TV Kids Summer Festival Speaker List Announced

Paramount’s Louise Bucknole, CBC’s Marie McCann, ZDF’s Nicole Keeb, pocket.watch’s Chris M. Williams, Disney Branded Television’s Gino Guzzardo, Nickelodeon’s Ashley Kaplan and Sigma Girl Media’s Amy Takahara are among those slated to speak at the virtual TV Kids Summer Festival next week, running from June 3 to 6. Sign up for your free registration here.

The TV Kids Summer Festival has been curated to deliver much-needed intelligence on a business in transition, convening leading programmers, IP owners, producers and analysts to address YouTube strategies, creator economy content, co-productions, evolving rights conversations and more. Only those who register to this free event will receive our exclusive white paper following the festival, recapping key intel from the event in a compact, easy-to-digest format.

You will find the full speakers list below. Look out for the schedule tomorrow.

Louise Bucknole
General Manager & Senior VP, Kids & Family, Paramount UK & Ireland

Chris M. Williams
Founder & CEO, pocket.watch

Gino Guzzardo
VP, Multiplatform Content, Disney Branded Television

Ashley Kaplan
Executive VP, Unscripted & Digital Franchise Studio, Nickelodeon

Amy Takahara
Founder, Sigma Girl Media

Marie McCann
Senior Director, Children’s Content, CBC Kids

Nicole Keeb
Head, International Co-Productions, Development & Acquisitions, Children & Youth, ZDF

Martin Pope
Joint CEO, Magic Light Pictures

Emmanuèle Pétry
Partner & Producer, Dandelooo

Genevieve Dexter
Founder & CEO, Serious Kids

Ian Douthwaite
President, Dubit

Hanna Mouchez
CEO & Executive Producer, MIAM! animation

Grainne McNamara
VP, Development, Live Action & Animation, BBC Studios Kids & Family

Oliver Grundel
Director Junior, ZDF Studios

David Michel
President & Co-Founder, Cottonwood Media & Managing Director, Federation Kids & Family

Elianne Friend
VP, Digital & Distribution, 9 Story Media Group

Helga Árnadóttir
Co-Founder, CEO & Producer, Tulipop Studios

Emily Horgan
Independent Media Consultant

Laura Dudley-Gough
Associate Director, Dubit

Francesco Miceli
VP, Platform Partnerships, TheSoul Publishing

Benjamin Sumner
Senior Research Manager, Dubit