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INNOVATION WITHOUT BORDERS
A report on the 2012 International Council summit, an independent
forum for media and technology leaders from around the world at the
Paley Center for Media.
Technology changes much
faster than the psychology
of people. –Avner Ronen
You can’t separate
distribution and
content... there’s
no king, one
without the other.
–Jeff Bewkes
You need to build the
technology that is native
to a country’s problems.
-Rishi Malhotra
How do you make a 125 year
old company innovative?
It’s all about the people.
–Frank A. Bennack, Jr.
You guys think the whole world
exists between New York, Los
Angeles, and San Francisco.
I have some news for you, there
are other markets. –Yossi Vardi
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Digital isn’t an afterthought, it’s a primary thought. –Herb Scannell
The main thing
is to close the
digital divide in
this new world,
either you’re
connected or
you’re out.
–Ricardo
Salinas
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Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
The Innovation Imperative
In November 2012, The Paley Center for Media convened the twentieth meeting of the International
Council since this perennial gathering of global media leaders began in 1995. Delegates from here in the
US to countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, assembled at the Paley Center’s New
York headquarters and the Time Warner Center for three days of dialogue and debate under the guiding
theme “Innovation without Borders.”
Certainly, as a longtime convener of international media leaders, The Paley Center has seen that growth
goes hand-in-hand with corporate investment and partnerships across borders. Thanks to the blossoming
of Internet and mobile technology, we’ve also seen new opportunities for growth bubbling up in cities
around the world, where communities of media and technology entrepreneurs are establishing their own
local iterations of Silicon Valley.
These emerging ecosystems are fantastic engines of innovation. Still, startups have not cornered the market
on ingenuity. Innovation is happening at all levels, whether it’s in someone’s garage, loft space, or a skyscraper. It’s happening everywhere, because it must.
IC2012 NYC shone a spotlight on media and technology innovation and entrepreneurship happening
inside and outside the US, at the startup level and within mature companies. We began with a look at New
York’s Silicon Alley before getting the view from LA’s Silicon Beach. We zoomed in on Israel and India
before hearing about innovation at scrappy little outfits like the BBC and The New York Times. Finally,
we closed the summit with insights from the leaders of multinational conglomerates on how they foster a
culture of innovation at their respective companies.
Between sessions, delegates and speakers continued the conversation at a series of social events, including
a cocktail reception at The New York Times Building, a luncheon at the iconic 21 Club, and a gala evening
at Hearst Tower, featuring a suitably innovative meal prepared by celebrated chef Wylie Dufresne and chef
Charles W. Granquist.
Once again, each session was streamed live, enabling viewers around the world to tune in. To view archived
streams of the sessions, visit the IC2012 video gallery on our Web site at
paleycenter.org/
ic2012-newyork-video-photos.
We are grateful to all of our speakers (in order of appearance): NYC Commissioner Katherine Oliver; Gilt
Groupe’s Susan Lyne; Aereo’s Chet Kanojia; GRP Partners’ Mark Suster; ZelnickMedia’s Strauss Zelnick;
Maker Studios’ Courtney Holt; International Technologies’ Yossi Vardi; Boxee’s Avner Ronen; Saavn’s Rishi Malhotra; BBC Worldwide’s Herb Scannell; The New York Times Co.’s Michael Zimbalist; GroupM’s
Rob Norman; Nielsen’s Randall Beard; Time Warner’s Jeff Bewkes; Grupo Salinas’ Ricardo Salinas; and
IMAX’s Richard Gelfond. Thanks also to our wonderful group of moderators, including News Corp.’s Jon
Miller; Keep Holdings’ Scott Kurnit; McKinsey & Co.’s Geoffrey Sands; Fortune’s Stephanie Mehta; and
Thomson-Reuters’ Chrystia Freeland.
Finally, we would like to express our enduring thanks to our partners for supporting the 2012 International
Council summit: Edelman, Gustave M. & Rita E. Hauser, Hearst Corporation, Lufthansa Airlines, McKinsey & Company, The New York Times, Nielsen, and O’Melveny & Myers.
We look forward to seeing you again at the next IC summit.
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Judi Allen
Nielsen
Loreen Arbus
Loreen Arbus Productions
Tim Armstrong
AOL
Crystal Barnes
Nielsen
Nick Barron
Edelman
Randall Beard
Nielsen
Neil Benedict
Ben Productions
Frank A. Bennack, Jr.
Hearst Corporation
Mary Lake Bennack
Jeff Bewkes
Time Warner, Inc.
