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9th WAN-IFRA Middle East Conference · 12-13 March 2014, Dubai

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Programme Day 1 – March 12th

Offical opening

10:00 Official opening of the conference

Welcome speech:

H.R.H. Princess Rym Ali, Jordan

10:30 Welcome address from the region

Dhaen Shaeen, CEO of Publishing Sector,

Dubai Media Incorporated, Dubai, UAE

Saleh Alhumaidan, Managing Director, Al-Yaum

Media House Dammam, Saudi Arabia, and Chairman of

the WAN-IFRA Middle East Committee

Mohammad Abdullah, Managing Director, Media

Cluster – TECOM Investments, Dubai, UAE

10:50 Welcome address from WAN-IFRA

Vincent Peyrègne, Chief Executive Officer,

WAN-IFRA, France

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Conference keynoteVisions for a different future

The news business is NOT a dying business. To survive we

have to rethink our business completely.

Patrick Daniel, Editor-in-Chief, Singapore Press Holding,

Singapore

12:30 Lunch and visit in the exhibition area

Innovations in NewsroomsModerator: Jonathan Halls, Adjunct Prof,

George Washington University, USA

14:00 Digital news in the age

of the platform

Like most modern news outlets, Springer is obsessed with

having everyone in the company work without distinction

between digital and print. Its latest initiative involves the

definitive transformation of the venerable daily Die Welt

into a multimedia news factory.

Benjamin Gajkowski, Die Welt, Axel Springer, Germany

14:30 Driving Newsroom Innovation with the

Power of Your People

“How to unleash newsroom innovation by tapping into the

talent of your staff”.

Journalists at news desks and on the road are the people

that transform newsroom strategies into reality. They

breathe life into the vision, taking goals, milestones and

metrics from flipcharts and excel spreadsheets into the real

world. Without well-trained staff and an environment that

nurtures rather than stifles creativity, a newsroom transfor-

mation may never reach its full potential.

Jonathan Halls, Adjunct Prof, George Washington

University, USA

15:00 Focusing on the Local: Mantiqti, the

region’s first quality hyperlocal newspaper

Mantiqti, the first “hyper local” free newspaper in Egypt

and the Middle East is distributed across Cairo’s vibrant

downtown district – door to door to residents, at branded

stands in cafes and among local businesses ranging from

the Stock Exchange to medical doctors, lawyers, tourism

companies and others. Learn more about the success of

this newspaper and its unique editorial strategy

Tarek Atia, Publisher, Mantiqti (My Neighborhood)

newspaper

15:30 Coffee break

Suppliers session Moderator: Manfred Werfel, WAN-IFRA, Deputy CEO,

Executive Director Competence Centre Newspaper

Production

16:00 The stage is yours ...

We welcome our suppliers partners to present their

latest innovations on stage.

18:00 Wrap up the day


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Programme Day 2 – March 13nd

Keynote speech – Day 210:00 Growing print with segmentation and

right targeting

Devil is in the detail, and indeed, in customization! Print

readership can be grown significantly through segmenta-

tion of the consumer, followed by appropriate customiza-

tion of format, content and mode of reach. In this pres-

entation, we will share successful case examples on this

topic, from the ABP group in English and regional language

dailies.

DD Purkayastha, Managing Director and CEO,

ABP Pvt. Ltd., India

11:00 Coffee break

Innovations in BusinessModerator: Ed Capaldi, The Growth Catalyst, Dubai, UAE

11:30 Form, Function and Monetisation in

Mobile and Tablet

Strong mobile and tablet strategy has never been more

important, and the options facing publishers never more

confusing. This presentation brings clarity to this crucial

area of development for any publisher – and a pathway

through the minefield of options.

Matt Kelly, Former Publisher Mirror Digital and

Publishing Consultant, Cases i Associats, UK

12:00 Powerful Strategies to turn your on-line

reach into powerful business

Mohammed Alharthi, Editor-in-Chief, Sayidaty Magazine –

The Saudi Research & Publishing Co.

12:30 Innovating and Winning with

business models

Have you ever been confronted with outdated business

models? Loss of market share? Poor revenue generation?

Poor margins? Fragmented strategies? If any of those prob-

lems sounds familiar, you should not miss this presentation.

Ed Capaldi, The Growth Catalyst, Dubai, UAE

13:00 Lunch and visit in the exhibition area

Innovations in PrintModerator: Manfred Werfel, WAN-IFRA, Deputy CEO,

Executive Director Competence Centre Newspaper

Production

14:30 From single to double width –

a success story continues

As print order and pages/copy increase, high speed double

width presses are inevitable to contain the high cost of

production and still meet deadlines.But the transition from

single width to double width presses is not esay sailing.It re-

quires detailed study and selection of best configuration for

a given situation and requires hard training for operators.

