Adisti Sawitri is a managing editor at The Jakarta Post. Since 2018, she has played a key role in the digital transformation process at the largest English language news publisher in Indonesia. She is currently managing digital production and leading initiatives to identify new markets for journalism.

Based in Singapore, Alex Fenby started his career and love of journalism at CNBC Asia, where he was APAC news editor between 2000 and 2006.

Prior to Facebook, he spent time in Melbourne as Global Publisher for travel guidebook publisher Lonely Planet before returning to Singapore as Director, Strategic Digital Media Initiatives and founder of news app NewsLoop at Singtel. 

Alex holds a Master’s Degree in International Journalism from City, University of London.

Ajay Chacko is Co-founder & CEO of Arré, one of the country’s foremost original digital content brands. Arré was founded in 2015 by B. Saikumar, Ajay Chacko & Sanjay Ray Chaudhuri. Arré offers multimedia content across genres & formats and has won many international & domestic awards & accolades for its work in digital fiction & non-fiction. Arré Studio is also working on large-format original shows in collaboration with domestic and international OTT platforms as well as broadcast television networks. 

Ajay has over 2 decades  of experience in media & financial services. He spent over a decade with Network18 and was Group COO and also President A+E – TV18 JV in his last-held roles with the Group. He has also worked with IL&FS, Sharekhan and the Indian Express Group prior to his stint with Network18.

A geek in denial and a graduate in financial management, Antonny started off his professional career in Enterprise IT and Solution Services, a journey that took him to several IT companies and a President Director position when he was 27 years old. He then pursued his passion in marketing & branding by joining a then small 14-person startup agency called SemutApi Colony as a partner and Managing Director in 2005. Together, the company grew into a Group which operates several agencies, a tech incubator/investor and technology startups. 

Antonny still has a dream that one day he will play the piano and own a coffee and steak house. 

Catherine is the Assistant News Editor for Hong Kong i-Cable News, the first Pay TV News Channel in Hong Kong. She joined the company in 2008, as a reporter. Catherine holds a Masters Degree in Human Rights Law from The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London

Daniel started his career as a journalist, working as a reporter for newspapers and radio stations. After his MBA in Media Management, he joined the digital product management of RTL, Germany's biggest private TV-Network. Since 2013, Daniel is building and meanwhile leading the paid content business of Axel Springer's BILD, which now counts more than 489.000 digital subscribers. 

He is an expert in the telecommunications industry having worked for and consulted to equipment vendors, service providers, industry regulators and investors. His work has included advisory engagements on both the consumer and enterprise sides of the telecommunication industry in topics spanning new market entry, operational and sales transformations, M&A advisory, due diligence and assessment of competitiveness in telecommunication markets. 

Diptendu holds two patents which are incorporated as part of the LTE wireless standard.

Fiona Chan is head of analytics, customer experience and business operations at Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). She has previously held positions including head of media strategy at SPH and managing editor at The Straits Times, and has also worked in corporate finance.

Fiona is a board member of the Land Transport Authority, Sing Lit Station and Singapore Media Exchange.

George Brock is a journalist, consultant and media researcher. He was the director of the journalism school at City, University of London, from 2009 to 2014 and later a visiting professor.

He began his reporting career at the Yorkshire Evening Press and The Observer, joining The Times in 1981. After starting at The Times as a feature writer, he became a features editor and, in 1984, op-ed page editor. He was subsequently foreign editor, Brussels bureau chief, European Editor, Managing Editor and Saturday Editor.

He advises the INJECT and DMINR journalism research projects and startups in news. He is on the board of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Gresham College. He was on the board of the World Editors Forum 2001-14 and WEF’s president 2004-08. He was a member of the executive board of the International Press Institute.

