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Content Budapest announces conference agenda to build next gen business across CEE

Content Budapest announces conference agenda to build next gen business across CEE

C21’s Content Budapest has announced its two-day conference agenda for the June event, featuring a line-up of top speakers and sessions who come together to help define next generation content business across CEE.

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The agenda includes keynotes from Warner Bros. Discovery’s Jamie Cooke, Global Agency’s Izzet Pinto, FILM.UA Group’s Victoria Yarmoshchuk and Paprika Studios’ Ákos Erdős, plus in a series of commissioning sessions featuring buyers, channel bosses and commissioning executives from pan-regional streamers, public service broadcasters, commercial channels and local platforms including; AMC Networks International, A+E Networks UK, BluTV, PRO TV S.R.L., Pro Plus, TVP Polish Television, Czech TV, LTV, LRT, TVP+, Go3, Telekom Srbija and CME Group will discuss their content strategies, coproduction opportunities and new slates.

More immersive sessions will explore the latest content trends including pay TV with executives from Network 4, United Media, M7 Group and Warner Bros. Discovery Poland, and new revenue streams in FAST with Rakuten TV.

Other areas of the agenda will dive into how to find the next format hit with leaders in the format space including executives from 1+1 Media and The Fashion Hero, A Frapa session will reveal the 10 steps to protect your formats and why this is important if you want to monetise them, and leading drama producers from Drugi Plan, Firefly Productions, Joyrider and Paprika Studios will discuss drama coproduction between CEE and global markets.

Plus, leading industry analysts from Parrot Analytics, Glance – Médiamétrie, Ampere Analysis and K7 Media will dissect the latest data coming out of the region and discuss the implications for the local and wider business over the next 12 months and beyond.

C21’s Content Budapest will also host the Content Budapest Pitch, which will see projects compete for $20,000 marketing prize and connect them with C21’s 200,000-strong international community (entry deadline Friday May 5, midnight GMT 2023), and Club C21 Boat Party will take place on the evening of June 28.

More than 200 buyers have registered for the event which also includes a raft of senior commissioners and channel CEOS and more than 150 participating companies.

The inaugural CEE100 will also launch at Content Budapest, an initiative to celebrate 100 leading executives from channels, platforms and producers who are redefining the content business across Central and Eastern Europe.

Speakers in the Content Budapest conference include:

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Jamie Cooke
General manager of CEE, Baltics, Middle East, Mediterranean and Turkey (CEE MENAT)
Warner Bros. Discovery
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Izzet Pinto
Founder and CEO
Global Agency
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Victoria Yarmoshchuk
CEO
FILM.UA Group
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Ákos Erdős
CEO
Paprika Studios
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Izabella Wiley
Senior VP, general manager, Central & Eastern Europe
A+E Networks EMEA
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Marcin Skabara
Director of programming strategy
Telewizja Polska S.A
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Katalin Radóczy
VP Programming
AMC Networks International
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Dorota Eberhardt
Content strategy director
Warner Bros. Discovery Poland
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Jan Maxa
Director, content and new media
Czech TV
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Bill Wijdeveld
VP platform content services 
M7 Group
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Jana Semjonova
Program director
LTV
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Igor Draguzet
Chief content officer
CME Group 
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Tatjana Pavlović
Head of production and distribution
United Media
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Jan Wykrytowicz
CEO
Go3
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Branko Čakarmiš
General director
Pro Plus
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Mustafa Alpay Güler
Board member, MD international
BluTV
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Gytis Oganauskas
Deputy director general
LRT
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Jasmina Lakobrija
Director of content production and sales
Telekom Srbija
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Nicholas Doff
Development director 
Network4 Media Group S.á.r.l
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Krisztina Gallo
Head of international co-productions
Paprika Studios
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Anna Michalowska
Head of content and marketing country managers
Rakuten TV
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Nebojša Taraba
Producer & partner
Drugi Plan
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Silvia Stefanescu
Programme development & strategy manager
PRO TV
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Volodymyr Zavadiuk
Head of Big brave events
1+1 Media
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Gabor Krigler
Writer, producer
Joyrider
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Siméon Mirzayantz
Regional business manager for CEEMEA & Southern Europe
Glance - Médiamétrie
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Caroline Bernier
Creator and executive producer
The Fashion Hero
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Hannah Walsh
Research manager
Ampere Analysis 
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David Ciaramella
Communications manager
K7 Media 
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Olena Sikan
Head of content sales and acquisitions
Suspilne
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David Cornwall
Managing director
Scorpion TV
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Claudia Sahab
Director Europe
TelevisaUnivision
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Jack Davison
EVP
3Vision 
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Paloma García Cuesta
International sales director Europe and Africa
Caracol Televisión
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Gabriel Doria
Content distribution and partnerships manager - Europe
Globo
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Philipp Rotermund
Co-CEO
Wedotv
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Karolina Socha-Kalinowska
Head of international relations unit
Telewizja Polska S.A.
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Ivan Bukreev
Head of content
1+1 Media
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David Flynn
Global scripted
wiip studios
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Agnieszka Kubiak
Head of content development and creative
A+E Networks CEE
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Elisabeth Hagstedt
Head content and broadcast
TF1
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Dariusz Jablonski
Founder, CEO, producer, director
Apple Film Production