Rishad Patel is a product and design professional who co-founded Splice Media. His newsletter, Frames, gives a weekly overview of the latest media products and design trends. During a 20-year career, he has designed and developed products for the web, mobile, radio, advertising, newsrooms, newspapers, magazines, and podcasts in Singapore, India, New Zealand, Europe, and the United States. Hear how Asian newsrooms are adapting to ChatGPT and other evolutions in AI.

Camille is the co-founder of 9 Millones, a Puerto Rican crowdfunding and publishing initiative that has raised $55,000 for independent journalism, distributed to 31 projects. She is a Columbia J-School grad and worked at El Diario and NowThis before creating 9 Millones.

Carmella Boykin is part of the team that has pioneered the use of TikTok at the Washington Post. Previously, she worked as a local TV news reporter in Rochester, New York. Their channel has 1.6 million followers, 74 million likes, and has won three Webby Awards. With the threat of a U.S. TikTok ban looming, we ask what lessons can be learnt from this team, and whether they can be applied to other platforms.

Oxford has been a men-dominated space for centuries and it still shows today. We want to discuss how gender shapes our experiences at DPIR and in academia more generally. What are the underlying reasons for the imbalanced gender ratio of senior academic staff at our Department? How does gender impact the manner of seminar discussions? What counts as rigorous (political science) knowledge and methodology and how is this informed by socialised gender expectations? And, importantly, how does gender intersect with other social identities to create unequal chances and experiences?