Programme | WAN-IFRA India 2019

WAN-IFRA India 2019

18 Sep 2019 to 19 Sep 2019
Delhi
India

The 27th Annual Conference

Programme | WAN-IFRA India 2019

Programme

World class speakers, workshops, best case studies from around the world, be a part of it!

Sessions

September 18
Wednesday

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    09:30

    • Printing Summit

    • Advertising Summit

    Inauguration and welcome

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    09:40

    • Printing Summit

    • Advertising Summit

    Keynote address

    Keynote address 1: Is the future of news media business sustainable for legacy media companies. What are the tech innovations and business transformation experiences at Tiso Blackstar Group.

    Keynote address 2: Extending the life of the printed product, while gearing up for a digital-first newsroom and the transformation. SPH experience.

    Keynote address 3: Publishing Business in India - A TOI perspective

     

     

    Speakers 

    • WAN-IFRA Vice President & Head of Digital, The Tiso Blackstar Group, South Africa
    • Editor-in-Chief, The Straits Times & SPH's English/Malay/Tamil Media Group, Singapore
    • CEO, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Limited
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    10:45

    • Printing Summit

    • Advertising Summit

    Networking break

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    11:15

    • Advertising Summit

    Content, Communities, and Commerce

    Content, Communities, and Commerce, the 3Cs shape the new age advertising world. What to watch out for and how do we set sail.

    Speakers 

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    11:15

    • Printing Summit

    Looking back to leap forward

    WAN-IFRA’s recent World Printers Forum Report “Changing Print – Turning points in newspaper technology since 1970” documented and analysed the milestone developments in the newspaper technology. These findings reveal interesting facts, which necessitated the invention of ground breaking technology and lessons we could learn from this study to change the course of newspapers business?

    Speakers 

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    11:45

    • Advertising Summit

    Panel discussion - challenges in print advertisement

    How do we manage the challenge of advertising in print and enhance the pie.

    Moderator 

    Speakers 

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    12:00

    • Printing Summit

    Newsprint demand-supply

    Painful days of the past year caused by higher newsprint prices and uncertainty in availability has almost stabilised now. Nevertheless, the newspaper companies still worry about volatile prices. What is the present scenario, trends in the future and possible price indexes in the pulp & paper industry?

    Speakers 

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    12:30

    • Printing Summit

    Networking Lunch

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    13:00

    • Advertising Summit

    Networking lunch

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    14:00

    • Printing Summit - Parallel session

    Print Quality

    Improving the quality through process innovation. How does an in-house developed application helps to manage and improve their print quality and what are the key practices that helps to stay focused on print quality.

    Mohanraj, Dy. General Manager, The Hindu, India
    Krishna Karthik, Manager-IT prepress, The Hindu, India

    ICQC 2020-2022 tools to achieve quality objectives, WAN-IRA General Print Quality concepts and significant updates on upcoming edition of Color quality club contest.

    Speakers 

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    14:00

    • Printing Summit

    Efficiency and cost optimisation

    Efficiency and excellence: What does efficiency and excellence mean for a newspaper organisation. What are the options available to optimise the resources from the management point of view.

    Speakers 

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    14:00

    • Advertising Summit

    Print power innovation

    Power of print, the campaign in Europe encouraging innovation in print advertising. A look at the successful examples of European newspapers.

    Speakers 

    • Managing Director, Print Power Europe, Brussels, Belgium
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    14:30

    • Printing Summit

    Global trends and case studies

    Global trends and case studies of printing efficiencies. How different environment/ cultures prepare themselves for making the production processes future proof.

    Speakers 

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    14:30

    • Advertising Summit

    Product based innovation at its best

    What drives them. Conceptualising monetisation friendly product, aimed at youth audience. A case study.

    Speakers 

    • Managing Editor, Integration, Hindustan Times, India
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    14:50

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    Extend the life of your press

    ‘Extend the life of your press' is the latest special report from WAN-IFRA based on Condition monitoring of printing presses project done at several newspapers printing plants. Learn from the findings of the project.

