Singapore Press Holdings vice president Chew Kai Kim is among speakers at WAN-Ifra’s seventh Middle East Conference in Dubai.
During the event (Feb 29-Mar 1) Chew will tell how SPH used its printing plant to combat declines in advertising revenue, developing new revenue streams through contract and semicommercial printing.
The company also fought off declining advertising revenue with innovative advertising solutions.
The two-day conference is built around five themes – social media, leadership and human resource management, innovations in newsrooms, advertising revenue generation, and the power of print.
Speakers include:
- Major Steadman, Digital Director for Saatchi & Saatchi in Dubai;
- Maha Abouelenein, Google’s Head of Communications for the Middle East and North Africa;
- Pascal Zemp, Project Leader for Business Development Technology at Swiss-based Ringier;
- Chew Kai Kim, Vice President for Materials, Quality Control/Process at Singapore Press Holdings;
- Anders Berglund, Sales Director at Aftonbladet Hierta in Sweden;
- Larry Kilman, Deputy CEO & Executive Director of Communications and Public Affairs of WAN-Ifra;
- Thomas Jacob, Deputy CEO of WAN-Ifra and Managing Director of its Singapore-based Asian subsidiary;
- David Butter, the CEO and Founder of David Butter Consulting in the United Kingdom;
- Ulrik Haagerup, Executive Director for News at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation;
- Dr. Abdul Aziz Bin Mulhem, Assistant Deputy Minister in the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Culture and Information;
- Khaled Aly Soliman, Group CEO of Galadari Brothers Co. LLC in Dubai, and other speakers to be announced, in a panel discussion on “Investment in Human Capital”;
- Aralynn McMane, Executive Director for Young Readership Development at WAN-Ifra;
- Randy Covington, Director of the WAN-Ifra Newsplex at the University of South Carolina;
- Lara Ayoub, Portal Manager at United Jordan Press, Magda Abu-Fadil, Director of Media Unlitmited in Lebanon, and other speakers to be announced, in a panel discussion on “The Marriage of Print and Digital”;
- Amandeep Singh Khurana, Chief Operating Officer of Madison Media Plus in India;
- Manfred Janssens, Production Manager of Persgroup’s printing facility in Lokeren, Belgium;
- Manfred Werfel, Deputy CEO & Executive Director of Newspaper Production for WAN-Ifra.