Missed Splice Beta 2020? We’ve got you covered.
All the insights, knowledge, and kindness of Asia’s only media startup festival
Here are all the session summaries for you to read, watch, link to, and download
“Everyone [at Splice Beta] has each other’s back , and each person on stage is the audience’s hero.”
— Kathryn Louise Geels
European Journalism Centre
The Beta 2020 program

How to Beta
How we thought about Beta 2020
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Five daily stacks
Mondays were for strategy and business. Tuesdays for prototyping and product. Wednesdays were about audience and community. Thursdays were operations and workflows. Fridays? Media careers.
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Two daily sessions
Our community is spread out all over the world, so we wanted Beta to work across timezones. We did one session in the afternoon for Asia, and one in the late evening so we could be as inclusive as possible.
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One ticket donation
US$5 meant you could join as many sessions as you liked — with the same link.
Missed them all? Watch the recordings. So simple.
KAS is the principal partner for Splice Beta Online
“Now dry your tears, stop repeating that 20-year-old, self-fulfilling prophecy of media as a dying industry and come celebrate the future of journalism in Asia. Here is why we at KAS love Splice Beta: It glows in the dark.”
Christoph Grabitz
Director Media Programme Asia
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Who came to Beta?
Media startup founders, tech folks, investors, journalists, media development donors, product managers, and academics.
All in one month-long online media festival.
Thanks for coming to Beta!
It was lovely to meet you, All Things Small, Audiomatic, BBC, Behavioral Scientist, Boju Bajai, Burma News International, BuzzMachine, Chambal Media, Chief Best Friends, The Conversation, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, The Current, Deine Korrespondentin, Deutsche Welle, Digital Content, Echos, Economy Next, European Journalism Centre, Facebook, Fathm, Forked, Fourth Estate, Free Press Unlimited, Frontier Myanmar, Global Forum for Media Development, Global Investigative Journalism Network, Google, Herne Katha, Hyper Island, Initium, Internews, Jumpline, Lenfest Institute, Luminate, MDIF, Meavox Live, Medtronic, Membership Puzzle Project, Millennial Events, Mizzima, Moonshot, Mothership, Myanmar Now, News Corp, Newsgain, New York Times, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Nordot, Our Better World, Plates Magazine, Public Interest Journalism Initiative, Pulitzer Center, RECOFTC, Rei Foundation, Resonate Media, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, Roar Global, SAARI Collective, Saigoneer, San Diego State University, Shwemom, The Signal, Society of Publishers in Asia, South China Morning Post, Sowt, The Spinoff, The Straits Times, Substack, Tatler Asia, Telum, Texas Tribune, The Associated Press, Three Rocks, Thomson Foundation, Two Claps, Uber, Ub.life, University of Stirling, University of Tasmania, U.S. Department of State, VERA Files, ViacomCBS, The WELL, Wildtype Media, and Woodwing.
