The end of a decade is always a pre-eminent affair but the end of the last decade was marked by one of the most perilous incidents, the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 that brought innumerable loss. Lives lost; a downpour of businesses is not only the harsh affairs one had to go through; the pandemic…
All technologies that humanize engagement between man and machine will have a significant role to play in the insurance industry. Thus, the concept of gamification has a key role in the insurance industry that demands emotional connect with stakeholders even in this era of digitization. Vaibhav Bhargava, Product Head – Privilege Banking, Branch Sales Strategy…
Keeping the spirit of youth alive, Ushoshi Sengupta, former I Am She–Miss Universe India and the founder of USP Productions and Playfest, shared her journey to success. Her Journey to Miss Universe Ushoshi Sengupta belongs to a defence family and did her schooling from Vadodara in Gujarat and then from Kolkata. She earned her graduation…
“Communication during the pandemic is going to be more digital, creative and exciting”, said, Devendra Tak, the National Manager and Communication Head of Save the Children. Save the Children Save the Children works across 20 states of India and in 120 countries, on issues related to education, health, protection and humanitarian/ disaster risk reduction needs…
Augustine Veliath, Chairperson of the Nonviolence Project Foundation (India) shared his perspectives on listening as the core for ideal communication. Veliath shared a case study of Jawaharlal Nehru and his political cartoonist friend Shankar, who created 1,500 cartoons on Nehru and those were satirical, humourous and sarcastic but to-the-point. Nehru took the cartoons as the…
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is an internationally acclaimed Bengali author and a writer at the ABP Group. Having penned nine novels and over fifty short stories, Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is an author of global repute. She is also a newspaper columnist, an essayist and a film critic. Writing is her full-time profession. Four notable novels of her –…
A wordsmith with a free spirit, a TEDx Speaker, a writer, a poet, a political analyst, an educator, a social and peace activist and a theatre personality, she is Saira Shah Halim. Halim was raised all over the country and the gulf as an army officer’s daughter. She got a commendation award at the great…
Diggaj Mogra, the Director of Jarvis Technology and Strategy Consulting (one of the best political and policy consultant agencies in India) spoke about the growth of political consultancy in India. An engineer by profession and a sportsperson by heart, Diggaj Mogra started his journey as a political consultant in 2013 when he was assigned to…
Sreemoyee Piu Kundu is an acclaimed journalist and best-selling author. She talked about women’s sexuality, her inner inhibitions, the status of single women, social hypocrisy and the challenges of being an independent artist. Her Early Days Kundu shared her journey, her good hold over the English language and how she listened to her urge for…
Social media activist Ankit Lal is an inspiration for the youngsters of the country, he volunteered with India Against Corruption (IAC) and later Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), where he was the Social Media Head. Ankit Lal authored India Social, which was a unique effort in itself to capture the pulse of social media in India.…
Jaseena Backer is a psychologist, women empowerment enthusiast, corporate consultant and parenting consultant. She shared her experiences in writing about relationships in her collection of short stories ‘Tales that Entail’. Her Writings Backer posted her perspective and ideology for her female readers. She said that she tries to bring out her emotions and feelings on social…
Rajesh M Iyer is an eminent story-teller. He spoke to us about whether digital media is ushering in a tectonic shift in storytelling. He also focused on the traits of being digital and the need to be digital in an evolved world. Iyer has been a media professional for over two decades. He has published…
Prof. Subrata Roy Chowdhury spoke about ‘Photography in Digital Times’ focusing on the threats and opportunities amid the Covid-19 pandemic. “Mind matters more than a machine. If we focus on enriching our minds during the pandemic, perhaps we can do better as individuals. When the entire world is gripped by problems such as unemployment, pay…
