8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

Day 1 of the Bengaluru Study Tour

Our study tour will offer us a front row seat to Bangalore’s news and non-news companies excelling in content, audience, commerce, and product.

8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

Welcome breakfast, registration, and introduction

Terra Bites, Ground floor, No.428, 8th Main Rd, Koramangala 4-B Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru

Over breakfast, join study tour participants for a briefing and introduction to the vibrant Bangalore tech, media, and innovation scene.

Executive briefing: INMA Technology and Innovation Study Tour

In this briefing by INMA, learn why Bengaluru is considered India’s innovation and start up hub. Learn about the study tour stops — with a peek into diverse digital models, tech-driven approaches, emphasise on content.

9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.

Transit to Pratilipi

9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Pratilipi

Sona Towers, 4th Floor, No.2, 26, 27 and 3, Hosur Rd, Industrial Area, Krishna Nagar, Bengaluru

Founded in 2014, Pratilipi started with an online literature product, which now constitutes 90% of its user base. They have since expanded into comics, audio, and podcasts, and have taken over a publishing house and a podcasting studio. The company also licenses their stories to other ecosystem partners, with several TV and OTT shows in development. It caters to the vision of making content like language, money, or device accessible without barriers. Gain a front-row seat to insights on Pratilipi's strategy for acquiring and building platforms to share stories in various formats, languages, and geographies. They will also share their approach to monetisation which includes various layers and formats for subscription and payment, across mediums. Understand how Pratilipi arrives at product selection using predictive analysis, content selection, and content delivery formats, along with the use of Gen AI to build and boost revenue.

Ranjeet Pratap Singh

Co-Founder and CEO, Pratilipi

10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

Transit to Dashtoon

11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Dashtoon

24th Main Rd, above Rameshwaram Bakery & Sweets, Garden Layout, BDA Layout, HSR Layout, Bengaluru

Dashtoon, a two-year-old company, offers insights into how AI will reshape news delivery and its application. At this stop, learn about how Dashtoon uses AI for comic generation as well as the benefit and scalability of Dashtoon Studio, an AI lead tool available on the Web. Dive into newer delivery formats, building engagement, speed of production, and bearing on monetisation.

Tanveer Ali

Head, Licensing and Partnerships, Dashtoon

Soumyadeep Mukherjee

Co-Founder and CTO, Dashtoon

12:15 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

Transit to LinkedIn

1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

Lunch at LinkedIn

1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.

LinkedIn

4th floor, Mantri Commercio Tower-A, Global Technology Park, Devarabisanahalli Rd, next to Intel, Adarsh Palm Retreat, Bellandur, Bengaluru

From a purely business and employment-focused online professional platform, news curation has emerged as one of the focus areas for LinkedIn. Learn how LinkedIn approaches LinkedIn News ensuring that it reaches the right people at the right time. Gain insights into how the LinkedIn team deploys gen AI and tech for personalisation, better audience engagement, user journeys and monetisation.

Preethi Ramamoorthy

News Editor, LinkedIn India

Nirajita Banerjee

Head of Editorial and Community Management, LinkedIn India

3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

Transit to VerSe Innovation

3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

VerSe Innovation: Meet the teams at Daily Hunt, Josh, and Oneindia

11th Floor, Wing E, Helios Business Park, Outer Ring Road, Kadubeesanahalli, Bengaluru

VerSe Innovation is a content technology platform company and India's first tech unicorn focused on local languages. Since its inception, VerSe has risen to the challenge of serving the unmet content needs of millions of consumers using technology. Today, VerSe Innovation’s proprietary technology platform powers 350 million+ users to consume content in their local language on Dailyhunt. Its technology also powers India’s most engaging short-video app, Josh. Explore how VerSe Innovation leverages AI/ML, emerging technologies, and data insights to enhance audience engagement by delivering personalised content in their preferred language. Gain insights into maintaining a focus on content discovery and delivery through a robust technological framework, strategies for short-form video creation, and innovative monetisation approaches.