Vin Bhat
Saavn
Krishan Bhatia
NBCUniversal
Adam Bird
McKinsey & Company
Malcolm Bird
MGB Associates
Ken Bronfin
Hearst Corporation
Johna Burke
Burrelles Luce
Joe Calabrese
O’Melveny & Myers
Betty Cohen
Betty Cohen Media Consulting
Nuri Çolakoğlu
Dogan Media International
Kelle Coleman
Nielsen
Justin Colson
McKinsey & Company
George Cooke
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Barton Crockett
Lazard Capital Markets
Shaun Daley
KPMG
Alfonso de Angoitia
Grupo Televisa
Russell Dubner
Edelman NY
Linda Dupree
Nielsen
Ben Elowitz
Wetpaint
Corinna Freedman
Wedbush Securities
Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling
ZDF German Television
Boris Gartner
Univision Communications Inc.
Richard Gelfond
IMAX
Janet Goldsmith
The Paley Center for Media
James Greenwald
Katz Media Group
Gypsy Guillén Kaiser
Committee to Protect
Journalists
Paul Hardart
Adirondack Pictures
Hajime Hashimoto
WOWOWS Inc.
Nils Haupt
Lufthansa Group
Gustave Hauser
The Hauser Foundation
Rita Hauser
The Hauser Foundation
Robert Haymer
O’Melveny & Myers
Andrew Heyward
MarketspaceNext
Courtney Holt
Maker Studios
Jane Hu
YouTube Next Lab
Shafqat Islam
NewsCred, Inc.
Chet Kanojia
Aereo
Andy Kaplan
Sony Pictures Television
Harri-Pekka Kaukonen
Sanoma Corporation
Adam Klein
eMusic
Kay Koplovitz
Koplovitz and Co.
Lisa Kovitz
Edelman
Peter Kreisky
The Kreisky Media Consultancy
Ken Krick
KPMG
Scott Kurnit
Keep Holdings
Josh Kushner
Thrive Capital
Virginia Lam
Aereo
Susan Lyne
Gilt Groupe
Rishi Malhotra
Saavn
Joe Marchese
FUSE Networks
Dorinda Marticorena
Warner Brothers
Will Mayo
SpokenLayer
Karen McClellan
IESE Business School
Kara Medoff Barnett
Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts, Inc.
Stephanie Mehta
Fortune
Jon Miller
News Corporation
Pat Mitchell
The Paley Center for Media
Brooke Moreland
Fashism
Raita Nakashima
WOWOW Inc.
Steve Newhouse
Advance.net
Rob Norman
GroupM
Katherine Oliver
The City of New York
Ahmet M. Oren
Ihlas Holding
Bruce Paisner
International Emmys
Reed Phillips
DeSilva + Phillips
I. Marty Pompadur
Macquarie Capital
Sam Powers
UBS
Marvin Putnam
O’Melveny & Myers
Nathalie Rayes
Grupo Salinas
Marcus Ribeiro
PRISA
Humphry Rolleston
McKinsey & Company
Avner Ronen
Boxee
Rich Sabreen
IESE Business School
Takahiro Sakai
WOWOW Inc.
Ricardo Salinas
Grupo Salinas
Geoffrey Sands
McKinsey & Company
Miral Sattar
BiblioCrunch
Herb Scannell
BBC Worldwide, America
Thomas Scharfenberger
Lufthansa Group
Vivian Schiller
NBCUniversal
Mark Scott
Australian Broadcasting
Corporation
Neal Shenoy
212 Media
Richard Siklos
Time Warner, Inc.
Paramdeep Singh
Saavn
Erik Sorensen
Sucherman Consulting Group
Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr.
The New York Times
Mark Suster
GRP Partners
Steven Swartz
Hearst Corporation
Helmut Thoma
Freenet AG
Joel Topcik
The Paley Center for Media
Dorothy Tse
Nielsen
Oded Vardi
Superna Group
Yossi Vardi
International Technologies
Robert Waggoner
Burrelles Luce
Kayo Washio
WOWOW Inc.
Annie Wegelius
Svergies Television
Hagen Wenzek
IPG Mediabrands
Clifford Werber
Fluent Entertainment
Strauss Zelnick
ZelnickMedia
Michael Zimbalist
The New York Times Company
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@gojohnab:
NYC tech! Innovation here & primed w/ help of city
programs - NYC Digital. + more than dominoes
to eat after 11pm. Silicon who? #paleyic
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Commissioner, New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment
Katherine Oliver
LOOKING BACK
ON 17 YEARS OF
LOOKING AHEAD
Unique moments
in the history of
International Council
Meetings
ROME, ITALY
Sept. 17-19, 1995
A vital, welcome
tradition begins as The
Museum of Television
& Radio (former name
of The Paley Center for
Media) hosts its first
International Council,
an unprecedented
gathering of the world’s
media leaders. The
Council—composed
of chief executives
of top media and
communications
companies—begins
tackling billboard global
industry issues through a
series of discussions with
an eye toward the future.
