Thank you for CUE Days 2022!

November 15th-17th, 2022 was the highlight of the year for us!

We are grateful for the many memorable presentations, meetings, and social activities.

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Agenda

Tuesday, November 15

15:00 -
15:02

Welcome to CUE Days 2022

Mark van de Kamp

Chief Innovation Officer,
Stibo DX

15.02 -
15:22

Keynote from Stibo DX

A look at the past year and the new developments in Stibo DX.

Carsten Boe Jensen

Chief Customer Officer,
Stibo DX

15.22 -
15:52

What IT challenges are media groups faced with today and how do platforms influence the business?

Robert Whitehead will examine the IT challenges media groups face and how consolidation, shared platforms, and high-quality data play together to improve business.

Robert Whitehead

Digital Platform Initiative Lead,
INMA

15.52 -
16:22

Challenges and Opportunities behind IPPEN Media's Success

Jan Ippen, Founder and Directing Manager of Ippen Digital will take the stage to share the challenges and opportunities for one of Europe’s largest media groups. IPPEN.Media reaches more than half of Germany’s population monthly. With a team of 2000 journalists, they have almost 80 web portals and several print publications.

Jan Ippen

Founder and Directing Manager,
Ippen Digital

16:22 -
16:32

Break

16.32 -
17:00

How The New York Times Uses Data Science

Chris Wiggins

Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times and Associate Professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University

17:00 -
18:00

CUE Today and Tomorrow: Demo and Roadmap

Mark van de Kamp

Chief Innovation Officer,
Stibo DX

18:00

End of Presentations

18.30

Bus Departure from Stibo HQ:

Socializing & Dinner at Madklubben at 19.00

Hack Kampmanns Plads 1-3

Aarhus

Wednesday, November 16

09.30 -
10.00

Peer-to-Peer Session: CUE Content Store 8 and CUE Gateway

10.00 -
11.00

Peer-to-Peer Session: Learning From the Tech Stack of IPPEN Media

11:00 - 11:30

Peer-to-Peer Session: How Podcasts Can Enhance Your Business

Did you know that podcasts can help you sell paid subscriptions, strengthen your connection with your audience, and provide additional revenue streams? In this session, Simon will discuss ways to launch a podcast, grow its audience, and monetize it.

Simon Owens

Media Industry Expert, and Podcast Owner

11:30 - 12:30

Lunch

12:30 - 14:45

Workshop: How to Successfully Leverage Analytics

Operationalizing analytics is often a problem that businesses struggle to solve, which is why many big data projects in the media industry fail.

Mather has worked with hundreds of publishers across the globe, addressing these challenges and supporting companies seeking to grow their bottom-line through advanced analytics.

In this workshop Mather Economics will share the important factors affecting how companies successfully leverage analytics, with a focus on the following topics:
- Supporting your strategic roadmap with analytics use cases
- Organizational decision frameworks
- Data governance strategies
- Optimizing your tech stack
- Management KPIs and executive dashboards
- Understanding your market potential
- Example analytics use cases:
- Audience demand analysis for content categories
- Premium content selection algorithms
- Churn prediction scoring
- Subscription pricing optimization
- Intelligent paywalls and registration walls

Mather Economics

A global consultancy on subscription management and data analytics

14:45 - 15:00

Coffee and cake

15:00 -
15:10

Welcome and summary of yesterday

15:10 -
15:35

How IPPEN Media is making audience performance data available to journalists inside CUE

Ippen Digital CTO, Markus Franz, will present how connected data empowers their newsrooms with advanced content and audience analytics.

Markus Franz

CTO,
Ippen Digital

15:35 -
16:00

How Politiken Strives for Digital Beauty and Maximum Reader Engagement through their Use of “Super Articles”

Troels Behrendt Jørgensen

Digital Director,
Politiken

Johannes Skov Andersen

Editor of Digital Storytelling, Politiken

16:00 -
16:10

Break

16:10 -
16:45

How the Business of Newsletters Changes the Landscape of News Consumption

Simon Owens, expert and host of the podcast “Business of Content” will cover “The intimacy of the inbox” and how newsletters play a vital role in converting paid subscribers. He will also share extensive research relating to how various formats of newsletters drive paid subscriptions.

Simon Owens

Media Industry Expert, and Podcast Owner

16:45 -
17:15

Reaching Gen-Z: News-snacking, Influencers, and TikTok

What topics matter to Gen-Z? What’s the balance between hard news and soft news? What news presentation formats work best for the younger generation?

Yoof is a young, energetic, and highly focused advisor for news publishers.

In this session, Yoof will share successful initiatives proving it is possible to effectively communicate news on social media – and why it is not enough to simply transfer the website content to Facebook or Instagram.

Pierre Caulliez

Founder, Yoof Agency

Martynas Vanagas

Founder, Yoof Agency

17:15 -
17:40

Singapore Press Holdings: Can changing CMS drive newsroom transformation?

Content Management Systems are like Swiss army knives. They have to not only manage multimedia content, they have to deal with complex workflows in news organisations which include print and digital.

In addition, they have to cater for hybrid newsrooms. In this session Jeremy Au Yong, Mobile Editor of The Straits Times and the newsroom’s project manager for the CUE rollout will share the SPH road to selecting CUE and the strategic desicions behind the choice.

Jeremy Au Yong

Mobile Editor and the newsroom’s project manager for the CUE rollout, The Straits Times

17:40 -
18:05

The West Australian: Newsroom Transformation fueled by Artificial Intelligence

Like many media companies, the traditional print newsroom was tested during the pandemic. For The West Australian, rolling out CUE and Sophi during lockdown in Perth, while simultaneously working one of the biggest breaking news stories in the country was a welcomed challenge.

