09:00 – 10:45

Session One: The New Way

Nick Blunden – Global Digital Publisher the Economist
Piers Jones – Group Product Manager at Guardian News & Media
Markham Nolan – Managing Editor at Storyful

10:45 – 11:25

Coffee break

11:25 – 12:10

Session Two: Data, Robots & Digital Journalism

Shazna Nessa – Former Deputy Managing Editor at Associated Press, 2013-2014 Knight Stanford fellow
Alexander Reben – Robot Designer

12:10 – 13:00

Session Three: The power of stories

Roddy Doyle – Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter
David Hieatt – Co-founder of the Do Lectures

13:00 – 14:15

lunch break

14:15 – 15.00

Panel discussion on the Future of Media (Debt Versus Diversity)

Alison O’Connor - Journalist, Broadcaster & Commentator
Sarah McInerney - Political Correspondent - The Sunday Times
Dearbhail McDonald – Legal Editor of Irish Independent & Eisenhower Fellow
Shazna Nessa - Former Deputy managing editor at Associated Press, 2013-2014 Knight Stanford fellow

15.15 – 15.45

Special Musical Guest

15:40 – 16:15

Coffee break

16:15 – 17:30

Session Four: The Art of Digital News

Nick Thompson – Head of Digital, the New Yorker
Mark Stencel – Managing Editor of Digital News at National Public Radio

18:00 – 21:00

Post conference drinks