FIPP World Media Congress 2025 will be held from 21 to 23 October in Madrid. The event will unite top speakers from leading global companies and senior-level media professionals for two days of powerful insights, cross-platform innovation, and high-level networking.
Srinivasan Balasubramanian, managing director, Vikatan Group, is one of the speakers. He will speak on a panel about deepening audience relationships across evolving formats.
“For the last 42 years, we have taken around 75 students every year into our student journalist program, and they comprise at least 120 or 130 of the 200 journalists that we have today,” Balasubramanian said in an interview to FIPP Congress.
“We haven’t stopped making trouble yet,” Balasubramanian said the interview, referring to a recent cartoon cover that landed them in court.
Over the last financial year, Vikatan has hosted regular award ceremonies, weekend gatherings (online and offline), and dozens of audience-led events, FIPP reported. “I’ve been joking of late that we are an event management company masquerading as a magazine,” Srini says.
Whether a creator, publisher, advisor, or technologist, Congress 2025 will be a historic event for those seeking to lead, innovate, and thrive at the intersection of media and technology.
The FIPP World Media Congress 2025 brings together the people redefining what media means today – and what it can become tomorrow.
From global CEOs and product innovators to editorial leaders and bold entrepreneurs, this year’s speaker lineup spans every corner of the industry. More than 400 participants and 50 speakers from 40 countries join for four days of discussions and celebrations.
The topics are Reinventing media for the future; Balancing ai & editorial integrity; New revenue playbooks; Winning the attention economy; Ai-native disruptors & partnerships; Optimizing tech stacks for growth; and Trust, ethics & regulation.
