INMA: Events

Upcoming Events

CEO Roundtable at Napa Valley

The CEO Roundtable at Napa Valley will look at horizon planning for chief executives at news media companies in an interactive, relaxed, and confidential setting that will identify growth paths over the next three years. Back for a third year due to popular demand, The Roundtable attendance will be capped at 50 participants to preserve an intimate atmosphere, each representing INMA corporate members at media companies.

19-21 August 2025

Asia/Pacific News Media Summit

Virtual

Delve into AI and exciting digital development contexts for Asia/Pacific news media companies and what this means for data, product, subscriptions, newsrooms, and what comes next for digital advertising. Connect with global experts and learn from Asia/Pacific news publishers on the emerging growth path for news media. This is a virtual event designed for media companies in the Asia/Pacific region.

28-29 August 2025

Africa Product & Tech Summit

Virtual

How news media companies can smartly embrace digital products while navigating the tech companies that inspire and create those products.

04 September 2025

First-Party Data Activation for Advertising Master Class

Virtual

How news media companies can transform their most valuable asset, first-party data, into sustainable advertising revenue growth through strategic collection, segmentation, and activation strategies – including AI targeting products – that deliver premium CPMs and deeper advertiser relationships.

11-18 September 2025

Media Innovation Week

Dublin

Learn European best practices to grow audience, revenue, and brand from fast-changing media companies – and discover what makes innovators in the Irish capital of Dublin stand out in today’s ecosystem. The INMA Media Innovation Week consists of our premium European best-practice experience, the 51st European News Media Conference, along with a study tour of leading Dublin media and tech companies, and a first-ever newsroom transformation summit.

22-26 September 2025

Newsroom Transformation Master Class

Virtual

How newsrooms can better impact and influence the business of news is the focus of this master class from INMA's Newsroom Initiative. In this three-module master class, learn how to establish newsroom-wide KPIs and understand the value of work and content, create a data-fluent newsroom culture, understand what data tells us and what it can't, use data to guide decisions on what to stop doing. As newsrooms look to new North Stars, learn how newsrooms are restructuring for digital.

09-16 October 2025

Media Tech and AI Week

San Francisco

Immerse yourself in the latest trends in technology and consumer behaviour shifts at the inaugural INMA Media Tech and AI Conference in San Francisco. With a fast-paced rhythm inspired by the innovation culture of Silicon Valley, this event dives deep into the rapid technological changes shaping the news media industry, offering unparalleled insights and discussions. With AI transforming consumers’ lives and reshaping businesses, the conference will explore its dramatic impact through expert-led sessions, quick-fire presentations, and dynamic panels designed to keep up with the speed of change. Highlights will include how the world’s largest innovation ecosystem is evolving, the AI tools shaping news media, shifts in consumer habits, the real business implications of AI advancements, storytelling strategies within emerging technologies, the rise of answer engines and their impact on content discovery, and strategies for maximising attribution.

20-24 October 2025

Subscriber Acquisition Master Class

Virtual

No matter where you are in your subscription journey, you likely have begun to hit plateaus using traditional methods of acquisition around news. Or you aren’t getting the results you think you need. In this Master Class as part of INMA's Readers First Initiative, we will review what successful publisher subscription operators are doing, how they re-think acquisition efforts when they hit a wall, and how to make smart, actionable decisions. Learn how to better integrate the newsroom into efforts to gain subscribers. The Master Class will be a de facto audit or subscription acquisition efforts and how to re-kindle growth.

06-13 November 2025

Africa Audience Development Summit

Virtual

How to engage, nurture, and develop young consumers in the digital spaces in which they thrive – and how to draw them to your news brand.

04 December 2025

Media Subscriptions Summit

Toronto

Digital subscriptions have fundamentally altered the business fortunes and cultures of news media companies, and INMA’s Media Subscriptions Summit Week has been a guiding light in that journey over the past nine years. In March 2026, join INMA in one of the most innovative and competitive markets for subscriptions – Toronto – for a two-day summit focused on the latest in acquisition and retention, a day of case study-driven seminars, and a study tour of media companies in Toronto. Key to this year’s summit: What is the next growth path for subscription-mature media companies?

11-13 March 2026

World Congress of News Media

Berlin

The 96th Annual INMA World Congress of News Media will be in the European media capital of Berlin. Join INMA as we dissect the strategy and direction in news media along with the latest trends in the business drivers that make up the modern journalism-focused media company: subscriptions, advertising, product and tech, newsroom transformation, and future audiences. In addition to a two-day conference, INMA will conduct multiple two-day Berlin study tours of innovators and a day of practical seminars. Meanwhile, see Berlin through INMA eyes: Axica conference center, Museum Island Colonnades & Neues Museum, Tipi am Kanzleramt, and more.

04-08 May 2026

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