Danuta is a brand strategist and subscription expert with experience in leading news and lifestyle media in Europe and global industry organizations. Currently, Danuta holds the position of Expert-in-Residence at the Media Development Investment Fund and serves as the Head of Digital User Market Senate at Ringier AG in Zurich.
read moreAlexian is the Chief Marketing Officer and Sales VP at Marfeel. He has over 8 years of experience at the senior executive level, and in his current roles in both marketing and sales, he focuses on creating a sales integrated marketing strategy to make their B2B targeting as successful as possible. Alexian has been a member of the Forbes Communications Council since 2018 and before joining Marfeel was a Professor of Marketing at Geneva Business School.
Katja is Head of Performing Content at the German Press Agency, dpa. In the data science project DRIVE, she works with 20 german und austrian regional media houses to understand users, offer them personalized content and turn them into loyal subscribers. She recently launched a data-informed product, dpa-Themenwelten. It’s the first digital product at the German Press Agency to boost reader engagement. With it, dpa is actively supporting media houses in increasing their digital subscriptions. Katja is an experienced editor, previously she worked as a product manager at dpa.
read moreRichard Furness is GMG’s chief strategy and business development officer, shaping and executing the Guardian’s strategy as well as leading on developing and maintaining strategic relationships and partnerships.
Richard has been part of the Guardian since 1998, working in a number of vital roles, including as marketing director, director of publishing, and most recently as managing director, customer engagement and business development.
Nashua Gallagher is a global audience conversion and content strategist specialized in driving subscriptions in the digital environment. She is the Head of Customer Journey Management at Neue Zürcher Zeitung, based in Zurich and responsible for subscription growth. Nashua was previously based in Hong Kong, as Head of Marketing Strategy, APAC responsible for paid B2C subscription growth for the Financial Times. Nashua is a passionate integrated marketer with over a decade of experience in media, having also previously worked at The Economist and Cartoon Network (Turner Broadcasting Systems).
read moreTherese is the CX Lead at Schibsted focusing on improving the customer journey to increase the loyalty and reduce churn among their subscriber base. Therese has a background in digital marketing and previously worked as Digital Sales and Performance manager at DNB, and Digital Activation Lead at Carat.
read moreDeputy Director of Product, UX and Audience at Le Monde, Quentin has previously managed product teams for start-ups and large companies in various fields such as online music, e-commerce and transport. Result-oriented, and passionate about media and new usages, Quentin recently joined Le Monde’s teams to support the newspaper in its transformation, which places the digital product at the heart of the organisation, with the aim of offering its readers a unique and differentiating experience.
read moreJeremy’s current role is leading the development of Create, the major editing tool used by journalists across Schibsted brands. He has worked with Innovation and market shifting Product Management for over 25 years. This has included working in areas such as mobile data services, payments, and customer services. Machine learning has become a strong interest over the latest few positions and Jeremy worked with projects around forecasting and recommendations.
read moreDaniel started his career as a journalist, working as a reporter for newspapers and radio stations. After his MBA in Media Management, he joined the digital product management of RTL, Germany’s biggest private TV-Network. Since 2013, Daniel is building and meanwhile leading the paid content business of Axel Springer’s BILD, which now counts more than 600.000 digital subscribers.
read morePål Nedregotten is Executive Vice President in charge of Product, Editorial and Subscriptions development, including Tech & Data at Amedia, which is with its 79 newspapers Norway’s largest local media publisher. He’s previously held various leading positions at the company at the crossroads between technology, product development and journalism. At Amedia, he has since 2013 been central in developing and rolling out the company’s centralised login solution, digital subscription strategy and data strategy. A veteran in the Norwegian online journalism field, he’s been working in the intersection between online development and journalism since 1994. He was instrumental in spearheading some of the earliest examples of Norwegian online publications, experimenting with, among other things, live online chats/interviews between editors, panellists and interviewees as early as 1996 – as well as working closely with the editorial interfaces of home-grown publishing systems since 1997.
Trine Ohrberg is head of communications and event at the Norwegian Media Businesses’ Association. She has a background as a journalist, and is currently creating conferences, events, study trips for top management in Norwegian media companies – she is also an experienced presenter and hosts a number of different events. Trine is the head of the jury of Norway’s largest media and journalism competition. She works actively with leadership development and diversity in the media industry, and has, among other things, developed a mentoring program to increase the proportion of women in top management in Norwegian media companies.
read moreOla Stenberg took up the position of Product Director in 2019. He is the line manager for the product and technology teams in VG. Ola has worked in various roles in VG since 2004, including development editor and before that as editorial manager of VGTV. Stenberg has also worked for NTB and Hamar Arbeiderblad, among others. He sits on the management teams of VG and Schibsted News Media Product and Tech.
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Anne is the Vice President of Subscriptions at Le Monde. Previously she was responsible for subscription acquisition and held the role of Product Manager for Digital Subscriptions. Before joining Le Monde, she worked at Universal Pictures as a Product Marketing Manager in the Paris office and has worked at Warner Bros and TF1.
read moreNils Riise is General Manager, Nordics, at Piano, the digital experience platform that empowers every team to understand and influence customer behavior. With a background in martech focused on programmatic, personalization and subscription management, Nils leads Piano’s operation in the Nordics countries, responsible for the company’s continued growth in the region. Nils holds a degree in international marketing from BI Norwegian Business School and lives in Oslo, Norway with his dog and girlfriend.
read moreHelene works with digital marketing, conversion rate optimization and sales, related to Consumer business. Customer journey, user experience and innovation are my passion. Her ultimate goal is to increase subscription sales by enhancing the user experience, combining design and tech. The last three years she have been investigating the importance and potential of the paywall, in relation to subscription sales.
read moreRenzo Veenstra is Editor in Chief at Omroep Brabant, the largest dutch regional broadcaster with over 26M online visitors (web & app) per month. Omroep Brabants works for over 4 years with the editorial analytic solutions of smartocto. Renzo has extensive media experience and was previously editor-in-chief/newsreader at ANP (the Dutch press agency), a reporter for various news programs and a substitute presenter on national radio.
read moreRutger Verhoeven is Founder and CMO of smartocto. Former Head of Digital at BNNVARA – a large Dutch national broadcaster. Rutger has vast experience in serious gaming and education. Previously worked as a publisher for educational children’s magazines (i.e. National Geographic Junior) and numerous award-winning digital innovations.
read moreKristin is the Country Manager for Norway at PodMe, a podcast subscription platform owned by Schibsted. Previously, she worked as Head of Strategy and Project Management for Schibsted News Media and as a Strategy Consultant for Accenture. She holds a Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).
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