Digital Media Asia: Get social, smart and mobileAsia's largest conference on new media, Digital Media Asia 2012, will be held from 27 to 29 November 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and will offer three one-day sessions on social media, digital business innovations and mobile and tablet publishing - the main transformative issues facing publishers in the region and beyond. The event, organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has become an annual meeting for news publishers and media experts to exchange ideas and best practices for making the most of multimedia. "Digital Media Asia answers a need expressed by many publishers for an efficient way to keep abreast of digital developments in an industry that is changing more rapidly than ever," said Thomas Jacob, Deputy CEO and Managing Director of WAN-IFRA Asia Pacific. Tailor events to your needs"The unique format - three, one-day conferences and several workshops - allows participants to tailor the event to their needs, and to gain strategic ideas and advice on a wide variety of subjects, from paid content to revenue diversification to reaching new audiences," he said. Online and social media will be examined on 27 November. Smart media and digital business innovations are the subjects on the 28th. Mobile and tablet publishing will be examined on the conference's closing day, followed by one workshop on paid for content strategies. A pre-conference workshop on implementing web-responsive design will take place on 26 November. Full details, the evolving conference programme, can be found at www.wan-ifra.org/dma. Digital Media Asia is also the venue for the gala Asian Digital Media Awards, which recognise publishers who have adopted digital media as part of their total product offer. Awards are given for the best in online media, cross media, online infographics, video, mobile media, tablet and social media. Confirmed speakers include:
|