Our FOBM Conference on Oct 30th: Program Draft; Speakers Update; Program Manager

We’ve been busy working on our second conference, the “Future of Business Media“, which will be held on October 30th at Waldorf in NYC. The conference program draft is up, and we have three fireside chats and six panels planned throughout the day, with ample time for networking as well (on the pre-evening mixer as well as throughout the conference day).

The topics of discussion will be:
— Consumer Business Magazines: What Does it Take?
— Advertising: Where Should the Money Go?
— Deals: What’s Next?
— Technology Business Media
— The Disruptors
— The Business of Video News

Of course these are just the topline issues…other topics such as business journalism; competition from blogs; international expansion; business information and intelligence, etc will also be discussed, among others.

The confirmed speakers till now:
» Chris Ahearn, President, Reuters Media
» Neil Ashe, CEO, CNET Networks
» David Carey, Publisher, Conde Nast Portfolio
» Bob Carrigan, President, IDG Communications
» Gordon Crovitz, EVP, Dow Jones and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal
» Lauren Rich Fine, former newspaper analyst, Merrill Lynch
» Larry Kramer, Founder, CBS MarketWatch
» David Levin, CEO, United Business Media
» Roger McNamee, Managing Director, Elevation Partners
» Alan Meckler, CEO, Jupitermedia
» Scott Moore, SVP, News and Information, Yahoo
» Rob Norman, CEO, Global, GroupM
» Steve Rattner, Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group
» Paul Rossi, Publisher, Economist, North America
» Tad Smith, CEO, Reed Business Information
» Jim Spanfeller, CEO, Forbes.com
» Greg Strakosch, CEO, TechTarget
» Kathy Yates, CEO, AllBusiness.com

Also, we’ve brought on Dorian Benkoil as our Conference Editorial Program Manager. He has more than 20 years in the media business, with a decade in digital media. Till recently he was the editorial director for Mediabistro. There, and at ABCNews.com, Fairchild Publications, CNET.com and elsewhere, he created multiple new content verticals and revenue streams across digital media platforms. He has also been a journalist with AP, Newsweek and other publications.

E-mail us at fobm AT contentnext.com with your ideas on other speakers and discussion topics. For underwriting the conference, e-mail our business side at advertising AT contentnext.com. We have started filling up some key sponsor positions, so if you want to get in on the action, act fast to get the vantage slots.

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