Fireside chat · Dmitry Shishkin, Media Strategist & Advisor · Ezra Eeman, Strategy & Innovation Director, NPO 

Audiences have always wanted more than updates. Now AI assistants are delivering explanations, synthesis, advice and more, sitting squarely between people and the news. Building on the original BBC user-needs model, this conversation asks what that shift means for what audiences need, and for what journalism and the machines now need from each other.

Workshop · Rune Ytreberg, Data Editor, iTromsø · Lars Giske, Head of AI & Editorial Tools, Polaris

Move beyond prompt-by-prompt AI. This workshop shows how journalists can build a customised workflow of editorial AI agents for investigative journalism. Using iTromsø's LARS (Layered Agent Research System), you'll learn to organise agents and subagents with specific skills to support each stage of an investigation: design an agentic workflow, define roles, add verification checkpoints, and create audit trails that connect every output to its sources.

Roundtable ·  Led by Monica Attard, Professor of Journalism Practice, University of Technology, Sydney, with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, Chief AI Officer, The Guardian 

Licensing deals between publishers and AI companies are being signed right now, and the terms will shape the industry for years. Are newsrooms valuing their IP highly enough? A frank conversation about leverage, worth, and what a fair deal really looks like when your archive becomes someone else's training data.

Presentation · Hyejin Jung, Senior Manager & Legal Affairs Team Lead, SBS   · Julie Yoonnyung Lee, Senior Journalist, BBC 

When SBS built Korea's first AI-powered election broadcast, a world-first. The people behind it walk through exactly what they made, where it strained under live pressure, and the lessons any newsroom can take into its next election.

Workshop · Markus Ikehata, Head of Visuals, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

The hardest part of AI in the newsroom isn't the technology; it's the people: skills gaps, cultural resistance, unclear use cases. In this hands-on session, you'll map a concrete AI future for your own team and leave with a first, practical action plan, built on how NZZ changed the way its illustrators, OSINT analysts, data journalists and developers work.

Workshop · Daniela Späth, DW Lab Lead, Deutsche Welle

How do you produce vertical video for a podcast that has no footage at all? DW's Lab did exactly that for its business podcast Delayland. During the workshop, you will get insights into the experiment and learn how to write scripts for any (AI-generated) clip, build "shot" lists for GenAI tools, and apply the five-shot technique to generate a first storyboard.