Goa to host 16th IFRA India Conference
IFRA India 2008, the sixteenth
annual conference of IFRA in
India will be held at the Marriott
Resort Goa from September 17-18
and this is for the first time that
this event is being held in the
beach city.
The conference will start with a
session on ‘Newspaper of the
Future,’ looking at changes in
newspaper production technology,
exploring case studies and trying
to determine how the newspaper
will shape-up in future. Topics such
as semi-commercial printing, digital
printing, and printing using lower
grammage newsprint will be
discussed. Other sessions will be
on ‘Materials & Mailroom’ and
‘Technology to Use and Best
Practices’. Confirmed eminent
speakers from India and overseas
include: Sandeep Gupta, executive
president, Dainik Jagran; Sanat
Hazra, technical director, The Times
of India group; Sanjib Hazra, AGM
quality, HT Media Ltd; Dean Du
Toit, senior production manager,
Gulf News; Yusuke Naito, Nikkei,
Japan; and Ian Lewis, director,
Arcon Digital, New Zealand.
Also, there will be two preconference
workshops on
September 16, focusing on
‘Reorganising multimedia
newsroom and editorial systems’.
These workshops will be led by the
IFRA Newsplex team, targeting
editors, sub-editors, online editors,
IT directors, newsroom executives,
new media executives, management
executives, newsroom management
teams and leading newsrooms
or multimedia/convergence projects
in the editorial department.
The workshops will look into the
basic concepts of a multimedia
organisation with examples and also
try to understand the phases of
change of editorial reorganisation
and principles for guiding
newsroom transformation. Eminent
speakers include: Prof Dipak Jain of
HT Media – the dean of the Kellogg
School of Management since July
2001; Tomas Brunegard, CEO,
Stampen Group, Sweden; Dr Horst
Pirker, chairman, Styria Medien
Group, Austria, and president of the
Board of IFRA; Steve Yelvington,
senior strategist of Morris
Digitalworks, USA; and Tomasz
Jozefacki, head of internet division
of Agora, Poland.
At the workshop on Editorial
systems, vendors like 4CPlus,
Adobe, Comyan, Quark, Summit and
Televisual will present their
products. This workshop is
targeted at editors, sub-editors,
online editors, IT directors, systems
managers, production managers,
newsroom executives, new media
executives, designers, page layout
artists and executives from archives
& library. Delegates can make the
most of the opportunities offered at
this workshop, to focus on and
compare the working of several
systems in a highly productive
environment. For the first time, the
workshop will be conducted in a
small-group format so that
participants get enough time to
understand each system in details.
There will also be a panel discussion
featuring CEOs of India’s leading
newspapers, chaired by Tariq
Ansari, managing director, Mid
Day. Hans-Peter Rohner, CEO,
PubliGroupe SA, Switzerland, will
give a special address at the
Conclave dinner.
For more details, contact:
www.ifra.com/ifraindia2008
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