8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

Study Tour: Registration and breakfast at The Taj Campton Hotel

8:30 a.m - 10:00 a.m.

Study Tour: Introduction to the study tour and Silicon Valley ecosystem

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Study Tour: Travel to Palo Alto

11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Study Tour: Otter.ai

12:15 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Study Tour: Travel to Stanford

12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Study Tour: A visit to Stanford

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Study Tour: Google

4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Study Tour: Travel to next stop

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Study Tour: The future of New York Times Games

6:30 p.m.

Study Tour: Return to San Francisco

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

Study Tour: Please arrive in time for a sharp 8:00 a.m. departure from the Taj Campton Hotel

8:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

Study Tour: What media needs to know about AI scraping and enforcement

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Study Tour: OpenAI, the forefront of AI innovation

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Study Tour: Bus to lunch

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Study Tour: Lunch at Microsoft

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Study Tour: Inside MSN’s AI evolution: ranking, personalisation, and audience impact

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Study Tour: Why LinkedIn is emerging as a news discovery platform for professional news audiences

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Study Tour: Detecting, tracking and attributing content in AI Models

7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

Study Tour: Please arrive in time for a sharp 8:00 a.m. departure from the Taj Campton Hotel

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Study Tour: Demystifying the black box: copyright, brand safety, and AI accuracy in newsrooms, CTGT

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Study Tour: Inside Hearst’s AI playbook for newsrooms: Lessons from the front lines

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Study Tour: Lunch

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Study Tour: Travel to AWS

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Study Tour: What’s possible with AI: AWS perspectives on media & entertainment

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Study Tour: Travel to next stop

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Study Tour: On-site answer engines and AI agents: Rethinking research and workflow

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

Conference: Welcome and badge pick up

8:45 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

Conference: Welcome and introductions

9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Conference: Understanding the real economics of AI

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Conference: Lessons from the outside: What news can learn from radical innovation

10:30 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.

Conference: Coffee and networking break

11:10 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

Conference: What AI is really changing on your site

11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

Conference: Discovery upheaval: The changing face of search

12:10 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Conference: The future of search: How new entrants are challenging the status quo

12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Conference: Lunch

1:45 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.

Conference: AI, Tech Platforms and news deals

3:20 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

Conference: Coffee and networking

3:50 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Conference: Does social still work for news?

4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Conference: Tech benchmark survey findings: Where does the industry stand?

5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Conference: Closing thoughts

5:15 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Conference: Cocktails and canapes on the roof

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Conference: Keynote: Rethinking news in an AI world – The Washington Post’s place in the ecosystem

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Conference: Data as the fuel for AI: A roadmap for newsrooms

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Conference: The future of audio AI for media

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Conference: Coffee and networking break

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Conference: The AI shift: From text to voice, video, and beyond

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Conference: Agentic AI for distribution and monetisation

12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Conference: Lunch and talk on AI collaboration at scale: How news orgs are building smarter, together

1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Conference: The value of content: What is it worth in an AI-powered world?

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Conference: Org structure of the future: New skills, new roles, and what’s at risk

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Conference: Cybersecurity in the age of AI: Risks, governance, and realities

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Conference: Coffee and networking break

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Conference: AI as a global issue: Regulation, manipulation, and the road ahead

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Conference: Doing more with less: AI’s role in newsroom efficiency

4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Conference: Conference conclusions and wrap up