Doug MacNamara, top international leading media and leadership guru from Canada, will set out the testing challenge for European regional stations in a keynote speech at the CIRCOM conference in Malta on Thursday 6 May

Doug MacNamara, President and CEO of Banff Executive Leadership Inc, will outline the challenge facing regional broadcasters as they struggle to get ready for the new decade. He will contrast the purpose and markets of public service stations with private channels, drawing on his wide-ranging and global experience of managing change. He will look at how producers and broadcasters need to work together and why public broadcasters need to find a new relevance in the market. He is one of the finest and most inspiring speakers in the world on media issues and will give delegates any number of ideas to take back home to improve performance in their own stations.