Mumbai, Maharashtra -- (SBWIRE) --06/26/2011 -- AdAsia2011 has confirmed six new international speakers including Coca-Cola's Global CMO Joseph V Tripodi.

Joseph V Tripodi leads the Global Marketing, Consumer Management and Commercial Leadership efforts of Coca-Cola Company to develop as well as to leverage its capabilities, brands and properties in line with the needs of consumers worldwide and drive profitable growth.

Among his achievements, Mr. Tripodi led Allstate's "Your Choice Auto and Home," the industry's first product innovations in decades.

Mr. Tripodi is currently a member of the Board of the Ad Council and was also Chairman of the Association of National Advertisers.

The other international speakers confirmed by AdAsia2011 include Akira Kagami - Executive Advisor & Global Executive Creative Advisor at Dentsu Inc. Thirasak Tanapatanakul - Worldwide Chairman at Creative Juice, Duncan Goose - Founder and Managing Director of London-based Global Ethics Limited, Kitty Lun - Chairman and CEO of LOWE China and Koichi Yamamato - General Manager at Global Solutions Center, Dentsu Inc. AdAsia2011 is scheduled from October 31 - November 03 2011 in New Delhi. The speakers mentioned above will share their perspective on the evolving dynamics in business, marketing and advertising.

Akira Kagami has helped build brands for clients across the globe ranging in variety and size of the industries. Currently, he focuses on Asia, one of the hottest markets, to strengthen Dentsu's creative network and its client work. Akira has won various awards & accolades including ACCs, a Grand Prix, Clio, IBA Sweepstakes, ADC, Cannes Lions, Asia Pacific, One Show, and D&AD. He chaired AdFest in 2002, was the first foreign judge in the China Advertising Great Wall Awards in 2007 and was the Jury President for Outdoor Lions Grand Prix at Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in 2009.

Thirasak Tanapatanakul has been awarded for local and international shows including multiple Gold Lions, Gold Clios, Yellow Pencil D&AD, Pencils The One Show, Andy Awards of Excellence and Grand Prix in Asia Pacific Adfest. Besides his professional experience in advertising, Mr. Thirasak has also extended his effort to build a creative and inspiration place called 'The Village of Joy' to build under green-beauty and sustainable living concept. It aims to inspire people to reconsider their lifestyle and live sufficiently.

Duncan Goose is also the founder and the owner of the "One" bottled water company, based in the U.K. that has helped install 899 roundabout pumps in South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia — enough to supply 1.2 million people with clean drinking water from a sustainable source. In July 2005 One water became the official water for Live8 and Make Poverty History and since then the 'One' brand has already extended into different product categories. For his entrepreneurship, Duncan has received various awards including Greatest Britons 2007, Beacon Fellowship Award, Co-Operative Retail Group Business Awards, Paul Harris Fellowship Award and the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

AdAsia2011 will also see Kitty Lun, one of the most awarded and respected advertising professional in Greater China. She has chaired and judged award shows in Greater China, Singapore, Indonesia, Korea, New York, Russia and Canada. In 2003 Kitty published her book "Advertising With No Lipstick" where she provided an in-depth insight on her unique philosophy on advertising and on life.

In 2005, Kitty was one amongst the top 10 Creative Directors of the Year and top 10 Distinguished Advertising Women of the Year. In 2008, she was honoured with the Distinguished Alumni Communicators Award by the Hong Kong Baptist University and in 2009, she was honoured with the New York Festivals Creative Achievement Award.

Koichi Yamamoto has experience in a wide range of services like communications strategy planning, new brands and product planning, marketing solutions across varied industries. He has been the Director at Communication Lab, Dentsu Communication Institute Inc where his main focus was on research and development of new knowledge and systems for marketing communication along with consultation on new product development, communication and brand management strategies for numerous clients. Koichi has been a speaker at many global conferences including, Advertising Research Foundation annual Conference, Asian Racing Conference 2008 & 10, Forum for the Future 2006, IAA World Congress 2004.

Commenting on these confirmations, Mr Madhukar Kamath, Chairman of the Organising Committee AdAsia2011 and Group CEO & Managing Director - Mudra Group said, "We are honoured to welcome more eminent personalities as speakers to AdAsia2011. Their experience and expertise in different fields of business, marketing and advertising will add tremendous value."

Other renowned speakers confirmed for AdAsia2011 are David Dogra, Ram Charan, Rishad Tobaccowala and Indra Nooyi.

