Caitlin Clarke leads Business Development at the Financial Times. She has a background in commerciasing new content products, developing alternative revenue streams and go-to market strategy. She's worked at other major media outlets like the New York Times and Bloomberg and has also worked at two start-ups who sold primarily into the media industry - Trint and Hearken.
Martin is an Editorial Development Director of Bonnier News - Sweden's largest media house, with 45 newspapers and 50 magazine titles. Employed at Dagens Nyheter as Head of Editorial Development since 2016. With the 40 years of experience in journalism, for the past 15 years he has been focusing on digital transformation, media trends and media consumer behavior. Previous experience involves being a Director of Digital at Swedish Public Radio, Managing Editor at Svenska Dagbladet, Editor in Chief of trade journal Journalisten and several other magazines. Guest Professor in journalism at the University of Gothenburg 2008-2009.
As a member of the DW’s Digital Format and Product Development team, Laura Döing is responsible for podcast development across all sections of DW; Deutsche Welle (DW) is Germany's international public broadcaster.Laura Döing develops digital formats for diverse target groups all over the world. She is a multimedia journalist who has been working with video, audio, text anddata for more than 10 years - and got hooked on user-centred design and data-based development.
Michael is a Head of the Product at Tortoise Media, a news startup based in the UK who have built a membership community of 100,000 over the past two years. Tortoise offers a mix of daily live events, long interactive reads, email briefings, and podcasts. Michael is a New Zealander who has long been resident in London, where he has worked on major media projects for the London 2012 Olympics, Newscorp, and the Guardian. He has previously co-founded three technology startups, developing new platforms for technologies ranging from data visualisation to augmented reality. He curates Confluence, an annual conference about storytelling.
Kirill is a co-founder and a CEO of the St. Petersburg based media company Paperpaper.ru. Besides doing local online daily media, Paperpaper.ru makes educational events and city festivals, sociological researches for brands, paid email-newsletters as a part of a membership program for their readers. Before starting Paperpaper.ru in 2012 from scratch as a lean media startup Kirill worked as a reporter for different local and nationwide news outlets. From 2012 to 2018 he was an editor-in-chief and a CEO of Paperpaper.ru the same time, after 2018 he focused on the business issues of the company. In 2021 Paperpaper.ru is a break even media company with almost 35 people in staff.
Responsible for Digital & Publishing Business in IMPRESA since 2015. In the previous 14 years led the digital advertising business of Portugal Telecom with an integrated approach to 4 screens, with focus in second screen apps, linear TV interactive spots and re-targeting ads based on behavioral data collected by the set top boxes. Founding Member of IAB Portugal in 2014, representing IMPRESA in the Board of Directors.
Managing Director of Consumer Revenues & Publishing
Guardian
RICHARD FURNESS
Managing Director of Consumer Revenues & Publishing
Richard has worked at Guardian News & Media for 23 years and in that time has overseen some groundbreaking marketing initiatives including the launch of the Guardian's Subscriber scheme, the "3 little pigs" commercial which aired in 2012 to great acclaim, Glastonbury sponsorship and a multitude of digital product launches and newspaper redesigns. In his most recent roles Richard led as the Guardian & Observer's transformation into tabloid shaped newspapers as Publishing Director and in 2018 was promoted to Managing Director of Consumer Revenues & Publishing, leading on GNM's digital subscriptions, newspaper strategy, e-commerce and live events. In May 2021 Richard was appointed Managing Director of Customer Engagement & Business Development and is focussing on building a coordinated strategy across the Guardian’s growing multimedia portfolio and reader revenue opportunities.
Head of Digital News Strategy & Deputy News Commissioner
Swedish Radio
OLLE ZACHRISON
Head of Digital News Strategy & Deputy News Commissioner
Olle Zachrison is Head of Digital News Strategy & Deputy News Commissioner at Swedish Radio (SR). Before taking on his new role at SR, he was Head of News & Current Affairs for four years. He has a background in newspaper journalism and has been Managing Editor and Business Editor of national daily Svenska Dagbladet.
Sonali Verma works with content producers all over the world to help them transform their business models and embrace a data-driven culture. As the manager of digital production and audience engagement teams at The Globe, she led a mind shift in getting journalists to understand how data could make them more effective, while staying true to their mission to build a better Canada. She also collaborated with The Globe’s data science team on an analytics project that evolved into an artificial-intelligence and machine-learning platform called Sophi.io, which is now used on five continents. She has been Sophi’s senior product manager and director of customer success, and also oversaw marketing efforts that won several international awards. Her current role as Director, Business Development entails working closely with publishers to help them build sustainable revenue models by using Sophi’s automation, prediction and optimization technology. Sonali was previously the editor of Globe Investor, an editor at Bloomberg News, a senior producer at CNBC and one of 10 young journalists chosen worldwide for the coveted Reuters Trainee program.
Nils Riise is a General Manager at Piano and oversees company growth, partnerships and client relationships across the Nordics. A marketing technology expert with a strong background, Nils has extensive knowledge of how to drive revenue in the publishing industry, particularly through Digital Subscription, Programmatic Advertising and Targeting.
In 2014 Galina established Meduza Project - independent news outlet and became editor-in-chief and the CEO and publisher. Previously she worked at Kommersant newspaper as an editor, from 2004 to 2014 and was editor-in-chief of the most popular Russian news outlet Lenta.ru.
Alex Chapko is a General Manager at Piano Software, overseeing company growth, partnerships, and client relationships across India, Central Asia, Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Alex has been working with the Indian market for over 8 years, starting as a CEO of Newzmate - a content marketing cloud acquired by Piano in 2018. He is today working alongside hundreds of brands and content publishers across 30 countries, helping them identify and implement the necessary strategies and technology stack to improve audience understanding, engagement, and monetisation.
Olga Rudenko is the chief editor of the Kyiv Independent, an award-winning media start-up launched in November 2021 by the former editorial team of the Kyiv Post. Olga is the former deputy chief editor of the Kyiv Post. She has written for global publications, and was a fellow at the Chicago Booth School of Business in 2021.
