Thank you for making the User Summit 2023 a success
This year's Fonn Group User Summit was held in London and co-hosted by GB News. Customers, prospects and partners spent 2 days sharing their knowledge, presenting their projects, discussing and networking.
Thank you to our co-host GB News and the event sponsors Cuttingroom, qibb, Electric Friends, and Vizrt.

Karsten Skov Villandsen, Planning Editor at TV Syd, together with Jakob Schjødt-Pedersen, disucssing "Adaptations and Change Management with New Workflows"
Kristian Kim Eikeland from Mjoll and Andre Folkestad from University of Volda. Folkestad presented: "From Chaos to Dina - Next Level of Student Journalists Trained with Dina" together with Reidulf Botn
User Summit sponsors
Wednesday 24th of May
09:00 |
Registration & Breakfast (Atrium, Hilton) |
09:30 |
"Welcome to the Fonn Group User Summit" |
09:40 | "How GB News is shaking up British media and embracing the future of broadcast technology" by Angelos Frangopoulos, CEO of GB News |
10:20 | "NY Times and the power of knowledge" by Abraham Sater, The New York Times |
11:00 | Coffee break (15 min, Atrium, Hilton) |
11:15 |
"From Chaos to Dina - University at Volda, next level of student journalists trained with Dina" by André Folkestad and Reidulf Botn, University of Volda. |
11:55 | Lunch & Networking (45 min, Buffet, standing, Atrium, Hilton) |
12:40 |
"What's new and next in Dina, Q&A" |
13:40 |
"What's new and next in Mimir, Q&A" |
14:40 |
Coffee Break & Networking (20 min, Atrium, Hilton) |
15:00 |
Taking training to another level - Launching our Dina and Mimir Courses
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15:10 |
"End-to-end workflow for live video production at GB News - technical setup" Preparation for this afternoon tour at GB News" by Audrey Heaton, Senior Craft Editor at GB News. |
16:00 - 17:00 |
Tours at GB News - sign-up required. Tour group 1 & 2: 16:10 PM (full) |
17:00-23:00 |
Social event and dinner at the Johnny Green |
Thursday 25th of May
09:00 | Breakfast & Networking |
09:40 | "Adaptations and change management with new workflows" by Jakob Schjødt-Pedersen, Change Management Agent and Karsten Skov Villadsen, Planning Editor at TV Syd |
10:20 | "Mimir for live production" by Dan Cherowbrier, Formula E |
11:00 | Coffee break (10 min, Atrium, Hilton) |
11:10 | "The Workflow Trap" by Ivan Lovrecek, Media Expert and Producer, Videoclick |
11:50 | Lunch & Networking (45 min, Buffet, standing, Atrium, Hilton) |
12:35 |
"Transforming culture, organisation and workflows - the big challenges when relocating a media business" by Steinar Bjørlykke, Head of Technology and Development, NRK Central Region
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13:15 | Session to be announced on-site, on the opening day |
13:55 |
"When AI makes better content than you." by Eirik Solheim, Journalist and Technical Advisor at NRK Beta |
14:35 |
Coffee Break & Networking (20 min, Atrium, Hilton)) |
15:00 |
Workshop TBA |
16:00 |
Closing session (10 min) |
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Secure your ticket
Registration for the Fonn Group User Summit 2023, co-hosted by Gb News, is now closed.
Who can attend?
The Fonn Group User Summit is for customers and prospects of Mjoll, 7Mountains, and Kunnusta. For partners and sponsorship options, please contact us for information.
Date/time:
The event will be in London, UK, May 24-25, 2023.
Venue:
Hilton Paddington London.
Tour at GB News:
With our co-host, GB news, we invite all User Summit attendees to join a tour at GB News headquarters in London. Sign-up for the tour will be announced soon.
Agenda:
Our first keynote speakers will be announced soon, with the event agenda.
Accommodation in London: We recommend our event attendees book a hotel near Paddington Station.

Michael Jensen
Chairman of the Fonn Group User Summit 2023 | Head of Technology and Innovation at TV2 Fyn
Michael is the chair of the event program and our co-host.
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Haavard Myklebust
CEO at Fonn Group
Myklebust is actively involved in the Fonn Group companies and serves as Executive Chairman in Mediability, Mjoll and 7Mountains.

Steinar Søreide
CTO at Mjoll & Mimir Co-inventor
Since the launch of Mimir in early 2019 the product has evolved into a complete production asset management solution with powerful workflow integrations with Avid, Adobe, EVS, GV and more.
Steinar presents the latest and greatest for Mimir and what's coming next.

Mads Grønbæk
Chief Product Officer at 7Mountains
Mads Grønbæk is the co-inventor of Dina, the story-centric newsroom solution that has revolutionized how journalists create, plan and collaborate.

Andreas T. Whiteley
CTO at 7Mountains
Andreas Whiteley is the new CTO of 7Mountains and will, together with Dina´s co-inventor Mads Grønbæk, show its latest and greatest features of Dina.
Ingrid Agasøster
Event coordinator
Marketing Manager for Fonn Group with companies.
ingrid@fonngroup.com
Phone: +47 99533791
