Maha is a digital strategy consultant and former Vice President of Product and Technology at NBC Digital Entertainment. Previously she was Head of Global Product at Bloomberg, responsible for the entire product suite and strategic direction for Bloomberg.com and overseeing the product and project management teams for news, markets, digital multi-media, and publishing applications. She was instrumental in advancing Bloomberg.com's Live & Video verticals to an industry leader in streams viewed on a News and Finance site.

Before joining Bloomberg, Maha was the Director of International Markets Technology for the Wall Street Journal Digital Network in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Asia Pacific where she played a crucial role as part of the executive team responsible for extending the Journal’s local language portfolio into larger European economies.

Jake is the founder of Mic, a leading news and media company for millennials. From global affairs and politics, to arts and music, to science and technology, Mic offers compelling stories and perspectives on the issues that define the next generation. Each month, more than 30 million people rely on Mic's unique sensibility to stay informed and rethink the world. In addition to shaping Mic's overall strategy, Jake works closely with the editorial team on coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Prior to Mic, Jake lived and worked on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict, researched democracy and governance issues in Morocco, worked for the Carnegie Endowment in Beirut, and helped Change.org inspire people to take action. A graduate of Stanford University, where he studied Middle East history and politics, Jake lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Editor in chief and deputy brand manager of miss Monika Affenzeller has been working for miss and other Styria magazines more than ten years after she finished her communication sciences and Italian language studies. Since 2008 she is part of the leading team, became managing editor of miss and in April 2013 editor in chief of the new positioned crossmedia brand miss.

miss is an Austrian 360 degrees media brand focus on social media on all channels, as on miss MAGAZIN, missAT or miss APP. They target young women aged between 16 and 35 - in digital, mobile and printed forms.

Kevin joined DMGT in 1996 from the Mirror Group, where he had been Managing Director of the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail. Having previously served as Managing Director of The Mail on Sunday, Managing Director of the Evening Standard and Metro, Chief Operating Officer of Associated New Media and Managing Director of Northcliffe Media, he is now Chief Executive of dmg media and a Director of DMGT. Kevin is a board member of the Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA) and represents the UK publishing industry on the Board of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN -IFRA). He is also a non-executive director of Press Association (PA Media), where he chairs the nominations committee and is a member of the remuneration committee.

For more than thirty years, Richard Gingras has led highly-regarded efforts in the development of online services, software, and new media. These endeavors range from pioneering uses of satellite networking for television, the first applications of television signals for data distribution, both pre-Web and Web-based online services, and the creation of various platform technologies. Over the last several years Gingras has focused his attention on the transformation of the media landscape.  

He serves on the boards of the First Amendment Coalition, the International Center for Journalists. In the fall of 2012, Gingras was recognized with the Manship Prize for contributions to the evolution of digital media. The Manship Prize is awarded by the Manship School of Mass Communications at Louisiana State University. In May 2013, Gingras gave a commencement speech at West Virginia University. Until July, 2011, Gingras was CEO of Salon Media Group which operates the popular and acclaimed news site Salon.com, the blogging community OpenSalon.com, and the pioneering virtual community The Well. Gingras has had a long association with Salon having assembled its initial seed financing in 1995. Salon was the first web-only publication.

Chantal is the International Talent Partnerships Director at Maker Studios (Disney Group), the global leader in online short-form video and the largest content network on YouTube. A French-German bi-national with over 12 years of digital experience, Chantal began her career as Music Marketing Manager for mobile operator SFR. Since, she worked in the content business leading various international roles in the media and entertainment industry.

From 2007 to 2013, she has launched and developed AFP's news agency video business as Global Marketing Manager. Following this experience, she has been in charge of the international expansion of two European YouTube networks (MCNs): first Believe Digital, the leader of independent music distribution, then Wizdeo owning one of the most advanced YouTube big data platforms Wiztracker.

Following his education at an upper secondary technical and vocational school, Alexander managed a variety of industrial projects and worked in CAD development. In 1995 he joined APA – Austria Press Agency, where he took over the biggest APA-IT business segment, planning and operations. In 2012 he completed his MBA in general management and was appointed managing director of APA-IT GmbH. Since then he has been the chief technology officer and authorised signatory for APA. Falchetto has long been a member of APA's senior management team and has helped the subsidiary APA-IT achieve steady economic growth. He is also an essential driver behind the transformation of APA-IT from an IT service provider into an a system partner for media in the digital age.

Magnus is the founder of Think Agency, a strategic online video agency supporting international media companies and brands in the video transition. Prior to starting Think Agency he was the Director of Television at Aftonbladet, Sweden's leading news provider, with more than 3.2 million daily users (in a country of 9 million).

Magnus is specialized in online video news and have developed online video strategies for international players such as The Telegraph Media Group, for Aftonbladet (where he previously was Director of Television) as well as for local media networks and online video news ventures. He previously had posts as the Head of Program Development at Swedish broadcaster SVT; the Director of Program Development and Sales at Swedish productions house Strix; Managing Director of production house Baluba Television; Managing Director of Kamera, one of Europe's leading online TV companies in the first round of online TV around year 2000. Read more about Zaar and Aftonbladet's commitment to TV here. Zaar also managed the Nordic launch of Joost, the online video venture started by Skype founders Friis/Zennström, and in connection to that residential entrepreneur at Atomico, the Zennström/Friis London-based investment company.

