Session Overview

Keynote sessions:

• May 11 – 1:00 PM (Eastern)

  • Joe Batista, Chief Creatologist, Dell Technologies

  • Dr. Tina M. Harris, Douglas L. Manship Sr.-Dori Maynard Race, Media, and Cultural Literacy Endowed Chair, LSU

• June 15 – 1:00 PM (Eastern)

  • WFH: Managing a Remote Work Environment

    • Moderator – Michael Depp, Editor, TVNewsCheck

    • Panelists:

      • Don Thompson, EVP, HR, Sinclair

      • Joe Mechlinski, CEO, SHIFT

      • James Jefferies, VP, IT Operations, Gray Television, Inc.

      • Julie Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

• July 13 – 1:00 PM (Eastern)

  • Maintaining Corporate Culture in a Changing World (note: still confirming speaker)

  • 2021 Media and Entertainment Industry Outlook (note: still confirming speaker)

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Supersession:

• June 22 – 1:00 PM (Eastern)

  • Driving Revenue Growth Through Diversity, Education and More Efficient B2B Marketing

    • Moderator – Jack Myers, Chairman and Media Ecologist,  Mediavillage+Advancingdiversity.Org

Planned breakout session topics include:

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The pandemic hits everywhere 

• Human Resource Issues - how does working from home affect morale, staff monitoring  and hiring/firing decisions?

• Tax -- can they really charge you for working in your new location?

• How do you position yourself for advancement?

• How can you audit people working from home?

• Are you more productive at home but less creative?

Other topics:

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• Changes in streaming habits

  • revenue issues and opportunities

• The future of television

• eSports

• The newspaper print cycle

• Changes in the labor equation

• Optimizing credit card payments

• Rethinking credit and collections