Sudeep Mehta, an award-winning photographer and filmmaker shared his knowledge and opinion about the various facets of photography and the impact of Covid-19 on the photography industry. Mumbai-based Sudeep Mehta, the winner of Digital Photography Review’s Connect Contest (2012) and the National Geographic Traveller Photo Contest (2013), is the founder of Green World Productions and…
Some quotes seem to be written for certain people. As Ansam Adam’s “You don’t take a photograph, you make it”, looks so appropriate for Rajeev Bhatt, a senior special news photojournalist of The Hindu. Rajeev Bhatt is an eminent photojournalist. He has over 30 years of experience in the field of photojournalism, covering major national…
Dr Tabeenah Anjum Qureshi is a journalist and an eminent visual storyteller. Born and brought up in Kashmir, she pursued her master’s degree and PhD in Jaipur. According to her, Jaipur is her second home. She followed her dream for photography and won the National Award in photography conferred by the Ministry of Information and…
Kounteya Sinha is a multiple award-winning journalist – a former editor of The Times of India. A globally revered photographer, European Union Diaspora Fellow, globe trotter and a storyteller, he is a man who is known for his powerful storytelling ability through words and images. Kounteya Sinha articulated, “Storytelling is the ability to dig a…
Deepak Choudhary is one of the best in the event management business. In 2002, he co-founded India’s first Event Management school named EMDI. He was also the Founder of IISM, India’s first sports management school. Later, he went on to establish so many things throughout his illustrious career. Deepak Choudhary is now the Co-Founder and…
Vipul Pandhi is a renowned event management personality who is the Founder and Managing Director of Workaholics Event Solution Pvt Ltd. Pandhi explained the factors behind the constant growth witnessed by the event management industry globally for the past 30 years. According to him, education is very important to understand the basics. He added, “Earlier,…
Lalitt Gattani, the CEO of Showcraft Productions Pvt Ltd, shared his perspective on event management and the future of this Industry. He started his discourse by sharing his perspective and pointing out that our mothers and women are the best event managers since they handle many duties at the same time. “Event management is something…
“Event Management is like any other job where it is one’s passion that drives him or her to create. One can become a production manager and script a new concept later on”, said Swaroop Banerjee, the Chief Operating Officer of Zee Live. Speaking on why, how, and where does event management take us, Banerjee, a…
Sanjoy Roy, Managing Director of Teamwork Arts and the man behind the annual Jaipur Literature Festival (the world’s largest free literary festival) is credited with creating the structure of literary fests in India. He spoke about events and e-events and emphasized on artistic approach and its impact in society and culture. As he has an…
Roshan Abbas has expertise in radio, television, theatres, events and BTL. He entered Bollywood in 2011 with his debut directorial venture ‘Always Kabhi Kabhi’ under the banner of Red Chillies Production, owned by Shahrukh Khan. Abbas has been a television and radio anchor. He won awards at the radio and television artiste awards in India.…
Parveez Modak, the Executive Director of Strategy & Insights at MSL India, spoke about the growth of digital media, social media, and the need to stay afloat with creative content, advertisements and campaigns. “Staying connected is important in these times of downturn,” Parveez said while giving insights into corporate behaviour amid the Covid-19 pandemic. “We…
Samrat Mukherjee is an extraordinary young maverick and the founder of Crow’s Nest. Crow’s Nest launched itself as a full-service digital agency and eventually became immensely successful in the digital space in Kolkata. Mukherjee talked about brands and consumers and how a brand could become a good or bad influencer. So, the brand has an…
Amith Prabhu, an acclaimed PR professional, is a reputation management expert, having worked in leading marketing communication companies in India and in the US, is the co-founder of PRAXIS, India’s only weekend offsite for the profession under the aegis of the Promise Foundation, which is a member of the Global Alliance (GA). Prabhu talked about…
Siddhartha Upadhyay, philanthropist, brand consultant, sportsman and social entrepreneur, spoke about how a person should make himself/herself relevant and how he/she could make his/ her time profitable. Upadhyay shared a wonderful story of the Chinese warrior named Sun Tzu, known for philanthropy and his bestselling book ‘The Art of War,’. In this book, Sun Tzu stated,…
