Carolyn McCall, CEO, Guardian Media Group, UK will address delegates at the third FIPP Digital Magazine Media Conference on 1 March 2010. McCall will discuss the strategies and approaches of the company, and reveal how it has set itself up for a multimedia future.

The third FIPP Digital Magazine Media Conference, the Digital Innovators Summit, will take place at the Deutsche Telekom Conference Center in Berlin, Germany, on 1-2 March 2010. The conference will be hosted by FIPP along with the association of German magazine publishers, VDZ and US online media consultancy emediaSF.

The conference aims to share best-in-class knowledge and experiences in digital publishing by top international managers and experts from digital publishing, IT and advertising as well as to facilitate direct business contacts.

Sessions at the conference include: successful digital business models for publishers; innovations in magazines; content strategies and digital advertising trends and solutions. Bob Carrigan, CEO, IDG, USA will be the closing keynote speaker, and will discuss breaking out of traditional industry paradigms.

Moderated by Mike Hewitt, CEO, C-Stream Limited, UK, other speakers at the conference include:

• MaryAnn Bekkedahl, executive vice president, group publisher, Rodale, USA
• Wolfgang Büchner, editor-in-Chief, DPA, Germany
• James Cheng, chairman, Beijing Boda, New Continent Advertising, China        
• Ben Edwards, director online, The Economist, USA
• Patrick Fuller, publishing director What car?, Haymarket, UK
• Stephen Kydd, executive vice president, Demand Media, USA       
• André Möllersman, head of international brands and licences Unit, G+J, Germany
• Stevie Spring, CEO Future, UK

For more information about the conference, or to book your place, visit vdz.de/innovators-summit-news.html or contact Christine Scott.