TECH TALK 43: Disruption - the D word - is ubiquitous and much used in the tech space. But what does it mean in practice? Who's disrupting who? And are the disrupters ready to be disrupted themselves? In this panel discussion, recorded on stage at Islexpo on the Isle of Man, we hear from experts at the front line of digital disruption: global app entrepreneur George Berkowski, CoinCorner co-founder Charlie Woolnough, Keystone lawyer Simon Deane-Johns and Glycyx Pharmaventures founder Lorin Johnson. Julian Blake is the panel chair. 

TechCityinsider Tech Talk: disrupting the disrupters

Missing Link CEO Jan Salling, Media Ranch founder & president Sophie Ferron, and Pernel Media president Samuel Kissous discuss the big issues in Cannes this week as Mipcom 2017 gets underway.

Top of mind for the execs are the changing economics of the formats business as audiences continue to fragment and new global players arrive, plus the escalating debate around sexual harassment within the industry in the wake of revelations out of Hollywood.

Talking Mipcom 2017 – day one

Sir Howard Stringer, chairman of Atrium TV, tells Jonathan Webdale about the DRG-backed "commissioning club’s” inaugural slate and discusses changing attitudes within the industry towards Netflix, Amazon, and women.

Atrium was announced here in Cannes at MipTV in April, and, having last week named Orange in France, Deutsche Telekom and Iflix in the Middle East and Asia among its initial partners, the company this week unveiled its first jointly funded projects, including drama The Hunchback of Notre Dame, reuniting Game of Thrones’ Charles Dance and Peter Dinklage.

Talking Mipcom 2017 – day two

Gordon Ramsay, Catherine Zeta Jones and HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler speak to C21 while in Cannes about present projects, the changing nature of the business and Harvey Weinstein.

Also in this episode, Jessica Brown Findlay, star of ITV drama Harlots, and series exec producer Alison Carpenter discuss the growing debate around the treatment of women within the industry – a subject that has dominated talk at Mipcom this year.

Talking Mipcom 2017 – day three

Zig Zag MD Matt Graff, Essential Media CEO Chris Hilton and The Wit MD Caroline Servy offer Jonathan Webdale their verdict on Mipcom 2017 as this year’s event wraps in Cannes.

Among the topics of discussion in this episode: the continuing disparity between the industry’s emphasis on drama over non-scripted and the possibility that new original content players like Facebook and Snapchat may just offer producers scope for genuine format innovation.

Talking Mipcom 2017 – day four

Netflix VP of content Elizabeth Bradley talks to veteran producer and Sister Pictures founder Jane Featherstone in the first of a series of audio reports from Content London 2017.

Bradley discusses the kind of shows the global streamer is looking for, its approach to development and commissioning, the significance of big-name talent, marketing strategy and its evolving approach to coproduction.

This is an extract from an hour-long session featuring Bradley and Featherstone at C21’s 2017 International Drama Summit, part of our three-day Content London conference last month. The Twitter hashtag for the event was #C21DS

The #C21DS sessions: Netflix

The 2017 Children's Global Media Summit in the UK saw YouTube apologise for hosting inappropriate content aimed at children and Prince William raise concerns about the impact of social media on kids.

Reporting from the event, C21Kids editor Nico Franks hears from Common Sense Media's James Steyer, Viacom International Media Network's Alex Okosi, Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood's Josh Golin and author, vlogger and musician Tom Fletcher.

Down the Tube

With the final season of The Bridge getting underway in the UK on BBC2, C21’s Talking Shop gathers together some of those who made the show to assess its impact on Nordic drama and the wider international TV industry. Featuring in this episode are star Sofia Helin, creator Hans Rosenfeldt, Lars Blomgren, MD of coproducer Filmlance, and Christian Wikander, former head of drama at Sweden’s SVT.

Final crossing

Netflix’s VP of international originals Erik Barmack tells C21’s editor-in-chief & managing director David Jenkinson what makes a hit for the global streamer and what’s top of his agenda right now.

Barmack was among the speakers at C21’s Drama Summit West, which took place in Los Angeles on May 17-18, and this extract from his session offers insights into Netflix’s approach to commissioning, its territorial focus and types of show it’s keen to take on as it continues to grow around the world.

This is the first in a series of recordings from Drama Summit West 2018, which was organised in association with MediaXchange.

The #dswest sessions: Netflix

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