October 12-13, 2018
Radisson Blu, Bucharest
Oct 12-13, 2018

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Speaking in 2017

Line-up subject to change. Scroll to see all speakers.

Vera Ion

Vera Ion works in theater, directing, writing and facilitating theater workshops and projects based on generating new texts and storytelling.

Valeriu Nicolae

Valeriu Nicolae is a social change-maker who hates staying within the rules, who displays an impressive resume and a fierce determination to help people in need.

Paul Browde

Paul Browde is a psychiatrist, teacher of narrative medicine and performer in the acclaimed unscripted show Two Men Talking.

Elie Gardner

Elie Gardner is a freelance photojournalist and filmmaker based in Istanbul, whose work focuses on immigration, women’s rights and education.

Mindy Fullilove

Mindy Fullilove is a psychiatrist, renowned teacher and celebrated author who explores the ties between environment and mental health.

Pat Walters

Pat Walters is an editor at Gimlet Media, and a former Radiolab producer and senior editor of Pop-Up Magazine.

Jenna Pirog

Jenna Pirog is the Virtual Reality Editor at The New York Times Magazine. She produced the Times’s first virtual reality film, The Displaced, which won a World Press Photo Innovative Storytelling award.

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times Magazine covering racial injustice and segregation.

Sarah Stillman

Sarah Stillman is a staff writer at The New Yorker and 2016 MacArthur Fellow who writes about immigration, conflict zones and criminal justice reform.

Murray Nossel

Murray Nossel is an Academy Award nominated documentary film maker and teacher of narrative medicine who, along with Paul Browde, co-created and stars in the unscripted show Two Men Talking.

Jacqui Banaszynski

Jacqui Banaszynski is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and esteemed teacher, whose career spans 40 years and seven continents.

Finbarr O’Reilly

Finbarr O'Reilly is a renowned photojournalist who won the 2006 World Press Photo contest and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Thomas French

Tom French is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, writer and teacher, who has taught at the Poynter Institute for more than 25 years.
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The PoS experience

A packed week

Inspirational talks, workshops, screenings, book signings and many surprises

Superstar speakers

Network with our impressive roster of guests, get their books (and get them signed)

A creative world

Watch exhibits and screenings, experience interactive moments, browse our shop, and have fun

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Videos

Watch talks from previous years on topics ranging from personal stories to marketing

In the know

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Testimonials

The Power of Storytelling Conference is the right place to be if you want to spend two days of truly enriching talks given by outstanding speakers – in a strongly professional but also a very personal way.

Participant

I’ve been so impressed by the people here and the conversations and I think that everyone who came together for these 2 days of conference is really motivated by the same question which is how do we reach people with our stories? There is an incredible diversity of speakers.

Amy O’Leary – Editorial Director at Upworthy

The conference is utterly stunning the quality of speakers, organizers, venue and participants is high and the overall atmosphere is like a breath of fresh air.

Participant

Thank you for the experience, for your work, for daring to do things differently. Inspiring – both in a personal and a professional manner.

Participant

We believe stories are told to help us understand how similar, often difficult challenges we do share. As a creative hub, Lateral is really proud to help now The Power of Storytelling share those amazing stories, told by the world’s most creative, talented journalists.

Ciprian Morar – CEO Lateral

Please organize this event many years to come!

Participant

So many storytelling tips from various fields – marketing, digital, film and journalism. Finding out how some of the best storytellers in the world do their work was amazing. These people bring so much insight and so precious advices on how to find a story and tell it better. I couldn’t have asked for more from this conference.

Participant

A mix of tools, advice and inspiration: Stories matter, especially the complicated, messy ones.

Participant

The stories give us the strength to go further when it’s hard and give flavor to our experiences when it’s easy. The stories are lessons learned from our past and resources for a wiser future.

Anca Ungureanu – Director of Marketing and Communications, UniCredit Bank

It was a really great and novel event for Romania, showing that the media is enthusiastic about adopting new approaches to journalism in a form that would be educational and inspiring for the wider public.

Participant

Partners

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LATERAL is a design & technology studio based in San Francisco, with presence in UK and Romania. They are long-time collaborators of DoR and returning as sponsors of The Power of Storytelling.

Official Sponsors

Supporters

Friends

Supported in part by a grant from the Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the Public Health Program of the Open Society Foundations.

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