Lille -Dialogues reveal 2025 speakers, keynotes and panels
Senior Executives of France Télévisions, ITV, M6, Warner Bros. Discovery and Arte are among the speakers during the 7th edition of the Lille Dialogues, which takes place on 27 March as part of the industry program of Television Festival Series Mania.
The daily international top brings important industrial leaders together, which encourages international cooperation and a joint reflection on the challenges that the TV industry is confronted today.
After a hospitable address of Series Mania President Anne Bouverot, the 2025 edition edition will contain panel discussions and various keynotes that are supplied by top managers of industry, in which the crucial role of creativity in international audiovisual industry is being investigated. This year’s Lille dialogues will be spent on Peak TV: challenging times ahead, including AI financing and changes in the public.
“After a period of euphoria, the audiovisual industry now stands for three major challenges from our perspective. First, a financing crisis characterized by an intense struggle to record advertising budgets. Secondly, a sociological challenge linked to this advertising crisis, given the shift of the younger generations of today to social platforms, and finally an industrial revolution driven by the unmistakable impact of artificial intelligence, “said Laurence Herszberg, founder and general manager.
“Thanks to the Lille dialogues, which remain an essential platform to put together insightful discussions, cooperation solutions and thinking exchange between important leaders within the audiovisual industry, we look forward to going further in these topics,” she added .
The themes for Series Manias 2025 Panel discussions are: All eyes on advertising budget: what are the impact on making content?; Fast Vooruit – the AI revolution: What will our industry look like in five years?; Deepfake & Algorithms: How should we think critically with viewers develop?; And the preservation of a virtuous European model: the challenges of the over 2026 AVMs.
Speakers participating in this year’s panels are Erik Barmack, CEO, Wild Sheep content; Antoine Bajet, head of the editors, Ina; Marianne Carpentier, head of emerging technologies, TF1; Johann Choron, head of Gen AI for Media & Entertainment, Google EMEA; Gregory Dray, co-founder, Animaj; Mathilde Fiquet, Secretary General, CEPI; Susana Gato, President, Cepi; Amélie Lacourt, legal analyst, European Audiovisual Observatory; Jean-Paul Philippot, Administrator-General de la RTBF, RTBF; Guillemette Picard, SVP production technology – About Professional Development Leave, Ubisoft; Grégoire Polad, managing director, act; Sally Reynolds, Chief Operating Officer, Media & Learning Association; Feme Wolting, Showrunner & Co-founder, submarine.
The Day’s Program also contains various keynote addressed, listed below:
Keynote Arte: Bruno Patino, CEO, Arte
Keynote France Télévisions: Delphine Ernotte Cunci, CEO, France Télévisions
Keynote ITV Studios: Ruth Berry, president of International Distribution, ITV Studios
Keynote M6: David Larramendy, chairman of the board, M6 Group
Keynote TF1: Rodolphe Belmer, CEO, TF1 group
Keynote Warner Bros.: Discovery with Gerhard Zeiler, president of International, Warner Bros. Discovery
