Future of Media Technology Conference

Media’s top decision-makers share strategies, spark ideas, and solve today’s toughest challenges

  • London Hilton, Bankside
  • Ticketed

Why attend?

The Future of Media Technology Conference returns for its fifth year this September, bringing together media’s most influential minds and decision-makers for a one-day masterclass on the strategies, solutions and ideas they need to thrive in the digital era, enabling quality journalism, news and media to succeed in the long term.

Through panel discussions, case studies, debates and keynote speeches from some of the leading figures in digital media, news and publishing worldwide, you’ll hear honest, practical insights, lessons learned, success stories, and strategies that are already making an impact.

If you’ve joined us before, you know this is more than just a conference - it’s a space for open discussion, collaboration, and ideas that drive change.

Previous speakers include dmg Media’s Rich Caccappolo, The Economist’s president Luke Bradley-Jones, Future plc’s former CEO Jon Steinberg, News UK’s David Dinsmore, Stylist Group CEO Ella Dolphin, Footballco CEO Juan Delgado, ITN’s CEO Rachel Corp, former CEO of DC Thomson Ellis Watson, and more.

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Passes are available for journalists, publishers, broadcasters, and media professionals.

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Previous conference topics


This conference is comprised a series of panels, presentations and keynote speeches from leading figures in digital media worldwide, previous topics have included:

▣ Retention strategies-How to keep your subscribers happy

▣ AI in the newsroom – From experiments to practical application

▣ Platforms versus publishers - Sign or sue?

▣ Publishing without a website - Paywall and reader revenue strategies

▣ Innovation without Disruption - Transforming the Newsroom with MyType

▣ Tech Stack Ninjas - How publishers have pivoted to find new revenue

▣ Fixing the broken ad model – What comes next for monetisation

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Jon Slade​

CEO, Financial Times

Jon Slade became chief executive officer in July 2025, following more than two decades of leadership at the FT Group.

Slade joined the Group management board in 2014 and has been central to the FT’s transformation into a digital-first, subscription-led business. In his previous role as chief commercial officer, he oversaw the FT’s consumer and corporate subscriber business, global advertising sales and operations, branded content, newspaper operations and retail, and FT Strategies, the FT’s consulting arm.

Deeply committed to the FT’s role as a force for good, Slade helped set environmental goals for the business as co-chair of the FT’s sustainability council and sponsored a range of social impact initiatives, notably FT News School. 

He has served on the board of Digital Content Next (DCN) for many years, and on the development boards of British Exploring Society and Childline, and the Investment Committee of the Social Business Trust.

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Mitali Mukherjee​

Director, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Mitali Mukherjee is the Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. She is a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital journalism. She was a Chevening fellow for the South Asia Journalism Fellowship 2020, a Raisina Asian Forum for Global Governance Young Fellow 2019 and a 2017 fellow of the Australia India Youth Dialogue. In 2020, she was nominated for the prestigious Red Ink Awards in India for two of her business stories.

Over the course of her journalistic career, Mitali has been Consulting Business Editor at The Wire and Mint. Prior to that she was Markets Editor at CNBC TV 18 and Prime Time Anchor at TV Today and Doordarshan. She has been a Fellow at The Observer Research Foundation (ORF) where she led Gender Initiatives for the organisation. Mitali has also co-founded two start-ups that focused on civil society and financial literacy.

She is a gold medallist in Television Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) New Delhi, 2001 and a gold medallist, Political Science Hons., Delhi University, 2000. She is also a TEDx speaker.

Headshot by Ankur Sabharwal

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Sarah Marshall​

VP of Audience Strategy, Condé Nast

Sarah Marshall is VP of Audience Strategy at Condé Nast, home to brands including Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, WIRED, Architectural Digest.

 

The Audience Strategy team supports the brand teams by providing strategy, insights and best practices in SEO, social strategy, audio growth, video creative optimisation and audience analytics.

 

The team works globally and has members in 11 markets (US, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, India, Japan, Taiwan, Mexico and the Middle East).

 

Sarah is also an advisory board member of Quanta, a Pulitzer-winning science and maths non-profit supported by the Simons Foundation.

 

Before joining Condé Nast in 2017, she was an audience development editor for The Wall Street Journal.

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Andrew Palmer​

Executive Editor, The Economist

Andrew Palmer is Executive Editor, helping to oversee The Economist’s B2B strategy and products. He also writes the Bartleby column on the workplace, and hosts “Boss Class”, our limited-season podcast on management. Andrew joined The Economist as management correspondent in February 2007 and has served as Britain editor, business-affairs editor, head of the data team, Americas editor, finance editor and banking correspondent.

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