Kickstarting the CPH:CONFERENCE week on 24 March 2025, 12:30 – 17:30 is the inaugural CPH:DOX Summit taking place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.

The day is curated by Mark Edwards, and hosted by Anna Porse Nielsen.

Using the upcoming EU Presidency for Denmark as a launching point, we believe that now is the time to work together in forming a better media landscape for Europe and beyond, key as it is in maintaining trust in governments, in upholding democracies, in taking action against climate change, and in ensuring the best possible futures for coming generations. 

In the past 10 years, streamers and tech companies have had a disruptive effect on the European media landscape, creating radical change, and leading to consolidation in the private sector and calls for reform in the public sector.

In the meantime, a majority of Europeans now learn what’s going on in the real world through social media. As Europe continues to take steps towards a single digital market, several European countries are only one election away from voting for illiberal and anti-democratic leaders.

Now that democracy itself is at stake, it’s time to go beyond the polarizing narratives of the platforms, and work together to build the European media ecosystem of tomorrow.

The vibrant but fragile documentary sector has a key role to play in this brave new world, and it’s a great time for funders, programmers, regulators and independent filmmakers to put their heads together to better engage the public.

Ultimately, we are all here to serve audiences, to bring them truthful and original stories about  what is happening in our world. But we can do more by teaming up with journalists, artists and thinkers to make these stories even stronger, more human and more visible, and bring them to audiences, where they are, across Europe and around the globe.

– Mark Edwards, former Head of International Coproductions at ARTE France and Director of Documentaries in Europe for Netflix

Join us and be a part of improving the future of independent and democratic media.

The summit is for invited and accredited guests only.