A panel of key industry players discuss the shift in trust between supplier and consumer in the industry. Aasmah Mir chairs the panel with speakers Martin Lewis, Founder and Chair of MoneySavingExpert.com, Ed Williams, CEO UK and EMEA Vice Chairman at Edelman, Vikki Cook, Director, Content Media Policy at Ofcom, Ben McOwen Wilson, Managing Director at YouTube UK and Deborah Turness, President at NBC News International.
Sky's Jeremy Darroch, in conversation with The Times' Graham Ruddick, discusses the need to disrupt yourself and partner with competitors in order to succeed in an increasingly competitive world.
Julian Bellamy, Managing Director at ITV Studios, Howard Davine, Former ABC Studios Executive Vice President, Business Operations, Dan McGolpin, Controller, Programming and iPlayer at the BBC, Jane Turton, CEO at All3Media and Kirsty Wark debate what the rise of the SVODs will mean for UK broadcasters and producers in the greatest shake up of the TV landscape since the Communications Act of 2003 gave the indies the rights to the programmes they produce.
David Zaslav talks to Kate Silverton about Discovery’s move to direct to consumer, the company's ambitions to serve global audiences through verticals across sport, lifestyle and factual, and the subjects which inspire him personally to push the company’s business forward.
The Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, delivers her keynote speech, chaired by Susanna Reid.
At her final Cambridge, Ofcom’s CEO Sharon White talks to ITN’s Julie Etchingham about the challenges facing our industry.
Tim Davie, Chief Executive at BBC Studios, is joined by Tim Hincks, Co-CEO at Expectation, Stephen Lambert, CEO at Studio Lambert, and Alex Mahon, CEO at Channel 4, as they discuss the future of unscripted television and where the new breakout formats for UK production are.
Rob Chapman, CEO at Founders Intelligence, Paul Bojarski, CEO at Sceenic, Timothy Armoo, CEO at Fanbytes, Love Island's Amber Gill and vlogger and entrepenuer Caspar Lee look at how Gen Z have turned their backs on traditional TV to create content for a wider audience.
Carolyn McCall, CEO at ITV, sets the scene for the RTS Cambridge Convention 2019 with a wide ranging look at the challenges and opportunities for the television industry in a fast-changing world.
Host Susanna Reid talks to Neil Mortensen, Kevin Lygo and the consumer panel in Leeds with Ranvir Singh, about the the changing TV landscape.
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It is a massive honour to be speaking today at the RTS. The Royal Television Society, the only place left where the word Royal isn’t followed by the words “shuts down Parliament”.
The RTS has consistently been at the forefront of highlighting the issue of diversity in the television industry.
I gave my first speech at the RTS over ten years ago, talking about how TV desperately needs more diversity and it’s a mark of how far society has come that I’m back today - to talk about how TV desperately needs more diversity.