Mia Mabantais Quartz’s director of marketing and revenue products, leading cross-functional efforts to develop the company’s growing suite of bold, differentiated advertising offerings. Mia has spent her career bringing innovative business strategies to different industries, first at the Brookings Institution, where she advised private and public sector leaders on underserved markets, and later by helping to start HelloWallet, an award-winning financial guidance service that was acquired by Morningstar. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, and others. Mia has a BA from Colgate University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Bruno is active in the digital and media sectors for over 15 years and in the newspaper industry for 11 years. Passionate about business and technical topics, Bruno is comfortable to talk about network improvements or setting up a business model canvas for a new opportunity. After working for Cisco, Microsoft and the Canal + Group, he has worked to develop brands of Press Publishers in the field of digital.
The Rossel group is the first group of Belgian francophone press. It has always been a family group that has kept its financial and editorial independence. With over one hundred companies, it is present mainly in Belgium and northern France. Decentralized and diversified, the Rossel Group is active in newspapers, whether national or regional, paid or free, daily or periodic. The Rossel Group holds trademarks and press titles that are characterized by a leadership in their markets. It is also an industrial group with four printing including two newspaper printing.

Lena K. Samuelsson joined the group management team of Schibsted Media Group in September 2013. Samuelsson is a journalist and was during the 12 years prior to joining the group management team the editor-in-cheif of Svenska Dagbladet in Stockholm, a leading quality and business daily. 
She also worked at Aftonbladet for many years and serves on several boards such as Schibsted Norway, Hitta.se and 20 Minutos in Spain.

Daniel started his professional career in investment banking with ErsteBank in Vienna and later Credit Suisse in Zurich. He then became a startup entrepreneur and founder of several companies in the media space. Throughout his entire career Daniel took customer facing roles in sales andbBusiness development.
Within Erste Bank Daniel was responsible for customer relationship and order execution on the Vienna Stock exchange for institutional investors. Later Daniel joined CreditSuisse’s Private Banking Team serving wealthy private clients with a 360 degree approach (investments, financing, family office matters).
In 2000 Daniel joined SYSIS which later merged into 3united. In 2001 Daniel helped restructuring Sysis after the burst of the dotcom bubble in becoming a shareholder and took care of Business Development and Sales. Daniel overlooked 3united’s business with brand companies, retailers, telecoms and media companies in central Europe. During that time 3united became number one supplier of mobile value added services in its region. This growth contributed to the successful sale of the company to VeriSign in 2006. 2007 Daniel started angel investing and always took active management roles alongside the founders in business development and sales.
In 2011 Daniel founded SpeedInvest together with his former partners in 3united Oliver Holle, Werner Zahnt and Erik Bovee.

Fergus Bell is an experienced digital journalist, editor and leading expert in digital newsgathering and the verification of user-generated content by news media. He is also a prominent advocate for higher industry standards relating to the ethical uses of UGC and social media.
Fergus has experience in both the business and editorial sides of the industry, most recently heading up newsroom partnerships and innovation for SAM desk, a social newsgathering tool for newsrooms. Fergus joined SAM from the Associated Press where, as international social media and UGC editor, he led the global operation to source and verify user-generated content for all of the AP’s platforms.
In October 2013 Fergus co-founded a committee for the Online News Association that has brought together leaders in the journalism community to explore the ethics and standards of UGC and digital newsgathering for the news industry. He is also founding member of the First Draft News coalition of UGC experts supported by the Google News Lab. Fergus is a graduate of the University of Leeds.

Julie Posetti is a multi award-winning Australian journalist and academic. She has recently been appointed Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Reuters Centre for the Study of Journalism where she will lead the Institute’s new Journalism Innovation Project. Posetti is author of Protecting Journalism Sources in the Digital Age, a major UN study covering 121 countries, published by UNESCO in 2017. Among other projects, she is currently collaborating on the production of a model curriculum on journalism and disinformation for UNESCO. In 2016/2017 she was Head of Digital Editorial Capability at Fairfax Media (publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Australian Financial Review) in Australia. A former editor, presenter and political reporter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Posetti was based in Paris as Research Fellow and Editor with the World Editors Forum in 2014/2015, where she edited the flagship annual Trends in Newsrooms report. She is currently a Journalism Fellow at the University of Wollongong, where she is completing her PhD.

Håvard Kvalheim is the Director and Head of Big Data at Polaris Media ASA, a leading Norwegian media group owning thirty-five newspapers. Major newspapers owned by the group include Adresseavisen, Harstad Tidende,Troms Folkeblad, Sunnmørsposten and Romsdals Budstikke. Kvalheim is a digital media expert and in charge of Polaris Media’s Big Data strategy and projects across the group.
Prior to joining Polaris Media, Kvalheim worked for Ernst & Young, and he holds a degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Since the 90s' I enjoy building up media and online businesses. I have a proven track record in successfully developing sales as well as establishing reach through content and marketing. I advise many media enterprises and startups and I am experienced in (re)structuring small to large companies to optimize efficiency.
Today I am responsible for one of the most acknowledged online networks of Austria - Kurier Digital - consisting of kurier.at, futurezone.at, film.at and events.at.
kurier.at is a leading news portal with a focus on news, lifestyle and entertainment. kurier.at offers quality journalism for a large and rapidly growing audience. futurezone.at is Austrias largest tech-info-portal, film.at is the most popular movie and cinema offering and events.at well known for its overview of the best events.

Ben has recently graduated from the University of Central Lancashire with a Masters Degree in Robotics Engineering. Since then he has been employed as a Research ascociate and has worked on a number of projects, many of which involve drones. These projects have a wide range of applications such as pollution monitering, structural inspection and drone security. in the past he has provided software support for a sounding rocket team at NASA.