Day 1 – Printing Summit (15-09-2025)
09:30 – 09:45
Welcome and opening remarks
09:45 – 10:15
The print automation project (using integration of AI) resulted in a 25%-30% cost reduction in its first year, and took two years to fully integrate across 30 newspapers. Experience from Bonnier News Local
10:15 – 11:15
Panel discussion: The future of the news media business. The CEOs of India’s leading media organisations discuss the topic.
11:15 – 11:45
Networking break
Session moderator: Amit Waghmare, CIO, DB Corp.
11:45 – 12:05
Reimagining IT Architecture for New Age Publishing:
How and what are the increasingly adopted IT or cloud frameworks that enable efficiency in the publishing workflow to suit a new age of publishing? What are the work and automated workflows?
12:05 – 12:35
Diversification: What next for print and technologies shaping the future.
12:35 – 14:00
Lunch break
Moderator: Debarshi Ray, Technical Director, BCCL
14:00 – 14:20
Innovation across print production: Production processes and innovative products that support business performance.
14:20 – 14:40
Innovation-Driven Efficiency and Advertising Solutions: Process innovations to unlock value-centric advertising strategies powered by product enhancements.
14:40 – 15:00
Process initiatives: How strategic modifications to electronic components and simplified processes at “The Hindu” press halls helped to uplift production efficiency and cut costs.
15:00 – 15:15
Precision in Print: Streamlining colour & Workflow. Highlights of practical tools and techniques implemented in plant and prepress environments.
15:15 – 15:30
Process enhancement that enhances the production : Process enhancement that enhances the production operation through value addition. How a simple innovative approach and modification improves and adds efficiency to the process
15:30 – 16:00
Networking break
16:00 – 17:00
Panel discussion: Managing last mile connectivity and the challenges of route optimisation, owning the reader, last mile delivery challenges, attracting distribution manpower.
17:00
Summary and Learnings from day one.
19.00
Best in Print 2025 Awards Ceremony & Welcome Dinner
Day 2 – Printing Summit (16-09-2025)
09.30 – 10:30
Panel discussion: Strategies for operational excellence. Discussion on lean practice, automation, newsprint cost, waste reduction, workflow management, manpower capabilities.
10:30 – 11:00
Networking break
Moderator: Prabhu N, Research Engineer, WAN-IFRA South Asia
11:00 – 11:30
Implications for India’s paper industry by tariff and middle east conflict, change in needs and demand, price and imports.
11:30 – 12:00
Carbon footprint reduction and green certifications for newspaper printing plants : Learnings from a WAN-IFRA driven project
12:00-12:30
News Distribution on New-Age Platforms: Expanding reach, building habit, and driving readers back to owned products.
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch break
Moderator: Magdoom Mohamed, Managing Director, WAN-IFRA South Asia
14:00 -14:20
World Press Trends 2025, The early results of WAN-IFRA’s annual report on the state of news media around the world.
14:20 -14:40
Book publishing reinstates the power of print: Insights into reaching the reading audience.
14:40 – 15:40
Panel discussion: Innovations that bind print and digital, and build on the advantage of each medium. Heads of Digital business of leading Indian media companies discuss how they plan their strategies for the business and grow the medium together.
15:40 – 16:00
Conference summary and key takeaways
16:00
Conference closing