P K Philip, Chief General Manager, Works,

Malayala Malamarama, Kerala, India

15:00 Flying the Press: Simulator-based

training for newspaper printers

WAN-IFRA’s Research and Material Testing Centre in

Chennai installed a web-offset press simulator from Sinapse

in 2011 and since then have trained over 650 pressmen

across India. What is the training technology and how does

it benefit technical staff? A case study.

Anand Srinivasan, Research Engineer, WAN-IFRA, India

15:30 Success in Print: News UK’s

innovative strategies for growth

During a time when the focus of many publishers is digital

development, News UK is determined to ensure that its

evolving business model keeps print very much at its heart.

Rob Hedges, Sun Deputy Managing Editor, News UK

16:00 Industrial inkjet –

Bubble or innovation push for newspapers?

Digital printing has ben considered to offer the contrary

of what newspaper production needs: high-speed and

low-cost printing of large numbers of copies. But both the

strategic orientation of newspapers and the efficiency of in-

dustrial inkjet printing are continuing to develop. Suddenly

former contradictions appear to match up.

What can modern digital printing offer? What are the

niches of newspaper publishing that can be handled with

new production tools? How can coldset offset and inkjet

work hand-in-hand to create new and exciting newspaper

products?

Manfred Werfel, WAN-IFRA, Deputy CEO, Executive

Director Competence Centre Newspaper Production


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H.R.H. PRINCESS RYM ALIHer Royal Highness Princess Rym Ali founded in 2007 the Jordan Media Institute (JMI), a non-profit institution whose aim is to establish an Arab center of excellence for journalism education with a Master’s program at its core and training-modules in parallel (www.jmi.edu.jo/en). She has also been a member of the Board of Com-missioners of the Royal Film Commission - Jordan since July 2005 (www.film.jo/en).Prior to marrying HRH Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, Princess Rym worked extensively for international broadcasters including CNN, where she began as a producer in 1998 and later worked as a Baghdad correspondent from

2001 until 2004. She had developed her portfolio working for the BBC, Dubai TV, Bloomberg TV, Radio Monte-Carlo Moyen-Orient and United Press International-UPI.A graduate of Columbia University’s School of Journalism, Princess Rym Ali also holds a MPhil in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and a MA in English Literature from the Sorbonne.Princess Rym Ali received a prestigious Alumni Award from the Columbia University School of Journalism in April 2011. In July 2011, she was also awarded the “Best International Journalist” prize at the 32nd Ischia International Journalism Awards Ceremony, one of the most renowned journalistic awards in Italy. In September 2011, Princess Rym Ali received the French Knight of the Legion of Honor decoration from the French government.In October 2012, the Global Thinkers Forum awarded Princess Rym Ali the Excellence in Media Award. In November 2013, Princess Rym Ali received a PhD honoris causa from Coventry University – England, for her contribution to the field of Journalism and Media and as founder of the Jordan Media Institute.

Dhaen ShaeenCEO of Publishing Sector, Dubai Media Incorporated, Dubai, UAECurrent Editor-in-Chief of Al Bayan Daily Newspaper . CEO Dubai Media Incorporated Press. Headed Al-Bayan’s Sports Department; Supervised Cultural, Miscellaneous, Localities, Photography and Proofreading departments.Member of Emirates’ Writers Federation; Official in Charge of Public Relations during one of the Federation’s sessions.

Member of The Arab Writers’ General Federation.Financial and Administrative Manager of Al-Bayan Press, Printing & Publishing Establishment.Jury Member of Skeikha Latifa Bint Mohammed Prize for Childhood Creations. Member of The National Ecological Strategy Project in the Education & Ecological Awareness Sector. Participating in a training workshop on “Internal Customers” for The Dubai Government Excellence Award.Participating in a press training course on human rights, Rabat, Morocco.Poet & Literary Critic with five publications in Arabic:1. ”Silence-Inspiring Sign – A Poetic Collection (1990)2. ”Unsellable Stuff “ – A Collection of Essays & Articles (1992)3. ”Inscriptions on the Gates of Al-Napat” – Critical Articles (1995).4. “I Pronounce Thy Names in My Dreams” – A Collections of Writings.5. ”Out of Context” – A Collection of Articles on lifestyles and pubic culture.6. ”Other Faces for Life” – Articles & Essays.7. “Saaleek.com”8. “What the Wind did not say”9. “Outside the picture inside the frame”Participated in several cultural, literary and movie festivals, including Pizzaro Film Festival, Italy; The Mediterranean Film Festival of Pantelleria in Sicily, Italy; and The World Youth Festival in PyongYang, North Korea, 1989.Managing Editor for “Shoun Adabia”, a seasonal magazine published by Emirates Writers Federation.

