Chair
Rob Chapman, CEO & Partner, Founders Intelligence
Speakers
Amber Gill, Love Island Winner 2019 and Influencer
Caspar Lee, Vlogger and Entrepreneur
Timothy Armoo, CEO, Fanbytes
McCall is joined by Susanna Reid, Neil Mortensen, Kevin Lygo and the consumer panel in Leeds with Ranvir Singh, as they discuss a wide ranging look at the challenges and opportunities for the television industry in a fast-changing world.
Chairs
Susanna Reid, Journalist and Broadcaster
Ranvir Singh, Journalist and Broadcaster
Speakers
The complete schedule can be found here.
Don’t expect Linda Yaccarino to be intimidated by Facebook or Google or any of the other Silicon Valley behemoths. This highly experienced US media executive is renowned for her tough negotiating skills and uber-competitiveness. Not for nothing is the NBCUniversal executive, who reports directly to Comcast chief Steve Burke, known among Manhattan media types as the Velvet Hammer.
It may be Carolyn McCall’s first RTS Cambridge but she knows what she wants from the convention’s speakers. They should be positive and provocative. She also wants to hear from the voices of the people who consume the content.
“There is no point going into the Cambridge Convention with an attitude of ‘It’s all doom and gloom’. Yes, there are challenges but the opportunities for content creators have never been greater,” she emphasises.
Further speakers announced include Karen Blackett OBE, Chair of MediaCom UK; Howard Davine, Executive Vice President, Business Operations, ABC Studios; Sir Lenny Henry, actor, comedian and diversity campaigner; Tim Hincks, Co-CEO of Expectation; Jane Turton, CEO of All3Media; and Linda Yaccarino, Chairman of Advertising and Client Partnerships, NBCUniversal.
The 2019 event, which is set to take place at King’s College in Cambridge from the 18-20th of September, is this year entitled “Content, Consumers, and everything in between”.
Carolyn McCall, Chief Executive of ITV is taking the position of Convention Chair for the RTS Cambridge Convention 2019, with Jeremy Darroch, Group Chief Executive of Sky, and David Zaslav, President and CEO of Discovery, confirmed as the first international keynote speakers for the prestigious biennial conference.
The 2019 event, which took place at King’s College in Cambridge on 18-20th of September, was entitled “Content, Consumers, and everything in between”.
The Principal Sponsor for the RTS Cambridge Convention 2019 was ITV.
