Speakers

Felicitas Carrique

Executive Director, News Product Alliance

Felicitas Carrique is a Product manager and leader navigating the intersection of journalism, tech, and media business models. She is currently the Executive Director of the News Product Alliance, a global non-profit that seeks to elevate the discipline of news product management and expand the diversity of news product thinkers in decision-making roles and hosts a community of practice for +3000 product professionals. She was featured as "One to Watch" in the News Industry by Amy Webb’s Future Today Institute annual Tech Trends Report for her leadership in developing the first News Product Management Certification.

In her previous role as the Innovation Director at SembraMedia, she led product design and systems development for the organization, and she worked with news organizations across Latin America, Spain, and the United States to promote tech innovation. She was also the lead analyst on the recent Inflection Point International report published by SembraMedia, which analyzed the innovations, challenges, and threats facing news entrepreneurs across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Felicitas is also a professor and instructor in several university-ran programs, including the J+ at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, the Missouri School of Journalism, and Universidad Católica Argentina, where she co-created the first news product class in Latin America. She has also led workshops and training programs about news product management and journalism business models for media-support organizations like the Google News Initiative, ICFJ, SembraMedia, the Reynolds Journalism Institute, NAHJ, and more.