AdAsia returns to India after eight years. In 2003, the AdAsia congress was hosted in Jaipur and was widely regarded as a landmark in the history of the Congress. AdAsia2011 will not just be about Ads and Asia. It has a far more ambitious vision and seeks to comprehensively explore all aspects of the theme Uncertainty: The New Certainty. The business world is currently at an inflection point witnessing a realignment of global economic leadership. In the 19th Century, the world looked to the West for innovation and progress. In the 21st. century, everyone's attention is riveted on Asia. AdAsia2011 will thus provide a ready platform to chronicle change of a significant magnitude and provide a glimpse of the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. The prolific agenda of AdAsia2011 will comprise over 15 intellectually stimulating sessions aimed at exploring the business ecosystem and understanding the nature of disruption to effectively address pertinent concerns.

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Supermodel Nethra Raghuraman signed as the host

Mumbai, Maharashtra -- (SBWIRE) --06/23/2011 -- Bloomberg UTV, India's premier business news channel today announced the second season of 'The Assignment'. With some of India's finest professionals daring to take on 'The Assignment', this unparalleled business reality show presented by Nokia, has roped in super model Nethra Raghuraman as the anchor. The show goes on-air on Bloomberg UTV early July.

Season 2 of this hugely popular business reality show challenges 13 of India's finest professionals, to take on untried and untested assignments outside their comfort zones. Continuing its core philosophy of bridging the gap between the two significantly distinct sectors of the Indian landscape, this season of The Assignment will see participants from a diverse range of professions stepping into unchartered markets, catering to hitherto unlikely audiences. On the one hand there are highly-trained professionals schooled in India and abroad catering to the most discerning, evolved audiences in urban India. While on the other there is an audience that has only heard about these experts from peers, read about them in the papers or seen them on TV. The Assignment brings these two worlds together and challenges these experts in fields ranging from Advertising to media, fashion designing and IT, to serve audiences in tier II towns who've never been exposed to such quality of expertise.

This weekly show will not only put to task the participant's presence of mind and decision making abilities, but will also capture the individual's ability to pull off the task most effectively. The daylong ASSIGNMENT breaks the comfort zone built by respective work environments and opens up an engaging story of cross learning across 13 such episodes.

Can these hotshots who've mastered their trade and firmly positioned themselves on the map be able to cater to the expectations, demands and favor of the audiences at the heart of India?

Commenting on the launch, Mr. Deepak Lamba – Business Head, Bloomberg UTV said, "Inspired by an overwhelming response from our viewers and advertisers, we are back with the second season of The Assignment. Our objective is to delight our viewers with an exciting format which combines the best of education with entertainment. In keeping with our promise of being the Blunt. And Sharp. business news channel, our efforts like The Assignment will continue to strive towards strengthening our innovative programming while fulfilling the business news needs of our viewers."

Not new to assignments herself, mutli-faceted super model, Nethra Raghuraman said, "Hosting The Assignment will be an exhilarating experience and an inspiring challenge for me and I'm grateful to the channel for the opportunity. It will be refreshing to bring hotshot experts out of their comfort zones to try and execute activities in a totally unknown environment. I look forward to a lot of excitement and enthusiasm from the participants while they undertake these untried and untested challenges and work their way to success in the task."

To expand the footprint of the initiative to the leaders of tomorrow, the IIM Ahmedabad will bring alive the core fundamental behind the experience of The Assignment to students. In Confluence 2011, the globally renowned management fest of the institute, an event inspired by The Assignment will be designed for participating students to allow them the opportunity of applying their education, to practical challenges.

In its new season, The Assignment promises to enthrall the Indian viewer with yet another stellar programming innovation brought to life only on Bloomberg UTV.

About Bloomberg UTV
Bloomberg UTV, India's premier Business news channel is a strategic partnership between Bloomberg L.P., the global leader in business information, and the promoters (founders) of UTV, India's leading integrated media and entertainment enterprise. With an enviable squad of Indian journalists, power of over 2500 professionals across the globe and a network of 145 bureaus, Bloomberg UTV is a product of local news gathering, production and distribution expertise combined with world class financial news capabilities and global reach. The channel is positioned as an enabler that cuts out the terminology and presents the honest truth. It ushers in the investment culture to a whole new class of Indian growth aspirants that have somewhat been alienated with the erstwhile genre offering. Bloomberg UTV received accolades for its programmes as well as promotional strategies at the NT Awards 2011 and ProMax India 2011. It received the Best Live Telecast Show award for 'Today's Bets', the Best Promo Award for 'the Earth Day campaign' and the Best News Show promo for 'Exposed'. Powered with thought leadership across markets, news and path breaking features, Bloomberg UTV aims to lead the attitudinal shift where intimidating numbers give way to usable knowledge and clarity…and aptly create a business news delivery format that's Blunt. And Sharp.

