Vicky is Head of News and Factual Podcasts at Global, the Media & Entertainment group. She oversees the UK’s most successful daily news podcast, The News Agents, along with some of the biggest factual podcasts in the UK including Full Disclosure with James O'Brien, Spencer Matthews’ Big Fish, and Sweeney Talks, hosted by investigative journalist John Sweeney. Vicky

Malene Kaasgaard Christiansen has worked as an audience researcher with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) since the summer of 2022. Her academic background includes a Master’s degree in Media Studies, which she finished from Aarhus University in June 2022. This will be her fist time presenting her work at an international conference.

Ondřej Cikán is a moderator with many years of experience.  For the last years he has been working as a program director of young czech radio station FAJN radio and Rock Radio. He is author of marketing texts and one of the first people to start recording podcasts in the Czech Republic. He studied

Martin began his career in the radio industry 30 years ago at what was back then Prague's radio station Kiss 98. His responsibilities as a programme director quickly grew and soon he became the chief group director for the entire Radio Kiss network in the Czech Republic. Shortly after, his thriving experience

Nessa McGann is an independent media consultant with over 25 years’ experience in radio programming and management. A member of the Programming committee for Radiodays Europe, Nessa was Content Director and Station Manager for the No.1 Regional youth station SPIN South West for 13 years. Nessa holds an MA in media studies

Cathinka Rondan was appointed Head of Radio, NRK in September 2019.  She has worked with radio more than twenty years and came to the position from Head of Radio & Podcast at Rubicon, a production company where she started and built up their radio and podcast department the last four years.  Her first job

Emma Conneely leads BBC Sounds’ Metadata team providing support and advice about in-house publishing tools and podcast best practice. As part of a broader Content Discovery team, she is driving initiatives to improve the BBC’s podcast processes and offers expert support to commissioners and producers. Emma is particularly interested in the balance

Christian Bollert is founder and managing director of the German podcast-radio detektor.fm, one of the leading podcast-labels and onlineradios in Germany. The team has won the German Radioprize for "best innovation" (2012) and for "best podcast" (2021), is a four time nominee for the Grimme Online Award and has won the "Ernst-Schneider-Preis

Stefan Möller currently wears two hats.  The Managing Director for commercial radio trade body RadioMedia in Finland and the President for the Association of European Radios (AER) based in Brussels. AER represents some 5000 radio stations across the EU countries, and UK and Switzerland. Stefan´s career started as a drummer before joining the public service broadcaster

Thierry Mars, Radio Director at egta - a non-profit association based in Brussels that represents the interests of television and radio sales houses across more than 40 markets. It is egta’s role to assist and empower TV and radio sales houses in their efforts to monetise audio and/or audio-visual content through advertising