Wednesday 30 May​ ​– Disruption Day Master of ceremonies - ​Anita Zielina, Digital Innovation Expert 13:45 – 14:00 Welcome to the GEN Summit 2018 Peter Bale, President, GEN Bertrand Pecquerie, CEO, GEN Carlos Rosa, Director, IADE - Universidade Europeia Welcome to all participants by Peter Bale, GEN’s President, and Bertrand Pecquerie, GEN’s CEO. Presentation of the GEN Summit 2018 design by Carlos Rosa, Director of IADE – Universidade Europeia. 14:00 – 14:30 Who should be afraid of AI? Keynote Dialogue Antoine Bordes, Director of European Lab, Facebook AI Research Ariel Conn, Director of Media and Outreach, Future of Life Institute Is artificial intelligence good or evil for our societies and our democracies? How will it impact content producers? This keynote will not give more of the same idioms and mottos, but it will demystify some of the common ideas surrounding AI and the technology’s practical and ethical implications. 14:30 – 15:00 Robolution: the 50 shades of news bots John Keefe, Bot Developer and App Product Manager, Quartz Paul Sargeant, Senior Journalist, News Visual Journalism, BBC Moderator: ​Anne-Marie Tomchak, UK Editor, Mashable Chatbots have been around since 2015 and they have, thus far, made marketers (very) happy. However, only a few chatbots in the news and media industry have been effective, user-friendly – and patient. Join this session to find out who, from the Chatbot population, is the good, the bad, and the ugly. 15:00 – 15:20 From Toutiao to Bytedance - Broader audience, new growth Zhen Liu, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, Bytedance Moderator: ​Cosmin Ene, Founder & CEO, LaterPay

Placing diversified information and limitless spaces to create in the hands of everyone: the road forward for Bytedance as it grows from China to global markets by empowering a world of creators. 15:20 – 16:00 Blockchain, the missing link between news and personalisation Jacobo Toll-Messia, CEO, Hubii AS Daniel Sieberg, Co-founder, Civil Moderator:​ David Schlesinger, Founder & Managing Director, Tripod Advisors In the news industry, personalisation and monetisation were once two distant dreams because we did not have the right know-how. Blockchain, however, can be the missing link: the technology allows for the distribution of news on a secure peer-to-peer mode for extra small transactions that could be less than a $1. 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 – 17:00 Betting big on AR? Robert McKenzie, Editor, BBC News Labs Shazna Nessa, Deputy Managing Editor, Global Head of Visuals, WSJ Brett Mckeehan, Online Editor, South China Morning Post Moderator: In 2015, very few considered the possibility that augmented reality could counter the virtual reality hype from Facebook, Samsung, and HTC. Today, however, smartphone and headset makers are extending AR a lifeline – VR is just too expensive and complicated to make, at least for now. Whatever reality it is, any media experimenting in immersive journalism has a new riddle to solve. 17:00 – 17:25 Immersive journalism meets climate change. The story of our accelerator. Joint session with the European Forest Institute Marc Palahí, Communications Manager, Strategic Partnerships, European Forest Institute Thomas Seymat, VR editor, Euronews Carole Chainon, COO, JYC

Moderator: ​Rina Tsubaki, Communications Manager, Strategic Partnerships, European Forest Institute 360° video storytelling is quite common – and sometimes quite boring after a few minutes. Immersive journalism requires very specific skills that are not necessarily rooted in classical video storytelling. GEN partnered with the European Forest Institute and several European media to shed light on climate change in fragile environments and how to use the latest 360° video methods and processes to cover it, ​unboringly​. 17:25 – 17:35 Address by the Mayor of Lisbon Fernando Medina, Mayor of Lisbon Welcome to Lisbon by the Mayor. The GEN Summit will take place in Lisbon in 2018 and 2019. 17:35 – 17:55 Breaking the platforms’ black box: algorithmic accountability reporting Jonathan Albright, Research Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism Moderator: ​Daniela Kraus, Founding Director, fjum From determining our credit scores to curating the news we read, from predicting a defendant’s future criminal behaviours to influencing the price we pay for goods and services: algorithms are increasingly shaping our lives. These new power structures deserve as much scrutiny as any other. How can newsrooms get inside these black boxes? How can they analyse an algorithm’s biases to better hold their creators accountable for the power they exert? 17:55 – 18:10 Disrupted Trust: Why we launched the Journalism Trust Initiative Christophe Deloire, Secretary General, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Olaf Steenfadt, Project Director, The Journalism Trust Initiative From determining our credit scores to curating the news we read, from predicting a defendant’s future criminal behaviours to influencing the price we pay for goods and services: algorithms are increasingly shaping our lives. These new power structures deserve as much scrutiny as any other. How can newsrooms get inside these black boxes? How can they analyse an algorithm’s biases to better hold their creators accountable for the power they exert?

