Where is DCN Speaking?

DCN Staff speak at conferences and events throughout the year in the U.S. and abroad. See where we’ll be in the coming months below. We would love to connect with you at one of these industry events!

Past Speaking Engagements

2023

Collision | Toronto, Canada

June 28, 11:00-11:25am ET
Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director | Navigating the ethical landscape of generative AI and journalism
(moderator)
Gideon Lichfield, Global Editorial Director, Wired
Harry McCracken, Global Technology Editor, Fast Company
Traci Mabrey, Head of News, Factiva

June 28, 1:30-4:30 p.m. ET
Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director | MC: Fourth Estate Stage

June 29, 1:30-4:00 p.m. ET
Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director | MC: Content Makers Stage

U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights

May 3, 2:30PM ET
Jason Kint, CEO | Competition in the Digital Advertising Ecosystem

Canadian Senate – Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications

April 25, 9:00AM ET
Chris Pedigo, SVP, Government Affairs | Meeting: Bill C-18, An Act respecting online communications platforms that make news content available to persons in Canada (Panel 2, Witness)

The Citizens – The Real Facebook Oversight Board

April 27, 3:00PM ET
Jason Kint, CEO | The Facebook Receipts. Meta and the 118th Congress (Panelist)
David Ciciline (D, RI-01)
Carole Cadwalladr, Investigative journalist, Guardian; Founder of the Citizens & Real Facebook Oversight Board Member
Marietje Schaake, International Director of Policy, the Cyber Policy Center, Stanford; Real Facebook Oversight Board Member
Shoshana Zuboff, Professor Emerita, Harvard Business School; author of Surveillance Capitalism; Real Facebook Oversight Board Member
Zamaan Qureshi, Policy Advisor and Researcher, The Citizens & Real Facebook Oversight Board

2022

Web Summit 2022

November 2, 12:15PM EDT
Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director | Are filter bubbles still a big deal? (panelist)
Jewel Wicker, Managing Editor & Acting Executive Editor, Teen Vogue
Colin Campbell, Managing Editor, Yahoo News

November 4, 11:25AM EDT
Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director | Beyond the talent pool’s horizon (panelist)
Jonathan Siddharth, Co-founder & CEO, Turing
Franzi Löw, Co-founder & CTO, Localyze

Advertising Week New York

October 18, 11:30AM EDT
Jason Kint, CEO | UNIFYING CREATIVITY + CONTEXT: Looking Towards the Future of Contextual Targeting (panelist)
Pam Drucker Mann, Global Chief Revenue Officer & President, U.S. Revenue, Condé Nast
Sandeep Seth, Global CMO and North America President, Coach
Suzana Apelbaum, Head of Creative and Innovation, Google

Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Public Forum

September 8, 2:00PM – 7:30PM
Jason Kint, CEO | Panel 1: Industry Perspectives on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security (panelist)
Olivier Sylvain, Bureau of Consumer Protection, FTC (moderator)
Marshall Erwin, Chief Security Officer, Mozilla
Paul Martino, Vice President and Senior Policy Counsel, National Retail Foundation
Rebecca Finlay, Chief Executive Officer, Partnership on AI
Susan Cooper ,Vice President, Privacy Strategy & Planning, Meta

Collision | Toronto, Canada

June 22, 11:15-11:35am ET
Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director | Newsroom innovation: What’s the future of storytelling? (moderator)
Nicole Carroll, Editor-in-chief, USA Today
Aja Whitaker-Moore, Executive Editor, Axios

June 22, 10:40-10:55am ET
Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director | MC: Fourth Estate Stage

June 22, 2:50-310pm ET
Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director | The Onion brings you to tears (moderator)
Jordan LaFlure, Managing Editor, The Onion
Lauren Moser, Senior Editor, The Onion

June 23, 10:30-10:45am ET
Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director | Opening Remarks/MC: Content Makers Stage

June 23, 10:45-11:05am ET
Jason Kint, CEO | Digital outlaws: How Facebook extorted Australia
Libby Liu, CEO, Whistleblower Aid
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, Member of Parliament for Beaches – East York, House of Commons of Canada
Alex Kantrowitz, Founder & Editor-in-chief, Big Technology

2021

Tech Your Pick: new rules for online advertising

October 13 | Web
Jason Kint, CEO | Panelist
Alexandra Gees, Greens/EFA MEP
Duncan McCann, Senior Researcher at New Economics Foundation

Internet Librarian Connect 2021

October 27 | Web
Publishing Models: Paywalls vs. Public Access
Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director | Panelist
Dick Kaser, Executive Editor, CIL Magazine, Information Today, Inc. (moderator)
Michael Blackwell, Director, St Mary’s County Library
Richard Huffine, Chief, Library and Public Information Center, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

The great privacy reset

July 14 | Web
Michelle Manafy | Fireside Chat (Moderator)
Lung Huang, Head of Growth Solutions at Mars Petcare
Jana Meron, SVP Programmatic and Data Strategy at Insider Inc.

