WAN-IFRA Launches New Asian Digital Conference

Singapore: The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) is launching a new event for digital publishers in Asia that will focus on developing new revenue from new publishing platforms.

Digital Media Asia 2009, to be held in Singapore on 18 to 20 November next, aims to explore how cutting edge organisations are using the most advanced digital media platforms to profitably multipurpose content from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting or books.

The conference will focus on online, mobile and eReader strategies in separate sessions devoted to those topics. Session topics include: successful strategies for monetizing the web; boosting online revenues; innovative ventures on digital media; redefining the mobile media landscape; learning from different markets; mobile initiatives for increasing digital reach and revenues; an update on eReader markets and developments; case studies from early eReader adopters; and a eReader technology update.

For the evolving conference programme, registration details and other information, please consult www.wan-ifra.org/dma

Confirmed speakers include: Mike Van Nierkek, Editor in Chief, Fairfax Digital, Australia; Naoki Onodera, Senior Member Start-up Business Development Office, Mainichi Shimbun, Japan; Emmanuel Sauquet, Head of Business Development Asia Pacific, Google, Singapore; Stig Nordqvist, Group Director, Emerging Digital Platforms, WAN-IFRA; Javier Vicente Rufino, Director, LINQ7 / PDI, Philippines; Philip Sugai, Director, Mobile Consumer Lab, GSIM, International University of Japan; Paul Jansen, CEO, SPH Search (Rednano), Singapore; Lin Ye, Deputy Director, Information Technology Dpt., JieFang Daily, China; and Jochen Dieckow, Business and New Media Research Manager, WAN-IFRA.

Digital Media Asia 2009 aims to provide information to publishers, CEOs, managing directors, IT directors, business development directors and other senior executives to help them increase their reach and expand their audience and profitability with the help of emerging media platforms.

WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore, India, Spain, France and Sweden, is the global organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers. It represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries. The organisation was created by the merger of the World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, the research and service organisation for the news publishing industry.