A summary of the sessions at DIS 2018

The Digital Innovators’ Summit (DIS) was held from 18 to 20 March in Berlin, Germany, and was attended by senior executives and key decision makers from magazine and digital media groups from around the world.

		Download the speaker presentations View and download the speaker presentations from the Digital Innovators’ Summit, 18-20 March, Berlin. (Please note that we will only share those presentations we have been given permission to share by the speakers.)
		See the DIS videos Access the YouTube playlist with all the speaker sessions from DIS 2018
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		Read all the DIS stories From AI and blockchain to platforms and innovation in print; from Hearst and Harvard Business Review to Schibsted and South China Morning Post: read all the stories from DIS 2018.
Troy Young, Global President, Hearst Digital Media, USA		Get ready for the Amazonification of media The South China Morning Post has a long and distinguished history. As its CEO Gary Liu explained at the Digital Innovators’ Summit, it is also a news organisation that was until recently mired in legacy processes with old ways of looking at content and distribution. In his presentation he outlined many of the steps that he and his management team are taking to modernise it.
Gary Liu, CEO, South China Morning Post		Transforming Hong Kong’s newspaper of record The South China Morning Post has a long and distinguished history. As its CEO Gary Liu explained at the Digital Innovators’ Summit, it is also a news organisation that was until recently mired in legacy processes with old ways of looking at content and distribution. In his presentation he outlined many of the steps that he and his management team are taking to modernise it.
Helje Solberg, CEO and Editor at VGTV-Schibsted		Six insights from VGTV on online video for a highly visual society As the internet pivots more and more towards visual content, VG.no, Norway’s largest online news site, is maintaining its position by investing significantly in one thing: online video.
Melissa Rosenthal, EVP, Cheddar Inc., USA		How Cheddar Inc. innovates to create a new type of media for a new generation Cheddar, which launched two years ago in the United States as a live and on-demand news channel, is a new type of media for a new generation, filling a gap in the market for business news tailored for millennials. Melissa Rosenthal, Cheddar Inc.’s EVP, spoke at the Digital Innovator’s Summit 2018 in Berlin today, where she provided insight into the thinking behind Cheddar and its journalism and business model.
Juan Señor, Partner, Innovation Media Consulting, UK		Innovation launch: Here’s where and how magazines and other media innovate It’s been another year of rapid change and innovative publishers continue to assemble a quiver full of new solutions to drive their businesses forward – something that becomes apparent when you page through the new 2018/19 edition of Innovation in Magazine Media 2018-2019 World Report, launched at Digital Innovators’ Summit (DIS) in Berlin.
Linda Ligios, managing editor, the Springwise		Springwise report on AI and the future of work released at DIS On the first day of the Digital Innovators Summit (DIS) in Berlin next week Linda Ligios, managing editor of the Springwise innovation intelligence company, revealed the findings of a new innovation report into AI and the future of work.
Maureen Hoch, editor, Harvard Business Review’s HBR.org		How Harvard Business Review uses emerging media formats to super-charge audience engagement Maureen Hoch, editor of Harvard Business Review’s HBR.org on Monday provided insight into the experimental work HBR has been doing with new media formats in the past year to reach and engage audiences, including subscribers, in new ways.
Jesper Doub, Spiegel Online & Guido Bülow, Facebook Germany		What now with Facebook and the digital media business model? The relationship between publishers and platforms, and in particular Facebook, was never far from conversation at several sessions at FIPP and VDZ’s Digital Innovators’ Summit in Berlin.
Ingo Rübe, CTO, Burda Magazine		How Blockchain could revitalise the media Blockchain, which was one of the key buzzwords of 2017, is a technology that its champions believe will transform many industries. 2018 has seen the hype around Blockchain abate a little, so now seems to be an apposite moment for publishers to take a serious look at what the technology is, and how it could impact on both the way they publish and monetise content.

More about DIS 2018

See the DIS photo stream here.
Check out the conversation at #DISummit.
For more DIS stories, go to fipp.com.

DIS 2018 was organized by FIPP & VDZ.

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