This premier gathering of
the Council—which had
been the brainchild of
MT&R Vice Chair Gustave
Hauser and President
Robert Batscha—is
unique for two additional
reasons. First, it’s the
only IC gathering not to
be convened by a local
media company. Instead,
the Italian government
itself generously does
the honors, and meetings
covering media and
politics are held at the
residences and offices of
President Oscar Luigi
Scalfaro, and President
of the Senate Carlo
Scognamiglio. Second,
former US Secretary of
State—and MT&R Vice
Chair—Henry Kissinger
serves as moderator for
NYC’s media and entertainment commissioner explains how the
city’s media legacy is fostering innovation from tech startups.
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1. Katherine Oliver and Miral Sattar 2. Katherine Oliver
Chairman, Gilt Groupe
Susan Lyne
The Gilt Groupe chairman discusses how New York’s media legacy
informs her company’s focus on discovery and consumer experience.
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1. Susan Lyne
2. Frank A.
Bennack, Jr.
and Gustave
Hauser
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@wrmayo:
Best question so far from @kurnit,
“So who owns TV stations in the room?” Half dozen
hands go up... #PaleyIC
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Founder and CEO, Aereo
Chet Kanojia
Aereo’s founder and CEO insists his disruptive streaming service for
digital TV is a crucial - and legal - “wedge” to open up the marketplace.
Moderator Scott Kurnit and Chet Kanojia
Partner, GRP Partners
Mark Suster
The entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist makes the case
for investing in homegrown LA media startups.
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1. Moderator
Jonathan
Miller and
Mark Suster
2. Ahmet
Oren 3. Joe
Marchese
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all the discussions. Talks
focus on international
relations, world trade,
global economics,
and new ideas. The
list of participants
includes Viacom’s
Frank Biondi, Jr. and
Sumner Redstone; Alan
Alda; Loreen Arbus;
Ratikant Basu of India’s
Doordarshan; and ENI’s
Enzo Viscusi.
BERLIN/BONN,
GERMANY
July 7-9, 1996
The IC follows up
its successful first
meeting by ambitiously
stretching the
discussions over two
cities through the course
of three days. The
focus of the meeting is
geared toward the East:
the emerging Eastern
European nations and
the former Soviet Union.
There is arguably no
better symbol of the
seismic changes in the
world, and in media,
than Berlin, which hosts
sessions concerning this
part of the world. Bonn
IC discussions center on
Germany and Western
Europe. Highlights of the
conference—generously
underwritten by RTL
Television and its CEO
Dr. Helmut Thoma—
include meetings with
German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl and
President Roman
Herzog. Kissinger
again serves as chief
moderator of the
festivities. Participants
include Verizon’s Ivan
Seidenberg; Grupo
Cisneros’s (Venezuela)
Gustavo Cisneros;
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A WELCOME RECEPTION AT
Quadrangle Group’s
Steve Rattner; Abril
Group’s (Brazil) Roberto
Civita; and Prasar
Bharati’s (India) KS
Sarma.
New York Times Co. Chairman and Publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger, J
of the New York Times Building, where photographs commem
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MADRID, SPAIN
June 15-16, 1998
After a one-year hiatus,
the IC holds its third
meeting in Spain, this
time graciously hosted
by, among others,
José Maria Mas of
Antena 3 Television
and Spain’s King Juan
Carlos. Dinners are
held at the famed
national museums, the
Arte Reina Sofía and
Thyssen-Bornemisza.
With the IC continuing
its work to advance
the exchange of
ideas among the
world’s leaders in
communications,
the group zones in
on the growth and
future of Spanishlanguage programming
worldwide. Participants
include Grupo Clarin’s
(Argentina) Ernestina
Herrera de Noble;
Tribune’s John Madigan;
and Radio Television
España’s Fernando
Lopez-Amor.
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1. Frank A. Bennack, Jr. and Nuri Çolakoğlu 2. Will Mayo, Alicianne Rand, and Shafqat Islam 3. Rita Hauser
4. Yossi Vardi and Krishan Bhatia 5. Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., Frank-Dieter Freiling, and Annie Wegelius
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PARIS, FRANCE
Oct. 10-12, 1999
The fourth IC meeting
focuses on global
communications
issues as they affect
programming, along
with the nascent digital
revolution and the
impact of technology
on globalism and media
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berger, Jr., hosts delegates at a welcome reception on the 16th floor
commemorate visits from world leaders and historic figures.
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businesses. (One panel
discussion is titled,
“The Digital Revolution:
A New Model for
Economic Growth?”)
