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Re-Imagine Media

Media globally faces existential challenges, and there needs to be some significant innovations within the space for its survival. COVID – 19 has not made it easy for the sector, from numerous job cuts, media houses shutting down, and creators reinventing the way they produce, distribute and monetize content. 


A broader and sustained discussion on media sustainability is needed, especially in the wake of an infodemic that we are all experiencing globally. All the above conversations can not be done within individual media organisations’ board rooms or solved by one organisation.

 

Keynote

Latest Speakers

Tomiwa Aladekomo

CEO Big Cabal Media

John Allan Namu

CEO Africa Uncensored

Bilal Randeree

Program Director for Africa Media Development Investment Fund

Maurice Otieno

Executive Director Baraza Media Lab

Molly Jensen

Chief Executive Officer at Afripods

Odanga Madung

Mozilla Fellow

Adelle Onyango

Founder, Legally Clueless Africa

Christopher Wambua

Ag. CEO, Kenya Film Classification Board

Athandiwe Saba

Deputy Editor Mail & Guardian

Sipho Kings

Editorial Dir & a Co-Founder of The Continent

Melissa Mbugua

Co-Director Africa PodFest

Simon Allison

Editor-in-Chief at The Continent

Stan Getui

Director Luminate

Christine Mungai

Lead Curator Baraza Media Lab

Dr. Bright Gameli Mawudor

Cybersecurity Engineering Lead, MARA

Linda Bonyo

Founder of Lawyers Hub

Dan "Chizi" Aceda

Musician and Founder SemaBOX

Joe Ageyo

Group Editorial Director, Nation Media Group

Rachel Ombaka

Consultant/Media Trainer

Barrack Bukusi

Co-Founder of Shahara

Nkirote Koome

Principal, Africa Luminate

Caro Kriel

CEO of Thomson Foundation

Oliver Mathenge

Multimedia Editor, NTV

Mustapha Dumbuya

Team Lead, Journalists for Human Rights

Abdi Latif Dahir

NYTIMES East Africa Correspondent

James Smart

Journalist/Podcast Editor

Alphonce Shiundu

Editor of Africa Check

Catherine Gicheru

Founder/Director of the Africa Women Journalism Project

Godfrey Mwampembwa

Editorial Cartoonist

Phyian Karinge

Founder Young Techiez

Nepurko Keiwua

Digital Integrated Communications Consultant

Suhayl Omar

Kenyan Based Researcher

Samira Sawlani

Journalist

Walid Kilonzi

Extended Reality Producer Fallohide

Mwende Mukwanyaga

Data Journalist

John Sibi Okumu

Kenyan Actor & Journalist

Purity Mukami

Data Journalist

Larry Kwirirayi

CEO 3-mob

Khadija Patel

Chairperson International Press Institute

Doreen Wainainah

Managing Editor of PesaCheck

Jessica Horn

Regional Director Ford Foundation's Office, Eastern Africa

Ndu Okoh

Editor / Journalist

Nadia Abdalla

Founder Ndoto Halisi Campaign

Jacob Okumu

Campaign Strategist with the Change.org Foundation

Monicah Waceke

Chief Operating Officer at Nation Media Group

Margaret Mliwa

Program Officer Ford Foundation

Danny Mucira

Managing Director Trace Eastern Africa

Mike Strano

Founder PHAT! Music & MyMovies.Africa

Joe Kobuthi

Production Manager and editor for The Elephant

Maria Sarungi Tsehai

Media and Communication Expert

Charles Onyango Obbo 

Ugandan Journalist & Author

Eliza Anyangwe

Managing Editor of CNN’s multi-award-winning global gender inequality

Timothy Owase

Chief Executive Officer at the Kenya Film

Samba Yonga

Communications Specialist & Cultural Curator

Moina Spooner

Assistant Editor- The Conversation Africa

Mwihaki Muraguri

Story Smith

Thabiso Sekhula

Editor of Scroll Africa

Mpindi Abaas

CEO of the Media Challenge Initiative

Phoebe Ruguru

Filmmaker

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