As Partner Manager at nextMedia.Hamburg, Cigdem is the contact person for corporates and advises them on the various programmes for companies (including SPACE, Prototyping Lab, City of Content Tour). In this context, she also looks after the nextMedia.advisory board. As programme manager, she is currently in charge of the Prototyping Lab. Trained in media management, she studied publishing at the HTWK Leipzig and book science at the University of Mainz. After holding positions at DIE ZEIT, Bookwire and Holtzbrinck ePublishing, she most recently worked as Manager Strategy & Innovation at the German Publishers and Booksellers Association (Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e. V.).