18 - 20 July 2023
Virtual

Indian Media Leaders eSUMMIT 2023

Programme

Indian Media Leaders e Summit 2023 Virtual

July 18 Tuesday

15:00

Opening and Welcome

Speakers
Director, The Printers (Mysore) Pvt.Ltd and Member of the Board, WAN-IFRA
Managing Director, WAN-IFRA South Asia
15:10

Keynote address: 4 key learnings: How to create a digitally sustainable newsroom

Key lessons in digital transformation. Hear from a leading publisher on how they turned the table and went from crisis to ‘digitally sustainable’

Speakers
SVP Editorial (digital transformation) Schibsted, Sweden
15:45

Technologies impacting news media business, and harnessing AI and data for competitive advantage.

Moderator
Vice President - Data and Analytics, The Hindu
Speakers
Founder, Subbed, UK
16:15

The CEO Roundtable:

How do South Asian CEOs priortise their strategies and respond to the macro issues impacting the news media industry. What is the outlook?

Chair
Director, Programs for Asia, Deutsche Welle (DW)
Speakers
Executive Editor and Director of Malayala Manorama Company
CEO-Print, HT Media
Deputy MD, DB Corp, India.
CEO, The Printers Mysore and Editor, Deccan Herald

July 19 Wednesday

15:00

Keynote address:

Diversity for the future of news media. Insights for building organisations with diverse backgrounds for success.

Moderator
Journalist, freelance, India
Speakers
Founder Director HED Healthcare & Managing Partner BeyonDiversity.
Head of Operations- UK & MEA at Marsh & McLennan Companies
15:40

Women Leaders Roundtable

The challenges of women leaders in decision making positions at media companies. What it means to build an inclusive media organisation.

Chair
Managing Director and CEO, The Quint, India
Speakers
Editor- Times Internet
Associate Vice President, Health & Lifestyle Verticals, Jagran New Media.
VP & Editor-In-Chief at Brut India
16:40

Aligning data strategies with business goals

Media companies building their data strategy are facing challenging times. We will hear how the Financial Times Group has successfully managed to align itself with common goals, data ownership and platform relationships.

Speakers
Director of Analytics Business Impact, Financial Times, UK
17:30

End of day 2

July 20 Thursday

15:00

Keynote address: The perks of an audience-first strategy. One million subs and sustainability.

News Corp recently hit the milestone of one million paying customers for their digital properties in Australia. Michael will talk about how they accomplished this by focusing on quality journalism and, in the process transformed the organisation into an audience-centric one with a sustainable future.

Speakers
Executive Chairman, News Corp Australasia
15:40

Social media strategy in attracting young audiences at The Economist.

Moderator
Director, Digital Skills Agency, Australia
Speakers
Head of Social Media, The Economist
16:20

Panel: Managing digital revenue strategy for the future.

Head of Digital Business of Indian news media company discuss their plans and the digital future.

Chair
Senior Editor and Media Commentator
Speakers
CEO - Indian Express Online Media Services
CEO-HT Digital, HT Media Ltd
COO, Times Internet Ltd.
Director - Digital Business | Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing co. Ltd
17:00

End of the Summit

Contact

Thai Anban Chokkalingam

Manager - Business Development

thai.anban@wan-ifra.org

Chennai, India

Vijayalakshmi Murali

Manager - Business Development and Operations

vijayalakshmi.murali@wan-ifra.org

Chennai, India