A dedicated space for partners, innovators, and media to explore solutions and create content around coffee & biscuits.

Short demos in direct exchanges with innovators.

Podcasts, interviews, video capsules and plus professional photography to capture and amplify key moments.

• XPERI DTS Autostage hybrid in-vehicle infotainment platform
• RCS Radio automation software
• Hindenburg Audio editing software
• Maradio.be, the Belgian radio hub
• Future Media Hubs podcast "AI and the Media World" from VRT in collaboration with RTBF

Radio, AI & democratic resilience in Europe

• Lodovico Folin-Calabi, Representative to the EU at UNESCO

A necessary reminder that innovation, AI and connected media only make sense if the foundations of free and independent radio are preserved.

• Martina Šimkovičová, Senior Editor/Producer at Radio Slovakia International / STVR

Moderated by Pamela Morinière, Head of Communications and campaigns department, IFJ - International Federation of Journalists

Jean-Paul Philippot highlights AI as a tool to strengthen trusted, human-led journalism and public service media in Europe.
He also addresses the need for a clear regulatory framework to secure radio’s visibility, responsibility, and sovereignty in connected environments.

• Jean-Paul Philippot, General Administrator at RTBF

This session addresses the growing gatekeeping role of connected cars and digital devices, and the implications for radio’s visibility, prominence and public value in Europe. As global technology platforms increasingly shape access to audio, ensuring fair conditions for Europe’s most trusted medium becomes a strategic policy issue.

In a first part, the keynote will outline what is at stake for radio in the Digital Networks Act (DNA), including access to dashboards, prominence, safety and emergency communication. The second part will bring together European institutions, regulators and industry representatives for a high-level roundtable on discoverability, platform relations, sovereignty, broadcast continuity (FM/DAB+) and user experience in connected environments.

Together, the keynote and roundtable aim to clarify how European regulation and coordinated action can ensure that radio—Europe’s most trusted medium—remains easily accessible, visible and relevant in connected environments, while supporting democratic resilience, competition and innovation.

• Session chaired by Roberto Suárez, Managing Director, South 180

This keynote provides a strategic overview of the Digital Networks Act (DNA) and its implications for radio in connected and AI-driven environments. It will outline the main objectives of the DNA—simplification, completion of the Single Market, end-user rights, investment and innovation—while clarifying its scope across providers, services, networks and connected devices. Particular attention will be given to provisions affecting in-car radio, including access, prominence, safety, emergency communication and the future role of broadcast radio (FM/DAB+) within connected dashboards.

• Peter Stuckmann, Head of Unit, Digital Decade & Connectivity at European commision / DG CONNECT

The dominance of American tech giants threatens the position of radio, the most trusted medium in Europe and a key contributor to the public debate. The increasing gatekeeping role of digital devices, particularly car dashboards and smart speakers, introduces new intermediaries whose objectives differ greatly from those of licensed radio services, which are intended to serve the public interest.

• Peter Stuckmann, Head of Unit, Digital Decade & Connectivity at European commision / DG CONNECT
• Vincent Sneed, Senior EU Policy Adviser at EBU-European Broadcasting Union
• Francesca Fabbri, Secretary General of AER-Association of European Radios
• Conor Murray, Director of Regulatory and Public Affairs at EGTA-international trade body of multiplatform TV & audio businesses
• Karim Ibourki, Steering Group WG1 Chair at European Media Board & Dir CSA.be

Moderated by : Roberto Suárez, Managing Director of South 180

Shaping the Next-Gen Audio Cockpit Experience: Trusted, European, AI-Powered

The car is becoming the future of media — and media the future of the car — provided the user experience is reimagined from the listener’s perspective. This keynote explores how personalized, contextual, interactive, and safe in-car audio can be achieved through the smart combination of content, data, and AI. It also highlights how industry, media, investors, and institutions are converging around the strategic and economic potential of Europe’s next-generation audio cockpit.

• Jérôme Doncieux, founder, Chairman, CEO of MajelanX
• Marijn Goossens, Tech and AI Hub leader at Future Media Hubs
  Real AI in Action: Future Media Hubs Testimonies
  Practical insights from leading public media innovators on how AI is shaping production, content integrity, and mobility for radio’s future — from personalised daily audio to fact-checked storytelling and connected in-car experiences.

This keynote will explore why the challenge that democracies are facing across the world goes beyond “disinformation” and should be tackled from the foreign information manipulation and interference framing. It will highlight why radio remains a uniquely powerful and trusted medium that is still targeted by threat actors such as Russia and China to manipulate audiences across borders and communities. The speech will conclude with proposals for a way forward – what can be done to address FIMI,* including in the context of radio.

* FIMI: foreign information manipulations and interference

• Dr Filip Grzegorzewski, Head of Division, Information Integrity at EEAS - European External Action Service

• David Fernandez, Research Director of South 180

A dedicated space for partners, innovators, and media to explore solutions and create content around coffee & biscuits.

Short demos in direct exchanges with innovators.

Podcasts, interviews, video capsules and plus professional photography to capture and amplify key moments.

• XPERI DTS Autostage hybrid in-vehicle infotainment platform
• RCS Radio automation software
• Hindenburg Audio editing software
• Maradio.be, the Belgian radio hub
• Future Media Hubs podcast "AI and the Media World" from VRT in collaboration with RTBF