Paromita Ghosh is one of the most well-known faces in the city’s Public Relation circle and the owner-director of Candid Communication, a leading PR agency of eastern India. Talking on the need for PR in the post-Covid-19 era, Paromita highlighted that PR is also included among the ailing industries amid the global pandemic. “Every industry…
Dr Nanditesh Nilay is an author, speaker, columnist, political and social analyst and an entrepreneur. He is a value propagator and inspirational motivator, is currently the expert/ consultant to Union Public Service Commission, LBSNAA, NCGG, Indian Secretarial Training & Management, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), CCI, NCB, IITS, ISTD, NCUI, NCCT, DOPT, Ministry of Youth…
Sai Nagesh, the Chief Strategy Officer of Laqshya Media quipped that branded content is imperative in today’s VUCA world. He said, “Branded content gets more attention and creates brand recognition.” In a career spanning a quarter of a century, Nagesh has been a client as well as a media investment specialist and has worked with…
Dr Annurag Batra, the Founder, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the iconic Exchange4media Group. The Exchange4media group includes exchange4media.com – India’s leading media industry website, PITCH – India’s only Advertising, Marketing and Media Magazine, IMPACT – The Marketing Weekly, Franchisee Plus – Business Opportunity Magazine, Realty Plus – India’s leading monthly real estate magazine and samachar4media.com/ – leading media industry…
Yashraj Vakil, CEO of Buzzinga Digital – an Effie and Goa Adfest winning digital creative communication company, brings with him close to two decades of experience in the digital industry, starting his career from the days of the landline and evolving with changing technologies and innovations. He is an experienced leader with the ability to successfully…
Karl Gomes, Co-founder of Fanatics and AgencyDigi, talked about the transformation of communication into a conversation in branding. Gomes was a Partner, Customer Experience at DAN Consult, the consulting arm of global media and digital marketing conglomerate Dentsu Aegis Network. Before venturing out as an entrepreneur, he was the National Creative Director, Digital at Rediffusion…
Advertising guru Prahlad Kakkar, best known for his television commercials is the founder and main director of Genesis Film Productions deliberated on brand building and how brands eventually transform into human beings. Prahlad is one of the prominent names in India when it comes to Advertising. He established Genesis Films Productions in the year 1977.…
Supreeth Nagaraju is the Head Education – Digital Media for Adobe Systems, India and South Asia is responsible for Adobe’s Education business operations – growing the sales and marketing functions, driving strategic partnerships and alliances, expanding the channel partner ecosystem and driving cloud services opportunities within the educational institutions, education ministries, and mission mode projects…
Dipanjan Das, the CEO of Greycells18 Media Ltd. Das is a business leader with a deep passion for technology, education and people. He is a Startup India hub mentor, industry speaker and a guest lecturer in business schools. He is currently leading the EdTech practices at Network18 Media & Investments Ltd. in the broadcast and…
Arijit Bhattacharyya believes in bringing about a change and that’s how he dared to start his own game development and VR development-based company named VirtualInfocom in 1998 “I’m a technologist, founder of a wonderful technology company, non-executive director of others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops among innovation and teams…
Ashish Kulkarni is the founder of Punnaryug Artvision Pvt Ltd. and the Chairman of FICCI Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming & Comics (AVGC) Forum. Kulkarni spoke about how India started its animation journey two decades back and how it all started with hand-drawn cartoons and finally led to animation. India with a young and technology-oriented population…
Cyrus F Dastur, a prominent name in the Indian theatre circuit, kickstarted the short film wave in the country over a decade back. He has been a part of theatre ever since he can remember. He has produced, directed, scripted and acted in several plays with stalwarts like Tom Alter, Luke Kenny, Juhi Babbar, Rajeev…