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Mumbai, Maharashtra -- (SBWIRE) --06/09/2011 -- AdAsia 2011 has confirmed David Droga, Dr Ram Charan and Rishad Tobaccowala as Speakers for the congress to be held in New Delhi from October 31 to November 03, 2011.The three erudite speakers will draw on their rich and varied experience to share their perspective on the evolving dynamics in business management,marketing and communications at AdAsia 2011.

David Drogafounded Droga5 in New York in 2006. Creativity magazine named it "US Agency of the Year" in 2007. Droga5 is now one of the fastest growing independent agencies in America.During his advertising career, David has worked as Worldwide Chief Creative Officer of the Publicis network, Executive Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi London, and Regional Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Asia. He is the single most-awarded creative professional at the Cannes International Advertising Festival andhas been inducted into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Achievement and honored with Lifetime achievement awards across the globe.

Ram Charan is a highly sought after business advisor and speaker famous among senior executives for his uncanny ability to solve their toughest business problems. For more than thirty-five years, Dr. Charan has worked behind the scenes with top executives at some of the world's most successful companies, including GE, Verizon, Novartis, Dupont, Thomson Corporation, Honeywell, KLM, Bank of America, and MeadWestvaco. He has earned MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with high distinction and was a Baker Scholar. After receiving his doctorate degree, he served on the Harvard Business School faculty. Dr. Charan is well known for providing advice that is down to earth and relevant and that takes into account the real-world complexities of business. Identified by Fortune as the leading expert in corporate governance, Dr. Charan is helping boards go beyond the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley and the New York Stock Exchange by providing practical ways to improve their group dynamics. Boards, CEOs, and senior-most human resource executives often seek his advice on talent planning and key hires. He was among BusinessWeek's top ten resources for in-house executive development programs

Rishad Tobaccowala helps guide strategy and serves as a catalyst to innovation efforts across Vivaki – a Publicis Groupe entity. Tobaccowala has also served as the Chief Innovation Officer of Publicis Groupe Media and was the founder and President of SMG Next, the first and most comprehensive futures practice in the media industry. The development of SMG Next resulted in the launch of several successful practices for SMG including: SMG Play, the first company to leverage videogames as a marketing platform; word-of-mouth practice Reverb; and Digits, a leader in mobile marketing. Tobaccowala was also responsible for developing SMG Search, a dedicated unit of SMG that specializes in leveraging search applications in new ways.Tobaccowala was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation (2005), and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five "Marketing Innovators." He was appointed to Advertising Age's Interactive Hall of Fame; named Adweek's 2000 Media All-Star for Interactive Media; and honored by OMMA as a Media Strategist All-Star in 2005. In 2008, he was named an industry legend by Ad Color and in 2009, conferred anIndustry Achievement award at ad:tech for long-term dedication and industry service.

Commenting on these confirmations, Mr Madhukar Kamath, Chairman of the Organising Committee AdAsia 2011 and Group CEO & Managing Director - Mudra Group said,"AdAsia2011 is honoured to welcome David Droga, Ram Charan andRashid Tobaccowala to AdAsia 2011. Their varied experience and expertise in different fields of management, marketing and communications will add immeasurable value to the entire conference and will provide it a holistic view."

AdAsia returns to India after eight years. In 2003, the AdAsia congress was hosted in Jaipur and was widely regarded as a landmark in the history of the Congress. AdAsia 2011 will not just be about Ads and Asia. It has a far more ambitious vision and seeks to comprehensively explore all aspects of the themeUncertainty: The New Certainty. The business world is currently at an inflection point witnessing a realignment of global economic leadership. In the 19th Century, the world looked to the West for innovation and progress. In the 21st. century, everyone's attention is riveted on Asia. AdAsia 2011 will thus provide a ready platform to chronicle change of a significant magnitude and provide a glimpse of the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. The prolific agenda of AdAsia 2011 will comprise over 15 intellectually stimulating sessions aimed at exploring the business ecosystem and understanding the nature of disruption to effectively address pertinent concerns.

About AdAsia 2011
AdAsia began as a three day Asian Advertising Conference in 1958 sponsored by the Japan International Advertising Association (JIAA). The principal objective of the conference was to give Asian advertising a boost in the post war era. The conference was attended by delegates from six countries including Japan. The modest conference grew into a congress in the 1960s and was nick named AdAsia in 1984. AdAsia 2011 is being organised under the aegis of the Asian Federation of Advertising Associations (AFAA). AFAA was set up in July 1978, when representatives of advertising associations of ten Asian countries reached an unanimous decision to do so, based on the recommendations of a working committee formed at the 10th Asian Advertising Congress held in Sydney in 1976. The current members of the Federation include Advertising Associations from Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taipei, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.

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