Tentative Agenda
Oct 7, 2026 — 9:00 – 19:00
Details subject to change
9:00
Opening & kick-off
Josef
Lentsch
Partisan
9:15
Welcome remarks
Bettina
Emmerling
City of Vienna
9:30
Leading with Clarity
Beate
Meinl-Reisinger
Republic of Austria
10:00
Policy leadership: When the rules change, who shapes what comes next?
Timm
Bopp
Bernstein Group
Sonia
Staicu
Bernstein Group
11:00
Citizen-driven communication & the end of TTPA
Matieu
Pons
Datack
12:00
Sovereign platforms for public discourse
Anna
Zeiter
W Social
13:00
Shifting from election campaigns to government communications
14:00
There and Back Again: Europe After Orban
15:00
Weaponized Narratives: political communication in an age foreign influence and misinformation
Andrea
Liebman
Swedish Psychological Defence Agency
Léa
Surugue
Vigilance and Protection against Foreign Digital Interference, Government of France
16:00
Political Branding: how rising stars in politics are made
Kitti
Ágoston
Former Communications Director, Tisza Party
17:00
Trending or cringe? Memes and humour in political communication
Philipp
Schulmeister
European Parliament
Sebastian Savio
Norby
Liberal Alliance (Denmark)
18:00
Coming to a political theatre near you? Lessons from the US Midterm campaigns
Gabriella
Zutrau
@ednatherunt
Michael
Cohen
Cohen Research Group
10:00
What would Monnet say? Modern political communication through a historic lens
Jean-Marc
Lieberherr Monnet
Institut Jean Monnet
11:00
Policy communications for Civil Society: why CSOs need to up their policy comms game
Rowan
Emslie
Centre for Future Generations
12:00
Back to basics? The importance of in-person communications in the age of content overload
Niko
Alm
NEOS
Lisa Marlene
Treiling
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
13:00
Advocacy campaigns that drive real policy change
Alberto
Alemanno
HEC Paris & Harvard
14:00
Social listening at scale: Monitoring the European Discourse in real time
Eske
Vinther-Jensen
Common Consultancy
15:00
Data vs. Creativity? False dilemmas in campaign messaging
Jochen
König
Cosmonauts & Kings
Nicolas
Schwendemann
ressourcenmangel (RYSM)
16:00
Behavioural insights and the ethics of influence: the role of platform accountability in reshaping trust in democracy
Jennifer
Nadel
Compassion in Politics
17:00
Future trends in political communication
Stefan
Unger
Degepol
18:00
Swedish election roundtable
Emelie
Schröder
Social Democrats (Sweden)
10:00
Solving polarization, disinformation and populism
11:00
Reaching 500 million people on a budget
Philipp
Schulmeister
European Parliament
12:00
Showcasing the winners of the 2026 Partisan Awards
13:00
Political communication strategies for local politicians
Luca
Piwodda
Gatz
14:00
Building support in a low-trust political environment
George
Kyrke-Smith
Panterra Global
Simon
Baugh
Kingsford Strategy
15:00
Internal communication: Why culture matters in Political Communication
David
Ermes
Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
16:00
Future trends in political communication
17:00
Is No an Option? AI in Institutional Communication
Adalbert
Jahnz
European Commission
Romana
Lanzerstorfer
Austrian Parliament
18:00
Communication that drives mobilization
Tamara
Tachynska
Qela
10:00
Building Bots to Mobilise: Strategies for grassroots mobilisation
Gabriella
Zutrau
@ednatherunt
11:00
YouGov
12:00
Wordsmiths of the 21st century: AI-assisted speechwriting and manifesto writing
Josh
Molofsky
Panterra Global
13:00
LLMs as new political stakeholders
14:00
Lobbying-Campaigning: Why your political efforts need broader campaigning in the attention economy we operate in
Peter
Köppl
Mastermind
15:00
Engage Voters, Not Haters: AI Moderation for Political Campaigns
Tomáš
Halász
Trollwall
16:00
AI and LLMs in practice: how your comms & tech toolkit is changing
17:00
How to speak like a populist: Communicating in plain and simple language
18:00
Digital Twins and Artificial Personas: how AI complements research
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