Media Festival

Networking with forward-thinking, progressive individuals from every corner of the media industry with inspirational presentations from the world's most dynamic digital thinkers

New ideas to take away, develop and implement
Gain knowledge from the length and breadth of the content industries and visit this unique meeting point of tomorrow's multiplatform collaborators

Learn as thought-leaders share their experiences of operating in the new world economy in a welcoming, inclusive environment

Join a new community of cross-platform experts through this year's enhanced networking features. The Media Festival - extends beyond 3 days


The first confirmed speakers at this year's Media Festival. represent the many ways that content is generated, distributed and consumed by today's audiences. Follow this link to download the event information.

Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Culture Secretary, will give a plenary address on his party's vision for the creative industries, and how government can support and assist burgeoning micro-industries, such as apps and mobile content, as well as established businesses, while technology and consumer demand continue to precipitate tectonic industry change.

Andy Anson, former Commercial Director at Manchester United, and Chief Executive of England's 2018 World Cup bid will join us to discuss football online and across platforms. We'll be using football as a case study, to explore how content can travel, develop, mutate and flourish amongst consumers, generating new promotional opportunities, new business models and new communities, which then create and benefit new audiences and businesses alike.

Guido Fawkes , the hugely well known and influential political blogger, will be at the festival to talk about the evolution of politics and communications, as the web, and mobile devices, radically alter the way that politicians communicate and engage. PR and the management of public image is becoming increasingly difficult, as recent events have shown. With Barack Obama's astonishing plea to Twitter to delay maintenance of its site while post-election protests take place in Iran, as well as the rapid online spread of discontent regarding politicians' expenses, and a general election on the horizon, we feel the time has come for a full and frank debate o n democracy, the web, communications and the future of political and social life.

Stephan Shakespeare, founder of widely respected and increasingly influential polling organisation YouGov, will join the politics debate, helping to explore what an online participatory democracy for the future means and imagining a future where crowd sourcing and other immediate public response mechanisms will prevail, and demand for instant action and reaction from government and other institutional bodies will become ever greater.

Finally, we're delighted to welcome broadcaster
Krishnan Guru-Murthy back for a second year. For those that didn't attend the 2008 event, Krishnan chaired a lively and stimulating debate on the opening night, covering the big media and technology questions of the day, with expert guests, and ensuring that speakers and delegates alike were on their toes as discussions got heated. This year Krishnan will chair an all new heavy-weight panel, and once more we welcome delegates' questions both in advance and on the night. We can't predict the course the discussion will take - but we can promise it will be lively!

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