Your feed as a newsroom. We explore real social posts from attendees and watch them become publishable articles, then edit them down together.
• Hitting publish. The finished pieces go live during the session, with review, attribution and disclosure handled as they would be in a real newsroom.

Every attendee will be able to leave with a free NewsLabs trial to test this workflow in their own newsroom.

Everybody wants innovation. New products. New revenue streams. New technology. New ways of working. The challenge is that innovation requires change. And change is where people get stuck.

Drawing on performance psychology and behavioural science, this interactive workshop looks at the human side of transformation – how to turn organisational ambition into human action.

Workshop outline:

1. The gap between knowing and doing. Why knowing what we should do doesn’t mean we’ll actually do it – and what gets in the way of turning intention into action.
2. What’s really behind resistance? Understanding what can sit beneath resistance to change, from uncertainty and loss of control to confidence, competence, identity and established habits.
3. From resistance to readiness. What helps people move: creating clarity, autonomy and psychological safety, while maintaining accountability and performance.
4. Turning insight into action. Practical strategies for closing the gap between knowing and doing and helping people take the next step.

Beyond publishers’ own platforms, their IP is both monetised by legitimate third parties and stolen by bad actors. The text aggregator, media intelligence, risk, scraping and B2B2B markets are all being disrupted by AI. Advancement in technology now makes stealing content even easier.

Monetising high quality, high-value journalism for secondary use and protecting it from misuse has never been more important. Explore how NLA – a publisher partner owned by the UK national news media – manages all these challenges for its c.900 publisher customers.

Natasha Christie-Miller, Media Advisor, NED and Chair and FIPP Stage Host

Reeva Misra, Founder and CEO, Walking on Earth, UK

Selma Stern, Independent Advisor, Germany

Linda Thomas Brooks, Media Consultant and Board Advisor USA

Paul Fletcher, Former Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities & the Arts, Australia

Interviewed byRicky Sutton, Publisher, Future Media, Author and Thought Leader, Australia

Laura Williamson, Editor-in-Chief, The Athletic

Daisy Donald, Propositions Lead – Economist Pro, The Economist Group, UK

Pooja Bagga, Group Chief Information Officer, The Guardian, UK

Interviewed by Ranj Begley, Media Consultant, UK

Hami Tran, Publisher, Marie Claire, Vietnam

Minette Ferreira, CEO, Media24, South Africa

Mariam M Mathew, CEO, Manorama Online, India

Mark Howard, Chief Operating Officer, TIME, USA

Interviewed by Suprio Guha Thakurta, Independent Media Advisor, Former Chief Strategy Officer, The Economist, India,

Reed Phillips, CEO, Oaklins DeSilva+Phillips, USA

Interviewed by James Hewes, COO, Atlas, UK

Irene Smit, Creative Director Flow Magazine, Psychology Magazine and Happinez  at Roularta Media Nederland, The Netherlands

Jessica Sibley, CEO, TIME, USA

Minette Ferreira, CEO, Media24, South Africa

Jacqueline Loch, General Manager, Betakit and 101 Stage Host

Nicia Rodwell, International Brand Director, Marie Claire International, France

Alex Poderoso, Digital Director, RBA Revistas, Spain

Nick Shelton, Founder and CEO, Broadsheet, Australia and the UK

Interviewed by Colin Morrison CBE, Founder-Publisher, Flashes & Flames: The Media Business Weekly, UK

Jim Elliott, Founder and President, James G. Elliott Co, USA 

Interviewed by James Hewes, COO, Atlas, UK

Christian Toksvig, Co-founder and CEO, Cocoa Media, Denmark

Franka Keiter, Head of Social Media and Corporate Communications, Motor Presse Stuttgart

Florencia Schiavon, CEO, Sifted, UK

Interviewed by Paul Hood, Head of Publishing – House of Commons, UK

Gary Rathbone, Founder, Sportscape Media, South Africa