Design, digital printing, energy and innovation are on the agenda for WAN-Ifra’s fourth Printing Summit in Hamburg.

The event, from March 19-20, provides an opportunity to learn from the most successful examples of print innovation worldwide.

“Newspaper printing technologies have developed fast in the past decade and offer more business opportunities on its innovations than ever before,” says deputy chief executive and print production executive director Manfred Werfel.

“The Printing Summit brings together interesting and knowledgeable speakers who are up to date with latest developments and will share their experiences on the wide issues involved in newspaper production.”



Speakers include:



- Adrian Norris, creative director for Canada’s Globe & Mail, will talk about design in newspapers, related products and its influence on attracting advertisers in a session that also includes Martin van Ee, Sales Director for Koninklijke BDU Grafisch Bedrijf  in The Netherlands, and graphic designer Koos Staal, of Dutch-based , Staal&Duiker Designers.



- Ann Gitao-Kinyua, group marketing director for the National Media Group in Kenya, the largest independent media house in East and Central Africa, where both print and digital media are booming. She will be featured in a session on ‘The Power of Print’, along with Markus Ruppe, managing director of ZMG Zeitungs Marketing Gesellschaft in Germany, Takehiko Murase, engineering centre manager at Asahi Printech in Japan (printer of Asahi Shimbun, the world’s second largest newspaper) and Patrick Zürcher, operating manager and company secretary for Freiburger Druck in Germany.



- Horst-Walter Hauer, general manager of IBH Ingenieure für Druck-und Projekttechnologie, Germany, where he is responsible for strategic investment calculation and planning, design and project management for printing presses and retrofits. He will speak in a session on printing process innovations with Markus Brehm, managing director of Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag in Germany, Wilfried Sutter, technical manager for Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag in Germany, and Moritz Schwarz, consulting manager for newspaper production at WAN-Ifra.



- John Filippakis, publisher of Dimokratia in Greece, who launched the daily two years ago and found a successful niche – in print – with quality and compelling content in the midst of Greece’s economic crisis. He will speak in a session on business and innovation in print along with Eamonn Byrne, business director of UK-based Byrne partnership, and other speakers to be announced.



- Josef Konrad Schiessl, technical director at Süddeutscher Verlag Newsprint in Germany, one of the most modern and efficient printing facilities in Europe, who will examine ‘green’ publishing in a session on ‘less energy, less emissions, better costs, better future’, along with Manfred Werfel and other speakers to be announced.



- Hubert Pedurand, INIGraph project manager at the Union Nationale de l'Imprimerie & de la Communication in France, who will share his digital printing expertise in a session dedicated to the art of digital printing, along with Rodd Winscott, pPresident of the printing division of Newsweb Corporation in the USA, which recently installed a TKS Jet Leader digital newspaper press.

Full details at http://www.wan-ifra.org/events/printing-summit-2013