#leadershipDEN The Digital Editors Network Autumn 2018 meeting at BBC Broad...

What are the key strategic, operational and personal challenges that innovating leaders face today? That the issue under the spotlight at the next Digital Editors Network meeting to be hosted by the BBC News Languages' Digital Development Editor Dmitry Shishkin at Broadcasting House on 21 November 2018. Discussions will be lead by thought leaders from Reuters, Sky, BBC, Guardian News & Media, Oxford, IO Technologies, UCLan, Talent Investors and the author of Futureproof: How to get your business ready for the next disruption.

"#LeadershipDEN going to be an afternoon when we will share our experiences and strategies dealing with leading change in newsrooms," says Dmitry, who has been at the forefront of the BBC World Services most ambitious expansion since the 1940s, seeing the addition of 12 new language services over the last 18 months.

"What does it take to lead perpetual change (which, frankly speaking, never stops!)? How do people in matrix “bridge” or direct leadership roles deal with stress from working in complex and ever-changing environments? What are the practical implications of driving diversity projects - gender, age, sex, class and many others - in media? How do organisation support their “change agents”? How do they keep developing those whose job it is to develop others? How do we protect ourselves from burn-out as we gradually realise that our tasks never end and the job is really never fully done."

In addition to Dmitry, other speakers include:

Panel One: The strategic challenges of leading Innovation

• Minter Dial, strategy consultant and co-author with Caleb Storkey of Futureproof: How to get your business ready for the next disruption. The book, which recently won the 'Embracing Change' category in The Business Book Awards 2018, explores the three core mindsets and twelve disruptive technologies that you must have in today’s age to help you grow your business, see success and get ready for the next disruption.
• Editor in Chief (Digital) of Reach Plc (Regionals) Alison Gow will be the respondent to Minter's presentation and pose the first questions.

Panel Two: The practical challenges of leading the Big D: Diversity in the newsroom, in the news mix, in news products, amongst news sources

• Mark Rice-Oxley, The Guardian's Special Projects Editor and creator of the Guardian's series, The Upside.
• Linda Adey, BBC News journalist and Chair of BBC News Under 30's Panel
• Jon Holmes, Home Page Editor at Sky Sports Digital and founder of Sports Media LGBT+ network
• Den Golotyuk Co-founder of IO Technologies, who has helped media companies such as Ringier move from its roots in Switzerland to develop a publishing network in Africa.

Panel Three: The personal challenges of leading innovation and change

• Lucy Keung, who is a professor and internationally-acknowledged expert on strategy, innovation and leadership, with a strong focus on the impact of digitalisation.
• Jane Barrett, Global Head of Multimedia, Reuters
• Katherine Alexander-Dobrovolskaia, founder of Talent Investors and creator of Best Bosses coaching project

The event on Wednesday, November 21st will run from 2pm-6:16 pm at BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1A 1AA, with registration opening at 1:15 pm and conversations afterwards continuing into a networking reception that wraps at 7:30 pm.

Co-sponsored by IO Technologies, the Media Innovation Studio at UCLan, and the Innovation Research Group, discussions will be chaired by the DEN’s co-convenors Lucia Adams and François Nel.

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