Broad programme for Hamburg get-together

Apr 13, 2014 at 08:12 pm by Staff


Chief information officer at Times of India publisher Bennett, Coleman and Co Sachin Gupta will be among speakers at ppi Media’s ‘Open Days’ event in Hamburg in June.

The two-day event takes place at the Empire Riverside Hotel from June 23-24.

Sam Shollei of The Standard Group in Kenya will outline measures taken to master the challenges of the African media industry; Ute Becker of OWL-Online will discuss the transition from NW's online relaunch to its new brand strategy; Nancy Lane of the US Local Media Association will update on North American trends for local media; Russmedia’s Markus Raith will discuss ‘growing out of a niche’; and Michael Kuth and Christian Wagner of Bremer Tageszeitungen will take delegates ‘from economy class to augmented reality’. A speaker on corporate publishing is also planned.

ppi Media speakers include Norbert Ohl (Shift happens, the new ppi Media), Jan Kasten (The new media as a playing field for innovative software), Markus Feldenkirchen and Christian Veith (German and US updates) and Manuel Scheyda (Digital impetus and structural consequences),

There will also be a tour of Hamburg's St Pauli district and a dinner, at which the speaker will be former St Pauli FC soccer player Ben Adrion, who is founder of theViva con Agua charity.

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