PWI Conclave to equip print buyers with the nitty-gritty

Representatives from media planning and buying, the creative fraternity, the publishing business, and the marketing fraternity will engage in a discussion on - and showcase of - the power of print.

 

Marking their presence in the audience will be the PrintWeek India Awards 2012 jury, which will include print buyers like Hitesh Shah, Karan Rawat, Yogesh Bambal, Geetanjali Bhattacharji, Hemal Kapadia, Huzefa Kanorwala, Raja Sanyal, Soma Roy and Fazal Imam Farooqui.

 

The timeline for the CONCLAVE program is:

 

10.00am            Welcome: Suresh Ramakrishnan, publishing director, Haymarket Media India.

 

10.03am            Key-note: Looking at Dr Ajit Ranade, well-known economist and head of the Corporate Economics Cell (CEC), a research-based advisor for the Aditya Birla Group, will be delivering the prestigious key-note address at the PWI Conclave.

 

10.30am            Jo Francis, deputy editor from PrintWeek UK will be presenting: A View from Drupa: Review and overview.

 

11.00am             Panel discussion (A View from Drupa - Review and overview): With top tech-specialists from Vishnu Kamat of Advanced Graphic Systems (AGS), SK Roy of Bobst India, Puneet Datta of Canon India, Peter Kirwan of Goss International & SLKCG, Mahesh Kode of Dupont, Anil Krishna of Henkel Adhesive and Sajith P of Welbound Worldwide.

 

11.40am            Josy Paul, the chairman and national creative director of BBDO India about brands and campaigns in India that used print.

 

12.00pm            Tarun Rai, chief executive officer, Worldwide Media, and president, The Association of Indian Magazines will speak on: Magazines - The power of engagement and the future of print.

 

12.30pm            Indrajit Sen, executive director of Indian Outdoor Advertising Association and founder-director of Media Analytics and Designs will speak on: Top trends in OOH. Ten things a print vendor needs to look out for.

 

12.45pm       LUNCH

 

02.00pm           Karin Mayer, vice president, business line management for ink and dry toner solutions at Canon will discuss: How to make India one of the world’s leading outsourcing player.

 

02.30pm           Neela Dabir, registrar, TISS, Vision and Mission for Print Training.

 

02.45pm          Subodh Kulkarni, packaging material supply chain director will talk on 'Green' initiatives by Tetra Pak in India.

 

03.00hrs          Gokul Krishnamurthy, the editor of Campaign India will discuss the Power of Print - with top brands and print buyers. 

The discussants are: 

- Bharat Kapadia, founder of ideas@BharatKapadia.com; 

- Indranil Roy, president of Outlook Group; 

- Zuben Tatna, national director-integrated planning of MEC;

- Sharad Haksar, founder and chief executive officer of 1pointsize; 

- Pawan Sarda, chief marketing officer of Future Group.

 

04.15pm            Ravi Kiran, a growth advisor and an active angel investor. He is the co-founder and managing partner of Friends of Ambition, helped build and ran several businesses for Starcom MediaVest Group, a part of Paris based Publicis Groupe, as its CEO- South East and South Asia. He will speak on: What we can learn from businesses in Middle India.

 

04.45pm           Yogesh Dixit of Crisil will discuss services of CRISIL for MSMEs and how the print industry can benefit from it.

 

05.00pm           Vote of thanks by Priya Iyer, national manager – sales.