He broadcasts, lectures and is the author of Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age (2013). His study of the ‘right to be forgotten’ was published in 2016. He blogs at http://georgebrock.net

Greg Piechota is an academic researcher, a media consultant and a writer. As a researcher and an ex-fellow at Harvard and Oxford universities, he studies technology-enabled disruption patterns across industries, with a focus on business model innovation in news media. Mr Piechota is a former media executive with 20+ years of industry experience. He began his career at Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza in 1996 as a reporter in one of the smallest local offices rising to a news editor and a vice-president of Agora Foundation. The book, Unlocking the Customer Value Chain, which he wrote together with Professor Thales Teixeira of Harvard Business School was released in 2019 by Currency, a brand of Penguin Random House. Mr Piechota lives in Oxford, England.

Indranil Sarkar heads partnerships and new business initiatives at Mediacorp. He is responsible for building and managing Mediacorp’s relationships with strategic partners and driving new products and technologies to grow revenue.

Indranil is passionate about helping companies navigate digital transformation and has 10+ years of corporate development, start-up operations and investment banking experience across SEA, India and Africa.

Indranil holds an MBA from The Wharton School (UPenn) and a Bsc. Economics (Hons.) from Singapore Management University.

Joseph Kahn was named managing editor of The New York Times in September 2016; it is the second-ranking title in the newsroom. Prior to this, he served as assistant editor for International, his first masthead position. Before that, he served as International editor since September 2011 and deputy foreign editor since February 2008.

Mr. Kahn had been the Beijing bureau chief since July 2003. Previously, he was assigned to Shanghai. He was also a reporter in the Washington bureau, covering international economics and trade and on the business desk in New York, writing about Wall Street.

Before joining The Times in January 1998, Mr. Kahn spent four years as a China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. He also worked as a city desk reporter and foreign correspondent for The Dallas Morning News.

In 1994 while at the Dallas Morning News, Mr. Kahn was part of a team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, for their stories on violence against women around the world.

In 2004, Mr. Kahn won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for international reporting for his series of stories on labor conditions in China’s export factories. The same series received a citation from the Overseas Press Club. In 2004, Mr. Kahn and his Beijing-based colleague, Jim Yardley, won the Harry Chapin Media Award in the newspaper category for a series of stories on the rising wealth gap and outbreaks of mass protests in China.

In 2006, Mr. Kahn and Mr. Yardley won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for their ambitious stories on ragged justice in China as the booming nation’s legal system evolves. Additionally, in 2006 Mr. Kahn and Mr. Yardley won the honorable mention in Excellence in Reporting on the Environment from Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA).

Mr. Kahn was a winner in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) 2007 Best in Business Journalism Contest for his work on the New York Times project “Choking on Growth: China’s Environmental Crisis.”

Katherine Kuan is Vice President of Convergence Business Department, United Daily News Group, which is one of the largest media groups in Taiwan. She is responsible for branded content business and the development of subscription systems for specific user groups.

Prior to this, she was the deputy editor-in-chief of United Daily News and VP of New Media Center. She was responsible for applying new technologies to innovate storytelling and assisting in the digital transformation of newsroom.

Katherine Kuan graduated from the Law School of National Taiwan University, but she is much more enthusiastic about the media. She completed her graduate studies in Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, US. She is passionate about various forms of media. She has served as radio DJ, magazine reporter, TV station executive, and documentary film producer. She has also published four books.

Ken Doctor’s work centers on the disruption and transformation of the news business in the digital age. For 15 years, he has covered both the great successes of digital transformation and democracy-crippling losses of local news across the Western World.  He speaks, writes and consults with companies and associations on four continents, and has become a go-to source, much quoted in media across the globe, on the landscape and the road ahead.

Newsonomics is the word he coined to describe this new discipline of understanding the money flow within the print and broadcast transition to digital. His Newsonomics site collects his broadcast appearances, and his work, including his columns for Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. 

That career followed a 21-year one with Knight Ridder, then the country’s second-largest newspaper company, where he served in a number of top newsroom and digital strategy roles.  

Ken has been at work on his new local news model, Lookout Local, with the announcement of its launch time and place out in 2020 – and of its strategic partnership with the L.A. Times. 

