08 - 10 March 2022
Virtual
India

Digital Media India 2022

The 11th edition of Digital Media Conference presents ideas on digital revenue and technology.

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Digital Media India 2022 Speakers

Arijit Chatterjee

Chief Strategy Officer, NDTV Group

Work as a part of the core team to identify the growth path of the company. Identify organic and inorganic growth opportunities and keep track of the new media landscape and new developments. Work with key partners to drive revenue and/or key metrics. Handle large strategic alliances to ensure partnerships deliver on objectives and are streamlined. Responsible for the Mobility P&L

Arun Rahim

Head of Business Development, Manorama Online

Arun heads Business Development at Manorama Online. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, he has close to 15 years of experience having worked in various domains. Arun specializes in online product development and digital marketing, and has worked extensively in optimizing growth for online products. At Manorama Online, he leads the effort for integrating a reader revenue model, and other potential areas of growth, monetization and digital transformation. He has also authored books on Corporate Sales, Business Negotiation, and Digital Marketing.

Benjamin Quiring

Head of Editorial Development, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

Head of Editorial Development at Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger with focus on new digital products and workflows, Editor since 2016

Corinne Podger

Director, Digital Skills Agency, Australia

Corinne Podger is a results-driven educator, author, and lecturer based in Australia, with a proven track record of supporting newsrooms, NGOs and social impact organisations in more than 60 countries to implement digital innovations that grow audiences and support business priorities. She has worked in the media sector for more than 30 years. She is a firm advocate of media diversity and inclusion in all her work.

Corinne is an accredited trainer with BBC Media Action, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and the Solutions Journalism Network. Her specialisms include digital-first newsgathering, online verification, mobile journalism, social multimedia production, podcasting and audio storytelling, and strategic audience engagement that drives brand awareness and media revenue. She also works with science and public health organisations to tackle misinformation and disinformation.

Dipanjan Dutta

Head of business operations, ABP Digital

Dipanjan Dutta started his career in the IT industry and has had deep experiences in Technology as well as Sales & Marketing in Infosys Technologies and Wipro Ltd. He spent a long period of his professional career across the US and UK before returning to Kolkata and joining ABP Group. Here, he has held several leadership roles across Brand Management, Marketing and Sales & Business Management domains.

He was instrumental in launching abpweddings.com, the online matrimonial business of the group and growing ABP ONE, an integrated marketing solutions division of the group. He headed Growth function for OYO’s coworking business – OYO WorkSpaces. In his last stint, with RICE Education, he has been instrumental in launching the edtech product RICESmart and reshaping the offline education business.

Gregor Waller

Consultant, Digital Age Consulting, Germany / Member of WAN-IFRA Expert Panel

Gregor Waller provides consulting services to international media businesses for developing their digital strategy and transforming their business models for the digital era.

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Jacqui Park

Head of network strategy and innovation, IPI Global Network of editors and journalists

Jacqui is the head of network strategy and innovation for the Vienna-based IPI Global Network of editors and journalists. She is a journalist and editor with deep experience building journalism communities around press freedom and high-integrity journalism, particularly in the Asia-Pacific. She is Senior Fellow for Media Innovation at the University of Technology, Sydney (News media innovation) and writes a newsletter, The Story, on media startups and innovation in Asia-Pacific.

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Juan Señor

President, Innovation Media Consulting Group, UK

As a Partner at Innovation, Juan Senor has directed projects all over the world helping news operations to re-invent their products and stay relevant with shifting audiences. He has worked and advised hundreds.

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Krishna Prasad

Journalist

Till recently at The Hindu, Prasad was meant to spearhead the group’s digital transformation and work with editorial and business team heads, overseeing content across all of their publications. Prasad had previously headed the newsroom at Outlook magazine between 2012 and 2016, where he was Editor-in-Chief.
Having started his career as a stringer for The New Indian Express, while still an engineering student, Prasad, a native of Mysore, previously worked with various regional and national news organizations. He has also lectured on various topics about Indian media at universities in both India and abroad.

Louise Story

Author and Former Chief News Strategist and Chief Product & Technology Officer, The Wall Street Journal, USA

Louise Story is a journalist with a passion for great storytelling and incisive reporting that impacts the world, and she is a media leader with a track record of helping news companies grow.

Louise has worn many hats in the media — investigative reporter, masthead editor, technologist, filmmaker, manager of large reporting and video projects, media and audience strategist, radio production, design thinker, product leader, head of innovation projects, builder of large teams and senior editor with responsibility for a large daily news report.  She takes on projects that she feels will move the needle in helping the world have more journalism that matters.

