Three Indians, three Australians and a Kiwi are among speakers at INMA's World Congress of News Media at the end of May.
The conference and its six days of associated events are in Washington DC this year, which the organiser says is "the most talked-about city on earth, where fake flirts with the fearless".
HT Media chief executive Rajiv Verma, Jagran Prakashan brand and strategy senior vice president Basant Rathore, and ABP managing director and chief executive D.D. Purkayastha form the Indian speaking contingent.
A strong Australian line-up includes Fairfax Media's chief executive Greg Hywood, Nick Gray who is chief executive of News Corp national daily The Australian, and Robert Whitehead, described in the programme as a 'disruptionist' from The Burger Collective but better known as a director of Shepparton Newspapers and former Fairfax marketing head.
Sinead Boucher will be making her first major address since being appointed chief executive of Stuff New Zealand, the former Fairfax NZ business still awaiting an outcome of its appeal against the blocking of its plans to merge with NZME.
Much to talk about there, without the contributions of speakers from the home country. Among them, Shailesh Prakash, chief product and information officer at the Washington Post, was an enlightening speaker at WAN-Ifra's Digital Media Asia event in Singapore last October, with insights to the Bezos-owned paper's technology and development strategy. Others to speak include New York Times international president Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, founding director of Google News Lab Steve Grove, and Maribel Perez Wadsworth, president of the USA Today Network.
INMA chief executive Earl Wilkinson leadfs the event and will provide a comprehensive review of developments, with regulars including Juan Senor, principal of the Innovation Media Consulting heading the UK contingent.
A number of speakers will contribute to the debate on audience engagement, among them Cynthia Young who is head of audience at Canada's The Globe and Mail, Renee Kaplan who has a similar role at the UK's Financial Times, Telegraph Media group subscriptions marketing director Peter Hickman, and Tronc digital subscriptions vice president Gerard Brancato.
The congress will be held at the Mead Center for American Theater (pictured) from May 31-June 5.