Elske Schouten is deputy editor-in-chief of NRC, a quality newspaper in The Netherlands. Together with the rest of the team she is responsible for the editorial coverage and implementation of digital strategy. NRC has been focussing on digital first publishing, newsletters and has launched three successful podcasts. Prior to this, Elske was the editor of the Foreign Desk, responsible for international coverage and NRC’s network of 22 foreign correspondents. She has worked in Jakarta for five years as NRC’s correspondent for Southeast Asia. Educated as a biologist, Elske started at NRC in 2005 as a business reporter. She lives in Amsterdam, has two daughters and is an enthusiastic amateur pianist.

Anntao leads the development of the GNI data tools, News Consumer Insights, News Tagging
Guide and Realtime Content Insights, which have been used by thousands of news publishers
around the world. Anntao's focus is to build data frameworks that provide actionable
recommendations to News publishers in order to grow their overall audience value. 

Prior to Google, he worked in IT consultancy and military aeronautics, obtained a Master's
degree in International Business from Toulouse Business School and developed its own VR
gaming app.

Felicity Thomas is Head of Talent Development at the Financial Times, leading on the talent and performance agenda. She has worked across a number of sectors- higher and executive education, professional services, not-for-profit, public services and media.

Mar Cabra is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, digital wellness educator and Acumen fellow working on raising awareness on how technology is changing the way we interact with ourselves, each other and as a society. She led the technology and data work for the Panama Papers investigation and suffered burn-out as a result. She is co-founder of The Self-Investigation, an initiative that provides a variety of solutions aimed at improving journalists’ wellbeing and also co-founder of OdiseIA, an independent, objective and multidisciplinary institute in Spain that promotes an ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence. She writes a bi-monthly column in Spanish newspaper El Confidencial on digital wellness.

A forerunner of digital journalism in Spanish, he has led several of the major online information projects in Spanish.

He studied Information Sciences at  Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 1995 he began working at El Mundo as an editor. Later he went to the society section, also as editor, until 1999 when he was appointed head of the Sports section and, nine months later, editor-in-chief. From there, in 2001, he planned the integration of the sports sections of the paper and the Internet. During a season he also served as editor-in-chief of the international section. Between 2002 and 2006 he was deputy director of elmundo.es.

In 2007 he left El Mundo with Gumersindo Lafuente to participate in the launch of soitu.es, a digital outlet that won two awards from the Online News Association (ONA) as the best non-English media during its two years of existence.

After the closure of soitu.es in 2009, he was appointed deputy director of El País to promote digital publishing.

In 2013, he was awarded the Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalistic Innovation, thanks to which he spent a year at Harvard and MIT studying how technological innovation is changing traditional media companies.

In 2014, he was hired by the US network Univision as vice president of the digital area of ​​Univision Noticias, a team that under his direction won numerous awards and recognitions, including three Ortega y Gasset Awards.

In June 2018, he was appointed deputy director of El País as part of the management team of the new director Soledad Gallego-Díaz.

Harrison van der Vliet is deputy editor-in-chief of NRC, a quality newspaper in The Netherlands. Together with the rest of the team, he is responsible for the editorial coverage and implementation of digital strategy. NRC has been focussing on digital first publishing, newsletters and has launched three successful podcasts.

Stine Eckert is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University. Her research focuses on the intersections of media, gender and minorities, the democratic potential of social media, online harassment, public spheres, and women in journalism. www.stineeckert.com

Edith Heitkämper is Chairwoman of the board of directors at ProQuote Media and Editor for the health magazine Visite on the German NDR television. She also writes about medical and social topics for Stern, Brigitte and Psychologie Heute. She previously worked many years as an author for ARD, including for Tagesschau, Tagesthemen and Panorama.

Ard Boer is Product Manager Sports at NDC Mediagroep and has over 15 years experience in media. Ard started out as a concept developer in the music industry when it was about to go under due to piracy and lack of physical sales, developing e g a hit prediction tool with AI technology. A decade later the music industry is thriving due to the success of paid streaming services. For the past few years Ard has been working as Product Manager Sports in the news publishing business. In this environment Ard is looking for new ways to produce, distribute and monetize content including by deploying new technologies such as AI to improve the impact of NDC mediagroep on their readership.

Luc Rademakers is a WAN-IFRA Expert Advisor and Managing Director at KOGO Associate Partners, a strategy consulting company in media, among other sectors. He has a broad experience leading media transformation in executive roles for print, digital and audiovisual. He is Senior Advisor at PMP, an international strategy company (HQ in Paris).

Dean is Director of Insights and Editor-in-Chief of WAN-IFRA, he is responsible for coordinating all activities related to the organisation's array of multimedia publications. He has more than 25 years’ experience working in the news publishing industry, much of that time spent researching, analysing, identifying and ultimately reporting about global media developments.

After more than 20 years working as a project manager for Protecmedia, Ana has extensive experience implementing all kinds of editorial systems for media worldwide. Her outstanding consulting experience makes her a perfect example of the great professional team Protecmedia feels so proud of.

After starting his career in print, Daniel worked as an Online Journalist, Youtuber and professional Blogger since the early 2000s. Obvious changes in the media business made clear: Publishing content may change the world, but someone needs to pay the bill. Since almost ten years, he is working on business models for online publishing that fit the needs and wishes of Creators, Readers and Publishers. He is working for Heise, the leading German IT publisher, since 2012 in various roles.

Millrod is Director of Editorial Technology at Newsday, where he has been involved in one transformation after another since he began working at Newsday as a copy editor in 1985. Millrod was involved in the original purchase of a Unisys Hermes system in 1999 and was the project manager for a redesign of Newsday with Mario Garcia in 2004. Before coming to Newsday, he worked at two small newspapers in Stamford and Greenwich, Connecticut, as a city editor and news editor. But Newsday was his hometown paper on Long Island, and the place he wanted to be since he was a student journalist at Stony Brook University, where he has taught news literacy as well. He’s currently working on a project to upgrade Newsday’s systems to the next generation of Atex’s publishing software.

Alberto has spent the last 25 years in the media industry, taking care of content creation, distribution and monetization. A master's degree in philosophy followed by an experience in the publishing industry as an editor kicked-off a career focused on the digital space. In large multinational organizations – such as Microsoft, Fox and Outbrain – he managed marketing and advertising teams, combining the latest technologies to achieve the most efficient growth in content monetization. He recently completed a training path on Business Sustainability at the University of Cambridge and joined Atex as Head of Business Development and Sustainability.