Digiday Publishing Summit

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Welcome. The editorial team is about to kick off the day

In an era of information overload, the traditional one-size-fits-all homepage is becoming a relic of the past. Hear from Gina Matsumoto, SVP of product operations at Newsweek, for an inside look at how the legacy publisher is building an “AI Mode” experience for its homepage to revolutionize reader discovery and boost its membership program.

Publishers cannot keep AI out of their newsrooms nor can they keep their newsrooms away from AI. In this session, The Guardian’s Chris Moran will discuss how the publisher involved its editors in helping to train its first reader-facing AI feature as well as how it is training its entire organization on AI.

Bloomberg Media’s Global Head of Product, Marissa Zanetti‑Crume, and Emma Cosgrove, Business Insider’s Editorial Director for AI Innovation, unpack how product and editorial teams can collaborate to strengthen audience understanding, optimize multi‑format distribution, and collaboratively build the infrastructure that makes content, signals, and experiences ready for AI‑driven visibility and growth.

Join the Digiday Publishing Summit Vail 2026 keynote speaker Jon Roberts, Chief Innovation Officer at People Inc., as he shares an inside look at how the publisher is navigating the AI licensing boom — from choosing the right marketplaces to protecting their content and turning AI into new ad revenue.

Take a break, grab a coffee and connect with fellow attendees before the next session begins.

Publishers Only.

Join us for a Town Hall session where we will create a challenge board and have an open and candid discussion about the industry. Together, we’ll create a challenge board and explore the real issues you’re facing — think of it as group therapy.

Sandbox Sessions:

4:45pm: Letterhead -The Newsletter Operating Gap (and What It’s Actually Costing You)

4:55pm: Chargebee – Predicting Subscriber Churn

5:05pm: MonetizationOS & Mather – From Defense to Offense: Building a Revenue Strategy for the AI Era

Publisher VIPs are invited to join us for a welcome drink and networking ahead of the 10-Minute Meetings.

The 10-Minute Meetings are designed to help connect participants with innovative technology platforms and build valuable business relationships.

Wrap Day 1 with cocktails and network with your peers. Open to all.

Fuel up with breakfast, courtesy of Digiday, as we get the day started.

Welcome back! The editorial team is about to kick off day 2.

Time’s Chief Operating Officer Mark Howard will delve into how the publisher is navigating the AI content marketplace boom — and how they are turning GEO and AI visibility insights into a new revenue stream.

In this session, Eric Aledort, SVP, Partnerships and Business Development at The Arena Group, will break down how opaque AI licensing deals are creating a widening gap between publishers — and what smaller players must do to access new revenue streams, while trying to protect their content from getting scraped by AI without compensation.

What does it take to make digital experiences worthy of cultural icons? In this fireside chat, BET’s VP of Digital Operations Shelly Jones joins Ceros Account Director AJ Lawrence to explore how immersive design helps BET go beyond the standard format—capturing legacy, building brand authority, and making digital feel like a destination.

Ariscielle Novicio, CTO and SVP of product & digital at New York Post, will share early findings after launching a new brand with an AI guidebook. — would be the update to the description, though, if feasible

Publishers cannot allow to let AI bot crawlers run rampant across their sites, but they can’t afford to become invisible in AI chatbots either. In this session, The Atlantic’s Mary Liz McCurdy will outline the publisher’s decision-making system and framework for deciding whether to block or not which AI bots.

Take a break, grab a coffee and connect with fellow attendees before the next session begins.

Publishers Only.

Join us for a Town Hall session where we will create a challenge board and have an open and candid discussion about the industry.

Sandbox Sessions:

11:50 a.m: Optable

Recharge with a delicious lunch and network with peers before the next session.

• AI Integration: From workflow efficiency to ethical guardrails.
• Revenue Realities: The evolving landscape of ads, subscriptions, and alternative streams.
• Product Evolution: Building tools that serve both the mission and the user.

The 10-Minute Meetings are designed to help connect participants with innovative technology platforms and build valuable business relationships.

Join us for cocktails to wrap Day 2.

As publishers pitch their creator networks to brands, they run into one challenge: all the other influencer agencies brands are being pitched. In this session, Future’s Rachel Zeilic will break down how the publisher ensures its creator business can stack up against traditional influencer agencies when pitching brands.

Hear how Axios is relying on creators/experts/influencers — whichever term you land on — to make sure that its thoughtful, deeply reported coverage areas are providing value to readers.

Journalists are ultimately another category of content creator, and with independent creators becoming media outlets in their own right, news organizations need to learn how to work with creators. In this session, Caliber’s Ramin Beheshti will discuss how the three-year-old media company has built a news organization that embraces creators.

In this session, Sara Kehaulani Goo, President of The Washington Post’s Creator Network, will pull back the curtain on the new business the news publisher is building with creators to drive reach and ad revenue.

Digiday moderators will bring three publishers back to the stage to review the event’s key takeaways.