19 - 20 October 2023
Bergen
Norway

Media Labs Days #7

Hosted by Media City Bergen and co-organised with Future Media Hubs

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Media Labs Days #7 Programme

October 19 Thursday

10:45

Welcome and introduction

11:00

Best of Bergen !

Our hosts will run us through a presentation of Media City Bergen including a presentation of local media, and startups.

  • Helge O.Svela, CEO Media City Bergen, Norway: “Welcome to Bergen and introduction of the cluster“
  • Eric Odeen, Project Manager, MYREZE, Norway
  • Liv Solli Okkenhaug, Head of breaking news, Bergens Tidende/Schibsted, Norway
12:15

Breaking the ice: share challenges and ask your peers !

This is YOUR session: a session for you to meet your peers, exchange and come up with the main challenges/questions/issues that you experience in your day to day job.

13:00

Lunch

13:45

VISITS: short study tour to a selection of Media City Bergen members

 

15:15

Coffee break and networking

15:45

FOCUS: AI for good: fighting misinformation, fact checking and promoting diversity

  • Tove Mylläri, Team Lead Experiments & Collaborations, Yle, Finland
  • Satu Keto, Innovation Lead, Yle, Finland

Increasing the Diversity of Journalism with the Help of AI: Novyny (Ukrainian news service for refugees), Diversity Dashboard (Ceretai) and automated ways to measure diversity.

  • Denis Teyssou, Manager MediaLab AFP, Agence France Presse, France

An update on vera.ai, a research and development project focusing on disinformation analysis and AI supported verification tools and services.

16:30

FOCUS: Web3, building the next phase of the internet

In the FOCUS session we will take a look at the new technologies being built for the next phase of the internet, and how they might be used to rebuild trust and preserve IP in a world where AI generated content and fake news are becoming the norm.

  • David Tomchak, co-founder, Cogency, UK
17:00

Fresh from the labs

A presentation of two award winning media tech products from the Media City Bergen cluster – Mimir and Dina. (Sponsored)

  • Dina: Bård Espen Hansen, VP Sales and Marketing, Dina Mediatech, Norway
  • Mimir: Steinar Søreide, CTO at Mjoll, Norway
18:00

End of day one: apero & tapas at Media City Bergen cluster offices

October 20 Friday

09:15

Arrival, welcome coffee

09:30

Visit to TV2

A 45 minutes guided tour of TV2: https://www.tv2.no

 

10:15

News from our community - case studies:

An update from a selection of cases in our community :

  • Anne Dyrehauge, CEO, Media City Odense, Denmark: A new city cluster inspired by MCB in Odense, Denmark
  • Jean-Pierre Besnard, Open Innovation Manager, Ouest-France, France OFF7: a successful startup accelerator run by a French Regional news publisher
10:45

FOCUS: Generative AI, Large Language Models, opportunities, state of play

Short introduction: “Gauging Generative AI’s Impact on Newsrooms”

  • Stephen Fozard, Director Global Alliance for Media Innovation, France
  • Eivind Fiskerud, Project Lead, Nextgen Newsrooms at Schibsted, Norway
  • Manjiri Carey, News Editor of BBC News Labs, UK
  • Matthieu Beauval Head of Acceleration & Innovation, Radio France, France
  • Sebastiaan van der Lans, Chairman, Trusted Web Foundation, Founder Contentcore, The Netherlands
12:15

Lunch followed by a walk up to Fløyen (or with the Fløibanen funicular)

We leave for Fløyen at 13:00 !

More information here: https://floyen.no/en

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