Join us and discover the winners of APP.PERU Hackathon! 

Welcome words by WAN-IFRA LatAm Committee President, Marcelo Rech and Peruvian Committtee member, Silvia Miró Quesada.

News media companies are facing the disruption of their revenue models and need re-think their business swiftly in order to take full advantage of the new and countless business opportunities of the digital age.

Digital media or Digital threat? What's our value: José Antonio will take us through time to show us how, despite today's dramatic evolution, publishing companies keep in their DNA, a unique value. He will show he we need to make use of it, and in the process, make a qualitative leap. His strategic view will be presented via video-conference and complemented with input from El Comercio's CEO, César Pardo Figueroa Turner.

News media companies are facing the disruption of their revenue models and need re-think their business swiftly in order to take full advantage of the new and countless business opportunities of the digital age.

A Business Model for Digital Journalism: How Newspapers should embrace Technology, Social and Value Added Services - Caio explains a possible strategy for news organizations to shape a profitable business model in the digital age. Observation of disruptions in this industry suggests a business model which will maintain news companies’ ability to produce quality journalism with independence and profitability.

Newspapers in the Time of Cholera: What solution for the US Newspaper Industry Business Challenge? Jim will show how revenue from digital advertising and digital subscriptions is not countering the inevitable fall of print revenues. Instead of recurring to staff cuts, which severely harm the company's competitive advantage, its brand and ultimately democracy, it is urgent to invest in business development and organic growth, while always maintaining news publishing as the core of the company's identity. This presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with Rosental Alves and the audience.

Adriana focuses on applying Design Thinking for digital business transformation and editorial operations. In this session, she will work with a group of delegates to show the basic steps and tips to think outside the box when it comes to looking for new revenue streams in a media company. Limited spaces, please register here.

Ricardo will present the reasons behind Salvodorean daily El Diario de Hoy's decided to launch an ambitious technological and organisational transformation project, aiming at become a digital-first media organisation. He will explain what challenges they faced during the process and present organizational data on the newsroom integration, paper cost savings, productivity increases, as well as relevant information on elsalvador.com's recent launch. Limited spaces, please register here.

Carmen Riera is a consultant in visual journalism, editorial management, photographic archive and newspaper coverage and media planning. Until May 2014, she was Director of the Department of Graphic and Audiovisual Journalism at Cadena Capriles Caracas, Venezuela. She was responsible for the areas of Design, Photography, Computer Graphics, Video and Archive  of the three group brands.
Social Communicator graduated from the Universidad Centra de Venezuela and Planning Specialist, Development and Project Management at the Universidad Monteávila
Founder and coordinator of Seminario de Diseño de la Información (Venezuela) since 2007-2013.
Along with Nathalie Alvaray forms the transformation consulting firm called "SDI" Synergy, design and innovation. Limited spaces, please register here.

The growing middle-classes in Latin America and the decreasing prices are behind the exponential growth of smartphones and tablets. Publishers have great opportunities to deliver more attractive and adapted editorial content to their audiences, such as video, notably digital native audiences. Social media also represents an amazing source of information and interaction with these audiences, but how to optimise its use?

Discoverying, verifying and optimising social media content. David Clinch will show us how Storyful, the world's first ever social media news agency, via a unique mix of journalistic expertise and prioprietary tecnology, optimises the use of social media and social networks, verifying UGC, monetizing videos, providing social media dashboards, real-time discovery tools, feeds and analytics.

The growing middle-classes in Latin America and the decreasing prices are behind the exponential growth of smartphones and tablets. Publishers have great opportunities to deliver more attractive and adapted editorial content to their audiences, such as video, notably digital native audiences. Social media also represents an amazing source of information and interaction with these audiences, but how to optimise its use?

News video: What works online? TheBBC produces hours and hours of news for TV on a daily basis, but is this the type of video digital audiences want to consume? What are the formats that actually work on digital platforms? Are other types of video needed specifically for mobile? Nathalie Malinarich will present how the BBC News Online is adapting to online video, using innovative formats such as live streaming, raw footage, immersive and show & tell coverage, and by doing so, increasing greatly its digital audiences.

Alexis and Marco will present the latest trends of Internet use and digital markets at international, regional and national level and how media, advertisers and brands can find unique opportunities based on these latest udpates and unique insight.

Newsrooms need to constantly adapt their skills and working flows to the demands of a rapidly changing and evermore demanding audience.

Marta Gleich will tell us how Zero Hora, Southern Brazil’s largest daily, has reorganised its newsroom and is successfully producing more and better mobile and online content, resulting in significant increases of audience. The newspaper now has 2/3 of his staff working in a convergent newsroom, while the remaining third works uniquely for digital and mobile platforms.

12 years ago, Borja Echevarría was a reporter in a Spanish daily newspaper, working late and putting the newspaper to bed. He's now VP of Digital at a major US Cable News TV company. "Speaking of newsroom integration, is speaking of my life", he says. Borja will take us through his long trajectory in newspapers and media start-ups, exploring and developing different integration models. He will also share some findings from last year's scholarship in Harvard, studying the effect of disruption in news companies and conclude on how can TV companies can actually learn a lot from newspapers' eternal search of the ideal integration model.

The presentations will be followed by Diego Carvajal's round of questions and answers, and interventions from the audience.

Adriana focuses on applying Design Thinking for digital business transformation and editorial operations. In this session, she will work with a group of delegates to show the basic steps and tips to think outside the box when it comes to looking for new revenue streams in a media company.

Ricardo will present the reasons behind Salvodorean daily El Diario de Hoy's decided to launch an ambitious technological and organisational transformation project, aiming at become a digital-first media organisation. He will explain what challenges they faced during the process and present organizational data on the newsroom integration, paper cost savings, productivity increases, as well as relevant information on elsalvador.com's recent launch.

Brazilian daily Jornal EXTRA (the most-read Brazilian newspaper according to research group Marplan), has gone through one of the most ambitious digital transformations of the region. The newspaper not only used some of the most advanced tools to increase productivity, integrate print and digital content and simplify workflows, but also managed to successfully create a deep digital culture amongst its journalists. Aloy will tell us how!