The Printing Summit South Asia is aimed at technical and production directors, prepress and plant managers as well as IT heads tasked with managing the publishing and printing operations.

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Programme

Day One: 26 September 2012

Time: 9.30 am

Inauguration and welcome

 

Presidential address, WAN-IFRA

Jacob Mathew, President, WAN-IFRA, India

 

Keynote Address

Pichai Cheunsuksawadi, Editor-in-Chief, Bangkok Post, Thailand

 

I. Session: Achieving operational excellence

Lean production: Least wastage and highest efficiency. Case study from two industry leaders in this management practice

Karadkhedkar Mukund, Bosch, India

Teruo Fujita, President, Shizuoka Shimbun Production Company, Japan

 

Driving operational excellence and real teamwork with publishers to achieve “100% On Time In Full delivery performance”

C J Jassawalla, Executive Director - Printing, Thomson Press, India

 

How much automation do you need to achieve operational excellence? A New range of simple presses

Peter Kirwan, Vice President Sales, Goss Graphic Systems Australasia

Peter Kuisle, Member of the Executive Board, manroland web systems GmbH, Germany

Mamoru Ito, Sales Manager, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Printing & Packaging) Ltd., Japan

Noel McEvoy, Director Sales & Marketing, WIFAG Maschinenfabrik AG, Switzerland

 

How does automation helps to optimise operational costs - A case study

Snehasis Chandra Roy, Associate Vice President - Manufacturing, ABP Pvt. Ltd., India 

 

Achieving operational excellence depends on your work force. How to increase the motivation and job satisfaction levels of employees and get the best out of them?

Mala Bali, HR Consultant, India

Day Two: 27 September 2012

Session: Digital Asset management

Digital asset management system. Is it a necessity for today’s publishing environment? What does it offer? – An overview

Anand Srinivasan, Research Engineer, WAN-IFRA, India

 

Media Asset Management Systems: Is it the backbone of the newsrooms today or just the end of the production process?

Peter Resele, Managing Director, Comyan GmbH, Germany and member of WAN-IFRA Advisory Council

 

How to get the best out of digital asset management systems – What are the features to look for and how to select the right system to suit the needs? – A case study from DNA.

Anita Pujari, General Manger, DNA - Research, Archives and Syndication

 

II. Session: Green Publishing

 

Green initiatives at The Times of India. How they have benefitted?

S. Karthik, Senior Manager - Maintenance and Peter Britto, Chief Manager - Production, The Times of India, India

 

11.40 Green initiatives – What can we learn from other industries?

Joseph Saldanha, General Manager, Plant Administration Division, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, India

 

Panel discussion: Managing the newsprint variable. What is the way forward? Increasing newsprint cost, Predicted shortage of newsprint, quality factor and newsprint waste reduction. How newspaper houses are planning to tackle the issues?

Panel Chair: Kasturi Balaji, Director, The Hindu

Panelists: George Jacob, Director, Malayala Manorama; 

Sanat Hazra, Technical Director, The Times of India;

Sandeep Gupta, Executive President, Jagran Prakashan

 

 

III. Closing Session: Shaping the Future of News Publishing in South Asia

World Press Trends - Trends and examples from different markets around the world 

Thomas Jacob, Interim CEO, WAN-IFRA, Singapore.

“Grow Green” – A new project from WAN-IFRA.

Manfred Werfel, Deputy CEO, WAN-IFRA, Germany.

The future of newspaper advertising. Print advertising is still strong - But how long will this last?

Eamonn Byrne, Business Director, The Byrne Partnership, UK

Closing Keynote Address

Future of News Publishing - Looking through new prism

Arun Anant, CEO, The Hindu, India

 

Vote of thanks and official closing