WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress

The 76th World News Media Congress, themed 'Mastering Media's New Playbook', brings together news publishing industry leaders in Krakow, Poland to explore strategies for building competitive, innovative, and sustainable news organisations through summits, deep dives, exhibitions, and awards.

Dates
May 4 – May 6, 2025
Location
Krakow, Poland
Industry
Media, publishing

Event Sponsors

55 sponsors on record

Strategic Partner· 1

Agora

agora.pl

Platinum Sponsors· 2

Google News Initiative

newsinitiative.withgoogle.com

ORLEN

orlen.pl

Gold Sponsors· 4

Chartbeat

chartbeat.com

Kilkaya

kilkaya.com

Marfeel

marfeel.com

PZU Foundation

fundacja.pzu.pl

Sponsors· 45

AFP

afp.com

Anygraaf

anygraaf.com

Arc XP

arcxp.com

Atex

atex.com

Bcube / Bitban

bcube.bitban.com

Bridged Media

bridged.media

Bright Data

brightdata.com

Dataminr

dataminr.com

Echobox

echobox.com

EPA Images

epaimages.com

Evessio

evessio.com

Factiverse

factiverse.ai

Financial Times

professional.ft.com

FT Strategies

ftstrategies.com

Geneea

geneea.com

Glorious

gltr-ous.us

GPP

gpp.io

Labrador CMS

labradorcms.com

Membrana Media

Netzindianer

netzindianer.net

News Publish

newspublish.org

Nine Stars Global

ninestarsglobal.com

Norkon

norkon.net

NYT Licensing

nytlicensing.com

OpenAI

openai.com

Payfor Press

payfor.press

Piano

piano.io

Project Syndicate

project-syndicate.org

Prorata

prorata.ai

Protec Media

protecmedia.com

Pubble

pubble.cloud

Pugpig

pugpig.com

PushPushGo

pushpushgo.com

QuestPass

questpass.io

Ring Publishing

ringpublishing.com

Smartico

smartico.one

Smartocto

smartocto.com

Stibo DX

stibodx.com

Storifyme

storifyme.com

Story Editor

storyeditor.com.hr

TakTak Media

taktak.media

TCE Exchange

tce.exchange

The Wall Street Journal

commercialpartnerships.wsj.com

Twipe Mobile

twipemobile.com

Xalok

xalok.com

Supported by· 1

IWP

iwp.pl

community_partner

Media Partner· 1

Press Gazette

pressgazette.co.uk

media_partner

Destination Partner· 1

Krakow Convention Bureau

convention.krakow.pl

community_partner

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Speakers

130 speakers on record

speaker· 130

Adam Majewski

CEO, QuestPass

Adriaan Basson

Editor-in-Chief, News24

Alan Hunter

Co-founder, HBM Advisory / Member of WAN-IFRA Expert Panel, HBM Advisory

Aleksander Kutela

President of the Management Board, CEO, Ringier Axel Springer Polska

Aleksandra Sobczak

Deputy editor-in-chief; Head of strategy and development in Wyborcza.pl, Gazeta Wyborcza

Aleksandra Walczak

Parliamentary Journalist, Commentator at TVN24, Head of GenZ Team at Pacyfika, TVN24

