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Our predictions and intuitions about the world in which we operate could be abysmally wrong. We get taken aback when unexpected competitors burst on the scene. We are surprised when businesses protected by deep moats of resources and loyalty find their defenses breached. We are startled when new markets erupt from nothing.
Welcome to the world of a new economic and unique business dynamics, where the classical rules of thriving in business have yielded place to a fluid and perpetually shifting locus of competitiveness. It is creating a radical and transformative impact on every business, including media. All conventional businesses would be disrupted by unusual suspects and non-linear offensives. Consequently, all competitive advantages have become transient and new grammar has to evolve to ensure future sustenance
It is true that the media sector has largely remained insulated from the turbulence that other sectors like telecom, retail, and airlines have been experiencing. It is quite possible the comfort zone that media sector have been enjoying might get Uberised by players who might not own any media. Dramatic changes in business models are unearthing a fissure in traditional approaches to strategy and the way real world is working now. The arrival of Generation Z in the consideration set is only compounding the complexities.
The 9th Annual INMA South Asia News Media Conference will not be business as usual. Under the theme, “Not Just An Ordinary Disruption,” we will employ “unconference” concepts. We will co-calibrate with the delegates, learn from non-media sectors, and try to extrapolate key takeaways to our media sector. From this engagement, you — the avid learners of business, marketing and advertising — will get exposed to never-before-learnings of the new facts of business life and from the speakers and practitioners who have been engaged in ground combat on a real-time basis. And from this angle, we have christened it as Unconference, as we won't offer you anything conventional.
Come and join in this cognitive journey of learning the combative technique of countering extraordinary disruption.
Under the theme, “Not Just An Ordinary Disruption,” the 9th Annual INMA South Asia News Media Conference will take a non-traditional look at the changing media landscape. In this opening ceremony, jump inside the vision of conference organisers to see what publishers can learn from Coca Cola, BCG, Ernst & Young, IIM, advertisers, and peer publishers outside of South Asia.
D.D. Purkayastha
President, INMA South Asia, and Managing Director and CEO, ABP Pvt. Ltd. linkedIn
Bhaskar Das
Conference Moderator and Group CEO, Zee Media Corporation Ltd. @bedee0805linkedIn
How do we prepare ourselves for a future that would be marked by relentless change and conjure new opportunities from nowhere? Learn it from one of the greatest combatants of our times.
Shubhajit Sen
Chief Marketing Officer, Micromax India
@senshubhajit linkedIn
Organisations around various sectors — be it incumbent, emergent or de novo ones — are forging new path to winning, exploring opportunities fast and cheap, leveraging them for some time and move on before their potential is exhausted. How can one identify the new growth outliers from unusual and non-linear sources? How an incumbent organisation simultaneously balance stability and agility to handle short-term volatility while keeping their eyes on the long-term horizon?
Neeraj Aggarwal
Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group, South Asia linkedIn
Content czars are now at a juncture of history where existing business models are under attack, and one doesn't know the location of the attacker. What does one do when the dominant business model is under question? What happens when advertiser becomes a media owner? How would one combat a media owner who doesn't own a media? How does a media company compete when its consumer becomes a creator of content? Will media organisations be ultimately Googlised, Facebookised, Whatappised or Instagramised? In this panel of South Asian media company CEOs, find out the answers to these questions.
Moderated by Ashish Pherwani
Partner, Ernst & Young, LLP linkedIn
Pawan Agarwal
Deputy Managing Director, Bhaskar Group linkedIn
Sanjay Gupta
CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jagran Prakashan
Raj Jain
CEO, Bennett Coleman & Company linkedIn
D.D. Purkayastha
MD & CEO, ABP Pvt. Ltd. linkedIn
Rajiv Verma
CEO, HT Media linkedIn
Chirantan Chatterjee
Faculty Member in Corporate Strategy & Policy, IIM, Bangalore linkedIn
Who attacks and why? How does disruption translate into incumbent responses? Are lessons in disruption different across sectors? Or are they similar? What comes out of interactions between the incumbent and the attacker? Is competition being re-defined as coopetition? These and other questions will be touched in this session where we will be joined by disruption evangelists from Indian organisations.
Ketan Kapoor
Co-Founder & CEO, Mettl @ketankapoorlinkedIn
Sanjeeb Kalita
Founding Member & VP - Sales & Business Excellence, Ezetap @kalita_sanjeeblinkedIn
Umesh Malhotra
Founder, Hippocampus Reading Foundation linkedIn
Baskar Subramanian
Co-Founder, Amagi Media Labs linkedIn
Mihir Shah
Founder, UE Lifesciences linkedIn
Product redesign is often at the core of transforming beliefs about how businesses operate for customers. This session will focus on product design as a needle-shifting strategy with insights from industry thought leaders. Also business models play a central role in this transformation, and we will learn here on how they are changing the paradigm using novel business models.
Sanjeeb Kalita
Founding Member & VP - Sales & Business Excellence, Ezetap @kalita_sanjeeblinkedIn
Ketan Kapoor
Co-Founder & CEO, Mettl @ketankapoorlinkedIn
Umesh Malhotra
Founder, Hippocampus Reading Foundation linkedIn
Baskar Subramanian
Co-Founder, Amagi Media Labs linkedIn
Mihir Shah
Founder, UE Lifesciences linkedIn
We are now seeing a conversion of old habits into new ones, ushered in by shifting business models disrupting beliefs about living a post-modern life. Business models play a central role in this transformation and we will learn here from Coca Cola on how they are changing the paradigm using novel business models.
