Cambridge 2015

Senior figures from industry and the Commission will debate whether these proposals will drive further economic growth in Europe’s audio-visual industries and benefit consumers or undermine the basis on which content is funded, damaging a key economic sector and resulting in a reduction in choice and quality of content available.

Session Fourteen: TV without borders: is the digital single market boom or bust for UK television?

Session Thirteen: The Rise of the Smartphones - Creating Compelling Content for the Mobile Generation

Chair: Spencer Kelly, Presenter, BBC Click

Speakers

Philip Harper, Creative Director, Atlantic Productions

Anthony Owen, Head of Magic and Executive Producer, Objective Productions

Richard Taylor, BBC R&D

Session Twelve: Polls apart. How Broadcasters got Election 2015 wrong. And how can they do better next time?

Chair: Martha Kearney, Presenter, BBC The World at One

Speakers

The Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP

Faisal Islam, Political Editor, Sky News

Julie Etchingham, Presenter, ITV News 

Session Eleven: BBC Keynote

Chair: Jane Martinson, Media Editor, The Guardian

Speaker: Tony Hall, Director-General, BBC

Session Ten: Keynote – Sharon White, Ofcom

Chair: Stewart Purvis CBE, Professor of Television Journalism, City University

Speaker: Sharon White, Chief Executive, Ofcom

Session Eight: David Zaslav, Discovery

Chair: Sir Howard Stringer

Speaker: David Zaslav, President & CEO, Discovery Communications

Session Nine: Studios Uncovered

We put the spotlight on different studio models of production and debate the pros and cons of each – including UK vs US approaches, acquiring vs growing organically, the right size to be the most effective creatively, incentivising the best creative people, the importance of drama and the growth of factual.

Chair: Patrick Younge, Partner & Co-Founder, Sugar Films

Speakers

Michael Edelstein, President, NBCUniversal International Studios