Abdul has worked for "Dar-Alhayat" for the last 20 years. Dar-Alhayat is the publisher of "Al-Hayat" the International Pan Arab daily newspaper - London, UK and “Laha” women weekly magazine with 3 major geographic editorial and production sites in London, Beirut and Riyadh.

Mr Dayem, has been part of several expansion projects of Dar-Alhayat. He has been closely involved in the production and setting up Alhayat printed local editions (Riyadh, Dammam, and Jeddah) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia back in 2005.

Nevertheless, his work has included production upgrading and the relocation of 80% of the London production to Beirut back in 1999.

His experience in the printed media goes back to 1979 and the migrated Arab media in UK. Abdul worked for the first Arabic daily newspaper "Al-Arab" established outside the Arab world back in 1978. He was also the Director for a Design and Repro House company in London for 13 years.

Bill Belew, better known as “The Traffic Professor,” is a well-known SEO, web traffic and business blogging expert who has taken his network of sites to more than 90 million page views. He’s consulted for hundreds of web sites and continues to write for several international and US journalistic publications.  

Bill is also the author of the popular “How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic” series. Additionally, he has written 2 books “How Wilby Got 20 Million (People to Read His Blogs)” and “Gee, I Wish I Had Been Drinking at the Time.”   Bill has recently been contracted to create a textbook on Marketing with Social Media by a US national publisher and distributor and will be teaching the same at the Masters level in universities in the San Jose area.

Bill has spent over 20 years working and living in Asia, including Japan, China, India and Russia, serving in the U.S. Navy. He now resides in Silicon Valley, working with many tech entrepreneurs and leading 13 MeetUp groups with over 3,800 collective members.  

Trained as a journalist, Mario is strongly committed to the idea that content is what determines the success of a brand; his work and teaching is based on his WED philosophy, of combining writing, editing and design as basic principles for effective communication of ideas.

Mario has devoted more than 40 years to redesigning publications, and has personally collaborated with over 700 news organizations. From such large projects as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), New Straits Times (Malaysia),  The Philadelphia Inquirer, Handelsblatt and Die Zeit, to medium-size newspapers, such as The Charlotte Observer, Goteborts Posten( Sweden) , or smaller ones in the heartland of America, such as the Lawrence (Kansas) Journal-World, or the weekly of the oil and energy industry, Upstream (Norway); all projects command the attention and special personalized service that is part of the Mario trademark.

Mario recently authored the iPad Design Lab, a digital book now available via the Apple Store, and soon on other digital platforms as well.

Hanna has worked as a media professional since 1999 and joined Mktmedia in 2009. Hanna has also worked as a director of business development at the second largest newspaper in Sweden. She has a MBA degree from School of business, economy and law in Gothenburg. Mktmedia is a digital business development company that is owned by five owner groups and have nearly 60 media houses in the network. Mktmedia work with the strategic development of digital platforms and new business models as well as activities that we need to adopt to be able to adjust to the new media landscape.

Mr. Jeongdo Hong is the Executive Director of JoongAng Media Network (JMnet hereinafter), the largest media group in Republic of Korea. He is in charge of managing 25 streams of media platforms, including newspapers, TV broadcasting, magazine publication, book publishing and Internet/mobile service.

Since he joined the JMnet in 2005 as a member of the Strategic Planning Office, he has developed overall corporate strategies for this leading media group. In year 2009, he supervised the ambitious project of JoongAng Ilbo(newspaper) to change its printing formation to Berliner, which was a first in all of Asia. In 2010, he opened a portal website, ‘JoinsMSN.com’, as well as the "JoongAng Ilbo App' for the tablet PC.

In 2011, Mr. Hong this time led a successful merger and acquisition process of two major movie theater franchise branches, respectively called the Megabox and the Cinus. He now, has been focusing his time and energy on the operation of the JTBC, the multiplatform TV network, covering diverse areas from news to entertainment.

Mr Johnson Goh is currently working with Singapore Press Holdings Limited as Vice President, Head of SPH Online Classifieds (ST701). He is responsible for developing and re-launching the new Online Classifieds business in Singapore. Prior to this role, he was appointed as Vice President for SPH’s Strategic Marketing Division and General Manager for SPH Search Pte Ltd.

He brings to the company a wealth of Sales, Marketing and Business Development experience from both print and digital businesses.

Formally a Senior Executive with Media Corporation of Singapore and Singapore Yellow Pages, Johnson is also well acquainted with the Media and Directory industry. His domain knowledge in both Online and Print Media, together with numerous innovative features conceptualised by him, are well received and recognised by the industry. In both organisations, he was responsible for boosting the tradition print & broadcast and Internet business.

