Please note programme information as from 15 March 2011. There are more speakers still to be confirmed and the programme will be updated accordingly.

Eike Bühring

 Chair: Eike Bühring, Technical Manager, Presse-Druck-und Verlags, Germany

DAY ONE - Wednesday 6 April

Keynote Speaker
Christopher Baker, Vice President, Manufacturing, New York Daily News, USA

• Session 1: Innovation in newspaper printing

Usage of superior paper grades on coldset machines without dryer
Jürgen Gemeinhardt, Head of department Printing techniques, Fogra Forschungsgesellschaft Druck e.V., Germany

New frontiers: Opportunities and challenges for the use of AR with print media
Herbert Bay, co-Founder and CEO, Kooaba AG, Switzerland

Digital Newspaper Printing - Malta, a multi title site
Malcolm Miller, CEO, Miller Newsprint Ltd., Malta

Visit to the Gutenberg Museum

• Session 2: Printing more than the daily newspaper

A versatile and profitable mailroom
Philip Brännlund, Managing Director, Eskilstuna-Kurirens Tryckeri AB, Sweden

Producing the Berliner Woche - a 36 hours race
Frank Wagner, Manager Postpress Operations, Axel Springer AG, Germany

Maximising the print capability
Kasturi Balaji, Managing Director, Kasturi & Sons Ltd., India & Matthias Tietz, CEO, Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

• Session 3: Printing more than texts and images

Printing functionality
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Baumann, Professor for Digital Printing and Imaging Technology, Institute for Print and Media Technology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Visit to FSD (Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei GmbH) printing plant in Mörfelden

DAY TWO - Thursday 7 April

• Session 4: The power of print
  

Keynote Speaker
Why the printing press is still the best new technology in the media industry
Phillip Crawley, Publisher and Chief Executive Officer, The Globe and Mail, Canada

Innovations and trends in newspaper advertising: Folha de S.Paulo's case study on innovative ad formats
Marcelo Benez, Advertising Director, Folha de São Paulo, Brazil

• Session 5: On the road to full automation

Waterless by the sea: opportunities and challenges in implementing changes to rotary presses
Matthias Ditzen-Blanke, Managing Director, Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Germany

Herolds way on the road to automation
Thomas Unterberger, Chief operating Officer, Herold Druck und Verlag AG, Austria

• Session 6: Printing Quality

An introduction to quality management
Christopher Baker, Vice President, Manufacturing, New York Daily News, USA

International Color Quality Club: an opportunity for the development of a daily approach to continuous improvement
Stefano Bigarelli, Quality Manager & Paolo Ciapetti, Production Assistant, Societá Athesis, Italy

WAN-IFRA ISO Conformity Certificate for Standardised Printing
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Evaluation of Newspapers' Print Quality under a Reader's Point of view
Roland Thees, Research Manager, WAN-IFRA, Germany

• Session 7: Lean production

Lean production in commercial printing
Roland Behringer, CEO, OZ Druck & Medien GmbH, Germany

Lean production methods
George Donaldson, Group Continuous Improvement Manager, Newsprinters, United Kingdom

Waterless printing as part of lean production
Valentin Kneile, Quality Manager, Rheinpfalz Verlag und Druckerei, Germany

More information to come soon.