As Partner Manager at nextMedia.Hamburg, Cigdem is the contact person for corporates and advises them on the various offers for companies (including SPACE, Prototyping Lab, City of Content Tour). In this context, she also supports the nextMedia.advisory board. As program 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 Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e. V. (German Publishers and Booksellers Association).