Hosted by Canal+, the
meeting also features
an address by President
Jacques Chirac, and
a work session at
the Louvre. By now,
the Council includes
representatives from
twenty-four countries.
Participants include
Canal+’s Pierre Lescure;
NBC’s Bob Wright;
Yahoo!’s Tim “TK”
Koogle; and Vivendi’s
Jean-Marie Messier.
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1. Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. and Frank A. Bennack, Jr. 2. Harri-Pekka Kaukonen, Steve Newhouse,
Schuyler Brown, Gustavae Hauser, and Rita Hauser 3. Gustave Hauser 4. Avner Ronen and Scott
Kurnit 5. Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. and Pat Mitchell 6. Neal Shenoy and Vin Bhat 7. Mark Thompson
and Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. 8. Gustave Hauser and Bruce Paisner
LONDON, ENGLAND
Oct. 15-17, 2000
It is fitting that at
a Council meeting
centering on the
continuing evolution
of technologies and
their global impact
on programming,
advertising, and society,
the IC hosts its largest
group of delegates
to date. Four panel
discussions, again
moderated by Henry
Kissinger, explore
controlling the flow
of information and
entertainment to
consumers anytime
and anyplace, the cost
of programming, and
maximizing ad spend
dollars. Prime Minister
Tony Blair hosts the
considerable group
at 10 Downing Street,
including Sony’s Sir
Howard Stringer; WPP
Group’s Sir Martin
Sorrell; the NBA’s
David Stern; Elisabeth
Murdoch; and Clear
Channel’s Lowry Mays.
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@abcmarkscott:
Remarkable business Maker Studio. http://www.makerstudios.com/ Next month: 2 bn views heading for ‘crazy numbers’ says @mootron #PaleyIC
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Chairman, ZelnickMedia
Strauss Zelnick
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Oct. 28-30, 2001
The International Council
sends an important
message by going ahead
with its meeting only a
month after the tragic
events of September 11.
While it is most assuredly
a time for reflection,
and for understanding
priorities, it is also vital
to imagine and shape a
better future. Taking place
in Austria, one of the
world’s most competitive
television markets, now
caught in a swirl of great
changes, panels cover the
political and economic
environment, directions
in programming,
global expansion, and
intellectual property in
the digital age. Austrian
state broadcaster ORF
serves as host and both
Chancellor Wolfgang
Schlüssel and President
Thomas Klestil meet with
the group, which also
gets to see a performance
of Wagner’s classic opera
Die Walküre. Participants
include Austrian host and
Director General Gerhard
Weis; Mediaset’s (Italy)
Fedele Confalonieri;
France Television’s Marc
Tessier; NTV’s (Russia)
Boris Jordan; and Grupo
Salinas’ (Mexico) Ricardo
Salinas Pliego.
The founder of ZelnickMedia says efficiency, creativity,
and innovation are the three pillars of his firm’s success.
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1. Moderator Geoffrey Sands
and Strauss Zelnick
2. Hagen Wenzek, Betty Cohen,
and Rob Norman
3. Geoffrey Sands
and Strauss Zelnick
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Chief Operating Officer, Maker Studios
Courtney Holt
The Maker Studios COO predicts that traditional media companies
will begin to look more like his web-video network.
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BEIJING, CHINA
Nov. 5-7, 2002
For the first time, the IC
gathering heads to Asia,
and the growing media
superpower that is China.
Eighty media executives
from around the world—
1. Courtney Holt 2. Moderator Jon Miller and Courtney Holt
3. David Stern, Gustave Hauser, Ben Elowitz, and Courtney Holt
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@Media_Council:
Business plans are like sausages - only those who don’t know how they’re made
are willing to eat them. - Yossi Vardi #PaleyIC
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Chairman, International Technologies
Yossi Vardi
“I’m looking for a viral product that can continue to amaze me,”
says the godfather of Israel’s tech industry.
Moderator Jon Miller and Yossi Vardi
CEO, Boxee
Avner Ronen
Once a presenter at IC2009’s “Next Big Thing” session, the Boxee CEO
returns to demo the latest iteration of his over-the-top-TV startup.
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1. Avner Ronen and Annie Wegelius 2. Avner Ronen 3. Moderator Scott Kurnit and Avner Ronen
the biggest gathering
yet—meet in Beijing for
the conference hosted
by Bruno Wu’s Sun
Media Group and SINA.
com. Choosing China
is fitting: The nation
has experienced rapid
economic growth, with
significant strides made
in its media industry—
vital for a country poised
to host the Olympic
Games several years
down the road. And
though interaction with
international media
has expanded by this
point, the growing
infrastructure still comes
as a welcome surprise to
a familiar IC figure: Dr.
