Indian Printers Summit 2022

September 14 Wednesday

13:00

Registration and Lunch

14:00

Conference Inauguration and welcome Remarks

Speakers

K.N.Shanth Kumar

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

Dr. Adrian Haack

Director, Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), New Delhi

14:15

Opening keynote: Content will never go out of fashion. What holds good for the future of print in digital world.

Speakers

Mohit Jain

Board member and Executive Director at Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group), President INS and Board Member WAN-IFRA.

14:45

Back to business and the strategic repositioning of print in the new reality.

Speakers

Partha Sinha

President - Response, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.

15:05

Roundtable: Post pandemic revival of print and the ensuing business opportunities.

Speakers

Varghese Chandy

Vice President, Marketing & Advertising Sales, Malayala Manorama

Harrish M Bhatia

President - Ad Sales, DB Corp

Suresh Balakrishna

Chief Revenue Officer, The Hindu

15:45

Expo Visit & Networking Time

19:00

Welcome Dinner - ‘Celebrating Print’, and, Recognition of ICQC winners from India.

September 15 Thursday

09:30

Newsprint challenges and the way forward for the industry.

Publishers and suppliers perspectives.

Speakers

Satish Chandra Mishra

Director, Jagran Prakashan Ltd

Paula Smith

Sales Director, Copap Inc

10:15

Panel: Optimizing materials and other ideas. In the times of price raise and the demand for printing materials, how do publishers and suppliers manage their resources? Discussion on the challenges and ideas that worked for close management of key supply chain.

Technology managers and suppliers discuss the topic.

Chair

Snehasis C Roy

Director - Technical, Bennett Coleman Co Ltd., India

Speakers

Bernhard Schmiedeberg

Senior VP - Sales, EAE QIPC

Utsab Choudhuri

Sr Vice President,Head Technology at DIC India

D Gnanavadivel

Director, Sri Srivathsa Paper Mills Pvt. Ltd.

11:15

Digital printing of newspapers – the possibilities and business case.

Speakers

Amit Khurana

COO - Newspaper Group, TechNova, India

11:45

Expo Visit & Networking Time

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Closing session: Successful innovations and new ways of operating in print publishing.

a) IoT for smart manufacturing and its application in newspaper manufacturing
b) UV Curing / Gloss printing
c) Holistic approach to quality assurance programes and best practices to improve quality and efficiency.

Speakers

John Cusack

Business Development Manager, Baldwin.

Saptangshu Chaudhuri

Deputy General Manager, Printing, ABP Pvt Ltd.

Puneet Razdan

General Manager, Hindustan Times

Magdoom Mohamed

Managing Director, WAN-IFRA South Asia

16:00

Closing remarks and end of the conference

Expo and networking.

17:00

Indian Printers Summit 2022