The event is divided into four modules: two took place in June and July and two in September.
Each module lasts two hours: New York 10-12 AM, London 3-5 PM, Rome 4-6 PM.
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Tuesday, September 15th |
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KEYNOTE (10.00 - 10:40 EST)
Niall Duffy EMEA Industry Verticals Lead – Technology Partners, AWSDelivering Deeper User Engagement in Publishing – Lessons from Cloud.Adoption of digital products, and stronger data protection highlights the need for publishers to deepen their engagement with users, through the use of more audio-visual content, personalised services and making use of data to better understand what users want and value. Cloud based technologies on video, AI-ML and data analytics have developed rapidly in recent years, and we will look at how cloud technologies can help publishers be agile and responsive in meeting user needs in an ever changing market. |
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CUSTOMER CASE STUDY (10:40 - 11:20 EST)
Giovanni Buttitta Head of External Relations and Sustainability, TernaCreating a company-wide integrated digital communications platform.Italy’s power-grid management company is creating a cloud-based digital content-services platform to streamline the work of its corporate communications teams. |
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SERVICES STRATEGY (11:20 – 12:00 EST)
Holger Hofmann Chief Operating Officer, EidosmediaNew models: Managed services, Application Management, Operations.Eidosmedia as a services company: from hotline and managed services to Managed Application Services. Increased efficiency applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to the deployment process. |
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Thursday, September 17th |
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CUSTOMER CASE STUDY (10.00 - 10:40 EST)
Stefano Strignano IT Business Solution Manager, UEFADelivering a digital live match experience.Stefano Strignano, IT Business Solution Manager at UEFA describes how the Association adopted a cloud-based Eidosmedia platform and the Swing mobile application to produce and distribute engaging news and media in seven languages to European football fans and journalists. |
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TECH SESSION (10:40 - 11:20 EST)
Cristiano Meda Chief Technology Officer, EidosmediaPrime v.8Prime 8.0 – the latest release of the Windows client – represents a significant evolution in client-server architecture, brings improvements to UI and usability, including Ribbon Galleries for user-friendly tagging and styling, and cross-platform add-ins development. |
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DEMO SESSION (11:20 – 12:00 EST)
Michael Lockyer Product Manager for Digital Solutions, EidosmediaSwing & Prime 8.0 for ResearchPlanning, creating and publishing content across the newest versions of the EidosMedia application suite. Swing has new features with new options for financial & research reporting, including Full Report view, Excel linking and PowerPoint linking. New features in Prime 8 include ribbon-style galleries for user-friendly tagging and styling, while remote server-side add-ins enhance the UI and position Prime as continuous development platform. |
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KEYNOTE (10.00 - 10:40 EST)
Dr. Jochen L. Leidner Director of Research at Refinitiv Labs (Thomson Reuters)Machine Learning for financial text analytics and search.The role of ML in modern financial information systems, illustrated by case studies from real commercial projects. Best practices in deploying text-based applications and forecasts for near-term future developments. |
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CASE STUDY (10:40 - 11:20 EST)
Sylvain Coutu CTO, Le DevoirBusiness transformation – an unexpected journey.Canada’s leading French-language daily has undertaken a radical transformation of its business processes using a new editorial platform. The Covid crisis presented the project with unforeseen challenges and achievements. |
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PRODUCT STRATEGY (11:20 – 12:00 EST)
Zarko Panic Chief Product Officer, EidosmediaThe path to digital transformationUnlock business value, reduce time to market and reach new audiences by delivering better digital customer experience through our suite of products. |
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CASE STUDY (10.00 - 10:40 EST)
Carsten Zeug Head of Managed IT Services, MSP Medien Systempartner GmbH & Co. KGSynergies and efficiencies in digitisation projectsHow the creation of a shared platform transformed the business at multiple publications, from go-to-market acceleration to quick adoption of shared services. |
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TECHNOLOGY (10.40 – 11:20 EST)
Cristiano Meda Chief Technology Officer, EidosmediaThe developer ecosystemDesign, build, test and deploy. An exploration of the resources that accelerate integration with Eidosmedia’s services for a seamless user experience. |
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DEMO SESSION (11:20 – 12:00 EST)
Michael Lockyer Product Manager for Digital Solutions, EidosmediaSwing and digital disruptionHow a geographically dislocated team can plan, create and deliver content in a 24-hour news cycle. |
EMEA Industry Verticals Lead – Technology Partners, Amazon Web Services
Niall leads the AWS Media & Entertainment partner segment in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Niall has over 25 years’ experience in media & entertainment, working for clients in broadcasting, publishing and digital, specialising in media management operations and systems.
Head of External Relations and Sustainability, Terna
Giovanni has been with Italy’s power grid management company since 2006 in a variety of managerial roles. He also holds courses in public relations and corporate communications at a number of universities in Italy and the school of journalism of the Italian public broadcast body.
IT Business Business Manager, UEFA
Stefano has over 15 years’ experience in ICT consultancy and management. He has been with UEFA for over ten years in a number of roles with responsibility for the organization’s digital and broadcasting technologies.
Chief Operating Officer, EidosMedia
Holger Hofmann Chief Operating Officer, Eidosmedia. Holger has been with Eidosmedia since 2006, when he was responsible for building the company’s presence in the German market. In his role as COO since 2017 he is in charge of Project and SaaS/Managed Service delivery, focusing on streamlined deployments, cloud strategy and security.
Chief Technology Officer, Eidosmedia
Cristiano Meda is a passionate change agent and Agile champion, with a proven track record of implementing efficient Agile, Lean and XP practices into teams to maximize output and reduce technical debt.
Product Manager for Digital Solutions, EidosMedia
Michael joined EidosMedia in 2012 as an application specialist in the professional services team. Michael moved to the Product Office in 2019 with responsibility for the front-end application suite.
Director of Research at Refinitiv Labs (Thomson Reuters).
Dr Leidner has been with the Thomson Reuters family of companies since 2008 in scientific and managerial roles. He is also Visiting Professor of Data Analytics at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Chief Technology Officer, Le Devoir
Sylvain Coutu has over 15 years of experience in information technology management. As a member of Le Devoir ’s Management Committee, he is responsible for the development of a vision and a roadmap enabling the title to continue its evolution across all its delivery platforms.
Head of Managed IT Services, MSP Medien Systempartner GmbH & Co. KG
Carsten Zeug has nearly thirty years’ experience in systems engineering. After a decade heading up the professional services department at Medien Systempartner, he has now been the company’s head of managed services since 2009.
Chief Product Officer, Eidosmedia
Zarko Panic has over ten years’ experience with market-leading tech and financial services companies. He has worked for companies such as Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters and Refinitiv.
Zarko joined Eidosmedia as CPO at the beginning of 2020.