Anjali Raina, Commercial Head of ULLU Digital, is quite optimistic about the future of the OTT platforms. She spoke about the marketing strategies, which the OTT giant ULLU has been practicing. Also she emphasized that web entertainment is the fastest growing sector in terms of revenue. She reiterated that the need of today’s OTT platforms is…
Govindraj Ethiraj is a television and print journalist, who has reported and written on Indian business for over 25 years. He is a media executive and entrepreneur whose ventures are safeguarding the transparency, accuracy, and integrity of the internet in general and news in specific in India and worldwide. Most recently, he founded BOOM, fake…
Pratik Sinha is the Co-founder and Editor of Alt News. Alt News is one of the best non-profit fact-checking websites in India. He is also a former software engineer and he earlier worked with multiple technology companies. He got inspiration from his activist parents to expose fake news. He is a member of the Jan…
Dr Ankuran Dutta is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Communication and Journalism at Gauhati University in Guwahati. Dr Dutta is a media educator by profession with an experience of about 15 years and he is currently involved in different academic activities in India, Bangladesh, Canada, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and…
Renowned Indian director, producer and a screenwriter, Bejoy Nambiar marked his foray into commercial cinema with the critically acclaimed ‘Shaitan’ in 2011. His latest Hindi directorial venture was ‘Wazir’ starring Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Bejoy is the winner of Sony Pix’s filmmaking reality show ‘Gateway to Hollywood’. Bejoy…
The young and dynamic filmmaker Amit V Masurkar delved on the importance of ideology in the world of cinema. He started his life to become a scriptwriter. He explained the difference between sketch writing and scriptwriting. He said that there are two types of scriptwriting. Sketch writing is for two to three minutes and is…
Aftab Asghar started his own New York-based Film Production Company called Stride Films. Some of his recently produced films include ‘Unfreedom’ which is a contemporary thriller about a society torn apart by political, religious, and sexual turmoil set in New York and New Delhi. Some of his other productions are ‘Where Are You Sophia’, ‘Margaret’,…
Viveck Vaswani is currently the Dean of the School of Contemporary Media at Pearl Academy. He is also a renowned film and television producer. He has been working in the media and entertainment industry since 1982. He is an actor on stage, on television and in films. Viveck also boasts of being a screenwriter, a…
Deemed as one of the few multi-platform journalists at the top echelons of India’s journalism, BV Rao, Group Editor of TV9 Network, led newsrooms in print, broadcast and digital, in multiple news brands of India – The Times of India, The Indian Express, India Today Group, Delhi Mid-Day, Star News, Zee News, Sahara Samay, Network18…
Ashutosh is deemed by many as one of the best Hindi language journalists in the country. After being hugely successful as the Managing Editor of IBN7 from 2006 to 2014, and a brief break in politics, Ashutosh is again back to journalism. Currently, he is the Founder and Editor of the Satya Hindi and is one of the iconic faces…
The Co-founder of India Ahead News and Founder of Edumate.tv Chetan Sharma has been a prolific face on prime-time national television for over 25 years. He has worked across multiple news organizations including NDTV, India Today, Aaj Tak, Zee News, Star News, ESPN, Bloomberg and AI Jazeera English. A national awardee for his interview with…
Mumbai-based senior journalist Anto T Joseph is a writer, columnist and former Managing Editor of DNA. He has also worked with The Economic Times, The Guardian and Deccan Chronicle Group. Anto T Joseph shared his opinions on newspapers in the post-COVID era, falling newspaper readership and circulation. He said that many newspapers’ delivery rates were declining…
At a recent event, celebrated journalist and iconic rural affairs expert P Sainath spoke about the failure of the mainstream media to effectively cover the migrant labourer crisis and rural affairs. Sainath, who was the Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, is the Founder Editor of People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI), an acclaimed digital platform…
Anjan Bandyopadhyay, the Editor of ABP Digital, is one of the leading names in Bengali journalism. He joined journalism three decades ago and has trudged through all of Print media, television and digital media during his illustrious career. A familiar face as a TV presenter, he steered the journey of Zee 24 Ghanta as its Editor (Input) for many…