CEPR Competition Policy Launch Event: “Privacy & Antitrust: “Integration”, not just “Intersection”

June 17 | Web
Jason Kint, CEO | What are the Privacy Experts Seeing that the Antitrust Regulators are not?

Collision 2021 Online

April 21 | Panel
Michelle Manafy | News evolution: From print, to push, to the almighty algorithm

April 22 | Interview
Michelle Manafy | Visualizing the future of digital news, with Michael Friedenberg, President, Reuters

The Prof G Show with Scott Gallowa‪y‬

March 4 | Podcast
Jason Kint | Burnout, the Media, and Twitter’s Business Move‪s‬

Betalab: Fix The Internet program

March 5 | Web
Jason Kint | Tech & Democracy: Regulating Social Media – Is This the Tipping Point?

2020

Web Summit

December 3 | Web
Michelle Manafy | Panel: Is business news still big business?

December 3 | Web
Michelle Manafy | Panel: #Breaking news: Covid is still here

FIPP Insider Webinar – Where next for GAFA? The future of big tech in the face of regulation

November 5 | Web
Jason Kint

CNBC Squawk Alley

August 21 | Web
Jason Kint | Why news publishers are pushing for Apple to change app store terms

Collision from Home

June 23 | Web
Michelle Manafy | Round Table: How do you build trust and transparency between media brands and consumers?

June 23 | Web
Michelle Manafy | Interview: Paid-for content: Unavoidable or elitist?
John Ridding, CEO at Financial Times

June 24 | Web
Michelle Manafy | Interview: Brand new, brand you
Larry Madowo, Africa Business Editor at BBC

2019

FIPP World Media Congress 2019

November 12-14 | Las Vegas, NV
Jason Kint, CEO | (Nov. 12) Panel: Platforms, politics, people – what happens next?

Marfeel Convergence

October 18 | New York City
Jason Kint, CEO | Panel: Building and growing your audience: latest acquisition channels

FT’s Future of News

June 6 | New York City
Jason Kint, CEO

Collision Conference

May 23 | Toronto, CA
Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director | Customer experience is the future of design

International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy

May 28 | Ottawa, CA
Jason Kint, CEO

The FTC’s Approach to Consumer Privacy

April 9-10 | Washington, DC
Jason Kint, CEO

Digital Innovator’s Summit

March 25 & 26, 2019 | Berlin
Jason Kint, CEO, DCN

Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) Conference – Brussels

February 1, 2019 | Brussels, Belgium
Jason Kint, CEO, DCN | Panelist: Democracy Disrupted?

2018

Advertising Week New York

Tuesday, October 2 | New York, NY
Jason Kint, CEO, DCN | Moderator – Panel: GDPR: Where Do We Go Now?

The Folio Show

Tuesday, October 9 | New York, NY
Jason Kint, CEO, DCN | Moderator – Panel: Lessons From New Business Models in Media

Digital Platforms: The intersection of online business models and policy

Tuesday, September 11 | Washington, DC
Jason Kint, CEO, DCN | Panelist

World News Media Congress 2018

Friday, June 8 | Portugal
Jason Kint, CEO, DCN | The Future: Advertising and Data Panel

Open Markets Institute: Breaking the News: Free Speech and Democracy in the Age of Platform Monopoly

Tuesday, June 12 | Washington, DC
Jason Kint, CEO, DCN | Panel – SNAPSHOT INTRO: How the Facebook and Google Advertising Models Work

Techonomy NYC

Wednesday, May 9 | New York, NY
Jason Kint, CEO, DCN | Figuring out Facebook’s Future

Luma Partners DMS East

Tuesday, May 15 | New York, NY
Jason Kint, CEO, DCN | Panel: Privacy Challenges to a Data-Driven Ecosystem

RightsCon Summit Series

Friday, May 18 | Toronto, CAN
Jason Kint, CEO, DCN | Panel: Can privacy solve fake news?

America East

Monday, March 12 | Hershey, PA
Jason Kint, CEO, DCN

Advertising Week Europe

Tuesday, March 20 | London
Jason Kint, CEO, DCN | GPDR: How Premium Publishers Come Out Ahead

Brand Innovators Future of Publishing & Monetization

Tuesday, January 9th | Las Vegas, NV
Jason Kint, CEO, DCN | Restoring Trust in the Digital Ecosystem

Digital Media Summit

Tuesday, May 23
New York City

Reporter’s Committee Dinner

Tuesday, May 23
New York City

European Parliament

Monday, May 29

NYC Media Lab Panel

Tuesday, April 25
NYC Media Lab; New York City

Past Speaking Engagements

2023

Collision | Toronto, Canada

U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights

Canadian Senate – Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications

The Citizens – The Real Facebook Oversight Board

2022

Collision | Toronto, Canada

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

Digital Media Summit

Reporter’s Committee Dinner

European Parliament

NYC Media Lab Panel