Bethany Chrismark will explain how CUE’s use of new technology and process provided quick turnaround for breaking news and how Sophi supported their paywall strategy.

Bethany Chismark

Editorial Systems Manager,
Seven West Media, The West Australian

18:05

End of presentations

18:30

Bus Departure from Stibo HQ:

Socializing & Dinner at Aarhus Street Food at 19.00

Ny Banegårdsgade 46,

8000 Aarhuc C

Thursday, November 17

09:30 - 11:30

Tour of Jyllands-Posten Newsroom

Join us for a tour of the newsroom at one of Denmarks's oldest daily newspapers with, Editor-in-Chief Jacob Nybroe. There will be time for questions and discussion.

Jyllandsposten HQ: Mediebyen 3, 8000 Aarhus C

11:30 - 12:30

Lunch

12.30 - 13.30

Peer-to-peer session/workshop: Understanding and Responding to Gen-Z's News Habits

Why don’t young people read the news? Let’s rephrase that question! Pierre and Martynas work every day with Gen-Z'ers and advise publishers on how to reach youth through unconventional channels and story-telling formats.

This session is based on real interactions with real people – real Gen-Z'ers. Yoof will share actionable tips and tricks from their work as facilitators between the young generation and legacy media.

Pierre Caulliez

Founder, Yoof Agency

Martynas Vanagas

Founder, Yoof Agency

13:30 - 14:00

Peer-to-peer session: Integrating Third-party services to CUE – Enrichment Services and Web Components

This session will give you a sneak peek into the power of CUE’s extensibility from Benjamin’s technical perspective. He will demonstrate how to integrate third-party tools, such as Slack and Google Analytics using CUE Enrichment Services.

Benjamin will also showcase the possibilities of displaying those tools on the CUE UI using Web Components. There will be time for questions and discussion during the presentation.

Benjamin Singer

Technical Consultant / Pre-Sales Consultant,
Stibo DX

14.00 - 14.45

Peer-to-peer session: Open

14:45 - 15:00

Coffee and cake

15:00 -
15:10

Welcome and summary of yesterday

15:10 -
15:20

Meet the CUE Custom Development (CCD) Team

Olaf will explain what CUE Custom Development is and what the team wants to achieve. He will break down how they work and what they’ve accomplished so far.

Olaf van der Kraaij

Senior Project Manager,
Stibo DX

15:20 -
15:35

How a Well-Integrated DAM Can Boost Newsroom Efficiency

The Product Manager for CUE DAM takes the lead on this presentation to explore the benefits of using the DAM system in your newsroom.

He will explain how to use CUE DAM variants in CUE stories, uploading pictures and videos from a smartphone into the system, and the CUE DAM product strategy.

Thomas Ammermann

Product Owner CUE DAM,
Stibo DX

15:35 -
15:45

CUE Applying Automatic Security Patches?

In the CUE product line, we have more than a thousand third-party dependencies. These libraries have their own release cycles, bugs, and vulnerabilities.

In this talk, Torstein Krause Johansen shows how he keeps the overview and how he mitigates these vulnerabilities as a part of the build pipeline.

Torstein Krause Johansen

System Architect,
Stibo DX

15:45 -
16:05

The New CUE Documentation Portal

Stibo DX Support is all new. Fred explains how this documentation portal is now a one-stop-shop experience for customers and internal consultants.

The portal consolidates documentation and information that previously was in multiple locations and formats. Fred will also highlight the new CUE User Guide, a first for Stibo DX.

In the future, the portal will also include DC-X and CUE DAM documentation.

Fred Wilson

Solution Advisor,
Stibo DX

16:05 -
16:20

CUE Free Design – see the new and powerful features

There are new features to explore in FreeDesign. Finn will demonstrate how to work with the renovated panel, PhotoFlow, which is the ability to send photos to enhancement from FreeDesign, and CUE Furniture, which allows users to work with CUE Print attributes while in FreeDesign.

Finn Bialaska Jensen

Solution Advisor,
Stibo DX

16:20 -
16:30

Break

16:30 -
16:40

CUE + Sophi: How AI Drives Newsroom Insight

In this session, Charlotte will cover the automatic desking of articles on a section, explain the “Sophi score” of the articles, and show how analytics data and performance data information are used to predict and optimize the performance of a section page.

Charlotte Kingo Marvig

Solution Advisor,
Stibo DX

16:40 -
16:55

CUE Highways – show and tell

CUE Highways is a collection of concrete user journeys identified in and recommended for most newsrooms.

This is our out-of-the-box starting point in every new system installation – basically putting everyone on the same page with CUE Content Store, CUE Print and CUE DAM. In this session we zoom in on selected user journeys.

Bo Dalsgaard

Product Owner Highways, Stibo DX

Finn Bialaska Jensen

Solution Advisor,
Stibo DX

16:55 -
17:10

How JECT.AI Helps Discover Novel Angles, Voices, and Content During Content Creation

JECT.AI is a new form of creative intelligence tool for journalists and newsrooms and it’s now available as a plug-in to Stibo DX’s CUE.

The plug-in manipulates text that is highlighted in the editor pane to discover novel angles, related content, and relevant people.

Neil will describe JECT.AI's research-based algorithms and features which help journalists discover new angles, introduce new content, and connect with more diverse voices.

Neil Maiden

Director of CebAI, the National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI at University of London

17:10 -
17:20