Following the England team's success at the European Championships, Gareth Southgate, in conversation with Clare Balding, reflects on the power of football to unite a nation, to promote inclusion and be a force for redefinition of nationhood.
Casey Bloys, Chief Content Officer for HBO and HBO Max, will discuss programming strategy and goals to expand WarnerMedia’s slate of originals.
A panel of leaders from the UK production sector and Netflix consider the rapid changes in the market and explore their possible longer term impacts on audiences, broadcasters and producers.
Chair
Lorraine Heggessey, Chair, Grierson Trust and Advisor, Channel 4 Growth Fund
Speakers
Ralph Lee, Chief Executive, Production, BBC Studios
Brandon Riegg, VP, Unscripted and Documentary Series, Netflix
Sanjay Singhal, Chief Executive, Voltage TV
Jane Turton, CEO, All3Media
The Ofcom Chief Executive in conversation with journalist Clive Myrie about the future of public service broadcasting and how to respond to the rapidly changing media landscape.
How radical do we have to be to protect public service broadcasting? Ex BBC and New York Times boss Mark Thompson argues that PSB will die in the UK unless huge change happens. He debates his solutions with a distinguished panel.
Chair
Kirsty Wark, Journalist and Writer
Introduction
Mark Thompson, CEO, Ancestry.com
Speakers
Maria Kyriacou, President, ViacomCBS Networks UK, Australia and Israel
Alex Mahon, CEO, Channel 4
Fraser Nelson, Editor, The Spectator
An expert panel, routinely faced with decisions about how to cover fake news, considers the pitfalls, the ethics and the psychology behind one of the most insidious disrupters in the modern world.
Chair
Naga Munchetty, Journalist and Presenter, BBC Breakfast
Speakers
Sander van der Linden, Professor of Social Psychology in Society and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision Making Lab, University of Cambridge
Matthew Price, Editor, Data and Forensics Unit, Sky News
Lutz Schueler reflects on the first 100 days of the O2 merger with Virgin and discusses future strategy.
BBC Director General Tim Davie looks back on his first year in post and at what the future holds in conversation with new ITN CEO Deborah Turness.
John Whittingdale delivered the evening’s speech on behalf of Oliver Dowden, who has a new role.
The Channel 4 CEO speaks with Gillian Joseph about the challenges for the channel in the face of pending privatisation plans.