18:10 – 18:40 Netflix for news: is it really that easy? Mark Little, CEO and Co-founder, NevaLabs Tony Haile, CEO, Scroll Moderator: ​Sachin Kamdar, Founder and CEO, Parse.ly As news media are moving away from a failing mass consumption model fuelled by advertising, a new personalised model based on subscriptions could be taking over. Will this lead to a more empowered consumer with better return on time investment? And news organisations being adequately rewarded for their work? Can a model created for music and TV shows be replicated for the news industry? 18:40 – 18:45 Get to know MAAT Pedro Gadanho, Director, MAAT Pedro Gadanho, director of Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, will present the newest Museum in Lisbon to all the GEN Summit participants. 19:30 – 21:30 First Night: Welcome & Networking Cocktail Venue: MAAT, the most recent Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology in Europe Address: Av. Brasília, 1300-598 Lisboa, Portugal

Thursday 31 May​ ​– Personalisation Day Master of ceremonies ​- Jodie Hopperton, Co-Founder, FORE:media 9:30 – 10:10 Pivot to video: Strategy or hype? Cory Haik, Publisher, Mic Kim Bui, former Editor-at-large, NowThis Ines Pohl, Editor-in-Chief, DW Moderator: ​Ilan Greenberg, Publisher and editorial director, Coda Media Pivot to video were three magic words in 2017. In many newsrooms, print reporters were immediately fired and quickly replaced by video journalists. Now, one year later, what, or where, is the outcome? Are there more qualified users, more advertising revenues, or more sustainable business models? Beyond the pivot to video, there is a broader topic about the future of visual journalism: How can news media integrate more visual elements in their digital productions? 1​0:10 – 11:00 The Augmented Newsroom: how AI will impact the journalism we know Reginald Chua, Executive editor, editorial operations, data & innovation , Reuters Lisa Gibbs, Director of News Partnerships, Associated Press Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Researcher, Microsoft Moderator: ​Ben Rudolph, Director of Tech Experiences, Microsoft Journalism is more than 200 years old, and the technology that might significantly change it is barely ten. Artificial intelligence will have more impact on content production than the invention of the Internet or social networks. Some institutes even predict that robots and algorithms will produce 90 percent of articles and videos by 2025. Editors and publishers may have missed the mobile and platform revolution, but they cannot miss the AI one. 1​1:00 – 11:15 Session to be announced Speaker to be announced (Blurb)

11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 – 12:10 How machine learning will change the news process Benedict Evans, Mobile Analyst, Andreessen Horowitz Machine learning is happening right now, and rolls through or perhaps underneath the entire tech industry as a new fundamental computer science capability. It is a building block that will be part of everything, making many things better and enabling some new and surprising companies and products. We’re at the beginning of the S-Curve and only just beginning to learn the implications. 12:10 – 12:25 First Pitch Battle Startups for News The 8 finalists of the programme Startups for News will take over the main stage of the GEN Summit. They will pitch their innovative tool or service for newsrooms in front of +750 participants. 12:25 – 12:40 From Molenbeek to Molengeek Julie Foulon, Co-founder, Molengeek Moderator:​ Patrícia Silveira, Assistant Professor, IADE - Universidade Europeia MolenGeek, a tech ecosystem created in 2015, aims to make new tech and entrepreneurship accessible to all, particularly young people without academic qualifications in Molenbeek, Belgium. In collaboration with multinationals, MolenGeek allows young people to help shape the future rather than having to adapt to it, through a number of events, a startup incubator, and a coding school. Julie Foulon will share her experience on working with young people and how they perceive innovation. 12:40 – 13:15 Thinking outside of the news box: how can mobility innovators inspire our own innovation strategies? David Neeleman, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Azul Airlines Conrad Fritzsch, Head of New Agency Model, Mercedes-Benz Alexandre Brito,

