World's press turns attention to digital media in Asia

The conference, to be held from 23 to 25 November at the Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, is actually three conferences in one, with each day devoted to a different topic: online and social media, tablet publishing and mobile. Full details can be found at http://www.wan-ifra.org/dma.

Asia's largest conference on new media will present speakers from forward-looking organisations that are using the most advanced digital media platforms to profitably repurpose content from newspapers, magazines, broadcasters and even books.

The conference will be accompanied by the sought-after Asian Digital Media Awards, which honour the best examples of how individuals and organisations in the Asia Pacific and Middle East have embraced new technology, innovative thinking and creativity in digital media.

Digital Media Asia speakers include:

• Emily Wu, production manager for Taiwan-based Next Media Animation, which brings animated news and satire to international audiences. Its funny, viral animations generate more than 14 million views monthly and demonstrate creative thinking for the presentation of news in the digital age.
  
• Stephen Quinn, the new digital development editor at the South China Morning Post, who has written 17 books, including "Mobile Journalism in the Asian Region." He lives a double life as a journalist and a university professor, having worked at the Bangkok Post, BBC-TV, The Guardian, ITN, the UK's Press Association, TVNZ, the Middle East Broadcasting Centre and a range of Australian newspapers.
  
• Mariam Mammen Mathew, the chief operating officer of Manorama Online, the new media group of Malayala Manorama, India's third largest daily newspaper. India has more than 519 million mobile subscribers - most of whom will experience the internet via their mobile rather than via PCs -- offering great opportunities to publishers who know how to reach those news consumers.
  
• Budiman Tanuredjo, the managing editor of the Kompas Daily in Indonesia, where he is responsible for the company's media convergence and coordinates cross media coverage involving newspaper, online, mobile, tablet and television.
  
• Kalle Jungkvist, senior advisor for the Scandinavian media group Schibsted, where he contributes to the online and mobile strategy of one of Europe's digital innovators and largest publishers. Schibsted generates up to 50% of its revenues from digital operations.
  
• Le Quoc Minh, editor-in-chief of the Vietnam News Agency's VietnamPlus, where he is the person behind VNA's new media technologies development including a unique news application that runs on 500 different mobile phones and many other projects that aim to make the most use of social media and user-generated content.
  
• Hiroko Hoshino, regional online director and corporate representative in Japan for the Financial Times, where she heads the FT office and oversees FT.com advertising sales and online business activities across Asia.
  
• Plus many more! Full details at http://www.wan-ifra.org/dma.