Debabrata Mukherjee
Vice President - Marketing and Commercial, Coca Cola, India and South West Asia in conversation with Bhaskar Das linkedIn
Bhaskar Das
Conference Moderator and Group CEO, Zee Media Corporation Ltd. @bedee0805linkedIn
Venue is The Courtyard, Lower Ground Floor, Pullman hotel, Aerocity, New Delhi
Bhaskar Das
Conference Moderator and Group CEO, Zee Media Corporation Ltd. @bedee0805linkedIn
Schibsted has become the international poster child for media companies reinventing themselves for the Digital Age. The reinvention is based on the cornerstones of advanced data analytics, customer insights, payment services, technology platforms, organisation and competence. Yet how does this apply to its leading quality news brand, Aftenposten, which is going through root-and-branch culture change to keep up with how people consume news and how advertisers chase the new digital consumer? Find out in this one-of-a-kind presentation that will soon impact India.
Espen Egil Hansen
CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Aftenposten, Norway @espenegillinkedIn
A region once thought immune from the cultural and economic headwinds of digital disruption now aims to learn from peers around the world and avoid the mistakes from the past decade. In this fast-paced session, learn how South Asian publishers are maneuvering innovation and transformation into the culture of their companies and coming up with new innovations to redefine the marketplace.
Sundar Kondur
Vice President, Advertising, The Hindu linkedIn
Chandan Majumdar
Director, Advertising, ABP Pvt. Ltd
Sudha Natrajan
Head Business Development, HT Media Ltd
Arun Karadi
Vice President, Vijayavani linkedIn
Vinay Maheshwari
Sr. Vice President, Sales, Market Dev & BD, Dainik Bhaskar linkedIn
With the accelerated pace of technology, globalisation, and changing consumer culture suddenly an asymmetry emerged between safety zone and comfort zone. Who is whose customer? Are the new upstart digital agencies might move the cheese for the analogue-skewed players? Is revenue maximisation objective of the media owners in sharp contrast with the investment optimisation objective of the advertisers and the advertiser agencies? Hear the answers to these when INMA hears the voice of India's leading advertisers in this riveting panel discussion.
Moderated by D.N. Mukherjea
Editor, Fortune India linkedIn
Suresh Balakrishna
CEO, Initiative-BPN
Sanjeev Handa
Vice President-Marketing, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.
linkedIn
Sandip Tarkas
President - Customer Strategy, Future Group @sandiptarkaslinkedIn
Harpreet Singh Tibb
Director - Marketing, India and South Asia, Kellogg India Pvt. Ltd. linkedIn
As legacy publishers embrace next-generation data analytics and the fledgling digital media darlings embrace quality editorial environments for quality advertisers, the two ends of a rope are burning toward each other. In this closing keynote presentation, get a global update on how media companies are transforming, re-thinking value propositions, and understanding technology trends. All of this is leading to new strategic embraces of Big Data, mobile, and programmatic.
Earl J. Wilkinson
Executive Director and CEO, INMA, United States @earljwilkinsonLinkedIn
Bhaskar Das
Conference Moderator and Group CEO, Zee Media Corporation Ltd. @bedee0805linkedIn
As a value-added to INMA South Asia News Media Conference delegates, make a visit to the new world-class integrated newsroom at HT Media, which is in the midst of what may be the most aggresive transformation project in any news media company anywhere in Asia. A new 45,000-square foot newsroom brings together three titles in a space designed to facilitate collaboration and integrated digital-print workflows. A single end-to-end publishing platform is being rolled out across the group, bringing unprecedented transparency, efficiency, and planning capability to bear across the organisatino's locations, verticals, and channels. And a new organisational structure for editorial supports a new approach to the day, prioritising mobile audiences while driving improvements in the quality of the print product. Join INMA for a first-ever peep into this newsroom and a discussion of how technology, workspaces, and editorial practices are coming together to secure our relevance for the complex digital and print environment of India's present and its fast-approaching future. The visit consists of a tour of the emerging newsroom, a discussion of HT Media's approach to integration, and a question and answer session. Study tour buses leave the conference hotel Holiday Inn at 2.45 p.m. and return back at 6.00 p.m.
Asset Area 12,
Aero City Hospitality District,
New Delhi, Delhi 110037, India
+91 11 42222000
The INMA South Asia News Media Conference will attract top managements from media companies throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
See Who Will Be ThereWhat is the attire?
Business casual
How to get to venue
Click here for a map of the venue at Holiday Inn, Aerocity New Delhi International Airport.
What will the weather be like?
Expect 10°C-27°C
Sponsorship
Contact INMA's Priya Marwah to learn more
About New Delhi
Language
English
INMA South Asia Board
President: D.D. Purkayastha
Managing Director & CEO, ABP Pvt. Ltd, Calcutta
Vice President: Idupuganty Venkat
Director, Eenadu, Hyderabad
Past President: Sanjay Gupta
CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Dainik Jagran, Noida
Director: Pawan Agarwal
Deputy Managing Director, Bhaskar Group, Bhopal
Director: Shantanu Bhanja
Chief Digital Officer, HT Media, New Delhi
Director: Bhaskar Das
Group CEO-News, Zee Media Corporation Ltd., Mumbai
Director: Siddharth Kothari
Director, Rajasthan Patrika Pvt. Ltd, Jaipur
Director: Rajiv Lochan
Managing Director & CEO, The Hindu, Chennai
Director: Jacob Mathew
Executive Editor, Malayala Manorama Co. Ltd, Kotttayam
Director: Matiur Rahman
Editor & Publisher, The Daily Prothom Alo, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Director: Arunabh Das Sharma
President & Executive Director, BCCL, New Delhi
Priya Marwah
New Delhi, India
Phone: +91 98-71-996878
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