The race for the latest technological developments has proven difficult for newsrooms over the last decades. How can self driven cars or e-tickets be useful for journalism? Innovators from mobility companies will share their thought process and their path to disrupt their own fields in order to inspire the GEN Summit audience. 13:15 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 15:00 Keynote Winning the war on journalism Steve Adler, President & Editor-in-Chief, Reuters Peter Bale, President, GEN Press harassment, discrediting the media, promotion of alternative facts, hijacking political debates on social media – it’s not only in the United States. Today, many leaders in Europe, Asia, and Africa are alarmed by the new political era initiated by Donald Trump and are trying to implement a host of different strategies to deal with this new political climate. It is a planetary war on journalism, and Steve Adler will help us mount a wise, and balanced, defense. 15:00 - 15:15 Second Pitch Battle Startups for News The 8 finalists of the programme Startups for News will take over the main stage of the GEN Summit. They will pitch their innovative tool or service for newsrooms in front of +750 participants. 15:15 – 16:00 News Literacy 2020: how to understand and combat misinformation Dan Gillmor, Professor & Author, Arizona State University Arno Scharl, Professor and CEO, MODUL University Vienna, webLyzard technology Aaron Sharockman, Executive Director, Politifact Aroon Purie, founding Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, India Today Group Moderator: ​Kjersti Løken Stavrum, CEO, Tinius Trust Tens of millions were spent on fighting fake news and providing new tools to restore the trust between legacy media and their audiences.

What strategies can newsrooms adopt to fight misinformation? Although in different scales and on different topics, misinformation spread across the world with what it seems an unstoppable force. But this a fight journalists can’t afford to lose and many newsrooms are adopting strategies that may hold the key to deal with the phenomenon. 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 – 17:00 Latest trends in data journalism: personalisation and monetisation Marzia Bona, Editor and researcher, Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa Zhimin Huang, Founder, Data Works Marianne Bouchart, Manager, Data Journalism Awards Moderator:​ Mariana Santos, CEO, Chicas Poderosas Every year, new trends emerge for the thousands of data journalists working all over the world. In this session we want to highlight some of the most important ones, as well as touch base on topics such as monetisation, engagement and personalisation of data projects in news teams worldwide. Mariana Santos will be moderating this session, which will stand as an introduction to the Data Journalism Awards ceremony and gala dinner taking place later that day.

17:00 – 17:30 AI for local newsrooms Alan Renwick, Director of RADAR, Urbs Media Ludovic Blecher, Head of Digital News Innovation Fund - News & Publishers, Google GNI Stanislas de Livonnière, Head of Data & Innovation team, Le Parisien Moderator:​ Gerold Riedmann, CEO, Russmedia Digital Local or regional newsrooms may look the other way when it comes to artificial intelligence. This might be a mistake – AI is not necessarily exclusive to the big and rich. This session will identify the needs of local newsrooms and the available solutions for those with less than 100 staff members. 17:30 – 18:00 Attracting, and protecting, the next generation of whistleblowers Stephanie Gibaud, Author and Whistleblower Ferial Haffajee, Editor-at-Large, Huffington Post South Africa

Moderator:​ Gilles Raymond, Chairman, The Signals Foundation In partnership with ​The Signals​ foundation. The first generation of whistleblowers was not protected. Many of them were either exiled, fired, or flooded with lawsuits. If the investigative journalism realm wants to welcome a new generation of whistleblowers, it needs to understand their motivations and their wish to be protected. 18:00 – 18:30 Platforms and Publishers : Our Life in Their Hands? Emily Bell, Professor, Columbia University The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School has been conducting in-depth research into the relationship between technology platforms and journalism over the past two years. We present the findings from our research project which paint a picture situating technology platforms as the reluctant future of publishing. News organisations and big technology companies have an increasingly close but largely dysfunctional relationship, raising issues of control, free speech, transparency and independence. 19:30 – 22:30 Second Night: - Data Journalism Awards Ceremony & Gala Dinner Paul Steiger, ProPublica, president of the jury Minter Dial, master of ceremonies Venue:​ The Data Journalism Awards Ceremony & Gala Dinner will take place at the Picadeiro Real (former Museu dos Coches). Address:​ Praça Afonso de Albuquerque, 4-4C, Lisboa - GEN & Tonic Venue: ​TOPO Chiado Address: ​Terraços do Carmo, 1200-288 Lisboa, Portugal Overlooking the skyline of the Chiado district in downtown Lisbon, TOPO (“top” in Portuguese) Chiado sits on the Terraços do Carmo, at the feet of the Convento do Carmo – a traditional Roman Catholic convent. With breathtaking views of Rossio Square and Santa Justa Elevator, the TOPO Chiado rooftop is a prime location to enjoy a drink in Lisbon.

