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- Creator Economy Panel 9 December 12:00 - 12:15PM
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Media and social platforms play a powerful role in shaping how people understand the world, informing values, identities, and even influencing public policy. Yet some narratives may rise to prominence while others are silenced, creating a skewed picture of reality and excluding diverse voices. How can storytellers, platforms, and their backers work together to ensure the stories that shape society are truly inclusive and representative?
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- Media Panel 8 December 3:30 - 4:00PM
Africa’s Media Operating System
From newsroom ops to creator platforms, how does African media scale? What capital misses, how culture drives adoption, and where global partners fit?
Impact Stage - Media Fireside 8 December 4:40 - 4:55PM
Stories with an Agenda
Storytelling has long helped societies navigate power, policy, and crisis, informing, connecting, and challenging. Yet today, narratives are increasingly weaponized: 62% of Americans, according to a 2020 Pew study, cite social media as a major source of false information. How can we reclaim storytelling as a force for trust, inclusion, and impact, while guarding against manipulation?
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- Media Fireside 9 December 1:40 - 2:00PM
The World’s Creative Future Platformed by TikTok
TikTok is reshaping our world's creative landscape, platforming millions of people and giving them the ability to spark trends, build communities, and convert storytelling into opportunity. As creators drive culture, commerce, and influence across borders through TikTok, the platform's unique blend of discovery, creativity, and accessibility enables new voices to rise and industries to form. This session explores how the platform is powering a worldwide creative renaissance, and what it means for the future of culture, creators, and the businesses that grow alongside them.
Forum Stage - Technology Panel 9 December 12:50 - 1:10PM
Web3 and the New Rules of Ownership
Traditional intellectual property systems have long concentrated power in the hands of intermediaries, limiting how creators control and benefit from their own work. Today, platforms like Story Protocol and DAOs are offering transparent, decentralized alternatives, enabling creators to tokenize, license, and better own content, as well as to fund, distribute, and protect their work using blockchain. As these Web3 tools gain traction, how might they permanently reshape the economics and ethics of creative ownership?
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