Media Party Africa: Full Schedule

Media Party Africa is hosted by the continent’s largest data journalism and civic technology federation, Code for Africa, in partnership with Hacks/Hackers Africa. Together, we’re gathering some of the world’s most exciting civic technologists, digital journalists and other social justice watchdogs from across the world for three days of workshops and talks.
We have speakers confirmed from Vox, ProPublica, ESPN, Buzzfeed Labs, Quartz, Huffington Post, Zeit Investigativ, Google, Jigsaw, First Draft News, the Gates Foundation, the Mozilla OpenNews Fellowships, and many more, talking everything from drone and sensor journalism, to how they’re pioneering 360˚and VR journalism, investigative technologies, geojournalism, verification, chat apps and the rise of the bots.

THIS SCHEDULE WILL BE UPDATED AS NEW SPEAKERS SIGN ON: PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR CHANGES.

10:45am SAST

Immersive storytelling with drones, 360 video, and 3D VR

Drones, 360° video, 3D reconstruction, and 3D virtual reality, are powerful new spatial and immersive storytelling tools that every content producer should consider including in their toolkit. Ben will show examples of work he's done with these tools as the first fellow in BuzzFeed's first Open Lab for Journalism, Technology, and the Arts, and share the readily available hardware and software he uses to produce content quickly, and on a budget!

Speakers

Ingrid Kopp

Co-director, Electric South

Co-founder of Electric South, a non-profit initiative to develop virtual reality and mobile storytelling projects across Africa. She is also a Senior Consultant in the Interactive Department at the Tribeca Film Institute where she works at the intersection of storytelling, technology... Read More →

Ben Kreimer

Journalism technologist, BuzzFeed’s Open Lab Fellowship, Drone Journalism Lab

Ben Kreimer is a journalism technologist and the beta fellow for BuzzFeed’s Open Lab Fellowship. He’s also an adviser with the Drone Journalism Lab and Kenya based African SkyCAM. Kreimer explores the use of drones and open-source hardware sensor platforms as new tools... Read More →

Johnny Miller

Photographer, Code for Africa

Johnny Miller is a photographer and filmmaker specializing in documentary projects. He is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and has extensive networks and knowledge of contemporary African and world issues. His focus is on the urban, cultural, and social issues facing humanity in... Read More →

Michael Salzwedel

Director, Social Weaver

Digital media training, 360 content creation.

Friday October 21, 2016 10:45am - 11:15am SAST
Main Room

Panel

10:00am SAST

Data and dollars: how to make money with digital journalism

Moderators

Geoff Cohen

Media partner & Investment adviser, &INNOVATION, TBH.WORKS

Geoff successfully led Africa’s largest digital media, e-commerce and classifieds organization for 8 years. He is highly regarded in the industry, both technically and commercially, with extensive contacts across agencies, brands and ecommerce. Geoff, has co-founded a Data-Driven... Read More →

Speakers

Miguel Castro

Global Media Partnerships, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Miguel joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2012 to help define and manage the foundation’s strategic media and communications partnerships and its grant-making global portfolio. His work includes developing joint projects with media organizations, international broadcasters... Read More →

Mohamed Nanabhay

Deputy CEO, Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)

Mohamed Nanabhay, is the Deputy CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), which invests in independent media around the world providing the news, information, and debate that people need to build free, thriving societies. He joined MDIF in 2015 bringing more than 15 years... Read More →

Saturday October 22, 2016 10:00am - 10:30am SAST
Main Room

Panel

10:30am SAST

Innovating African newsrooms

Speakers

Temi Adeoye

Catherine Gicheru

Lead, Code for Kenya

Catherine Gicheru is an award-winning print journalist who became the first woman news editor in Kenya. She is the founding editor of the Star and an ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellow with the Code for Kenya (CfKenya) where she supervises a team of data journalists and technologists... Read More →

Omar Mohammed

Lead, Code for Tanzania

Omar Mohammed is an ICFJ Knight Fellow with Code for Africa in Tanzania. Prior to becoming a fellow he was East Africa reporter with Quartz covering politics, business, technology and sports. He tweets @shurufu

Sunday October 23, 2016 10:30am - 11:00am SAST
Main Room

Panel