Louise most recently was the Chief News Strategist and Chief Product & Technology Officer at The Wall Street Journal. That job included scope across the full WSJ with a significant operational and strategic mandate. In the newsroom, Louise was one of the top five news editors and she oversaw the news strategy as well as its digital transformation. For the full WSJ (content and commercial), Louise oversaw the product engineering, design and product management teams. As the WSJ’s editor in chief wrote upon Louise’s departure, Louise “played a central role in advancing our digital transformation and broadening the reach and impact of our journalism. She has brought in new skills, capabilities and ways of thinking that have elevated our journalism and greatly improved our product, technology and data experiences for our members. Her work has helped guide our coverage and accelerate our growth in audiences and subscribers over the past three years.”

Prior to this role, Louise spent more than a decade at The New York Times. During that span, she helped lead multimedia and strategy initiatives and worked on ground-breaking projects as an investigative reporter that led to multiple billion-dollar plus financial settlements, government reforms and legal convictions.

Among her strategic role at The Times, she served as executive producer of the Times’ live interactive journalism managing a team that worked with more than 300 reporters to create and program original live video from the field and in studio. In 2015, she worked on a committee studying the Audience of the Times. In 2013-2014, she was a member of the Innovation Committee, which authored the Innovation Report. In 2012, she hosted and helped The Times create a live video news program for its web site. From 2009 until 2012, she produced live radio segments about business topics for “The Takeaway,” a national radio program that was partnered with The Times.

Marcus Dauck

Head Publishing Technologies & Solution, Ringier AG, Switzerland

Marcus Dauck holds the position of Head Publishing Technologies & Services since April 2019.

Since 2010 he was Chief Information Officer at Ringier Axel Springer Media AG responsible for the CEE activities and board member of Dreamlab the technology company of ONET.pl in Krakow, Poland. Furthermore from 2014, he was Chief Information Officer at Ringier AG the leading international Swiss media company.

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Meinolf Ellers

Chief Digital Officer, DPA, Germany

Meinolf Ellers has been coordinating the digital transformation of the German news agency dpa since 1996 when he became team leader for dpa Online, one of the first multimedia news wires. Ellers co-founded dpa-infocom, the agency’s digital subdivision, the next media accelerator and MINDS Int., the global innovation network of news agencies.

As head of dpa’s Strategic Business Development he recently initiated the #UseTheNews project to promote news literacy in younger audiences and DRIVE – a cooperation of almost 20 publishers to grow digital reader revenue based on shared data analytics and AI.

Michael Taylor

Sales Director, Stibo DX

Michael Taylor guides the world’s leading media and brand publishers through digital transformation in his role as Sales Director at Stibo DX. Taylor drives business development globally for market leaders in digital asset management, content creation and publishing platforms.

Throughout the B2B customer lifecycle, he assists key stakeholders to respond to their evolving business goals and strategy.

Mukund Padmanabhan

Chairman, World Editors Forum India

Mukund Padmanabhan was the Editor of The Hindu between March 2016 and the end of February 2019. Earlier, he was the Editor of The Hindu Businessline from 2016 onwards. Mukund is an M-Phil in Philosophy and worked briefly as a lecturer in University of Delhi before switching to journalism. He is interested in and has written about politics, legal affairs, and literature. Before joining The Hindu group in 1997, he had worked with Sunday Magazine in Kolkata and the Indian Express in Chennai.

Nitin Chandalia

Nitin Chandalia, Partner, BCG India

Nitin Chandalia joined Boston Consulting Group in October 2013. He works with technology and media clients on topics including growth, go-to-market, delivery cost transformation, and organization redesign. Recently he has led several large transformation programs to drive revenue acceleration and margin improvement.

Nitin is currently focused on working with clients on transforming their offering portfolio and GTM strategy to help them continue to win in the digital era; and helping streamline processes to leverage automation and advanced analytics, and rethink the people supply chain to improve operational effectiveness.

Prior to joining the firm, Nitin was part of the TMT focused consulting team at EY, and before that, he was Engagement Director with Everest Group in India.

Nicholas Sagau Tony Ngimat

Chief Operating Officer at REV Media Group & Technology Transformation Officer at Media Prima Berhad

Nicholas Sagau Tony is the COO of REV Media Group – a digital media expert and leader from Malaysia. He speaks & moderates conferences about digital products, content, data, marketing and innovation, transformation, corporate innovation and OTT.