Oneindia is a multi-lingual news platform delivering news to millions of users in 10 languages, including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Odia, Marathi, and Punjabi. Oneindia is a pioneer in providing content in text, video, image, and podcast formats. It delivers content across 10 categories, including breaking news, entertainment, sports, automotive, technology, lifestyle, travel, personal finance, education, and viral trends. Oneindia has begun its international journey with the launch of OneArabia, catering to the MENA region with content in Arabic and English. Take a closer look at Oneindia’s growth and revenue strategies, along with the challenges and milestones.

Tony Thomas

Chief Technology Officer, Oneindia

Jobo Kuruvilla

Chief Product Officer, Oneindia

Sreeraag Gorty

Head of AI Focus, Dailyhunt

Sahil Bhagat

Senior Director & Product Lead, Josh

Avinav Mishra

Senior Director, Product & Analytics, VerSe Innovation

Sandeep Naug

Head of Strategy, NexVerse.ai

5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Transit to Bombay Brasserie

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Unwind after a long day over coffee and drinks

Bombay Brasserie, Unit No. 10, The Bay, Campus, RMZ ECOWORLD, 8/A, Marathahalli - Sarjapur Outer Ring Rd, Bellandur, Bengaluru,

8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Day 2 of the Bengaluru Study Tour

The second day of the study tour takes us around Bangalore’s start-ups and leading AI and tech companies offering learnings and insights to news media companies.

8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

Welcome breakfast, registration, and introduction

Brik Oven, 872/a, 80 Feet Rd, HAL 2nd Stage, New Tippasandra

Over breakfast, join study tour participants for a briefing and introduction to the vibrant Bangalore tech, media, and innovation scene.

9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.

Transit to CRED

9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

CRED

CRED is the most rewarding payments platform for the affluent. The session will introduce CRED, its business model, how it understands the audience and develops products to engage and monetize them.

Miten Sampat

Strategy, M&A, Investor Relations, Finance, and Compliance, CRED

Akshay Aedula

Product and Growth, CRED

11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Transit to YourStory

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

YourStory

YourStory Media is India's leading online media venture for entrepreneurs and startups, with more than 1,200,000 stories of entrepreneurs and a reach of over 10 million engaged monthly readers accessing stories in 12 Indian languages. Learn how YourStory has built the paid content business, its approach to audiences and content vis-à-vis creation of a niche in the segment. Dive into its overall monetisation strategy, including revenue diversification contributing to a sustainable business model.

Aanand Krishnan

Head of Product, Performance Marketing and Growth, YourStory

Aneesh Attreya

Head of Product and Growth, YourStory

Rohan Thacker

Technology Lead, YourStory

Sangeeta Bavi

COO, YourStory

Jarshad N K

Editor-in-Chief, YourStory

Karumbaiah BK

Chief Strategy Officer, YourStory

1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

Transit to Condé Nast Technology Lab

1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Lunch

2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

Condé Nast Technology Lab

Set up in Bengaluru in 2020, the Condé Nast Technology Lab houses engineering, product, design, commerce and data functions, and facilities — with cross-functional disciplines and global outputs. At this stop, learn about how Condé Nast has built commerce in product units that each brand can choose to use or not. These can be editorial sections, swipeable images, look books, and more — leading to growing engagement and driving revenue. The second area of focus will be how to create a multi brand presence — from print to digital — involving creating, designing, and launching scalable technology across brands, diverse markets, and languages, with the goal of delivering brand ROI. Dive into steps taken to prioritise a digital footprint and user experience from a product point of view.

Rohit Kumar Gupta

Product Director, Condé Nast

Sunit Sharma

Senior Director Design, Condé Nast

Himadri Saha

Vice President Engineering, Condé Nast

4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Transit to Pickyourtrail

5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Visit to Pickyourtrail

Pickyourtrail, started in 2014, is India’s biggest online D-I-Y holiday booking platform that empowers users to curate customised holidays. At this stop, learn about how pickyourtrail approaches product; audience journeys, engagement - personalisation and monetisation along the way sharing insights on the deployment of data, gen AI and tech.

Surotham Suresh

Head, Growth, Pickyourtrail

Shashwat Ramesh

Senior Vice President,Revenue , Pickyourtrail