    Speakers 

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    15:00

    • Advertising Summit

    What it takes to innovate

    What it takes to innovate and the process behind it. What are some of the outstanding innovations from The Telegraph?

    Speakers 

    • Vice President - Ad Dailies -The Telegraph, ABP, India
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    15:10

    • Printing Summit

    Reducing carbon foot Print

    Reducing carbon foot Print by adopting green products, processes and services.

    Speakers 

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    15:30

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    • Advertising Summit

    • Printing Summit - Parallel session

    Networking break

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    16:00

    • Advertising Summit

    Panel discussion - Revenue 360

    Revenue 360: In a challenging economic environment, what are the opportunities that exist beyond pure print advertising for newspapers publishers to capitalize on.”

    Moderator 

    • Managing Director, Market Development, SPH Magazines

    Speakers 

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    16:00

    • Printing Summit

    Intelligent Density System

    intelligent Density System (IDS) and soft proofing to optimise cost and improve efficiency in printing.

    Speakers 

    • Anup Pal, AGM-Quality Assurance, BCCL
    • Chief Manager - Electrical, BCCL
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    16:30

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    Operational excellence in newspaper production

    Achieve the operational excellence in newspaper production by closing the gaps and addressing the performance hiccups in the production unit.

    Speakers 

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    16:30

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    • Advertising Summit

    Women in News panel

    'Women in News' is the initiative of WAN-IFRA that aims to increase women's leadership and voice in news. It hopes to address head on the issues of women in newsrooms, in order to initiate a dialogue that aims at better gender diversity and equality in newsrooms. The panel on 18 September will discuss:

    • What are the largest issues that need to be addressed regarding women in newsrooms?
    • What happens when women take on decision making or leadership roles in newsrooms?
    • It doesn’t begin and end with hiring and retention of women journalists – we need to bring balance to women as source and subject of stories. How do we achieve that?
    • What has been the REAL impact of the #MeToo movement in newsrooms - on the rampant sexism in newsrooms? What are the HR practices, amendments to Vishakha guidelines that are needed now?
    • How do we address the trolling against women journalists head on?

    Please write to [email protected] for your complimentary registration.

    Moderator 

    • Co-Founder & CEO, Quintillion Media, India

    Speakers 

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    17:00

    • Printing Summit

    IT in printing

    How do we harness IT to improve the efficiency of our printing operations? Given the complex requirements in manufacturing units, Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) helps maintain the assets, improve overall efficiency and maintain the inventory effectively. A case study.

    Speakers 

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    17:00

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    • Advertising Summit

    • Printing Summit - Parallel session

    Summary and conference closing for the day

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    19:15

    • Printing Summit

    • Advertising Summit

    • Printing Summit - Parallel session

    Gala dinner

September 19
Thursday

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    09:30

    • Advertising Summit

    Keynote: New revenue streams

    Advertising in print is declining, and the digital advertising revenues are not accruing to news publishers as much as we like to. How do we accelerate new revenue streams - venture into new revenue verticals, set up cross-media sales teams, and the like. How to turn adversaries into profit. Planning for big buck business.

    Speakers 

    • Managing Director, Market Development, SPH Magazines
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    09:30

    • Printing Summit

    Maintenance of gears

    Maintenance of gears: Lessons in professional approach to maintaining them in printing machines.

    Speakers 

    • Head-Services & Replacement Business, Shanthi Gears, India
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    09:30

    • Printing Summit - Parallel session

    Consumables: Paper, Ink, Plates, Blankets

    Newsprint: Best practices to reduce waste, achieve better yield and efficiency.

    Achieving better ink mileage and blanket run length. Best practices.

    Challenges and opportunities for newspaper printing inks.

    Saptangshu Chaudhury, Corporate Manager - Production, ABP Pvt Ltd, India

    Anup Pal, AGM-Quality Assurance and Sreejith PM, BCCL, India

    Michael Hirthammer, MD& VP, Sun Chemicals, Germany

    Speakers 

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    10:00

    • Printing Summit

    Mounting and adjust different kind of bearings

    Rotating Equipment Performance (REP) analysis for printing/paper machines.