He is one of the key members of the digital team at REV Media Group, responsible for developing and expanding the digital business of Media Prima Berhad, the largest media conglomerate in Malaysia. REV’s digital content network reaches 11.5 million Malaysians monthly through 38 authoritative digital brands.

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Ola Henriksson

Independent Media Consultant, Sweden / Member of WAN-IFRA Expert Panel

Ola’s career at Svenska Dagbladet (a major Swedish news brand within the Schibsted Media Group) started in the newsroom. During his 20 years at the newspaper he managed many projects during the

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, UK
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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Director at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Professor of Political Communication at the University of Oxford. His work focuses on changes in the news media, on political communication, and the role of digital technologies in both. He has done extensive research on journalism, American politics, and various forms of activism, and a significant amount of comparative work in Western Europe and beyond.

Riya Chakraborty

Manager - Data & User Engagement, The Printers Mysore Limited

Riya is a believer in dedication & commitment are the key to transfer dreams into realities. It is important to believe in yourself at every instance of life & keep moving forward for a higher leap.

With a comprehensive experience she works across several verticals of Data & User Engagement for Deccan Herald & Prajavani. She believes in creating brand & business impact through effective data visualization & marketing strategies. Championing user engagement by formulating success strategies & ensuring execution excellence. Her expertise lies in growth hacking, ideation & prototyping, Marketing Strategy, Content & Social Media Marketing, Facebook Analytics, Google Dynamics. Proven experience in building, leading and managing high performance, cross functional teams.

She has a credible year of an entrepreneurial journey as a part of IIM Bangalore’s Women Entrepreneurship Program. She has gone above and beyond in the political campaigns insight & contributed for Assembly Elections 2021 with only one motto in life that she follows being a Xaverian, “Nihil Ultra”.

Robb Montgomery

Award-winning filmmaker, Textbook Author, Mobile Journalism Professor

Robb Montgomery’s is an American Mobile Journalism expert based in Berlin. He is a former editor at the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune and the author of Smartphone Video Storytelling and Mobile Journalism textbooks.

 

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Radhika Shukla

Head, Growth & Strategy, TOI+ and Newspoint, Times Internet Ltd.

Radhika heads Growth & Strategy for TOI+ and Newspoint at Times Internet Limited. She is responsible for driving the subscription business for Times of India Digital.

Prior to TIL, Radhika was the Regional APAC Director at Cheetah Mobile , leading their content business. She launched the News Republic, a French News aggregator in India which got acquired by Cheetah Mobile. She has worked in Product Management, Business Development Growth and Analytics roles at Airtel, Aircel and Hewlett Packard in the past.

She is an MBA from FMS, Delhi and a Chemical Engineering Grad from IITBHU.
She is an avid open-water swimmer, marathon runner and an Advanced Open Water Diver with more than 100 logged dives.

Ruhani Rabin

Senior GM, Digital, Star Media Group Berhad, Malaysia

Ruhani Rabin has been obsessed with Tech, Digital Leadership for almost 20 years. Recently joined the Star Media Group family to adopt his experiences in business, digital innovation, and transformation. Featured in BusinesInsider, Twitter, and many other publications as Tech/Digital influencers since 2010.

Rudy Lim

CEO, OIO Singapore

A firm believer that “This is the time for Plan B” where BLOCKCHAIN technology takes centre stage as a definitive operating system of the 21st century, Rudy Lim invested and coached over 20 start-up ventures and was the previous Head of Fintech at DBS, Singapore’s leading consumer bank with presence across 18 markets including India.

At SPH, Singapore’s largest media organisation, Rudy spearheaded the SPH Plug and Play programme, a joint venture between Singapore Press Holdings, Silicon Valley-based start-up accelerator Plug and Play and Infocomm Investments, the investment arm of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.

Rudy stands firmly by the belief that technology should be used to create value for society at large, and his passion in blockchain is fuelled by the increasing need to address solutions required for the digital financial economy. With the rise of NFTs, Rudy is hugely confident that the attributes of this fast-scaling phenomenon should not only benefit digital creators but also deliver significant and tangible value to established publishers who are open & committed to building new revenue streams through the minting and marketing of proprietary non-fungible tokens.

Ritu Kapur

Managing Director and CEO, The Quint, India

Ritu Kapur is the managing director and CEO of Quint Digital Media Limited which runs The Quint, an independent news site in India. She has strived to provide multiple platforms for free speech like

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Suresh Vijayaraghavan

Chief Technology Officer, The Hindu

Suresh Vijayaraghavan is a technocrat with over 30 years of global experience in strategic planning, IT project management, systems design and implementation, and much more.

