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FICCI will be organizing the seventh edition of PubliCon on 1 December 2017 at FICCI auditorium, New Delhi.
PubliCon 2017 will focus on Enabling Publishing Sector by facilitating effective dialog and debate over policy issues, addressing copyright issues, strategies for content monetization across platforms, presenting international business opportunities for authors, translators, and illustrators, and emerging marketing trends to empower publishers and authors.
Publicon will commence with a Plenary Keynote Address, which will discuss the role of the publishing sector in the social, political and economic growth of new India. This will be followed by sessions on boosting content monetization by leveraging multiple platforms; copyright, piracy and publishing; opportunities for publishers, authors, translators, and illustrators with French creative industries; and the PubliCon Marketing Summit 2017.
Some of the speakers at PubliCon 2017 include Rajiv Aggarwal, joint secretary, DIPP, Government of India; Dr. Chandan Mitra, editor and managing director, The Pioneer; Prof. NV Varghese, director, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education, NUEPA; Urvashi Butalia, chair, FICCI, and director and publisher, Zubaan; Ratnesh Jha, co-chair, FICCI, and managing director, CUP; Major General GD Bakshi, creator of War Hero Books; Arpit Bhargav, director, Diamond Comics Digital Studio; Pankaj Sikka, chief visionary and brand strategist, Invision Brand Consulting; Anand Singh, senior director – South Asia, Turner International; Anurag Sachdeva, director (India & South-East Asia), Rovio Entertainment Ltd.; Ashish Kulkarni, chair, FICCI Animation, VFX, Gaming, and Comics Forum; Dr. Nicolas Idier, head, French Book office; Shilpi Jha, senior legal counsel for Intellectual Property – South-East Asia, USPTO; Vikas Gupta, managing director, Wiley India; Monica Malhotra Kandhari, managing director, MBD Group; Karthika VK, publisher, Westland Publications; Ravi DeeCee, chief executive officer, DC Books; Preeti Hingorani, head – Brand & PR, Cambridge University Press; Rajiv Dhingra, founder and chief executive officer, Wat Consult; Naveen Choudhary, head of marketing – Global Academic Publishing Oxford University Press; Debasri Rakshit, managing editor, Westland Publications; and Paras Bansal, business head, Oxford University India.
