Leslie Gaston-Bird (AMPS, M.P.S.E.) is a freelance re-recording mixer, sound editor, and author of the new book "Women in Audio" published by Focal Press. She is a voting member of the Recording Academy and member of its Producers and Engineers (P&E) Wing. Prior to that, she was a tenured Associate Professor of

Christian Brenner is a media entrepreneur with a focus on technical innovation. Christian, for example, set up the company SmartCast, which handled localised content management for broadcasters such as Disney, Fox and Cartoon Network in many Asian countries as a software-as-a-service solution. Today, SmartCast is part of satellite operator SES/Astra. His current project

Ruth Degraeve (VRT) Starting of her career at VRT Radio in 2008, Ruth has been working at the public broadcaster for 12 years now. With a broad range of experience in radio, television and digital content production, Ruth is nowadays head of distribution and product management at the newsroom of VRT, VRT

Benoit Illinger launched Coodio in 2019 and pilots the development of this cluster dedicated to audio, radio and voice,. This cooperative, encourages sharing, cooperation and testing between all the actors in the value chain: radios, publishers, universities, software & hardware providers, production houses etc. Benoit has been leading economic development projects for

Ioana Barbu is a music producer (including recording / mixing / mastering). Due to her background in radio, she specialises in broadcast technology, with responsibilities such as broadcast and playout systems, broadcast infrastructure, delivering national and international outside broadcasts. Ioana is currently freelancing on broadcast technology and video with Global in London, and

Leo has helped publishers tackle digital product challenges, from The Independent to Público, and currently serves as Product Director at Observador. Frames, which Leo idealized and founded, is one of Google's DNI success stories, and is now used by multiple Newspapers in Portugal. Leo also runs Lisbon's oldest coworking space and is setting

After graduating from ENSEA and a Master Degree in Acoustics, Stéphane has been for 10 years a driver of innovation in the field of sound, before progressing to marketing and innovation business development functions. Stéphane is notably the father of the first mobile phone with 3 speakers (2005) and the first mobile augmented

Ute Hölzl is Head of Online at Radio FM4, the youth culture radio station of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, ORF. For over 20 years she has been working at the interface between radio and online. Ute is part of the project team for ORF Radiothek, the new online platform for radio, live and on-demand,

As a Partner at XEBRIS Solutions GmbH since the beginning of 2019, Anton Fitzthum is in charge of expanding the XEBRIS business in the European broadcast market. Before this position he was responsible for Sales and Business Development at Fluidtime, dealing primarily with international customers in the area of Integrated Mobility. Holding

“Can we take the idea of “old school” radio and transport it into the digital age while exciting young listeners”? Armin Braun is convinced we can! The big question is: how to become (even more) relevant again? The answer is simple and singular: “Content”! As GM and Group PD responsible for the success of KISS FM,