Schedule

See MEDIA2020 Conference Programme

• Welcome speech - Vlad Oprea, Mayor of Sinaia

You can join breakfast tables according to your profession; program producers, news editor, technical experts, international relations or finance and management group at the breakfast venue. This is meant to have acquaintances easily with someone of your profession from different part of the world.

CEO (Presidents and DGs) Breakfast Meeting – Palace Hotel, Dining Room

• Georgica Severin, the Acting Director General for Radio Romania
• Teodor Melescanu, Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Keynote address Jean – Paul Philippot, President, EBU
• MC: Cătălin Ştefănescu, Producer, Romanian Television

Even we are different as public broadcasters, worldwide we may assume that we share common values. The core value of ours is the independence as public broadcasters but there should be some values added by the zeitgeist. What are the values of the XXI century? Who is the arbiter of value in the new surroundings? The starting point of defining the value to be achieved is determining the arbiter of that value. The issue for public managers is that the arbiter of value is not just the client, but a collective, likely made up of: service users, tax payers, service providers, elected officials, Treasury and media. This process, where the collective effectively deliberates over a set of choices, includes engaging with citizens to establish what they value most and what adds value to the public sphere. In other words, who are our stakeholders?

• Keynote address Ryoichi Ueda, President, NHK, Japan
• Moderator: Jean Philip De Tender, Media Director, EBU
• Pascal Albrechtskirchinger, ZDF German Television, Head of the EU Public Affairs Office, Brussels
• Jean – Paul Philippot, President, EBU
• Dr Javad Mottaghi, Secretary General, ABU
• Noemie Dansereau-Lavoie, Consultant Media/Culture Development Strategy

Coffee Break

Following the discussion of the Session 1, the theme focuses on the finance of the PSM. The system of financing public broadcasters is important in terms of keeping them independent. May it be license fee or government appropriation, there are many different systems being practiced. Modifications of license fee system are introduced in some countries to catch up the time of multimedia while new initiatives by public broadcasters are being taken when asking for funding from government. How can we keep our financing system relevant to the rapidly changing media landscape? What would be the most relevant way of funding PSM with the different size of countries (population) and with the different background?

• Moderator: Steve Ahern, International Media & Broadcasting Academy (IMBA), Australia
• Jung Chuloong, Chief of KBS Innovation Strategy Department, Korea
• Hubert T. Lacroix, President and CEO, CBC / Radio Canada, Canada
• Prof. Dr. Albrecht Hesse, Legal Director, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Germany
• Eric J. Wolf, Vice President, Technology Strategy & Planning, PBS, USA

Lunch

What would have been the result of the US Presidential election last year without social media? Would it have resulted in a different outcome? Did or will the Trump phenomenon has any impact on other countries especially in Europe where they have a few important elections this year? Facebook set up a fact-checking team with a number of broadcasters, news agencies and journalists to look into doubtful items on its own platform, first in the US and then in the UK and France. Social media has given everyone a means to publish information and opinion without due procedure: such items may contain falsehood; ill will or cyber radicalism described sometimes as populism. What role can or should public service media play in a time of mass participation on different social media platforms? The session will examine several cases where public broadcasters are involved in checking information spread on the Internet to defend facts against fake, objective journalism against populism.

• Moderator: David Jordan, Director, Editorial Policy and Standards, BBC
• Eoghan Sweeney, Global Training Director, First Draft News, Germany
• Dr. Alexandra Borchardt, Director of Strategic Development, Reuters Institute
• Pancíř Tomáš, Director of CRo Regina DAB Prague, CR, Czech Republic
• Katrin Pötzsch, Editor, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Germany
• Toshiyuki Sato, Special Controller, NHK International, Japan

Coffee Break

Radio is a powerful means of communication which can compete with any visual media product by the power of the word. It is a promoter of culture, being the most adaptable environment for all type of platform and able to be received in geographical areas. Radio can be a reliable friend who takes away the loneliness and who advises, informs and entertains regardless the times. It can also create a sense of trust in situation of calamity and natural disasters.

• Moderator: Graham Dixon, Head of Radio, EBU
• Graham Ellis, Deputy Director,BBC, President EBU Radio Committee, UK
• Olya Booyar, Head of Radio, ABU
• Alexander Velev, Director General, Bulgarian National Radio, Bulgaria
• Mathieu Gallet, President Director General, Radio France, France

Session for presenting successful and inspiring cases and also for sharing experiences - members who have interesting trials and meaningful outcomes are requested to introduce their cases. Please do contact the Secretariat at the Radio Romania. You are given five to ten minutes of presentation.

• Jan Lukas Strozyk, Journalist, NDR, Germany
• Radka Betcheva, Head of Members Relations, Eastern Europe,EBU
• Tetsu Imai, Senior Manager, NHK, Japan

Gala Dinner

Opening of the Second Day of the Conference

Session 5 –  Public Media and Democracy-What is happening to public media in 2017

The characteristics and values of Public Broadcasting are intrinsically linked to democracy. Effective democracy requires informed and engaged citizens. Although most 21st century media has become synonymous with ‘entertainment’, public media offers entertainment but much, much more. As the spread and influence of authoritarian media systems grows worldwide isn’t it time for public media to promote its core values better to audiences, politicians and media commentators?

• Moderator: Sally – Ann Wilson, Chef Executive Officer, Public Media Alliance
• Davor Marko, Research fellow, Analitika, Center for Social Research
• Marius Dragomir, Director CMDS, CEU
• Dr Okoth Fred Mudhai, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University, UK

Coffee Break

Public media services (PSM) provide a place where people across the world can stay in touch and feel closer and more connected regardless of the distance that separates them. It also offers a relevant platform for ethnic and religious diversity to be expressed. PSM has an important role in defending, supporting and sometimes in creating high level cultural values. The diversity of ways PSM is assuming this role. At least in Europe - despite the fact we are all EU members - according to the subsidiarity principle, it is up to every country to define the public service remit, including the concrete ways of supporting culture and diversity.

• Moderator: Dan Santa, Director, International Relations, Radio Romania
• Hubert T. Lacroix, President and CEO, CBC / Radio Canada, Canada
• Lalia Behidj, Assistant to the Director General, in charge of Cooperation and International Relations P.I, Algerian Radio, Algeria
• Claudio Cappon, Secretary General, Co.Pe.A.M.
• Fayyaz Sheheryar, Director General, Prasar Bharati – All India Radio, India
• Florin Brusten, Secretary General, Regional Studios, Radio Romania
• Attila Szasz, Deputy Chief Editor, Radio Targu Mures, Radio Romania

Session for presenting successful and inspiring cases and also for sharing experiences - members who have interesting trials and meaningful outcomes are requested to introduce their cases.

• Dan Preda, Manager, Radio Romania News, Radio Romania
• Acad. Nicolae – Victor Zamfir, Director General, Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania

• Georgica Severin, the Acting Director General for Radio Romania
• KBS, the host for PBI 2018
• Toshiyuki Sato, PBI Secretary General

End of the Conference

Lunch

Visit to Bran Castle

Dinner

Visit to Peles Castle