The Executive Summit is a closed, invitation-only event for speakers at the 2024 Leaders’ Briefing featuring selected executives from the content provider community.
19 November 2024, London
The Executive Summit is a small, closed, invitation-only event on the eve of the Leaders' Briefing, designed for selected executives from the content provider community.
*Please note that we will not be accepting any invitation requests for this event*
CEO
Head of Production Development
Director, Media and Entertainment
CTO
Marketing & Business Development
SVP & CTO
Group SVP, EMEA Broadcast Services
EVP & Chief Marketing Officer
COO
Founder & CEO
Director of Technology Production & Innovation
Director of Insights and Data Solutions
Content Lead - LIVE
Media Lead
Founder
DPP Executive Summit 2024
The DPP Executive Summit is a special, invitation-only event for senior leaders from media organisations. The Summit features insights of special relevance to those in management roles in content companies. This year we explore three main themes: the priorities facing Media CTOs heading into 2025; the way the media market is being shaped by business and consumer trends; and the seismic changes taking place in production.
Tuesday 19 November 2024
12:00 - 13:00 Registration, lunch, and networking
13:00 - 13:10 Welcome and context
Edward Qualtrough
Editorial Director
DPP
Mark Harrison
Founder & Chief Content Officer
DPP
13:10 - 14:00 The DPP Media CTO Survey 2024: The key findings
26 CTOs from 20 countries participated in the DPP’s Media CTO Survey 2024. We share their unique insights into their current priorities and challenges. - before some of the participants explore those insights. Further speaker to be announced.
Edward Qualtrough
Editorial Director
DPP
Larissa Görner
CTO
Proximus Media House
Jon Roberts
Director of Technology Production & Innovation
ITN
Mike Kralec
SVP & CTO
Sinclair
14:00 - 14:30 The DPP Media CTO Survey 2024: What does it mean for the market?
Industry experts identify some of the Survey’s important messages for both media organisations and vendors.
Peter Elvidge
Director, Media and Entertainment
Cognizant
Imogen Wall
Media Lead
Google Cloud
Joe Zaller
Founder
Devoncroft Partners
14:30 - 15:00 Three ways the media industry is reshaping
Disruption is the change we underestimated. This session invites us to take notice of three important trends with important implications for the media industry.
Rebecca Jackson
Marketing & Business Development
Caretta Research
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00 The global film & TV production outlook
Film and TV production faces unprecedented challenges. This exclusive session provides key trends shaping the industry, including production financing shifts, regional growth dynamics across EMEA, the Americas, and APAC, and insights into the content supply chain.
Atul Phadnis
Founder & CEO
Vitrina AI
Beatrice Rossmanith
Director of Insights and Data Solutions
Vitrina AI
16:00 - 16:30 Is live content saving or killing TV?
Live content drives innovation, audiences and revenue - and the volume and range of it grows every year. Is it the content form that will keep TV relevant? Or is it the form that will most hasten its demise?
Jeff Moore
EVP & Chief Marketing Officer
Ross Video
Eve Sherlock
Content Lead - LIVE
TikTok
Matt McDonald
Group SVP, EMEA Broadcast Services
Warner Bros. Discovery
16:30 - 17:00 Is production efficiency a contradiction in terms?
At a time of financial constraint, the most direct area of cost saving is production budgets. But will those savings ever be achieved by efficiency? Or does the very culture of production make it immune to such a concept?
Sarb Nijjer
COO
Banijay UK
Dennis Buhr
Head of Production Development
SVT
17:00 - 17:30 Audience trends: Who’s watching what where?
Ultimately the media industry is shaped by the behaviours of consumers. So what have they being doing in 2024 - and what does it suggest for 2025 and beyond. The DPP and BASE share key insights.
Mark Harrison
Founder & Chief Content Officer
DPP
Liz Bales
CEO
British Association of Screen Entertainment
17:30 - 18:30 Networking Drinks
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