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The Future of Smart Speakers
Ezra Eeman (Head of Digital at EBU Media Department in Switzerland), Tamar Charney (Managing Director of Personalisation and Curation at NPR in the USA) and

Google’s Thoughts On The Future of Audio
Brenda Salinas, from Google News, eased delegates into her thoughts on the future of bringing audio to audiences with a hilarious and informative presentation. She

The future of personalised “radio” news
Audiences are spending more time consuming news. But how is the media industry responding to this? Mark Little, from Kinzen in Ireland, and Tamar Charney,

Expanding Radio Advertising
Siobhan Kenny (CEO at Radiocentre), Rob Timony (Business Director at XI), Ger Gilroy (Managing Director of Off The Ball), Menno de Boer (Radio Director at

Two Innovative Projects To Make Radio More Interactive
Floris Daelemans from VRT introduced delegates to two innovative research projects at the Belgium broadcaster: Marconi and HRadio. Marconi’s aim is to make radio fully

Go Local, Grow Deeper
Xavier Huberland, from RTBF, kicked off this session talking about the vision for Belgian public service broadcasters. One of the things they are working on

Creative Radio Advertising
Ralph Van Dijk, the Creative Director of Eardrum in Australia and Paul Wauters, the Executive Creative Director of Babel in France, discussed what we can

Audio In The Year 2025
Charlotte Hager, who is the Founder and Director at Comrecon Brand Navigation in Austria and Mark Barber MBE, who is planning director at the Radiocentre

Will Artificial Intelligence Marginalise Us?
Sibyle Veil, Chief Executive Officer of Radio France, was first up to explain how Radio France is tackling the future of the medium. She noted

Podsnips: Kelly Doherty
Listen to Kelly after she steps off stage at Radiodays Europe 2019.

Hearing A Brand Is Better Than Seeing A Brand
Jo McCrostie and Dirk Soetens think that sound is becoming more important than images for brands. McCrostie has built an analogy between typography and sound.

Cross Media Measurement
Jeroen Verspeek kicked off by introducing the BBC’s Cross Media Measurement study, a large nationally representative study across the BBC and all it’s services. Unique

Reinventing Radio In A Smart Way
Dave Watson from DAVID Systems introduced the panel session tackling the challenges and opportunities for the reinvention of radio. He introduced the panel: Florian Notter

iHeartmedia’s Take On The Audio Boom
iHeartMedia Networks Group is the biggest radio network in the world. Darren Davis started with the company over 27 years ago and has a unique perspective

Making Smart Devices Work For Your Station
Chris Gould from AIM kicked off the first session setting the scene talking about the eco system of connected devices and where we are now

The Future of Listening is…
Ben Chapman and Alison Winter were first to the lectern, championing the BBC Sounds app. BBC Sounds has three main focuses: music, radio, and podcasts.

Will Humans Be Needed In The Future?
Understanding future technologies has been a core part of the conference throughout the morning, and it continued with Dave Coplin. Previously working with Apple and

Emotional Connections Through Imaging
Kelly Doherty runs TheImagingHouse.com. She spoke at Radiodays Europe about emotional connection in imaging. She said to delegates that the goal of every radio station is

Audio Content Is the Listeners’ Content
From day one, interacting with listeners has been a key part of radio. In a session filled with audio clips Paula Szuchman and Emily Botein

The Opening Session At Radiodays Europe 2019
The first full day of sessions began with an entrancing performance from the Vigneron Horns and Vigneron Singers. The performances filled the main auditorium with

Women Sticking Together At Radiodays Europe
Cheyenne Mackay hosted the session, and introduced keynote speaker Heidi Sivebaek, who is Diversity and Accessibility Editor at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Heidi inspired attendees

Turning Your Mobile Device Into a Multimedia Content Creation Tool
With video becoming an increasingly vital part of how radio stations reach audiences, and production budgets not necessarily increasing at all, Glen Mulcahy, from Titanium

Healing Radio Sales With Data
From Latvia to Australia, people came from all over the world to get advice from Radiocentre’s Planning Director on a variety of topics. While public

What Innovations Are Driving Change In The Radio Industry?
First up was hybrid radio. Floris Daelemans, from VRT, showed delegates their recent Marconi Project, which enables fully interactive and personalised radio shows and gives

Outside Broadcasts By Community Radio Stations
Touted as the conference’s take on Speakers’ Corner, Innovation Square is an open space in the centre of the conference for anyone to book a

Community Radio Is Bridging The Gap Between Generations
The Community Media Forum Europe hosted a series of presentations at Radiodays Europe highlighting some of the issues facing community radio stations at the moment.

Pitching Radio To Advertisers
In Judith Spilsbury’s workshop this morning delegates learnt how to pitch radio to advertisers. Judith discussed the challenge for radio and identified that, while radio

STEVANS performing at the Olympic Museum
The Monday night reception, which will be held at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, promises to be something special : A history of sporting prowess

A TASTE OF SWISS MUSIC
At A TASTE OF SWISS MUSIC (stand G3 on Garden level), you will be able to meet representatives of the following festivals and institutions: Montreux

Radio Hack Europe 2019 kicks off!
The Radiodays Europe, Radio Hack Europe has started! From 17.00 today participants of the Hack have joined a hackathon that will run day and night