Friday 1 June​ – Monetisation Day Master of ceremonies ​- Jeff Kofman, Founder, Trint 9:30 – 10:00 Keynote dialogue Trust me: Why it is not enough Jimmy Wales, Founder, WikiTribune & Wikipedia Ed Williams, CEO, Edelman UK Moderator: ​Matt Kelly, Chief Content Officer, Archant The Global Editors Network is proud to receive Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and recently Wikitribune. He is interested in solving the major issues of the news industry and he has accepted to discuss trust in journalism with Ed Williams, CEO of Edelman UK. Trust in media is at stake, with some claiming that the news is too depressing, too biased, and too full of ‘hidden agendas’. Luckily, it’s not all bad news: the news industry has recently been bursting with trust-driven initiatives. But are they enough to restore trust in the media? Or has the word trust been reduced to a cliché? In this session, we’re looking beyond trust in search for the answers. 10:00 – 10:45 Ask me Anything: Strategies to engage your audience Esra Dogramaci, Digital Senior Editor, Deutsche Welle Martin Jönsson, Head of Editorial Development, Dagens Nyheter Ritu Kapur, Founder and Executive Director, The Quint Sarah Marshall, Head of Audience Growth, Condé Nast International Moderator: ​Jim Roberts, Editor-in-chief, Cheddar This is the time for you to ask our speakers anything you want to know about their growth strategies. From candid to thought-provoking to simply ‘Where do you see your business in one year?’, this interactive session will provide honest feedback and actionable insights 10:45 – 11:00

Third Pitch Battle Startups for News The 8 finalists of the programme Startups for News will take over the main stage of the GEN Summit. They will pitch their innovative tool or service for newsrooms in front of +750 participants. 11:00 – 11:15 Desperate times call for innovative newsrooms: How to report on climate change in a way that matters Pilita Clark, Associate Editor and Business Columnist, Financial Times Moderator: ​Paul Batty, Associate, European Climate Foundation Joint Lecture with the European Climate Foundation Could it be a question of quantity or quality? Climate change and global warming seem to have been correctly covered, but there is scarcely any progress – some editors even fear a backlash effect. How can we come up with new ways to cover climate change in order for our young ones to pay attention? 11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 – 12:05 Are journalists the ‘opposition party’ for populists? Margaret Sullivan, Media Columnist, The Washington Post At a time of mistrust and polarized politics, here’s how reporters and editors must change their time-tested practices. 12:05 – 12:35 Reader-first: Monetisation strategies Anna Bateson, Chief Customer Officer, The Guardian Kate Day, Editorial Director, POLITICO Marie-Hélène Smiejan-Wanneroy, Managing Director, Mediapart Douglas McCabe, CEO, Enders Analysis Douglas McCabe will present an Enders Analysis report on subscriptions, membership and other payment models report, and interview the rest of the panel regarding this subject. The report will be available to the GEN Summit participants. As quality news provision increasingly moves towards subscription and membership

models, the independent media analyst firm Enders Analysis publishes new research, covering news publisher strategies and assessing business objectives, product and service design, key metrics, editorial decisions, systems and culture developments — and highlighting the key challenges and opportunities ahead. 12:35 – 12:50 From hackathon to prototype to front page Bella Hurrell, Deputy Editor News Visual Journalism, BBC How often hackathon prototypes become real news products? Last year’s winning idea – the Appy Helper ​ – was a conversational user interface designed to sit in long running complex stories to help users catch up on recent developments. The team from the BBC have been piloting a development of the the Appy Helper on the BBC news website, to see if the format is valued by users as much as it was by the Global Editors Network hackathon judges at the Editors Lab Final, in Vienna. From useful advice on Winter Flu to background on President Trump’s first year in office, journalists are currently trying out CUI explainers on big stories. Bella Hurrell will share how the team has worked with colleagues in BBC News Labs to make this happen and what they have learned along the way.

12:50 – 13:15 #metoo: from the US to the rest of the world Moderator & Speaker: ​Lara Setrakian, CEO, co-founder and executive editor, News Deeply Fatemah Farag, Founder & Director, Welad Elbalad Media Services Julie Posetti, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University This session is generously sponsored by the Tinius Trust After The New York Times and The New Yorker reported that dozens of women had accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault over a period thirty years, more women proceeded to come forward with similar accusations against men in high power positions, igniting a global movement. But it spread asymmetrically, gaining a lot of momentum in some countries and going quieter in others. How did the #metoo phenomenon spread? And how did the media in the rest of the world cover it? 13:15 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 15:05 With the benefit of hindsight ​(or our biggest mistakes)

Mar Cabra, Head of Data & Research Unit, ICIJ Aroon Purie, founding Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, India Today Group Moderator:​ ​Madhav Chinnappa, Director of Strategic Relations, News & Publishers, Google We’re back for round five for one of the GEN Summit’s famous sessions.​ ​Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Many of us would turn the clock back if we could. What are the​ ​biggest mistakes decision-makers made and how can we learn from them?