He holds the distinction of successfully completing several strategically important projects both in the IT infrastructure and the enterprise applications space that helped business leverage IT capabilities.

Srinivasan Balasubramanian

Managing Director, Vikatan Group

Mr B Srinivasan (Srini) is the Managing Director of the 93 year old Vikatan Group. This third- generation entrepreneur joined his family business when Vikatan Group was print-only Magazine Publisher, in 1990.

Realising the significance of communities, advent of personalization, emergence of TV mediums and the surge of the Internet, Srini spearheaded Vikatan’s diversification through niche magazines, adopted internet publishing in 1997, went pay in 2005 and trending on social media since 2010 . He also entered content production for TV in 1998 and during the last 2 decades produced continuous #1 rated shows in Tamil. Since 2016, the Vikatan Group has created and curated popular event properties and client-led activations.

Today, the Vikatan Group is a diversified Media house with 12 magazine titles in Tamil boasting a combined sale of over 50 million magazines, 1 million books, over 2 billion annual page views from 8 million uniques on the internet, over 2 billion vide views in 2018 and interacting with its 20 million followers on social networks every month.

Having evangelized the digital first approach in content creation, curation and publishing at Vikatan Group, he is reengineering Vikatan’s culture by investing heavily in people, processes and workflows while ensuring that the consumer is kept at the heart of everything that Vikatan stands for, while firmly staying entrenched in Vikatan’s timeless value- systems.

With story- telling skills honed for almost a century, the Ananda Vikatan Group is now obsessed with becoming a full fledged content engine for OTT platforms and emerge as an independent digital media company by 2021.

Shyamal Datta

Principal Product Manager, Indian Express

Shyamal is working with The Indian Express group as a Principal Product Manager and is leading their digital subscription initiatives from the product side. He has 16 years of experience across IT and Digital companies and has spent the last 7 years with media organizations.

K.N.Shanth Kumar

Director, The Printers (Mysore) Pvt.Ltd and Member of the Board, WAN-IFRA

Shanth Kumar has been a printing technologist, editor and director with The Printers Mysore since 1983. He has driven the editorial coverage at Prajavani and helped it retain a leadership position in Karnataka over the last decade.

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Tamseel Hussain

CEO, pluc.tv and letmebreathe.in

Tamseel Hussain is the Founder and CEO of award-winning platforms pluc.tv and letmebreathe.in.

He uses storytelling and technology for creating immersive virtual narratives and is building solutions for the age of creator economy. He has previously worked with organizations like Change.org, Oxfam India. You can also find his stories in CNN International, The Guardian, Channel News Asia and National Geographic.

Utsah Kohli

Head Strategy & Execution, The Print

As head of Strategy and Execution for ThePrint, Utsah is responsible for providing business direction to the company. Her current focus is on audience development and building reader revenues.

Prior to ThePrint, she led the corporate plans and strategy for The Indian Express group and has worked with Citibank, HDFC Bank and as a successful entrepreneur.

Valérie Arnould

Deputy Director, Digital Revenue Network, WAN-IFRA, France

Since joining WAN-IFRA in 1997, Valérie has accrued more than 20 years of experience as a media journalist. Currently, she is a team member of WAN-IFRA’s Global Advisory division where she works with the Advisory Team in leading global consulting projects. She is also the Programme Lead for WAN-IFRA’s top global conferences including: World News Media Congress and our Digital Media Event Series. She has contributed to numerous research reports, including Alternative Revenue Streams for Publishers. As part of her research, Valérie interviewed numerous publishers who had found success discovering new business models – whether its through events, e-commerce, video or marketing services – Valérie has experience taking the pulse on what generates revenue for publishers.

Warren Fernandez

Editor Jefe, The Straits Times y English/Malay/Tamil Media Group,, SPH Media Trust, Singapur

Warren Fernandez se unió al periódico en 1990 como reportero de la sección de política, y llegó a editor de noticias. De ahí pasó a editor de internacional y sub-editor jefe.
En 2008 se convirtió en director global para el proyecto Future Energy de Royal Ducth Shell, antes de regresar al periódico en 2012 como editor. Desde julio de 2016 asumió el cargo de editor jefe para Singapore Press y English/Malay/Tamil Media Group (EMTM).
Fernandez se graduó con honores en Oxford, donde estudió Filosofía, Política y Economía. Además, tiene un master en Administración por la Escuela John F. Kennedy de Harvard.

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