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Mohammad AbdullahManaging Director, Media Cluster, TECOM Investments, a member of Dubai Holding, Dubai, UAEMohammad Abdullah is the Managing Director, Media Cluster, TECOM Investments, a member of Dubai Holding. The TECOM Investments Media Cluster includes Dubai Media City (DMC), Dubai Studio City (DSC) and International Media Production Zone (IMPZ).Prior to joining the media cluster, Abdullah was Executive Vice-President of CNBC Arabia, the premium business channel, responsible for editorial and operational management. He worked closely with the CNBC CEO in

guiding the company strategy, policy and implementation of corporate vision.Abdullah was also instrumental in supervising the staff to maintain and enhance the quality of broadcast output and strengthening the relevance to viewers.Abdullah made his foray into the print media at Emirates Media Incorporated where he was tasked with the strategic planning and positioning of a number of magazines and newspapers as Press Director, and subsequently as Director of Strategy and Planning. As the Press Director, he successfully achieved the right positioning of publications such as Al Ittihad as a leading UAE daily and helped the newspaper notch higher circulation and advertising revenues.Beginning his career with Abu Dhabi TV as a broadcast journalist and news anchor, Abdullah played a vital role in establishing the news centre of the channel in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. He was the member of the original ‘Structure and Planning Committee’ actively involved in laying down of operational, editorial, production and administrative procedures governing the news centre to this day.A multifaceted media professional, Abdullah also holds the distinction of establishing the Middle East Regional Committee for IFRA, the world’s leading organization for newspaper and media publishing.Abdullah holds a Master’s degree in Mass Communication from the Emerson College in Boston, US.

Saleh Al-HumaidanManaging director of Al Yaum Media HouseMr. Saleh Al-Humaidan is managing director of Al Yaum Media House, the leading publishing house in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. He is a doctoral candidate at the Grenoble Ecole de Management, in France.Mr. Al-Humaidan’s professional career spans 30 years, mainly in the private sector in Saudi Arabia, including membership of various Saudi public and private corporate boards and international organizations (WAN-IFRA & ILO). He is chairman of the newly formed Saudi Newspapers Publishing Council, a board member of the National

Newspaper Distribution Company, and a board member and president of the executive committee of Prince Ahmed Bin Salman Applied Media Academy, a leading and reputable media organization in Saudi Arabia.

Vincent PeyrègneChief Executive Officer, WAN-IFRA, FranceVincent Peyrègne took up duties as Chief Executive Officer of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) on 1st October 2012. Prior to joining WAN-IFRA, since the end of 2008 he worked in the office of the French minister of Culture and Communication where he was responsible for newspapers and new media as well as the “états généraux de la presse écrite”, the French government’s response to the economic difficulties facing the newspaper industry. From 2004 to 2008 he was head of development at Edipresse Publica-

tions SA in Lausanne, with responsibility for reader studies and marketing research. In 1997, as Regional Manager of IFRA (INCA FIEJ Research Association), he established IFRA South West Europe, the IFRA subsidiary with responsibility for the French-speaking regions and the Iberian Peninsula, which he headed for seven years. He then established IFRA Ibérica in 2000, coinciding with the launch of the Spanish-language edition of IFRA’s international magazine, técnicas de prensa. Before joining IFRA for the first time, he worked for three years for the business daily publication La Tribune Desfossés in Paris, initially as head of advertising, then customer relation-ship manager. A graduate of the European Institute of Business Administration (IEA) in Paris, he began his professional career work-ing as a consultant for several French newspaper companies, such as Libération and Groupe Sud-Ouest as well as for professional organisations such as Syndicat de la Presse Quotidienne Régionale, Syndicat de la Presse Parisienne, Syndicat des Quotidiens Départementaux and Nouvelles Messageries de la Presse Parisienne.Vincent Peyrègne is a founding board member of the French-language chapter of SND (Society for News Design) and since several years a member of ESOMAR and INMA, and a former member of the REMP-WEMF Research Committee (advertising media research) in Zurich.


