Discussing the future of media
Leading the conversation on the global front, Jeremy Maggs recently sat down for an exclusive interview with arguably the most powerful man in advertising- head of global WPP, marketing and advertising giant - Sir Martin Sorrell.
On the home front, media veteran - Gordon Muller will be presenting the local perspective. Muller has an advertising career spanning over four decades and aptly refers to himself as 'Africa's oldest surviving content cartographer' and is indeed one of great minds in the home-grown advertising scene.
Also on the agenda are platform overviews followed by discussions about the six media components - Television, Radio, Newspapers, Magazine, Digital and Out-of-home. Each medium will be discussed in-depth with presentations across each talking point followed by a series of questions.
Speakers and panellists
Newspapers
Prof Anton Harbor - Professor of Journalism, Wits University
Greig Jerling - Group Marketing and Communication - Senior Manager: Brand Creative
Trevor Ormerod - GM: Group Sales & Marketing at Times Media Group
Chris Botha - Managing Director, The MediaShop
Out of home
Craig Page-Lee - Managing Director, Posterscope SA
Ran Neu-Ner - Co-Founder & Joint CEO, Creative Counsel
Jacques du Preez - Managing Director SA, Provantage Media Group
Lauren Shapiro - Director, Kuper Research
Television
Chris Hitchings - CEO, DStv Media Sales
Gordon Patterson - Business Director, OMD
Wanele Mngomezulu - GM: Business Intelligence, SABC
Thabisa Mkhwanazi - Marketing Director, KFC South Africa
Radio
Nick Grubb - MD: Radio, Kagiso Media
Greg Maloka - Managing Director, KayaFM
Simon Parkinson - Director, Ultimate Media
Lynn Joffe - CEO & Creative Director, Creatrix
Magazines
Bridget McCarney - Managing Director, New Media
Wayne Bishop - Director, PHD Media
Digital
Melissa Attree - Director of Content Strategy, Ogilvy Cape Town, Melissa Attree
Matthew Arnold - HO Media, Native VML
Johan Nel - Director, Gumtree
Tanya Schreuder - Director, Vizeum
Aidan Baigrie - HO Facebook Africa
Future of Media presents three distinct and interdependent communities; agencies, media owners and marketers with an opportunity to convene and tackle in-depth and interrogative discussions about the future of the media industry.