Kissinger, who helped
open up the country to
foreign relations in 1971.
“When I first came here,
there were only two
TV channels and very
few stations,” he said.
“Now it has so many
of them I have to work
hard to get a better
understanding of the
Chinese media market.”
The IC helps everybody
do so, with panels
covering the radically
changing media world,
the evolution of statesponsored television,
and advertising in the
post-dot-com age. At
a state dinner, China
President Jiang Zemin
also addresses the
participants—a list
that includes Chinese
luminaries Zhao
Huayong, President,
China Central Television;
Tian Congming,
President, Xinhua
News Agency; and Ma
Chaojun, President,
Beijing Radio, Film
and Television Group.
Other execs include
CBS’s Leslie Moonves;
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@miralsattar:
Digging the #paleyic app! Probably one of the better conf apps I’ve seen.
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Viacom’s Mel Karmazin;
Star Hong Kong’s James
Murdoch; Hubert Burda;
BBC’s Greg Dyke; and
Haim Saban.
Between Sessions:
Delegates digest the morning’s insights and continue the con
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CAPE TOWN,
SOUTH AFRICA
Oct. 24-26, 2004
It is indeed a highlight
of the eighth conference
for delegates to visit
the cell on infamous
Robben Island where
Nelson Mandela was
held prisoner through
much of his 27-year term.
Again, the choice of
conference site speaks to
history, coinciding with
the tenth anniversary of
democratic government
and the end of
apartheid. In a meeting
cosponsored by South
African Broadcasting
Corp. and Primedia
Ltd., the agenda covers
everything from how
South Africa fits into the
world from a geopolitical
perspective, to a study
of technology and
consumer behavior, to
the civic role of media
in fostering democracy
and public trust. This
last panel, appropriately,
takes place at The John
Craig Hall on Robben
Island. At a luncheon,
South African President
Thabo Mbeki speaks
to the participants,
including Barbara
Walters; Pan-African
Advisory Group’s (South
Africa) Iraj Abedian;
Microsoft’s Craig Mundie;
William C. Paley; News
Corp.’s Marty Pompadur;
SBS Broadcasting’s
Markus Tellenbach;
and Seven Network’s
(Australia) Kerry Stokes.
1. IC2012 NYC Conveners gather for lunch 2. Yossi Vardi 3. Helmut Thoma and Karen McClellen
4. Marcus Ribiero 5. L-R: Betty Cohen, Yossi Vardi, Frank-Dieter Freiling, and Mark Scott
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e the conversation over lunch at New York’s iconic restaurant.
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1. Clifford Werber and Annie
Wegelius 2. George Cooke and
Hajime Hashimoto 3. Geoffrey
Sands 4. Sam Powers and Avner
Ronen 5. Bruce Paisner
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MONTREAL,
CANADA
Oct. 23-25, 2005
The ninth conference—
and the first one held
in North America—is
notable for zeroing in
on, as one panel title
sums up, “Preparing for
the ‘Anytime, Anywhere’
Consumer and the
Shifting Distribution
Landscape.” “Traditional
broadcast business
models are under stress,”
writes conference
cohost Leonard Asper
of CanWest Global
in the days leading
up to the event. “The
biggest concern for
all broadcasters is
to remain visible to
consumers in an ocean
of new competition,
and to remain relevant
to the advertisers who
provide our revenues.”
Highlights from the
event include Kay
Koplovitz moderating
“The View from the
Financial Markets” panel,
other panels on digital
piracy and the future
of advertising, and an
address from Prime
Minister Paul Martin.
BellGlobemedia/CTV
CEO Ivan Fecan; Publicis
North America’s Susan
Giannino; Advance.
net’s Steve Newhouse;
SanomaWSOY’s (Finland)
Jaakko Rauramo; and
NBC Universal’s Richard
Cotton are among the
participants.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Sept. 14, 2006
The tenth IC event,
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@joeltopcik:
How to tap emerging markets? Sequence carefully, develop down, blend revenue streams.
@Saavn’s Rishi Malhotra at #PaleyIC
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Cofounder, President, and COO, Saavn
coinciding with the
thirtieth anniversary of
the Museum of Television
& Radio (former name
of The Paley Center
for Media), focuses on
globalization, a fitting
topic given the setting
in one of the world’s
most majestic, historic
locations. The event
offers a fine mix of
culture and discussion.
On the one hand, the
whole group lodges
at the famed Ciragan
Palace, a gala dinner
is held at Dolmabahce
Palace, meeting sessions
take place at Esma
Sultan and optional
tours of the Byzantine
Cistern & Istanbul
Archaeology Museum
are offered. On the other
hand, discussion topics
include how to reach the
millennial generation
and, most pointedly,
“Media as an Agent of
(Mis)understanding
(Between the Muslim
and non-Muslim World).”
