Over 25 speakers from across the globe, from companies such as Deseret Media, VG, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Times Internet, Mathrubhumi, BBC Hindi, Indian Express, HT Media, and Singapore Press Holdings will discuss the digital news business at the upcoming 5th Digital Media India Conference. The DMI5 is organized by Wan-Ifra and will be held at the Hotel Holiday Inn Aerocity in Delhi from 22 to 23 February.
The conference theme is ‘Engaging audience, monetizing content.’ Presentations from leading editors and media executives will cover the top digital priorities; harnessing the power of data analytics; boosting social media presence; working with ad blockers and other topics. The list of speakers includes:
- Anant Goenka, director & head of New Media, Indian Express
- Anjali Kapoor, head – digital, Bloomberg, Hong Kong
- Ashok Venkatramani, CEO, ABP News Network, India
- Keith Chong, head – digital ad sales, Singapore Press Holdings, Singapore
- Matthew Sanders, senior director, Deseret Digital Media, USA
- Rajesh Priyadarshi, digital editor, BBC Hindi, India
- Salil Kumar, COO, India Today Group Digital
- Sanjay Trehan, business head – digital content & syndication, HT Media, India
- MV Shreyams Kumar, director – electronic media & marketing, Mathrubhumi, India
- Subhajit Banerjee, mobile editor, The Guardian, UK
- Swapnil Shrivastav, vice president – ad technologies, Times Internet, India
After the conference, there is a free Google News Lab workshop on Digital Tools for Newsrooms. This workshop is exclusively for the conference delegates. Seats are limited and on a first-come firstserved basis.
Anjali Kapoor of Bloomberg to speak at DMI5
Anjali Kapoor, head of digital, Asia for Bloomberg Media will deliver the second day’s keynote address on ‘Audience and Data – Engaging your Audience’ at the Digital Media India 2016 Conference in New Delhi.
Engaging and growing an audience is paramount to most media organizations in the fast-paced world of multiple platforms and social feeds. Kapoor will spell out how Bloomberg is using audience data to create a targeted strategy and how they create consistency across a diverse region. A team of digital editors based in Hong Kong work to unify Bloomberg’s powerful existing media assets – including Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Pursuits magazines, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio and original digital video – to deliver relevant stories for Bloomberg.com.
Bloomberg began its news service, in 1990, with a six-person team led by Matt Winkler based in New York. Bloomberg News has since grown into one of the world’s largest and most influential news organizations, with more than 2,400 news professionals in 150 bureaus across 73 countries, producing more than 5,000 stories every day. Before joing Bloomberg, Kapoor was director, Digital News Strategy at The Globe and Mail in Canada where she oversaw the digital editorial strategy. Prior to that, she was the managing editor of Digital, and worked with the senior management to shift the traditional newsroom into a digital culture.
An early bird offer for registration is available before until 21 January. To block your seat at the early bird rate, register at http://dmi.wanifra.org or call +91.44.4211 2893. For more information and regular updates on the conference, please visit the website http://dmi.wan-ifra. org. If you wish a call back, drop in a mail with your contact number to infoindia@wan-ifra.org