Paul Verwilt is a seasoned C-level executive with over 25 years of management experience and 15+ years in the high-tech industry. He's been COO at Mediahuis and CEO of its Digital Marketplaces in the last seven years since the merger of Belgian publishers Corelio and Concentra's news and classifieds business. Prior to that, Paul spent eight years at Concentra rising through the ranks to CIO and later COO positions.

Mediahuis is the largest newsmedia publisher in Belgium with 4 titles (De Standaard, Het Belang van Limburg, Het Nieuwsblad and Gazet van Antwerpen). Mediahuis is also the owner of NRC, the leading Dutch quality newsmedium, TMG Media with Telegraaf as its flagship and MGL, a strong regional publisher in Dutch Limburg. Recently Mediahuis acquired INM, the leading publisher in Ireland and Northern Ireland and Saint-Paul Luxembourg, owner of the Luxemburger Wort.

In addition, Mediahuis holds positions in the digital marketplaces business in Belgium, the Netherlands and Ireland (Jobat, Zimmo, Hebbes, Vroom, Gaspedaal, relatieplanet, carsireland, etc) as well as radio, TV and freesheet markets. It has around 4,300 employees and revenues of just over 1000 million euros a year.

With 16 years in the publishing industry, he started as an editorial assistant for a fashion magazine under ABS-CBN Publishing Inc. Today, aside from being The Manila Bulletin's Creative and Design Head, he is also its Lifestyle section Sub-Editor for Fashion and Beauty. Ilagan has a Communication Arts degree from the Loyola Schools of the Ateneo De Manila University.

Sally Wu leads the Insights team in Asia Pacific for BBC News - Global, which operates the BBC’s commercial assets across TV and digital platforms internationally. With over 20 years of experience across market research, insights and data analysis, Sally is well versed in quantitative research methodology (including TV measurement), qualitative research methodology and data analytics. 

Prior to joining the BBC, Sally worked at Univision Communications in California, USA for 11 years, rising to the role of Media Research Director during the last 3 years of her tenure at Univision’s Los Angeles office where she was in charge of research operations and best practices of the company’s 64 owned & operated TV stations across the US and Puerto Rico. 

Sally serves as a committee member at AVIA (Asia Video Industry Association) and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) in Singapore, Southeast Asia & India. In the past, she’s been an industry fellow at the Institute of Asian Consumer Insights at the Nanyang Technological University, a board member of the Media & Marketing Research Council of Los Angeles as well as an advisory committee member for Nielsen’s eNames Client Advisory Committee in USA. 

A native Taiwanese, Sally grew up and was educated in Taipei before getting her Master’s degree in Communications from Northwestern University, USA.

An alumna of Cornell University, Shikha Chaudhry is one of the founders of NewsBytes, a start-up best known for India’s first AI-powered content engine. She has a deep understanding of the ever-evolving content industry, and has an engineering-centric approach towards creating engaging content, and wide interests ranging from technology, gadgets, to cultural issues.

Victoria C. Schultz is an executive vice president for advertising sales, and has been with Amedia since 2011. Prior to joining the top management team, she was the CEO of one of the largest newspapers in the group and a regional director where she kickstarted the digital subscription transformation of all eight newspapers while securing profitable margins which were among the highest in the group. She has been in the media industry since 1999 and has various commercial and financial roles all related to the digital development of the media business. She has experience from several media houses in Norway and Denmark.

Prior to joining the media industry she spent five years in finance, at Goldman Sachs Asset Management in London and DnB Markets in Oslo. She is on the Board of MBL (Norwegian Media Businesses’ Association), head of the consumer and advertising group at MBL and has board experience from several digital startups and growth companies. Schultz is participating in WAN-IFRA’s Media Professionals Programme (MPP) as mentor for media companies and professionals in Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar. Victoria holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, an MBA from NHH Norwegian School of Economics and is a Certified European Financial Analyst.