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Anand SrinivasanResearch Engineer, WAN-IFRA, IndiaEducation: Bachelor of Engineering. Specialisation: Printing TechnologyRole at WAN-IFRA: Anand is responsible for the activities at WAN-IFRA Research and Material Testing Centre, Chennai which offers newsprint and newsink testing, print quality evaluation, research and training on various newspaper production topics. In the last five years with WAN-IFRA, he has published several research reports on the topics of materials and colour reproduction. He was one of the members of the Jury that judged the general print quality of newspapers in INCQC 2010-12. He is also an adjunct faculty at the Department of Printing Tech-

nology, Anna University. Previous work experience: The Hindu, a leading English daily in India – Engineer in the Graphics department and a member of the QC team, responsible for colour correction, colour management and conformance of all the printing centres of The Hindu to ISO 12647-3.

Benjamin GajkowskiProjektmanager Premium Produkte, Die Welt, Axel Springer AGBenjamin Gajkowski is Projectmanager Premium Products at the newscooperation DIE WELT at Axel Springer SE. In this position he is responsible for the development of the DIE WELT Smartphone-Apps, which include the mobile applications on iOS, Android and Blackberry 10.Being part of the team, which implemented the first paywall of a national newswebsite in Germany in December 2012, Benjamin has gained detailed knowledge on paid strategies for mobile devices and in the

sales and marketing-activities for mobile applications. Benjamin is also responsible for the cooperation business within the DIE WELT ONLINE-department.After studying history and politics, Benjamin also graduated from the Axel-Springer-Academy, one of the leading Journalism-Schools in Germany. He has worked at serveral newspapers like DIE WELT, DIE WELT Kompakt, Berliner Morgenpost, Berliner Morgenpost Kompakt, Magazines like VIEW and online editorial-teams like DIE WELT ONLINE, stern.de, Bild.de or the editorial team of the DIE WELT or BILD iPad-App before joining the product-development-department at DIE WELT ONLINE.

Dipankar Das PurkayasthaManaging Driector & CEO, ABP Pvt Ltd, IndiaD. D. Purkayastha is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ABP Pvt Ltd., overseeing the strategy and operations of the entire ABP portfolio. He is also the Chairman of INFOCOM.He is a Director of MCCS, (Broadcasting company for ABP News, ABP Ananda and ABP Majha).He is a qualified Cost and Management Accountant and has more than 37 years of experience in the industry of which 34 years have been with ABP Pvt. Ltd. He is also one of the leading IT professionals of the country.

Mr. Purkayastha is the Chairman of the Central Advisory Council and a member of the Board and Executive Committee of WAN-IFRA, the newspaper association with large footprint in Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa.Mr. Purkayastha is the Vice President of the International Newsmedia Association (INMA) South Asia. The association has strong presence in the Americas, Asia and Australasia.

Ed CapaldiCEO & Founder Ed Capaldi LLCAs a strategic advisor and business coach, Ed has supported over 100 high growth individuals across the region transform their business vision into reality, fast. Driven by a relentless passion for excellence through the process of continuous improvement, Ed has a proven track record of getting results.Ed moved to the region in 2003 as CIO of Gulf News, then joined the Executive Committee tasked with building and executing strategies to transform Gulf News’ portfolio of brands (Newspapers, Radio, and Magazines)

into the digital age. The only certified Rockefeller Business Coach trained in Business Model Canvas covering the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, his areas of expertise are Business Coaching, Strategic Planning & Execution, Business Modeling, and Digital & IT Transformation.Dominant businesses are masters at navigating the digital economy, their leadership team is agile, fast and able to compete on busi-ness models and their IT has become the strategic enabler and catalyst in transforming the business from industrial age to the digital age. Ed’s expertise is in making this happen and his Program for Growth™ the accelerator.

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Jonathan HallsAdjunct Professor, The George Washington University and Principal, Jonathan Halls & Associates, USAJonathan Halls is Principal of Jonathan Halls & Associates and an adjunct professor at The George Washington University in Washington DC.He has worked for more than twenty years in the media industry, in more than 20 countries and with 30 different nationalities. He teaches and consults on organizational dynamics including leadership, change, communication and innovation. He also teaches media production. Jonathan was formerly a learning executive

at BBC in London. He was responsible for the delivery of the BBC’s prestigious multimillion dollar training operation in television, radio operations and new media. Jonathan started his career as a journalist and has worked as a trainer and executive.

