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Takeaways from #Story18: Day 2

Check out the main highlights from Day 2 of The Power of Storytelling.

Takeaways from #Story18: Day 1

Here’s what we learned on the first day of The Power of Storytelling conference.

Speaking in 2018

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

Mila Turajlic

Award-winning documentary filmmaker, an archive junkie, and a scholar of cinematic storytelling and memory.

Andy Mills

Audio wizard, producer of The New York Times podcast hits: The Daily, and Caliphate.

Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Swedish designer, and founder of Dollar Street, who uses visuals to help explain the world and its inequalities.

Jonah Sachs

A marketing trailblazer who helps companies break old patterns, and make new connections so they can create radical change.

Anne Hull

Anne Hull is a narrative journalist who reported for the Washington Post for nearly two decades, writing about race, poverty, immigration and living at the edge of the American dream.

Zuzanna Ziomecka

Founder and editor in chief of NewsMavens.com, Europe’s alternative front page created exclusively by women.

Brian Reed

Host and co-creator of the international sensation, S-Town, a podcast narrative with over 70 million downloads.

Vlad Mixich

A health policy expert, and storyteller, currently a Fulbright/Humphrey Fellow at the Rollins School of Public Health.

Murray Nossel

Empowers activists and leaders around the world to use their stories to reshape the communities and companies they work for.

Jennifer Brandel

A conversation innovator, and the CEO of Hearken, which helps the public have more power over how we make journalism.

Diana Markosian

A Magnum photographer, and artist whose work explores the relationship between memory and place.

Elspeth Reeve

A Peabody-winning correspondent for Vice News Tonight on HBO, covering national issues and political movements.

Nina Berman

A documentary photographer with numerous World Press Photo awards and nominations.

The PoS experience

Experience inspirational talks by award-winning storytelling, screenings, book signings, and other surprises.

Meet and network with our eclectic mix of participants from journalism to arts to business, in a space designed to build relationships.

Learn the craft tips and tools to tell better and meaningful stories in your work and community.

Testimonials

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

Participant

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

A well-told story can help us face the world, with eyes open, and give us reasons to hope and work, despite seemingly impossible odds. They connect us to one another across time and space and all sorts of boundaries, which gives them (and us) incredible power.

Participant

This is one of the best events currently happening in Bucharest, and I am truly grateful to attend, to be part of the community, and to learn more about how we can try to make the world a better place using the craft of storytelling.

Participant

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

Please organize this event many years to come!

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

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

This was my fourth time in a row at PoS. I come back every year because this is where I recharge my batteries. The most important lesson I have learned so far is that storytelling is a vital skill everyone should have.

Participant

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

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

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

Keep rewriting your stories and see you next year!

Latest stories

Speaking in 2018

The PoS experience

Experience inspirational talks by award-winning storytelling, screenings, book signings, and other surprises.

Meet and network with our eclectic mix of participants from journalism to arts to business, in a space designed to build relationships.

Learn the craft tips and tools to tell better and meaningful stories in your work and community.

Testimonials

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

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.

A well-told story can help us face the world, with eyes open, and give us reasons to hope and work, despite seemingly impossible odds. They connect us to one another across time and space and all sorts of boundaries, which gives them (and us) incredible power.

This is one of the best events currently happening in Bucharest, and I am truly grateful to attend, to be part of the community, and to learn more about how we can try to make the world a better place using the craft of storytelling.

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.

Please organize this event many years to come!

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.

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.

This was my fourth time in a row at PoS. I come back every year because this is where I recharge my batteries. The most important lesson I have learned so far is that storytelling is a vital skill everyone should have.

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.

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

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.

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