Guillaume Polaillon
Broadcast Industry Product Manager @ NVIDIA
Guillaume Polaillon leads product management for Professional Broadcast at NVIDIA. With over 20 years of experience in technology and innovation, he works with developers, inventors, and engineers to transform their vision into groundbreaking solutions. His expertise lies in GPU acceleration for advanced graphics, compute, and artificial intelligence, as well as accelerating the transition to IP-based broadcast for live production.
Laura Ellis
Head of technology broadcasting @ BBC
I am an experienced leader and former BBC News journalist with a focus on emerging technology, machine learning, synthetic media and content integrity. My specialist area is AI - everything from understanding the increasingly complex speedy twists and turns in the generative space, to its deployment in journalism and the creative industries, policy, governance, leadership, education and the information literacy we urgently need to build around it.
Ross Dagan
Executive vice president and head of news operations and transformation @ CBS News and Stations
Veteran global news executive Ross Dagan is executive vice president and head of news operations and transformation for CBS News and Stations. In this senior leadership role, Dagan oversees all the news operations, engineering and technology functions across CBS News and Stations, reporting to Wendy McMahon, president and CEO of CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures.
Kjersti Løken Stavrum
CEO @ Tinius Trust.
Kjersti Løken Stavrum leads the jury for the Anne Jacobsen Memorial Prize. A journalist and editor by background, she is CEO of Tinius Trust, the controlling owner of Schibsted ASA. She has chaired Norwegian PEN, led Norway's Freedom of Expression Commission, and served as secretary general of the Norwegian Press Association. She holds a political science degree and a master's in management.
Pål Nedregotten
Heads technology and product development at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation @ NRK.
With 30 years of expertise at the intersection of journalism and technology, he previously served as EVP Data and Technology at Amedia, Norway’s largest publisher. He’s also been chair at the Norwegian Media Business Association.
Janne Yli-Äyhö
CTO/CIO @ Yle
Janne Yli-Äyhö has extensive senior management experience in IT, telecom, and broadcasting. He serves as CTO/CIO of Yle, Finland's national public media company. Previously, he held senior roles at TeliaSonera in Finland and the Nordics. A business and technology developer, Janne studied industrial management at Helsinki University of Technology and completed courses at top international universities.
Belenn Rebecka Bekele
Program Manager @ IN/LAB
Belenn Rebecka Bekele is a Program Manager at IN/LAB, a joint innovation lab by Schibsted and the Tinius Trust. Her work focuses on exploring co-creation methods to better understand and reach young people, particularly those who consume and trust news to a very limited extent.
Rowan de Pomerai
CEO @ DPP
Rowan de Pomerai, CEO of the DPP, brings broad experience in broadcast, production, streaming, and software. He joined the DPP in 2018, spending several years as the CTO, and became CEO in 2024. He now leads the leading association for media and technology, providing valuable insights and connections to over 500 member companies around the world through events, collaboration, research and analysis.
Fredric Karén
EVP Sweden @ Schibsted
Fredric Karén, with 30 years in media across Sweden and Canada, has held leadership roles at Schibsted for 20 years, including CEO of Svenska Dagbladet. He has driven Schibsted’s shift from print to digital and now oversees Swedish news brands like SvD, Aftonbladet, and Omni as part of Schibsted’s Group Executive Team, contributing to negotiations with OpenAI.
And many more to be announced