Data took the lead at first full day of the Frankfurt Book Fair.

While virtually everyone at the show agreed with the two world leaders who set the tone yesterday on the importance of content and culture, but today on Day 2, conversations were all about how data is the vital asset that makes that impact possible in today’s digital world.

We opened the MarkLogic Stand (what a booth is called at the Fair) in Hall 4.2 with the theme of Go Beyond Your Content: Use All

Trusted, valuable content has never been more important. With over 250,000 attendees and more than 7,000 exhibitors, the Frankfurt Book Fair is driving that message home, having Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and France’s President Emmanual Macron open the session.

Macron talked about the “Europe of Culture,” and how culture binds us all together. He called on Angela Merkel to “fight for our books and our culture” and defend the rights of authors and journalists. And much to the

Bild mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Tribeca Film Festival

Auf dem diesjährigen Tribeca Film Festival zeigte die Unterhaltungsindustrie einige ihrer besten Arbeiten, darunter auch „The Suitcase“, einen Film von Abi Corbin über einen Gepäckträger aus Boston, dessen gewöhnliches Leben auf den Kopf gestellt wird, als er einen Koffer mit terroristischen Plänen für den 9. September stiehlt.

Während der Film „The Suitcase“ gedreht wurde, areiteten das Entertainment Technology Center der University

Image courtesy of the Tribeca Film Festival

The entertainment industry showcases some of its best work at the Tribeca Film Festival for the next two weeks, including the “The Suitcase,” a film by Abi Corbin about how the ordinary life of a Boston-bred baggage handler is turned upside down when he steals a suitcase that contains terrorist plans on 9/11.

It’s apt that “The Suitcase’s” premier coincides with the NAB SHOW, where the entertainment industry gathers to discuss how technology

Last year, I predicted that the only constant for the media industry would be even more, radical, unpredictable change.

I couldn’t have possibly been more right! The ways people find and consume information and how media organizations can realize and increase the value of their content and data continued to rapidly evolve in 2016.

With the role that fake news, feeds and direct access to the public played in the biggest political events of the year, the changes in the media industry were