8th August | Imperial Hotel, New Delhi
| Indian Magazine Congress 2025 8th August, Imperial, New Delhi |
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| Timing | Sessions | Speakers | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 AM | Registration and Coffee | ||
| 10:00 - 10:15 AM | Opening Welcome (Talk) | Anant Nath, Executive Publisher, Delhi Press, President, AIM | |
| 10: 15 -10:45 AM | Putting Magazines Back into Popular Imagination (Talk) | Neeraj Sharma,, MD-CMT, Accenture | |
| 10:45 - 11:10 AM | Curation, Communities and Commerce - The past, present and future of Magazine Brands (Talk) | B Srinivasan, CMD, Ananda Vikatan | |
| 11:10 - 11:40 PM | The Subscription Flywheel: Designing Value, Driving Retention and Getting AI-Ready (Talk) | Puneet Kukreja, VP, Times Internet | |
| 11:40 -12:00 PM | Networking Break | ||
| 12:00 - 12:45 PM | Publishers Building Digital Products for their Communities (Panel) |
Abhishek Sharma, CPO, HT Digital Dhaval Gupta, Director, Cybermedia Manavdeep Singh, Founder, Publive Moderator: Girish Mallya, COO, Next Gen Publishing Limited |
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| 12:40 - 1:00 PM | From Pages to Possibilities: Meeting the Child Where They Are (Talk) | Richa Shah, Editor, Champak | |
| 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Lunch | ||
| 2:00 - 2:30 PM | Reinventing and Innovating in Print Media Landscape (Talk) |
Manoj Sharma , CEO, India Today Magazines Deepak Bhatt, Circulation Director, India Today |
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| 2:30 - 2:40 PM | State of Print Media (Talk) | Shreyams Kumar, President, INS | |
| 2:45 - 3:20 PM | Creating a More Enabling Environment for Magazine Publishing in India (Special Kenote Address) | Sh. Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon’ble Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Railways, and IT | |
| 3:50 - 4:00 PM | Launch of Magazine store on WAVES OTT (Launch) |
Sh. Gaurav Dwivedi, CEO, Prasar Bharati |
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| 4:00 - 4:30 PM | The Everywhere Magazine Store: How AIM is ensuring a magazine store across offline and online platforms (Fireside Chat) |
Sh. Vibhor Jain, Acting CEO, ONDC Sh. Gaurav Dwivedi, CEO, Prasar Bharati Moderator: Sh. Pradeep Gupta |
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| 4:30 - 4:40 PM | Launch of Magnet- ONDC Seller Side App for Magazines (Launch) | Sh. Vibhor Jain, Acting CEO, ONDC | |
| 4:40 - 5:00 PM | Networking Break | ||
| 5:00 PM- 5:30 PM | The Power of Print in a Pixelated World: Why Magazines Still Matter (Talk) |
Shashi Sinha, CEO< IPG Mediabrands India Dr Annurag Batra, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of BW Businessworld & exchange4media Group |
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| 5:30 PM- 6:20 PM | What Modern Marketers Can Learn from Magazine Storytelling (Panel) | Rajiv Dubey, VP & Head of Media, Dabur India Alok Sanwal, VP, Jagran Prakashan Neha Anand, VP & Head - XUV Brand Portfolio & International Marketing, Mahindra Riyad Mathew, Chief Associate Editor & Director Moderator: Ruhail Amin, Sr. Editor, BW Businessworld |
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| 6:25 PM- 7:45 PM | Magzimise Awards (Presentation) |
Shashi Sinha, CEO, IPG Mediabrands India Dr Annurag Batra, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of BW Businessworld & exchange4media Group |
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| 7:45 PM | Closing Address (Talk) | Paresh Nath, Editor in Chief and Publisher, Delhi Press | |