Newsrooms Tech India 2003

Conference Program

0900 - 1000 hrs : Registration

1000-1130 hrs : "Inaugural Session"

Welcome Address

Keynote Address

Shri Pawan Chopra, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, GOI*

Inaugural Address

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, GOI*

Presided by

Vote of Thanks

1130 - 1200 hrs : Tea/Coffee

1200 - 1330 hrs : "Newsroom Systems and Installation"

Speakers

Mr. Iain Wood, Sales Manager, Omnibus Systems Ltd. UK
"Newsroom & transmission automation"
Mr. Dave Chawner, Director Applications Engineering, Leitch Inc.
"Digital Newsroom and Server Technology"
Mr. Anthony Prangley, Associated Press, UK
"ENPS Electronic News Production Systems"
Mr. Quentin Staes-Polet, IBM
"CNN - IBM Digital Archive and Asset Management in News Rooms"
Mr. Siddharth Bolurker, 3D Product Specialist, Softimage Canada
"Broadcast 3D Graphics"
Speaker from VertigoXmedia
"Interactivity in News Broadcast Automated Graphics"

1330 - 1430 hrs : Networking lunch

1430 - 1600 hrs : "New Trends in News Gathering"

Speakers

Mr. Vynsley Fernandes, Director - Operations, STAR News
Mr. Rahul Nehra, Europe*Star Limited
Mr. Ashok Bharti, Country Manager, Inmarsat Limited
Mr. R. S. Chauhan, Vice President-Engineering & Operations, Sahara India TV Network
Mr. Ajay Pal Singh, Vice President, Beehive Systems Ltd.
"Digital content management"

1600 - 1630 hrs : Tea/ Coffee

1630 - 1800 hrs : "Convergence Newsrooms"

Speakers

Mr. Ashish Mukherjee, President , Benchmark Microsystems Private Limited / Vizrt
Mr. Y. P. Singh, Vice President - Technical, Zee News, Zee Telefilms
Mr. S. Venkataraman, Zonal Manager - North, Emerson Network Power
Mr. Sonal Srivastava, RB Comtec
Mr. Sadanand Patil, South-Asia Business Manager, Video Business Unit, Tektronix (India) Limited
"Employing All-Digital Architectures in Newsroom Environments"

* Invited

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