Dietmar Schantin’s Institute for Media Strategies holds its second Executive Forum in London on Wednesday.

The programme consists of three main parts – European best practice presentations, a chief executives’ panel, and the ‘World Cafe Workshop’.

Themes for this are:

• Gaining traction with the traditional – How to instil new life into established/current products;

• Never was so much created by so few – rolling out new ideas and products with fewer resources;

• Guaranteeing staff quality and increased performance – getting the right people to do the right tasks, right time, right place;

• Fostering the disruptive – distilling start-up and entrepreneurial spirits in our media houses; and

• Accentuate the positive – Optimising your organisation to help your people work smarter.

Participants and speakers will split up in small groups and work on each topic for a specific time, with results then consolidated and presented back to the participants. 

“We are sure there will be more then one good idea in the results for you to take home and implement straight away,” says Schantin.

The speakers and moderators include: Lucia Adams (deputy editor, Times and Sunday Times Digital, UK), Gunnar Bjørkavåg (chief executive of NHST Group, Norway), Veit Dengler (chief executive of NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland), Reiner Esser (chief executive of Die Zeit, Germany), Marie Louise Jarlenfors (head of human resource, Västerbottens-Kuriren AB, Sweden), Serge Taborin (chief executive of QApp Mobile, and non-executive director Archant Digital, UK), Axel Unger (partner at IDEO Europe), Gerhard Valeskini (managing director of Anzeigen und Marketing Kleine Zeitung,Austria) and Mark Wood (chief executive of Future plc, UK).

See the latest programme of the MEF here.