Kirk MacDonald - president of AdTaxi and executive sales vice president of Digital First Media - will talk about DFM's 'digital ecosystem' vision at Publish Asia in Bangkok.
The latest in a strong speaking roster for the event being held at the end of this month, he is a media industry veteran with more than two decades of senior management experience in all facets of publishing in print, online and mobile. These range from hyper-competitive metropolitan markets to corporate executive roles for one of the US's largest media conglomerates and the second largest alternative weekly group.
DFM jointly manages Journal Register Company and MediaNews Group, which have more than 800 print and online products serving 64 million Americans each month.
Forty speakers from 17 countries are lined up for a programme from April 28-30 which includes 19 conference sessions, three break-out sessions, pre-conference masterclasses and a technology and services expo. The two evening networking events include the Asia Media Awards gala dinner.
Confirmed speakers also include Yves Bougon (Hearst Magazines), Wannee Ruttanapong (IPG Mediabrands, Thailand), Nada Tielu (Fairfax Media, Australia), Andreas Vogiatzakis (Omnicom Media Group, Malaysia), Pit Gottschalk (Axel Springer, Germany), Ahteram Uddin (Mediastar, Bangladesh), Ludwige Coenen (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany), Keith Cheong (SPH Digital, Singapore), Roche Chew (NSTP, Malaysia), Mario Garcia (Garcia Media, USA), Thepchai Yong (Nation Multimedia Group, Thailand), Mark Pope (Dow Jones Asia, HK), Stephen Rae (Independent News & Media, Ireland), Maria Ressa (Rappler, Philippines), Eamonn Byrne (Byrne Partnership, UK), Helena Phua (International New York Times, HK), Vachara Vacharaphol (TrendVG3, Thailand), JeongDo Hong (JMNet, South Korea), Frédérique Lancien (Groupe L'Equipe, France), Dushyant Khare (Google), Martin Schibbye (freelance investigative journalist, Sweden), Julie Posetti (research fellow, World Editors Forum), Asha Phillips (Verily, Singapore), Supakorn Vejjajiva (Post Publishing, Thailand) and Iain Martin (Storyful, Hong Kong).