Among the stellar list of
participants: prominent
businesswoman
Arzuhan Yalçındağ,
who established the
joint venture CNN Türk
with AOL Time Warner;
BBC’s Mark Thompson;
ITV’s Charles Allen;
Atlantic Records’ Ahmet
Ertegun; and NBC
Universal’s Bob Wright.
SILICON VALLEY,
UNITED STATES
June 13-15, 2007
It is appropriate that this
IC conference carries the
theme of “Convergence:
What’s Next?” given
the myriad changes to
the IC event and the
Rishi Malhotra
For Saavn’s president, the success of his streaming service for
Bollywood music suggests an Indian audience primed for streaming video.
1. Rishi
Malhotra and
moderator
Stephanie
Mehta
2. Paramdeep
Singh
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President, BBC Worldwide, America
Herb Scannell
The BBC Americas chief discusses exporting Dr. Who and why why
building an audience precedes revenue in the video value chain.
Herb Scannell
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@Media_Council
Lots of “oohs” and “ahhs” in the room as Michael @Zimbalist demos the @NYTLabsTwitter
data viewer with analysis #PaleyIC #TheFuture
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Vice President, Research and Development Operations, The New York Times Company
Michael Zimbalist
From the New York Times R&D Lab, an animated rendering
of a news article’s journey through social media.
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1. Michael Zimbalist 2. Michael
Zimbalist 3. Scott Kurnit and
Michael Zimbalist
Chief Digital Officer, GroupM Global, and Global Head, Advertising Solutions, The Nielsen Company
Rob Norman and Randall Beard
GroupM Global’s CDO and Nielsen’s Global Head discuss the significance of
second-screen viewing and the need for speedy ad-effectiveness resources.
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and Rob Norman
2. Rob Norman
organization. Eight days
before the conference,
the Museum of Television
& Radio is renamed The
Paley Center for Media,
with the IC meetings
evolving to a much
larger scale, held over
a three-day period of
panels, discussions, and
events. The meeting
is held for the first
time in the United
States, and is hosted
by Google, Yahoo!, and
Sun Microsystems in
Silicon Valley. Speaking
pointedly to the theme,
cohost Eric Schmidt of
Google says, “People
will say, ‘I want all of my
world, all of my media,
and I want it now.’” While
one panel covers how
search is revolutionizing
distribution, another
takes on the growing
topic of how social
networking is changing
business. Says Dan
Scheinman, SVP and
GM of Cisco Systems,
Inc., “I would tell you
at the end of the day,
community beats search,
and that community
is going to be more
powerful as a way to
find what we care about
than search.” Among
the IC participants: CBS
Interactive’s Quincy
Smith; YouTube’s Chad
Hurley; Yahoo!’s Jerry
Yang; MySpace’s Josh
Berman; California
Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger;
Yahoo!’s Terry Semel;
and Sun Microsystems’
Jonathan Schwartz.
LONDON, ENGLAND
June 20, 2008
Another first for the
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International Council:
Given the growth
in scope for the
conferences, it is decided
to add a second, smaller
event each year. The first
of these marks the IC’s
return to London eight
years after its successful
trip. With considerable
shifts in the media
landscape, the agenda
on this full June day
includes topics such as
regulation, innovation,
and the challenges
that Muslim and nonMuslim relations pose
to the development and
growth of media in many
companies around the
world. Featured speakers
include Vodafone’s
Arun Sarin; Yang Lan,
businesswoman and
talk show host often
referred to as “the Oprah
of China,”WPP’s Sir
Martin Sorrell and WPP
Chairman, Ambassador
Philip Lader; NTV’s
(Russia) Sergey
Piskarev; Bebo’s Joanna
Shields; and the Moby
Group’s (Afghanistan)
Saad Mohseni.
INNOVATION ON THE MEN
Frank A. Bennack, Jr. once again welcomed IC delegates to th
and sampled the delectably innovative cuisine prep
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NEW DELHI AND
BANGALORE, INDIA
Nov. 16-19, 2008
The traditional, larger
events of the IC are
here expanded to four
days, allowing the group
to meet both in Delhi,
India’s political capital,
and Bangalore, its
technology center. The
theme of the meetings—
“India: Challenges
of the Next Media
Frontier”—is covered
in a series of talks and
panels focusing on the
local developments and
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MENU AT HEARST DINNER
ates to the 44th floor of Hearst Tower, where guests mingled
isine prepared by Chef Wylie Dufresne and others.