Alona Yatsana

Media Manager, Military Journalist, Founder of Kordon Media, Kordon Media

Amalie Kestler

Managing Editor in Chief, Politiken

Amanda Edmonds

VP of Partnerships, ProRata.ai

Amrit Mann

Publisher Services Manager, Ozone

Andrew Saunders

President and CEO, The Globe and Mail

Anne Koch

Ukraine Archive Project Lead, European Broadcasting Union

Annelies Jansen

Chief Business Officer, ProRata.ai

Arun Venkataraman

Global Lead of Emerging Voices and Research, Google News Initiative

Barry Adams

Founder, Polemic Digital

Bartlomiej Chmiel

CEO of Gazeta.pl; COO & Co-Founder of Yieldbird, Gazeta.pl

Bartosz Hojka

President of the Management Board, CEO, Agora Group

Bartosz Wieliński

Deputy Editor in Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza

Bolesław Breczko

Journalist, Gazeta Wyborcza

Branko Brkic

Leader, Project Kontinuum

Carlos Kubick

General Manager and Co-founder, El Líbero

Carly Steven

Director of SEO & Editorial E-commerce, Daily Mail

Catherine So

CEO, South China Morning Post

Cécile Sourd

CEO, Mediapart

Charlotte Tobitt

UK Editor, Press Gazette

Chris Janz

CEO, Capital Brief, and Member of the WAN-IFRA Expert Panel, Capital Brief

Christian Broughton

CEO, The Independent

Christian Scherbel

Founder & CEO, Smartico

Christiane Düsterfeld

Head of EU Affairs & Bid Management, dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Christine Buhagiar

Director for Development and Diversifications, AFP

Christoph Jäntsch

General Manager, Stibo DX

Christophe Israël

Editor - Consultant in AI & digital strategy, change management

Clara Soteras

SEO for News Publishers & Audience Growth Consultant

Clémence Lemaistre

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Les Echos

Dana Schluenzen

Director Product, Hamburger Morgenpost

Danuta Breguła

Managing Director Paid Products, Ringier Axel Springer Polska

David Buttle

Founder, DJB Strategies

David Caswell

Founder, StoryFlow

Dean Roper

Director of Insights & Editor-in-Chief, WAN-IFRA

Dmitry Shishkin

Independent Media Advisor

Dominika Michalak

Head of Institutional Fundraising, OKO.press

Dominika Wielowieyska

Journalist, Gazeta Wyborcza, TOK FM

Dr. Eirliani Abdul Rahman

Senior Fellow, Georgetown University

Dr. Laura Badura

Product Manager, DER SPIEGEL

Dr. Rainer Esser

CEO of DIE ZEIT, Managing Director of DvH Medien GmbH, DIE ZEIT

Elena Perotti

Executive Director, Media Policy and Public Affairs, WAN-IFRA

Elsa Court

Audience Development Manager, Kyiv Independent

Emily Withrow

VP of Product and Head of Subscriber Experiences, The New York Times

Evan Gillis

Customer Success Manager, Chartbeat

Ezra Eeman

AI Expert and Director of Strategy & Innovation, NPO

Fabian Heckenberger

Managing Editor and Senior Editor for AI, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Fergus Bell

Founder & CEO, Fathm; Executive Director, Syli, Fathm

Flavia Barbosa Ferreira

Head of Marketing Retention, Le Monde

Gian Camillo Vezzoli

Business Unit Manager - Content, Atex

Gregor Waller

Consultant, Digital Age Consulting

Guy Tasaka

Local Advertising Evangelist at Smartico, ex-NYT, Smartico

Hannah Sarney

Editorial Product Director, Financial Times

Ignacio Martínez de Albornoz

Business Development Director, Henneo

Inês Bravo

Digital Product & Experience Lead, Impresa Group

Ingi Rafn Olafsson

Director of World Printers Forum, WAN-IFRA

Irene Caselli

Senior Editor, Worldcrunch

Jaffer Zaidi

Vice President, Global News Partnerships, Google

Jakub Wiech

Lawyer, Journalist, Editor-in-Chief, Energetyka24

James Jordan

News Director for Europe and Africa, The Associated Press

Jane Barrett

Head of Reuters AI Strategy, Reuters

Jennifer Burns

Director Bright Journalism, PR & Communications, Bright Data

Jeremy Clifford

Founder, Chrysalis Leadership

Jessica Davis

Vice President, AI Product, USA TODAY Co.

