Afanti Media is happy to announce the return of the Wales Display screen Summit on 15-17 Might 2023 at Cardiff’s Parkgate Resort.
Audio system confirmed up to now embody: Chief Content material Officer, UK at Paramount, Ben Frow; BBC Director of Unscripted, Kate Phillips; Chief Content material Workplace for Channel 4, Ian Katz; Chief Government Officer, S4C, Sian Doyle; EVP of Content material at All3Media Worldwide Maartje Horchner ; Managing Director of Enterprise Improvement & International Technique at PACT, Daybreak McCarthy-Simpson OBE and Channel 4 Head of Daytime and Options, Jo Avenue.
The complete Summit schedule will shortly be introduced, and this 12 months’s occasion will enable delegates to have the chance of 1-2-1 with commissioning editors, in addition to unique movie and tv screenings.
Early chicken tickets at the moment are dwell by way of www.walesscreensummit.com
This main business occasion was launched in 2022 with the inaugural Wales Display screen Summit (WSS)/Copa Cyfryngau Cymru happening in Cardiff and supported by Inventive Wales, BBC, Channel 4, S4C Channel 5 and Netflix and attended by over 230 delegates.
Keynote audio system from the primary Summit included; BBC Director of Nations Rhodri Talfan Davies; Chief Content material Officer for Channel 4, Ian Katz; Chief Government of S4C, Sian Doyle and Chief Content material Officer, Llinos Griffin-Williams; Sebastian Cardwell, Deputy Chief Content material Officer, UK Paramount; John McVay, Chief Government Pact; Shaminder Nahal, Head of Specialist Factual Channel 4; Ben Irving, Appearing Director of Drama on the BBC; Beejal-Maya Patel, Commissioning Editor BBC Documentaries; Julie Shaw, BBC Daytime and Early Peak Commissioning Editor and Nick Andrews, Head of Commissioning at BBC Wales.
Emyr Afan, Display screen Summit Director and Pact Nationwide Consultant for Wales stated: “Because the mud settles on a tumultuous 12 months in broadcasting, the cost-of-living disaster is on the forefront, however now there may be excellent news across the certainty of C4’s future, we will likely be taking a look at how the business will fund and maintain development with a larger view on partnerships, worldwide co-production, and sustainable manufacturing.”
Wales Display screen Summit (WSS)/Copa Cyfryngau Cymru has acquired direct help from Welsh Authorities by way of Inventive Wales, who’re as soon as once more the Summit’s headline sponsor, alongside sponsorship companions together with Channel 4, S4C, BBC Cymru Wales, Wales, Pact TAC and Hugh James.
The inventive business in Wales has an annual turnover of £1.7 Billion – 14% up from 2017, and currentlyemploys 35,400 individuals.