    Speakers 

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    10:00

    • Advertising Summit

    Integrated platform - Junction K

    Integrated platform and 360 degree approach to advertisers needs. Junction K from Malayala Manorama.

    Speakers 

    • Vice President, Marketing, Ad Sales, Malayala Manorama, India
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    10:30

    • Printing Summit

    Press maintenance and Folder maintenance

    Case study on Press maintenance and Folder maintenance. Precautionary measures to maintain the life of the folders. What strategy is adopted by Jagran to reduce the failures and breakdowns in folders and printing units to obtain maximum availability?

    Speakers 

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    10:30

    • Advertising Summit

    Events as a driver of revenue

    A case study from Prothom Alo on their  more than 200 events every year and the experiences they create for  readers and advertisers, resulting in advertisement revenue for the group.
    Sayyied Kabir, Consultant, Prothom Alo, Bangaldesh

    Speakers 

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    11:00

    • Printing Summit

    • Advertising Summit

    • Printing Summit - Parallel session

    Networking break

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    11:30

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    Strategies of growing revenue in print and in digital

    Ara from Catalonia is a growing regional news media company in Spain. They transformed their business, by creating a and in print - the content, the audience, and commerce, how did it happen and and plan for growth'.

    Speakers 

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    11:30

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    Elements of design thinking

    Elements of design thinking and user-centric approach. How the design-thinking ideas could be aligned with putting customers first in newspaper business.

     

    Speakers 

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    12:00

    • Printing Summit

    Round up of best examples from WAN-IFRA Print innovation awards 2018.

    Speakers 

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    12:00

    • Advertising Summit

    Big data for advertisment

    Using big data for driving advertising growth. How to do it.

    Speakers 

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    12:30

    • Advertising Summit

    Networking lunch

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    12:30

    • Printing Summit

    Innovative approach in supply chain management

    Innovative approach in supply chain management by HT Media for business excellence.

    Speakers 

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    13:00

    • Printing Summit

    Networking Lunch

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    14:00

    • Advertising Summit

    Transformation in market place

    How do advertisers change course and transform their business. How do they reach their audience and what is the place for legacy media in their communication plans in the new economy.'

    Speakers 

    • Country Head & Managing Director, Polaris India
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    14:00

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    On-time distribution of newspaper

    is still a challenge and complicated one for every newspaper company. Throughout the world, companies have evolved with different models to achieve with a good business model for on-time delivery. Case study from a European newspaper.

    Speakers 

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    14:20

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    High circulation numbers and door delivery of newspapers

    Asian case study: Newspaper market in Japan is very similar to India, with high circulation numbers and door delivery of newspapers every day. How do Japanese newspapers manage distribution? A case study.

    Speakers 

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    14:30

    • Advertising Summit

    Transformation in AdSales

    How to be agile and future ready with a technology and data based approach to adsales.

    Speakers 

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    14:40

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    Efficiency of newspaper delivery

    The efficiency of newspaper delivery: Optimising resources, routes, logistics to minimize and working with vendor/distributors to reduce the overall time of distribution. An Indian case study.

    Speakers 

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    15:00

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    Newspaper distribution, moderated Q&A

    Moderator 

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    15:00

    • Advertising Summit

    Mapping invisible networks in organisation

    Mapping invisible networks in organisation and driving innovation and change. How to create competitive context and effectively use it to drive the change.

    Speakers 

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    15:30

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    Common closing session

    World Press Trends

    What metrics are driving the strategies of news publishers? What underlying trends are shaping the local news challenge.

    Speakers 

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    15:40

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    • Printing Summit - Parallel session

    Panel Discussion

    Panel discussion: CEOs of leading Indian publishing companies discuss the challenges in print, how to extend its life, how each media group is transforming, where are the opportunities, etc.

    Moderator 

    Speakers 

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    16:30

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    • Printing Summit - Parallel session

    End of the conference

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    16:45

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    • Printing Summit - Parallel session

    Visit to a printing plant

    Times of India printing plant at Manesar

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