WAN-IFRA Italia 2010

In cooperation with FIEG and ASIG

22 - 23 June 2010
Rome, Italy
Language(s): English; Italian

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WAN-IFRA Italia, now in its 12th year, will present case studies and best practices from insiders of the Italian and international newspaper industry: from industrial production management to the challenges for publishers and editors facing a rapidly changing media environment.

Provisional Programme

Tuesday 22nd June 2010

10:00 Registration

10:15: Welcome addresses
Giulio Dalla Chiesa, President, ASIG and
Christoph Riess, CEO, WAN-IFRA

10:30 I Session: E-readers and tablets: new platforms and business models for the mobile information

10:30 Overview
Dr. Kristina Sabelström Möller, WAN-IFRA

11:00 Case studies
Maurizio Scanavino, Marketing Director, La Stampa:
Giorgio Riva, General Director, RCS Digital

11:45 The world media landscape: facts and figures
Sergio Vitelli, Secretary, ASIG

12:00 World news consumption trends
Guido Frisiani, Director, McKinsey & Company

12:30 Round table: Mobile devices: an outlook for the information professionals

Coordinator: Vittorio Sabadin, author of the book “The last copy of the New York Times. The future of print newspapers”

“Innovation and tradition: which future for the newspaper industry?”: in a scenery where the effects of the economic crisis meet the changing trends in the news markets, WAN-IFRA Italia 2010 points out the emerging opportunities and the new initiatives from the newspaper industry, in Italy and abroad.

Participants:
Mario Calabresi, Editor, La Stampa
Andrea Monti, Editor, Gazzetta dello Sport
Jan Laurén, Adeprimo - Stampen Group, Sweden
Dan McLeod, Editor & Publisher, The Georgia Straight, Canada

15:00 II SESSION - Italian publishing industry: growing between tradition and innovation

Publishers from Italy and abroad discuss about the future of the newspaper industry

15:00 Overview
Carlo Malinconico Castriota Scanderbeg, President, FIEG
Giovanni Cagnoli, Managing Director / Alberto Regazzo, director, Bain & Company Italy

16:15 Round Table
New business models for the publishing industry

Coordinator: Alessandro Brignone, General Director, FIEG

Participants:
Alessandro Bompieri, General Director, Il Sole 24 Ore
Andrea Favari, CEO, Il Giornale
Antonello Perricone, CEO, RCS Mediagroup
Domenico Tudini, Vice President, Sport Network
Harry Bouwman, De Telegraaf, Netherlands

18:00
Speech from Italian government member

20:00
Gala dinner

Wednesday 23rd June 2010

09:30 III SESSION - Industrial printing: a renewed tradition

Digital printing and the evolution of the printing industry face market trends and business opportunities.

09:30 Digital printing for newspapers: an outlook
Manfred Werfel, WAN-IFRA
Luciano Manadero, Imcodavila, Spain
Giovanni Antonuzzo, Rotomail

10:30 Round Table
Digital printing: technologies and costs

Coordinator: Manfred Werfel, WAN-IFRA

Monika Olbricht, Marketing & Corporate Communication Director, Ocè
Riccardo Passerini, Category Manager, Digital Printing Solutions Commercial and Consumer, Kodak

11:30 Presentation of the 2010 report on the Italian newspaper industry of the Technical observatory “Carlo Lombardi”
Alberto Di Giovanni, President, Osservatorio Tecnico
Salvatore Curiale, Director, ASIG

12:00 Ready for the change: the printing plants of the future

Coordinator: Alberto Borgarelli, Vice President, ASIG

1. Stock quotation of a printing company
Giovanni Toso, President, Poligrafici Printing

2. Graphic industry vs newspaper industry: employment contracts side by side
Pierpaolo de Sanctis, General Director, Rotopress International

3. From the printing plant to the point of sale: a different future
Gianni Paolucci, operations director, RCS quotidiani

13:30 Conclusions
Paolo Paloschi, past president, ASIG

13:40 end of the conferencey

Fees / Prix / Preise

For members:
WAN-IFRA/FIEG/ASIG members: EUR 500 per person
EUR 1500 cumulative fee - valid for 4 persons

For non-members:
Non-members: EUR 700 per person