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WD~50 and assistants 2. Ron
Affif 3. Antoine Drye 4. Steven
Swartz and Steve Newhouse
5. Tivon Pennicott 6. Chef
Charles W. Granquist, Food
Network 7. Ken Krick and Steve
Newhouse 8. John Loughlin
and Rich Sabreen 9. Frank A.
Bennack, Jr. 10. Adam Klein and
Neil Benedict 11. The Antoine
Drye Quartet 12. Chris Van Noy
and Jane Hu 12. Rita and Gus
Hauser and Enzo Viscusi
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growth in a burgeoning
Indian market that
constantly faces new
frontiers. As Paley Center
President and CEO Pat
Mitchell puts it, “The
opportunities of the
future and the challenges
of the past make India
an ideal setting to
show how media can
embolden a people and
a planet.” Hosted by Zee
Entertainment, NDTV,
and Wipro Technologies,
and co-organized
by the Federation of
Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry
(FICCI), the meeting’s
panels boast titles
such as “Introduction
to the Indian Media
Landscape,” “Investing
in Indian Media/India
Investing Beyond its
Borders,” “Reaching
the Youth Market,” and
the far-thinking topic
“How Media is Improving
the Quality of Life
Worldwide.” Participants
and attendees include
hosts NDTV’s Dr.
Prannoy Roy; Zee
Entertainment’s Subhash
Chandra; and Wipro’s
Azim Premji; plus former
UN Under-Secretary
Shashi Tharoor,
Henry Kissinger,
Australian Broadcasting
Corporation’s Mark
Scott; Google India’s
Shailesh Rao; and UTV’s
Ronnie Screwvala.
BERLIN, GERMANY
June 7-8, 2009
For 2009, the Paley
Center extends the
mid-year conference to
two days, and goes back
to offering the flagship
three-day event in the
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fall. For the spring, the
IC focuses on Europe
and the sometimesconflicting relationship
between public and
privately held companies.
Key speakers include
News Corp’s (Europe and
Asia) James Murdoch;
RTL Group’s Gerhard
Zeiler; and Bloomberg’s
Andy Lack. Panel
discussions cover the
borderless programming
of formats, with two
sessions on Central
Europe concentrating on
the state of the region’s
media landscape and the
“delicate dance between
politics and media.”
NEW YORK CITY,
UNITED STATES
Nov. 18-20, 2009
For the first time, the
IC meets at the Paley
Center’s New York
headquarters, and is
convened by the heads
of the major US media
companies: Frank A.
Bennack, Jr., CEO of
Hearst and chairman of
the Paley Center; Time
Warner’s Jeff Bewkes;
Viacom’s Philippe
Dauman; CBS’s Leslie
Moonves; Verizon
Communications’ Ivan
Seidenberg; Disney
Media Networks’ Anne
Sweeney; and NBC
Universal’s Jeff Zucker.
Over 150 executives
attend. Keynote
speakers include Henry
Kissinger; Ted Turner;
AOL’s Tim Armstrong;
FCC Chairman Julius
Genachowski; and Dick
Parsons, chairman of
Citigroup and former
chairman and CEO
of Time Warner. The
Dinner at Hearst
Delegates close out Day 2 before heading to
Time Warner for the final day of IC2012 NYC.
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Noy 2. The view from the 44th
floor 3. Andrew Heyward and
Loreen Arbus 4. Bill and Kay
Koplovitz and Helmut Thoma
5. Chef Wylie Dufresne 6. Debi
Chirichella 7. Christine and
Jerome Ponz
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meeting also features the
debut of the ThinkSocial
Awards, an initiative to
recognize social media
companies promoting
positive change around
the globe.
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MONTE CARLO,
MONACO
June 9, 2010
Coinciding with the
50th anniversary
of the Monte Carlo
Television Festival, the
IC’s mid-year meeting
focuses on the viewing
experience of the
future. Convened by
Paolo Garimberti of
RAI (Italy), Christine
Ockrent of Audiovisuel
Extérieur de la France,
Markus Schächter of
ZDF (Germany), and
Dick Wolf of Wolf Films,
sessions explore new
trends in programming
and delivery, with input
from, among others,
producer and director
Barry Levinson, Annie
Wegelius from Swedish
Television, and Ynon
Kreiz of Endemol.
The day closes with a
cocktail reception at
Monaco Palace hosted
by HSH Prince Albert II.
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gather for a welcome by Frank
A. Bennack, Jr. 2. Kayo Washio
and Hajime Hashimoto 3. Raita
Nakashima, Hajime Hashimoto,
and Ken Krick 4. Frank A.