Manfred WerfelDeputy CEO, WAN-IFRA, GermanyManfred Werfel took up duties at Ifra in 1996. He is Deputy CEO and Executive Director Production of WAN-IFRA, based in Germany. He heads a department with Consultants, Research managers and specialists in different areas of expertise, from Newspaper Production to ink and paper. Werfel specialises in reproduction and prepress applications as well as in colour management and printing standardisation in newspaper environments.

Matt KellyPublishing Consultant, Cases i Associats, UKMatt Kelly has been a journalist at the cutting edge of one of the world’s most competitive newspaper markets – the UK – for two decades.As Publisher of Mirror Group Digital, he launched commercially successful brands such as 3am and MirrorFootball across desktop, tablet and mobile. Today he leads the London office of Cases i Associats, working on transformational projects in newsrooms across the world.

P K PhilipChief General manager, Works, Malayala manoramaA Chartered Electrical Engineer with over 50 years experience in the design and production fields in different Industries. Of this the last 25 years had been with Malayala Manorama Co Ltd, a printing and Publishing Co, situated in Kerala State in India. We print nearly 2.3 million copies of our flagship daily “Malayala Manorama” from 19 centers in 97 editions. I am in charge of all printing and pre press facilities and men at all centers. We print many other publications also other than the daily. It is one of the largest media houses in India and is

into TV, FM and internet as well.

Mohammed Fahad AlharthiEditor-in-Chief of Sayidaty, Al Jamila and Arab NewsMohammed Fahad Alharthi holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, a Masters Degree in International Journalism from UK’s City University and has over 20 years experience in the media. He began his career at Asharq Al Awsat International Arabic Daily published from London before joining Arab News in 1992 as a correspondent. He moved to work with the team to establish the economic newspaper in Saudi Arabia and served as journalist to senior sub- editor of the front page and later became the managing

editor. In 1997, he became the editor-in-chief of Arrajol magazine in London and received the Gulf Excellence Award in 2002 on Ar-rajol’s huge success. He also worked as a visiting journalist at The Financial Times in London. In 2004, he became the editor-in-chief of Sayidaty and Al Jamila Magazine and oversaw the transfer from London to Dubai Media City. He has played a leading role in the efforts to bring out a number of specialized issues of Sayidaty such as Sayidaty Décor, Sayidaty Mother & Baby and Sayidaty Fashion. He also supervised the establishment of Sayidaty magazine in English. He was a founding member of the Arab Youth Leaders Forum at Davos Middle East conference, a member of Gulf 2000 project at Columbia University in New York and holds also memberships of the Journalists Union in the UK.

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Patrick DanielEditor-in-Chief, English & Malay Newspapers Mr Daniel was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the English & Malay Newspapers Division of SPH in January 2007. Prior to this, he was Managing Editor of the division from September 2002, and Editor of The Business Times from May 1992. He joined the media in October 1986 from the Singapore Government’s Administrative Service where his last position was Director in the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Mr Daniel is a director of SPH Magazines, SPH UnionWorks and Tamil Murasu Ltd, and also chairs two SPH

subsidiaries - Straits Times Press and Shareinvestor.com Holdings. He serves on the boards of the Casino Regulatory Authority, the Singapore University of Technology and Design and National University Health System. Mr Daniel graduated from University College, Oxford in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Engineering Sciences and Economics. He also has a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Rob HedgesAssociate Managing Editor, The Sun, News UK, United KingdomRob Hedges is the Associate Managing Editor of The Sun. Rob was previously Production Manager (Online) for The Sunday Times as their website became fully paid. During over 17 years with News UK he has worked on the launch of The London Paper and News Magazines, as well as being Editorial Development Manager across all titles in the group.

Tarek AtiaCEO and Founder, EMDP (Egypt Media Development Program), EgyptA journalist and early online innovator in Egypt in the late 1990s, Tarek Atia founded web portals cairolive.com and zahma.com, was Assistant Editor in Chief of Al-Ahram Weekly, and has had his writing published in promi-nent international media outlets including The Washington Post and Neue Zurcher Zeitung.Since 2006, he has worked in media development, designing and implementing capacity building programs for over 5,000 journalists, editors and mangers working across print, broadcast and online platforms. He has also

been an adjunct lecturer at Cairo University’s Faculty of Mass Communications, the American University in Cairo and the Intajour International Media Academy in Hamburg, Germany.In 2011 he founded and now heads the new media training consultancy EMDP (Egypt Media Development Program), which offers professional development and management consulting services to the Egyptian and regional media sector. EMDP is also the pub-lisher of Mantiqti (My Neighborhood), Egypt’s first hyper local print newspaper covering downtown Cairo.

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