Joel Simon

Founding Director of the Journalism Protection Initiative, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

Josh Freeman

VP of Business Development, ProRata.ai

Joshi Herrmann

Founder, Mill Media

Juan Carlos López Calvet

Director of Data & AI, Schibsted

Juan Señor

President, Innovation Media Consulting Group

Julia Angwin

Journalist and Author; founder of Proof News, Proof News

Karen Franken

Director Strategy, Piano

Kaveh Waddell

Journalist & technologist; Co-founder, Verso

Kristen Dudish

VP of Product Design, The New York Times

Ladina Heimgartner

President WAN-IFRA, Head Ringier Media & CEO Ringier Media Switzerland, Ringier Media Switzerland

Lech Wałęsa

Nobel Laureate, Former President of Poland, and Icon of Democracy

Liesbeth Nizet

Head of Future Audiences Monetisation, Mediahuis Group

Lisa Irenius

Editor in chief and CEO, Svenska Dagbladet

Lisa MacLeod

Director, FT Strategies

Louis Dreyfus

President and CEO, Group Le Monde

Lucio Mesquita

Senior Consultant, Innovation Media Consulting Group

Lucky Gunasekara

CEO & Co-Founder, Miso.ai

Magda Bandera

Journalist, Writer, and Gender Equity Expert

Maia Mazurkiewicz

President & CEO, PZU Foundation

Manfred Kluge

Chairman, D-A-CH Omnicom Media Group & Co-Founder INITIATIVE18, Omnicom Media Group

Marcin Hajduk

Chief Product Officer, Yieldbird

Marcin Kowalczyk

Chief Digital Officer, Eurozet Group (Agora Group)

Mariah Craddick

Executive Director of Product, The Atlantic

Mariam Mammen Mathew

CEO, Manorama Online

Marion Wyss

Editor-in-Chief, The Audiencers

Mark Challinor

International Media Advisor, News Media UK

Marta Pawlowska

Digital Publishing Director, Ringier Axel Springer Polska

Martha Ramos Sosa

Chief Editorial Officer, Organización Editorial Mexicana

Martin Little

Audience Director, Reach Plc

Marty Baron

Retired Executive Editor, The Washington Post

Meera Selva

CEO, Internews Europe

Michael Brunt

Co-founder, HBM Advisory / Member of WAN-IFRA Expert Panel, HBM Advisory

Monicah Waceke Ndung'u

Chief Corporate Affairs and Partnerships Officer, Nation Media Group

Nayla Tueni

Journalist and Editor-in-Chief, An-Nahar

Nic Dawes

Executive Director, THE CITY

Nikita Roy

Founder, Newsroom Robots Lab

Oksana Brovko

CEO, Association of Independent Regional Press Publishers of Ukraine

Patty Michalski

SVP Content and Innovation, Hearst News

Paula Fray

Founder, fraycollege

Paweł Czajkowski

Legal and Public Policy Director, Agora S.A.

Prof. Dr. Alexandra Borchardt

Journalist, Advisor, Researcher, Author / Member of WAN-IFRA Expert Panel

Prof. Lucy Kueng

Strategic Advisor, Author, Speaker & Senior Research Fellow, Reuters Institute, Oxford University

Remco Steen

Manager Advertising Technology, Yield & Data, Mediahuis Netherlands

Rianne Roggema

OKR-Expert, Podcast & Event Host, Founder, Practic

Roman Imielski

First Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza

Roman Kulchynsky

Editor-in-Chief, Texty

Rosa Curling

Co-founder and Co-director, Foxglove

Rupa Jha

CEO and Co-Founder, Collective Newsroom

Ryan Y. Kellett

2025 Nieman-Berkman Klein fellow for Journalism Innovation, Harvard University

Samira Lazarovic

Cross Functional Lead/ PO CMS (CUE) / Editorial Owner ntv.de, RTL Deutschland

Styli Charalambous

Co-Founder and CEO, Daily Maverick

Tarjei Gilbrant

CEO and co-founder, Kilkaya

Tim Robinson

Editorial director and daily press division publisher, National World

Tom Rubin

Chief of Intellectual Property and Content, Open AI

Tomáš Bella

CEO, EUobserver

Upasna Gautam

Partner, Innovation and Strategy, The Texas Tribune

Veslemøy Østrem

Editor-in-Chief, Altinget Norway

Vibeke Fürst Haugen

Director General, NRK

Vincent Peyrègne

ex CEO, WAN-IFRA

Wojciech Ehrenfeld

Head of IT Services, Ring Publishing

Xenia Daum

CEO, Kleine Zeitung

Zach Seward

Editorial Director of AI Initiatives, The New York Times

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