15:05 – 15:20 Fourth Pitch Battle Startups for News The 8 finalists of the programme Startups for News will take over the main stage of the GEN Summit. They will pitch their innovative tool or service for newsrooms in front of +750 participants. 15:20 – 16:00 The Washington Post: A news organisation, a tech company – and a model for the news industry? Greg Barber, Director of newsroom product, The Washington Post Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, Managing Editor, The Washington Post Moderator: ​Catarina Carvalho, Executive Editor in Chief, Diário de Notícias In 2017, on the stage of the GEN Summit, Martin Baron was submerged with questions about the Washington Post’s latest developments, from massive investments and new job positions to the creation of Arc Publishing. Can the solutions of digital publishing platform Arc Publishing – video, apps, automatic content testing, data mining, and monetisation – meet the expectation of publishers?

16:00 – 16:15 Session to be announced Speaker to be announced (Blurb) 16:15 – 16:45

Coffee Break 16:45 – 17:25 Talking with machines: how to adopt and monetise voice AI David Tomchak, Digital Director, Evening Standard Mukul Devichand, Editor of Voice, BBC Kourtney Bitterly, Commercial Lead, R&D, New York Times Moderator:​ Raisa Sufian, Business Director, VaynerMedia Voice interfaces are the new frontier of the news industry. Audio storytellers will have to adapt as video producers did with YouTube and Snap. But that means radio storytellers, and frankly all of us, will have to deal with Amazon, Google, and Apple. 17:25 – 17:40 As fresh as it gets: News prototypes created during the GEN Summit Editors Lab Session Since last October, the talented journalists, designers and developers from every continent have collaborated on high-impact ideas to prototype the future of news. During the summit, winning teams from all corners of the world gather for the culmination of the sixth season of Editors Lab. The winning teams from each regional hackathon, representing 15 countries, battle it out over 48 hours to create the most innovative news prototype. on the main stage, the top three finalists will present their prototypes. A jury of experts will crown the 2017 Editors Lab Champion. 17:40 – 18:15 Will foundations replace advertisers and sponsors? Julia Cagé, Professor, IEP de Paris Miguel Castro, Senior Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Moderator:​ Sharon Moshavi, Senior Vice President, New Initiatives, International Center for Journalists The wedding between advertisers and content producers is getting strained now that brands are finding ways to promote their products and services through direct marketing and social networks – the media, us, are no longer a vehicle. At the opposite end, foundations and non-profits consider the media as an indispensable echo chamber of our democracies and they want to support more diversity. Can we shift from one business model to another one?

18:15 – 18:45 Pivot to audio Sasha Koren, Former Editor Mobile Innovation Lab, Guardian News & Media Diogo Queiroz de Andrade, Deputy Executive Editor, Público Moderator: ​Ana Ormaechea, Journalist and Entrepreneur, Cuonda Podcasts are now an integral part of the news landscape; they have a highly targeted reach and can be easily monetised and even syndicated. Find out why news outlets are doubling down on their audio offering, and how it’s paying off. 19:30 – 00:00 Social Event: Startups for News Party Ministerium Club Address: Praça do Comércio 72, 1100-016 Lisboa, Portugal The evening will begin with the announcement of the Startups for News winners, followed by the Startups for News party to wrap up the summit. Directly opposite Pátio de Galé, sitting on the other side of Praça do Comércio, Ministerium is one of Lisbon’s top nightclubs and nightlife hubs. The club’s outdoor terrace overlooks the square and the shores of the Tagus river. After the sun goes down, join the party inside for cocktails, good music, and dancing. Atex is sponsoring the Startups for News party. Atex is a global software company providing solutions to the media industry. This is your chance to unwind and dance the night away with great music, cocktails and delicious finger foods while enjoying the company of everyone you’ve met over the course of the three days. Startups for News is an international competition rewarding the most innovative startups disrupting the media industry. GEN is hunting for startups that challenge the status quo with new editorial services for newsrooms or new ways of delivering journalistic content.