Speakers
Trei Brundrett
Vox media
Trei Brundrett is co-founder and former Chief Operating Officer of Vox Media, where he led the design, technology, and product teams. Currently, he serves as senior advisor and is also a board member at the Texas Tribune.
Aron Pilhofer
Temple University
Aron Pilhofer is a journalist and holds the James B. Steele Chair in Journalism Innovation at Temple University. His work focuses on new business models, digital transformation, and news innovation. He was digital strategy manager at The Guardian and The New York Times. Outside the newsroom, Aron co-founded DocumentCloud.org and Hacks & Hackers.
Ariel Zirulnick
Ariel Zirulnick is a journalist and senior community engagement editor at KPCC/LAist. She also directs global community gatherings at MDIF and serves as an instructor in CUNY’s Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program. She specializes in membership models for media outlets and previously worked at the Membership Puzzle Project.
Amy Adams Hardings
Amy Adams Hardings is Director of Analytics and Revenue Optimization at Google News. Her work centers on innovating monetization models for publishers across advertising and non-advertising avenues.
Chris Moran
The Guardian News & Media
Chris Moran is Head of Editorial Innovation at The Guardian News & Media. His work focuses on improving and redefining the publication’s editorial perspective. To expand user engagement and build new audiences, he designs data-driven strategies.
Ana Rivas
Ana Rivas is a journalist specializing in data visualization. She creates graphics and illustrations with data covering various sectors, including business, politics, technology, finance, energy, health, and science.
Marco Tulio Pires
Google News Initiative
Marco Tulio Pires is the lead for Google News Lab Brazil. He works with journalists and media outlets to foster newsroom innovation across Latin America.
María Teresa Ronderos
Maria Teresa Ronderos is the Director of CLIP (Latin American Center for Journalistic Investigation). She is an investigative journalist, columnist, and member of the editorial board at the Gabo Foundation.
Anita Zielina
CUNY
Anita Zielina is Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Her work focuses on training and empowering journalists in media innovation.
Germán Frassa
Relevo
Germán Frassa is Digital Strategy Director at RELEVO, Vocento’s sports news platform. He specializes in training and managing digital product and audience development teams to build engaging user products that optimize business growth.
Aviva Loeb
The Washington Post
Aviva Loeb is Subscriber Engagement Editor at The Washington Post. Her editorial work tackles the challenge of finding new ways to reach readers and sustain product engagement.
Fernando Díaz
Newspack
Fernando Díaz is a consultant at Newspack, helping publishers better serve their communities and operate sustainably. He also teaches data and investigative journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.
Maggie Farley
ICFJ Knight Fellowship
Maggie Farley is Director of the ICFJ Knight Fellowships, a program dedicated to incubating ideas and accelerating practices to transform journalism. Her goal is to build a culture of journalistic innovation and experimentation worldwide. She encourages journalists to develop multimedia skills and leverage data visualization and verification to enhance their work.
Pierre Forcioli-Conti
Meedan
Pierre Forcioli-Conti is Head of Product and Strategy at Meedan, a non-profit organization building software and programmatic initiatives to strengthen journalism, digital literacy, and information accessibility both online and offline. Previously, he co-founded and served as CEO of Workbench Data.
Ezra Eeman
Mediahuis
Ezra Eeman is Digital Change Director at Mediahuis. He coordinates newsroom transformation and digital acceleration across multiple platforms. He brings over 20 years of experience in media, innovation, and journalism, specializing in applying emerging technologies, platforms, and narrative formats to news.
Mattia Peretti
Polis
Mattia Peretti is manager of JournalismAI, a research and training project led by Polis—the international journalism think tank at the London School of Economics—with support from the Google News Initiative. The project provides research reports, training materials, and a support network to advance practice and shared innovation.
Patricia Torres-Burd
MDIF
Patricia Torres-Burd is Director of Programs and Managing Director at the Media Development Investment Fund. Her work focuses on providing media organizations with the data and guidance needed to boost business and audience performance through digital innovation.
Eric Mack
Journo DAO
Eric Mack is co-founder of JournoDAO, contributing editor at CNET, Forbes contributor, and freelance journalist/editor. JournoDAO works to develop and experiment with new Web3 tools for journalists and their communities.
