Forty speakers are slated to speak across newsroom, printing and crossmedia topics at WAN-Ifra’s India conference in Delhi next month.
The 22nd annual event for South Asian publishers will also discuss opportunities for engaging young readers, monetisation and efficient operation at Le Meridien hotel from September 17-18.
Among confirmed speakers are WAN-Ifra chief executiveVincent Peyregne, TN Ninan (chairman of Business Standard and a board member of the World Editors Forum), Kevin Anderson (regional executive editor of Gannett Wisconsin Media, USA), Mariam Mammen Mathew (chief operating officer of Manorama Online), Mint editor R Sukumar, Ola Stenberg (digital editor of VG, Norway), K Balaji (director of Kasturi & Sons), Rahul Kansal (executive president of Times of India publisher Bennett, Coleman & Co), Nikhil Ganju (Indian country head of Tripadvisor), DD Purkayastha (pictured, chief executive and managing director of ABP Pvt and chairman of the WAN-Ifra advisory council), Kartik Taneja (channel sales head for Google India) and Florian Nehm (head of corporate sustainability and EU affairs at Axel Springer, Germany).
The conference will also see the formal release of a new WAN-Ifra special report on Newsprint waste management, of which K Balaji is author.
The event – returning to Delhi after a gap of eight years – is expected to attract about 400 delegates from across South Asia and rest of the world. It also includes an expo component and parallel pre-conference workshops on data journalism, new media metrics, and densitometry, all on September 16.
Registration and full details, are available at http://www.wan-ifra.org/india2014 or email v.antony@wan-ifra.org