Digital Innovators Summit 2020 | VDZ | 2 September 2020 | VIRTUAL EVENT

Media around the world is constantly evolving. New business models emerge and social media platforms rise and fall. Sometimes it is hard keeping up with the speed of all the changes.

That's why DIS (Digital Innovators' Summit), established in 2007 and taking place in Berlin in March every year, is a must for anyone in the B2C and B2B media and related industries to attend. Organised by FIPP, the network for global media, and VDZ, the German Publishers Assocation, it is the place in Europe to hear about the future of media and technology directly from the innovators who are driving change.

DIS brings together senior executives from media businesses, technology innovators, social platforms and solution providers to share ideas, discuss emerging trends and showcase future products.

The conference attracts over 600 senior executives from over 35 countries across the globe, with attendees including CEOs and other C-suite execs, Managing Directors, Heads of Online and Mobile, Publishers, Editors and Content Managers, Business Development Marketing and Sales.

The postponed Digital Innovators' Summit 2020 will now run online for the first time and take place alongside the 43rd FIPP World Media Congress from 2 to 30 September.

Apart from the DIS speaker channel over this period, the online FIPP World Media Congress will include a Congress speaker channel, Worldwide Media Marketplace speaker channel and meeting platform as well as the established FIPP Rising Star and FIPP Insight annual awards.

Even if now in a virtual world, DIS2020 will maintain the high-quality content and high-calibre speakers that has over the years made the Summit the premium digital media event to attend. Not only that, but anyone who registered for the postponed DIS2020 in Berlin in March will get access to all the above Congress channels, at no extra charge.

2020 Speakers

Erica Anderson
Vox Media, USA

Hazel Baker
Reuters, UK

Werner Ballhaus
PwC, Germany

Matthias Bauer
Vogel Communications Group, Germany

Stefan Betzold
Axel Springer Digital News Media Germany

Rebekah Billingsley
Cedar Communications, UK

Yulia Boyle
SVP International Media Partnerships and Image Collection, National Geographic Partners, USA

Corbin de Rubertis
Head of Innovation, Meredith Corporation, USA

Jennifer Dunleavy
Global Strategy Lead, Culture Trip, UK

Patrick Fischer
Chief Business Officer, Onefootball, Germany

Stefan Häckel
CEO DACH, VICE Media, Germany

James Hewes
President and CEO, FIPP, UK

Svein-Erik Hole
Editor, TU Media, Norway

Peter Houston
Co-Host, Media Voices Podcast; Founder, Flipping Pages Media, UK

Dave Jorgenson
Producer and Writer – Creative Video, The Washington Post, USA

Doris Ke
Founder, Business of Women, China

Esther Kezia Thorpe
Co-Host, Media Voices Podcast; B2B Content Marketing Manager, Dennis, UK

Tav Klitgaard
Head of Product, Zetland, Denmark

Lea Korsgaard
Editor in Chief, Zetland, Denmark

Scott Lamb
VP Publisher Growth and Strategy, Medium, USA

Almar Latour
Publisher for Barron's Group and EVP, Dow Jones, USA

Burkhard Leimbrock
Commercial Director Europe, Twitch, Finland

Evan Luzzatto
President, NSL Media Inc., Chairman of Socialyte, USA

Marion Mertens
Chief Digital Editor, Paris Match, France

Jan Moberg
CEO & Publisher, TU Media, Norway

Melanie Mohr
Founder, womprotocol.io; CEO, yeay.com, Germany

Declan Moore
Head of International, Wondery, UK

Jonathan Morris
CEO, DriveTribe & FoodTribe, UK

Timothy Quinn
Co-Founder, Hatebase, Canada

Kilian Schalk
Founder, PurpleGray Consulting, USA

Peter F. Schmid
CEO, Visable, Germany

Philipp Schmidt
Chief Transformation Officer & MD of Media Solutions, Prisma Media, France

Hu Shuli
Publisher, Caixin, China

Amy Jo Smith
President and CEO, DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, USA

Soumya Sriraman
President, Britbox, USA

Chris Sutcliffe
Co-Host, Media Voices Podcast; Freelance media journalist and consultant, UK

Kaspar Szymanski
Founder, SearchBrothers.com, Ireland

Tom Triumph
Author and Innovation Consultant, USA

Ennèl van Eeden
Global Entertainment and Media Leader, Partner, PwC, Netherlands

Philippe von Borries
Founder, Refinery29, USA

Oliver von Wersch
Founder and CEO, vonwerschpartner Digital Strategies, Germany

John Wilpers
Senior Director USA, Innovation Media Consulting Group, USA

Tom Xiong
Serial entrepreneur; Founder, Digitally China Podcast; CEO, Move Shanghai, China

Anita Zielina
Director of News Innovation and Leadership, Craig Newmark J-School at CUNY, USA

Bill Challenger
Tubularlabs, UK

Aron Elbase
Sales Manager, Wibbitz, France

Axel Wolrath
Founder and CSO, Tipser, Sweden

Michaël Jarjour
Head of Publisher Relations, Revue, Netherlands

Howard Paine
Sales Director DACH, Permutive, UK

Marcus Dauck
Head Publishing Technologies & Services, Ringier AG, Switzerland

Nikolay Malyarov
PressReader, Canada

2020 Sponsors and Partners

SPONSORS:
• Deep.BI
• Department for International Trade
• KameraOne
• Meredith
• MPP Global
• Newsadoo
• Permutive
• PressReader, Canada
• Revue
• Tipser
• Tubular Labs
• unitb
• Wibbitz

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• About IT-Schulungen
• Oxford Business Group