Two newspaper executives with recent firsthand experience of newsroom transformation have been lined up to speak at WAN-Ifra's Publish Asia event in Manila next month.

One is Nic Dawes, who is leading transformation of news management at HT Media in Delhi into an 800-strong central newsroom as chief editorial and content officer. The daily newspaper has staff and editions across India.

Previously editor-in-chief at South Africa's Mail & Guardian, Dawes (pictured) has been a political and investigative reporter, the managing director of a digital creative agency, and an editor working across platforms since the late 1990s.

Managing editor of the New Zealand Herald Shayne McCurrie also presides over a newly-integrated newsroom, this time merging digital, print, radio and video platforms. A journalist for 25 years, he started as a crime reporter in Wellington and worked briefly in New York before taking up newsroom leadership roles latterly with the NZME. flagship.

Publish Asia is from March 29-31.

Other speakers include:

WAN-Ifra's newsroom transformation consultant Håkan Helander;

Simon Crerar, Buzzfeed's Editor Australia;

Alan Soon, founder and chief executive of Singapore's The Splice Newsroom;

Jonny Wright, international managing director, Dow Jones;

Geoff Booth, News Corp Australia's national director for production and logistics;

Pichai Chuensuksawadi, group editor-in-chief of Bangkok-based Post Publishing;

Wong Chun Wai, chief executive of Star Publications;

Asha Phillips, founder of Singapore-based Verily Media and APAC account director of CrowdTangle;

Sanat Hazra, technical and production director of Times of India publisher Bennett, Coleman & Co;

Geoff Tan, senior vice president and head of strategic marketing at Singapore Press Holdings;

WAN-Ifra deputy chief executive Manfred Werfel;

Sandy Prieto Romualdez, president and chief executive of the Philippine Daily Inquirer;

Mark Hollands, chief executive of Australia's TheNewspaperWorks;

Google head of strategic partnerships Parin Mehta;

Nicolay Malyarov, executive vice president, chief content officer and general counsel at PressReader;

Azrul Ananda, chief executive of Jawa Pos Group;

Mohd. Noordin Abbas, group managing director of Utusan Melayu;

Lucien C. Dy Tioco, senior vice president sales and marketing at PhilStar Media Group;

Rodnay Tan, digital solutions and operations vice president at MediaCorp; and

David Lu, external affairs director of Guangzhou Daily.