University of Southern Denmark’s Lene Heiselberg joins the line-up
She is an audience researcher interested in the way audiences use media and journalism. Lene Heiselberg has more than 10 years of experience as an applied audience researcher focusing on audio and television and was formerly employed at The Danish Broadcasting Corporation. She works closely with industry partners, and this encompasses a
RDE2023 welcomes Czech Radio’s Karel Zýka
He is the Head of the DAB+ implementation group, which has started the process of digital switchover in the Czech Republic and successfully launched the first nationwide DAB+ network, including new radio stations. Before joining Czech Radio, he worked at TV Prima (part of MTG) and the Audiovisual Producers Association. He graduated
Podnews Editor James Cridland joins the speaker list
James has worked in audio since 1989 as an award-winning copywriter, radio presenter, and internet strategist. He launched the world’s first streaming radio smartphone app in March 2005, for the original Virgin Radio in London, launching daily podcasts earlier that year. In 2007 he joined the BBC working on the BBC iPlayer for radio, achieving a dramatic increase in the service’s audio
Radio & AI – one of the themes for Radiodays Europe 2023
Radio & AI coming to Radiodays Europe 2023 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most revolutionary technologies of the 21st century and it is being used in a variety of industries and applications, such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, healthcare, and even radio. Radio, in particular, is one of the oldest forms of
Announcing Greatest Hits Radio (UK)’s award-winning Presenter/Producer Des Paul
Des grew up in South West London working on community radio in the 90s before getting his big break at Power FM on the South Coast. This led to over 10 years with Capital & Global, hosting several shows across their brands, heading up the music team at Choice FM (now Capital
Danish researcher, project developer and debater, Aslak Gottlieb, joins us in Prague
Since 2009 Aslak has been working with projects relating youth, journalism, the media and education. He strives at getting young people to take part in the democracy they will inherit from us, the democracy they must help maintain to ensure its survival. As a journalistic fellow at Southern University of Denmark in 2015,
CEO of Digital Training Institute, Joanne Sweeney, joins the speaker line-up
Her approach is practical and is based on 20 years' practice. Joanne is a trainer for Google, has spoken at events for Meta and Twitter and she specialises in social media and digital communications for government and public sector. Her accredited training courses are taken by professionals across the world.
RDE2023 welcomes journalist, author and radio host Andrea Borgnino
Journalist, author and radio host Andrea Borgnino began his career in Turin's free radios, he began working in public radio in 1997, in 2008/2009 he worked for the EBU in Geneva. He is now the head of RaiPlaySound, the Italian public service audio app.
Announcing Online marketing manager and podcast creator at Czech Radio, Ivana Veselková
All three are targeted towards a younger audience and are linked via a particularly personal brand of humor. Along with Zuzana Fuksová, Ivana is the co-creator of the Buchty (Cakes) Podcast, which is among the most successful at Czech Radio but also in Czech Republic as a whole. Aside from podcast creation,
Radioplayer’s Ole Jørgen Torvmark joins the speaker list at RDE2023
Until 2018, Torvmark was CEO of Digital Radio Norway, the company which led Norway to become the first country in the world to conduct a Digital Switch-Over (DSO). He had a key role in the collaboration between commercial and public broadcasters and between the broadcasters, politicians and trade. After a complete digitisation of