Bennack, Jr. 5. Rita Hauser
and Pat Mitchell 6. Mary Lake
Bennack
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NEW YORK CITY,
UNITED STATES
Nov. 17-19, 2010
For its seventeenth
meeting, the IC returns to
the Paley Center’s New
York home for a threeday program conceived
around the theme
“The Rebirth of Media
Worldwide.” Conveners
including Ricardo
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D
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@BrockleyCentral:
Time Warner CEO really excited about creative and commercial
potential short-form video - especially for comedy
#paleyIC
@borisgartner:
”Demographic change in the US has given Hispanics great
power, and Univision is the only co. cashing on it.”:
Ricardo Salinas #PaleyIC
Chairman and CEO, Time Warner Inc.
Salinas Pliego of Grupo
Salinas, Mehmet Ali
Yalçındağ of Dogan
Yayin Holding, Nikesh
Arora of Google, and Dr.
Prannoy and Radhika
Roy of NDTV join some
160 attendees from 16
countries for intimate
conversations in the
Paley Center’s Kissinger
Global Conference Room
and New York’s famed
21 Club. Featuring panels
on advertising,
programming, and
content delivery, and
keynote sessions with
Hearst’s Frank A.
Bennack, Jr., NBA’s
David Stern, and
Napster cofounder Sean
Parker, among others.
IC2010 also provides
occasion to announce
the launch in 2011 of the
Paley Center’s forwardlooking Next Big Thing
series showcasing digital
startups.
LOS ANGELES,
UNITED STATES
Sept. 14-16, 2011
For its eighteenth
meeting, the IC was held
for the first time ever
at the Paley Center for
Media in Beverly Hills, CA.
Industry heavyweights
Barry Diller, IAC; Sheryl
Sandberg, Facebook;
Anne Sweeney, DisneyABC; Victor Koo, Youku;
Leslie Moonves, CBS, and
over 100 attendees from
17 countries convened
for a three-day summit
focusing on Beyond
Disruption, a dialogue
about the shifting media
landscape and emerging
markets, including China,
Latin America, and
the Middle East. The
Jeff Bewkes
Let the distributors and digital disruptors duke it out, says Bewkes.
Premium content will find its way to the consumers who demand it.
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Chrystia Freeland and Jeffrey
Bewkes 3. Yossi Vardi and
Jeffrey Bewkes 4. Jeffrey Bewkes
Chairman, Grupo Salinas
Ricardo Salinas
“The main thing is to close the digital divide,” says the Mexican
mogul behind Grupo Salinas. “Either you’re connected or you’re out.”
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1. Jeffrey Bewkes, Ricardo
Salinas, and Luis Echarte
2. Scott Kurnit and Ricardo
Salinas 3. Moderator Pat
Mitchell and Ricardo Salinas
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@miralsattar:
“It will be a long time before ink on paper disappears.”
Hearst CEO Frank A. Bennack, Jr.
#PaleyIC
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CEO, IMAX
Richard Gelfond
The CEO talks about how learning from failure turned the Canadian
film and tech company into the global standard for entertainment.
Moderator Scott Kurnit and Richard Gelfond
Vice Chair and CEO, The Hearst Corporation
Frank A. Bennack, Jr.
“How do you make a 125 year old company innovative? It’s all about
the people,” says the Hearst CEO and Paley Center chairman.
Moderator Pat Mitchell and Frank A. Bennack, Jr.
Next Big Thing series
returned to IC once again
to showcase start ups in
online television, gaming,
and interactive video.
Guests were treated to a
cocktail party on the roof
of the Paley Center with
LA ensemble Ozomatli
and a dinner at 20th
Century Fox.
MADRID, SPAIN
April 26, 2012
At the invitation of
Grupo PRISA’s Juan Luis
Cebrián, the IC convened
at Madrid’s Caixa
Forum for a summit
on the future of the
news and information
industry. Entitled, “News
at the Speed of Life,”
the program invited
some 70 delegates
representing 19
countries, all equipped
with microphones, to
debate the challenges
and opportunities
around engaging
consumers, exploiting
new efficiencies, and
sustaining the business
of journalism. Featured
participants included
Wolfgang Blau, Zeit
Online; Helen Boaden,
BBC; Richard Gingras,
Google; Wadah Khanfar,
Sharq Forum; Shafqat
Islam, NewsCred;
Vadim Lavrusik,
Facebook; John Paton,
Digital First Media;
Andrew Rashbass,
The Economist Group;
and Katherine Viner,
The Guardian. The day
closed with a private
tour of the Reina Sofia
Museum and dinner with
Spanish Vice President
Soraya Sáenz de
Santamaría.
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SAVE THE DATE FOR
IC2013 NYC
Join us for the next International Council summit,
November 21 and 22, 2013,
at the Paley Center for Media
in New York City.
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