Media Party 2018 - (Día 1 / Day 1)

Join the #MediaParty, the biggest productive gathering in Latin America where entrepreneurship, open data, open software and open knowledge gets together to accelerate media innovation. More at www.mediaparty.info

Featured Speakers

• Jeff Jarvis
  CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism
  Director, Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY

• Amanda Hickman
  Factful - Director of Product; Formerly Director of BuzzFeed Open Lab

• Aron Pilhofer
  Temple University - Former digital strategist at The Guardian and The New York Times

• Emily Goligoski
  Membership Puzzle

• Daniel Sieberg
  Civil

• Shan He
  Uber - Data visualization

*Marco Tulio Pires
Google News Lab Lead, Brazil

• Emily Withrow - Quartz
  Director, Quartz Bot Studio

• Indra de Lanerolle
  JAMLAB'S Accelerator Program - SouthAfrica

• Anderson Meneses
  Mural

• Dwight Knell - Hacks/Hackers
  Operations Lead, Credibility Coalition

• Matías Burak - Facebook
  Software Development Manager

• Sue Valentine
  Open Society Foundations - Program Manager, Opening Journalism, Program on Independent

• Rigoberto Carvajal
  ICIJ

• Jenny 8 Lee
  Hacks/Hackers

• Alba Mora Roca
  AJ + Audiovisual

*Alejandra Xanic
Quinto Elemento

Andrew Fishman
The Intercept - Journalist

The Media Party is a three days event (22–24th of August in Buenos Aires, Argentina), that brings together 2500 entrepreneurs, journalists, software programmers and designers from five Continents to work together for the future of media. This year the event will merge big companies like New York Times, The Guardian, Vox, Google, Facebook, plus regional communities of the biggest network of journalists and developers in the world like Mozilla and Open News.

This year, during the three days participants will be able to attend more than 20 keynotes led by global experts; they will be trained by the best mentors with tools and methodologies in the field of data journalism, revenue, metrics and engagement, with more than 100 hours of workshops. As usual, Media Party will have a showcase scene at the Media Fair, the best innovative show and tell space for 70 world class initiatives in the media landscape and finally, participants will be embedded at the largest media innovation hackathon in Latin America.

The conference has an impact in different fields: journalists, developers, designers and hackers activists will be trained by the brightest minds in the world, embedded in a culture of collaboration, openness, learning by doing and impact in tech and skills adoption. Brands and products will have access to impactful game changers, getting attention from the market, senior media decisions makers with a huge press coverage.

Sumate a la #MediaParty, la reunión productiva de medios más grande de América Latina, donde el espíritu emprendedor, los datos abiertos, el software libre y el conocimiento abierto se reúnen para acelerar la innovación en los medios.
Media Party es un evento de tres días que reúne a 2500 emprendedores, periodistas, programadores de software y diseñadores de cinco continentes para trabajar por el futuro de medios. El año pasado el evento reunió grandes empresas como New York Times, The Guardian o Vox con organizaciones como AJ+, ICIJ.org y Sourcefabric, más comunidades regionales de la mayor red de periodistas y desarrolladores en el mundo.

Durante tres días los participantes podrán asistir a más de 20 ponencias a cargo de expertos globales; serán entrenados por los mejores mentores en nuevas herramientas y metodologías en el campo del periodismo de datos, la monetización, las métricas y participación, con más de 100 horas de workshops. Como de costumbre, la Media Party tendrán una Feria para mostrar 70 proyectos innovadores. Por último, los participantes podrán participar del hackatón de innovación en medios más grande de América Latina.