Over the last 16 years, Johnson has worked in various industries, holding key positions in Sales and Marketing, Information Technology and Business Turnover, and launched several Online, Offline and Mobile initiatives successfully. These achievements are instrumental in his constant advocate to push for a greater use of Information Technology by traditional businesses.

In Mach 2008, Johnson was conferred his fellowship by Marketing Institute of Singapore. MIS fellows are senior marketing professionals who have made significant contributions to the marketing industry.

Mr Goh holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Mobikyo publishes Wireless Watch Japan, organizes Mobile Monday Tokyo events, operates Mobile Intelligence guided missions and provides related research and advisory services.

Based in Tokyo since 2001, dedicated to reporting on the mobile industry, Lars gained a unique understanding of - and developed a wide network of contacts with - telcom operators, handset makers as well as many content, application and service providers both in Japan and abroad. Lars is also a founder and lead organizer of the Mobile Monday Tokyo community since Sept. 2004,

Mr. Wuttke is the Managing Director Asia, of Adstream Holdings, the world leading Digital Advertising Asset Management and Delivery Service Company. He is based in Singapore.

Mr. Wuttke has been on the board of several Chinese Advertising and Media companies, while he was working in China from 2005 to 2009 for Publicitas as CEO Asia. Before hand he has been working and living in Switzerland where he was Member of the Executive Management Team of PubliGroupe and served on the boards of Yellow Pages, Online Classifieds, and several International Digital and Media Companies like 24/7RealMedia (ex-NASDAQ).

He received Masters Degrees in Science and Business Administration from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

Paul Lewis is Special Projects Editor for the Guardian. He has pioneered the use of Twitter in journalism and his coverage of the England riots made him the most retweeted news source - gaining 35,000 followers in five days. He recently led 'Reading the Riots', the Guardian's landmark study into the disturbances with the London School of Economics University. Lewis was named Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards 2010 and won the 2009 Bevins Prize for outstanding investigative journalism. He previously worked at the Washington Post as the Stern Fellow. He studied at Cambridge University and Harvard University.

Read an interview with Paul here.

Premesh Chandran is the co-founder and CEO of Malaysiakini.com, the leading online media in Malaysia, reaching over 300,000 readers per day in four languages (English, Malay, Chinese, Tamil).

Founded in 1999, Malaysiakini has won various international awards including from Asiaweek, Businessweek, International Press Institute, the Committee to Protect Journalism and Reporters San Frontiers. The site has also been featured in various books and journals, most recently in the International Journal of Press/Politics. Malaysiakini is also the only media organisation in Southeast Asia to be nominated to the World Economic Forum’s International Media Council. The online news portal now prepares its first publication as a printed newspaper.

Rod began his media career in radio, working for Australia's government broadcaster The ABC. Making the switch to print in the early ’90s, Rod started at The Australian Jewish News in Sydney, NSW, as production manager, taking the paper from traditional paste-up to full pdf workflow - the first small publisher in Australia to make this leap. Transferring to head office in Melbourne in 1999 (and just missing the Sydney Olympics!), Rod was appointed National Operations Manager with full responsibility for all publishing from editorial to graphics to distribution. 2011 saw the launch of NSW's iPad edition - a venture that broke even financially within four months of publication.

Saurav Sen is a senior journalist-turned digital media consultant based in New Delhi. He has worked for major media brands like The Times of India, India Today, The Telegraph, The Asian Age etc, apart from Khaleej Times, Dubai and The Guardian, London in more than 23 years of journalistic and stellar media management experience. He has been at the forefront of India's digital media evolution ever since the internet came to India in 1995.

After holding senior positions like Editor, The Times of India Online, Group Business Head (Internet & telecom VAS) for ABP Group, Head of Digital Media for Khaleej Times, among others, he became a full-time digital media consultant since 2007, running his boutique consultancy firm, Sidnet Digitalia, and advising clients both in India and abroad. Saurav is a noted public speaker, a sworn internet evangelist and an empanelled digital media expert trainer for WAN-Ifra.

Tomáš Bella is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Piano Media. He is responsible for formulating the company's overall strategy, vision and focus necessary for Piano to continue its expansion.

Bella brings more than 10 years of executive management and newspaper experience with Slovak Media companies to his position at the helm of Piano Media. Before co-founding Piano in May 2010, he served as deputy director of SME.sk, Slovakia's largest online news source. Before that, Bella worked for almost three years as the Editor-in-chief of SME.sk. Bella started his career and worked as a reporter at SME newspaper, Slovakia's biggest broadsheet.

Bella earned a Masters in journalism and mass media science from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2001. Bella teaches a course in on-line media at Bratislava's Pan-European University, is a member of the Press Council of Slovakia and was named one of the “World's Top 50 innovators in new media,” by Journalism.co.uk.