Thinkers, experts, professionals and industry leaders will gather on Monday at the Marsa Malaz Kempinski for the second annual Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) Future of Media Leaders’ Summit.
The first event, in 2017, established the summit as a platform for thought leadership and a source of the latest industry innovations. In 2018, under the headline Media and Cloud - Limitless Possibilities, Al Jazeera is once again bringing together leaders of the world’s most significant technology companies and media institutions to discuss pressing, complex issues which the industry must prioritise and understand.
The two-day summit aims to debate, inform, and discuss the latest technological developments. It will examine how these developments are changing human behaviour, how the media industry can work with suppliers and innovators to pioneer new techniques for content creation and distribution, and how the technology industry can respond to new challenges in uncharted territory.
Keynote speakers will address topics including Media and Cloud, Cyber Security and Manipulated Content, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, TV+ and the Augmented Newsroom. These keynote speeches will be the departure points for follow-up sessions covering the same topics, but broken down into parallel workshops on Technology, Workflow, and Content, in order to ensure broad subjects can be converted into actionable detail.
On the technology side, speakers and delegates such as Yousef Khalidi, CVP at Microsoft; Ken Morse, CTO at Cisco; Jeff Rosica, CEO of Avid; and Alfonso De Gaetano, director of Global Partnerships for Emerging Markets, Google will be participating. The media present will include Ali Shah, head of Emerging Technologies and Morwen Williams, head of Newsgathering Operations, both at the BBC, Fox Network’s general manager Richard Friedel, and Chris Johns, chief engineer, Broadcast Strategy at Sky UK and Tim Richards, chairman of the International Broadcasting Convention, will be among other senior delegates taking part at the summit.
Dr Mostefa Souag, acting director general of Al Jazeera Media Network, commented, “Our priority is to continue to report the truth to our audience, and to do that effectively we must harness the latest technologies. Over two days, we will pool the world’s media and technological expertise, explore the limitless possibilities ahead of us, and collaboratively shape the industry’s future. It is a future that has never been closer."