Cilla Benkö is the CEO and Director General for Swedish Radio. She has 40 years’ experience of producing radio and working with digitalization of the media landscape. Cilla began as a sports journalist and continued as an economics reporter at Ekot, the newsdesk at Swedish Radio. She continued as a News Director at Ekot, Head of Swedish Television’s newsdesk Aktuellt and was the Deputy Director General at Swedish Radio between 2009-2012. She has over 20 years’ experience from international board assignments and is the current Vice-President of the EBU. During her tenure as CEO she has spearheaded the company’s digitalization during a time of constant effectivizations.
Peter Niegel is the CEO of Radiodays (Radiodays Europe, Radiodays Asia and Radiodays North America) since 2018.
Peter is also a Senior Strategic Advisor on Audio Content for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) since 2022. Before that he was an Audience Researcher for DR since 2000. Peter is among the leading audio audience researchers in Europe and has presented his work on national and international conferences on a variety of audio related subjects.
Peter holds Master degrees in History, Media Science and Corporate Communication.
Katerina is an investigative journalist with a 25+ year career, working in top positions for the largest Greek media organizations. A pioneer in the podcast market, she co-founded the first Greek podcast production company, which established podcasts in Greece. She is now Head of Podcasts for Alter Ego Media. Her team produces news and interview podcasts for Vima.gr and companion podcasts for Mega Channel’s popular TV series.
She is also founder of Melon Media, a premium podcast production company, which focuses on narrative investigative podcasts.
Steve Pratt is the author of Earn It; Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers and the founder of The Creativity Business, which offers consulting, workshops, and keynotes to help companies develop differentiated content, marketing, and messaging that earns attention.
Steve is also the co-founder of the world’s first branded podcast agency, Pacific Content, named one of Entrepreneur’s 100 Brilliant Companies. Pacific Content worked predominantly with US-based brands, including Ford Motor Company, Audible, BMW, the New York Times, Dell Technologies, Face- book, Rocket Mortgage, Slack, Shopify, Zendesk, Morgan Stanley, Charles Schwab, Prudential, Adobe, and Atlassian.
