N3Con 2017 in Hong Kong: Full Schedule

N3Con 2017 in Hong Kong Schedule

12:30 HKT

Opening Remarks

Opening remarks from AAJA president, AAJA Asia chapter president and HKU Professor on what they are hoping to accomplish thru N3con

Speakers

Angie Lau

Anchor, Bloomberg TV

Angie Lau is an anchor for Bloomberg Television. Based in Hong Kong, Angie hosts First Up, which begins live daily coverage out of Asia, leading viewers into the start of the business day.Angie has interviewed many business leaders and influencers, from Li & Fung Chairman William... Read More →

Yvonne Leow

President, AAJA National

Yvonne Leow is the President of the Asian American Journalists Association. She was formerly an editorial project manager at Sequoia Capital, the senior Snapchat Editor at Vox.com, and was one of twelve – and the youngest in the program’s history – to be a John S. Knight Fellow... Read More →

Keith Richburg

Director of Journalism & Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong

Keith B. Richburg spent 34 years with The Washington Post as a reporter, editor and primarily a foreign correspondent.Starting as a summer intern and City Hall reporter, he moved to the Foreign Desk in 1986. He was the Post’s Bureau Chief for Southeast Asia based in Manila from... Read More →

Friday May 19, 2017 12:30 - 13:00 HKT
Main Hall @ HKU Meng Wah Complex /Theater 2

Panel

14:15 HKT

Panel: Fintech Dichotomy

Is FinTech part of the financial or technology world? Is it all buzz or for real? Hear from FinTech entrepreneurs on how media coverage has presented these dichotomies as new technologies encroach into the domain of financial institutions.

Moderators

Chelsea Phua

Associate Partner, Bell Pottinger

Chelsea Phua is an Associate Partner at international communications consultancy firm Bell Pottinger. She provides strategic counsel in public and investor relations to a broad spectrum of companies, including those listed on the Singapore Exchange, helping them to communicate their... Read More →

Speakers

Steven Fang

CEO and Executive Director, CapBridge

Dr. Steven Fang is the CEO and Executive Director of CapBridge. Dr Fang has over 25 years of Market and Corporate Development experience in the healthcare, medical device and biotechnology industry. He held various operational and managerial positions in global MNCs such as Sterling... Read More →

Melissa Gecolea

Supervising Producer and anchor for the weekly business show ‘Money Magazine’, TVB Pearl

Melissa Gecolea has worked as a broadcast journalist in the Philippines, Hong Kong and London covering politics, technology, and business.She started as a TV presenter and daily news reporter covering defense, and later as a producer for the award winning investigative show ‘Assignment... Read More →

Eunice Kim

Freelance Reporter, Arirang TV

Eunice is a Seoul-based freelance reporter, currently at Arirang TV’s Business Daily. She has filed stories on a range of topics – from Korea’s demographic and structural challenges to its aspirations for future growth, including FinTech. She also covers global stories for the... Read More →

Jase Leung

CEO, Bitcoinnect

Jase is the CEO and co-founder of Bitcoinnect Group, a Hong Kong Limited Company which aims to become the leading digital currency company in SE Asian Region. As the CEO of a leading Bitcoin firm in Hong Kong, Jase and his team provides Bitcoin consultancy services like Bitcoin mining... Read More →

Mike Raomanachai

Anchor, Voice TV

Mike Raomanachai is a technology reporter and anchor for Voice TV, a national network in Bangkok, Thailand. He graduated with a Master Degree in Multimedia Communications at Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA, where he is inspired by technology businesses in Silicon Valley. Mike... Read More →

Friday May 19, 2017 14:15 - 15:15 HKT
Main Hall @ HKU Meng Wah Complex /Theater 2

Panel

15:30 HKT

Panel: Reporting the News on a Digital Short-Form

Many news organizations today use Facebook and YouTube to post video contents. However, traditional news packages may not suit how people watch the news online today. Learn from our experienced reporters and editors how can we create an effective online news package and how to improve your on-camera presentation for online viewers.

Moderators

Zela Chin

Principal Reporter/Producer, TVB Pearl

Zela is the principal reporter/producer for the weekly business program “Money Magazine” on TVB, Hong Kong’s flagship broadcaster. Besides business news, she reports on new technology trends, consumer issues, government policy, and luxury brands in the Asia region. She started... Read More →

Speakers

Farland Chang

WorldBizWatch, Executive Producer

Farland Chang is an Emmy Award-winning Journalist, Producer, Media Strategist, Entrepreneur, Communications Coach and Journalism Professor at Shantou University in China.In a journalism career spanning some 25 years, Farland has reported on top stories across Asia & North America... Read More →

Marc Lourdes

Director, CNN Digital Asia

Marc Lourdes is Director of CNN Digital Asia. Based in Hong Kong, Lourdes leads CNN Digital’s Asia team across editorial content and multiplatform programming for CNN’s global audience during the Asian time zone. Lourdes works closely with CNN’s digital teams in London, Abu... Read More →

Archith Seshadri

Anchor, WION

Archith Seshadri is a news anchor for WION (World Is One News) – Zee News’ first English news network. Archith presents the afternoon and evening bulletins from New Delhi, India. Archith managed the US elections coverage from New York City and covered Jayalalithaa’s demise from... Read More →

Friday May 19, 2017 15:30 - 16:45 HKT
Main Hall @ HKU Meng Wah Complex /Theater 2

Panel

15:30 HKT

Panel: Women in Media: Is equality a myth?

What are the challenges for modern day female media executives? What does reality look like? Is work life balance possible? How can our next generation of female leaders better prepare to overcome hurdles?

Moderators

Yuri Nagano

Senior Reporter, Mergermarket Group

Yuri Nagano is a senior reporter for the Mergermarket Group in Tokyo. Nagano has reported for news organizations including Bloomberg BNA, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, International New York Times, The Economist and Public Radio International. She started her career as a staff... Read More →

Speakers

Yun-Hee Kim

Senior Editor, The Wall Street Journal

Yun-Hee Kim is senior editor at The Wall Street Journal based in Hong Kong. Prior to this role, she was Asia technology editor since 2011, overseeing the Journal’s coverage of technology news across the Asia-Pacific region. Ms. Kim has been with Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal... Read More →

Yvonne Leow

President, AAJA National

Anne Marie Roantree

Hong Kong Bureau Chief, Reuters

Anne Marie is Bureau Chief of Reuters in Hong Kong. She has nearly two decades of experience in Asia, working mainly in Hong Kong and Singapore, with a stint at the Irish Times in Dublin in between. Anne Marie took on her current post in the spring of 2014 and oversaw award-winning... Read More →

Mariko Sanchanta

Head of Corporate Communications, Fidelity International

Mariko Sanchanta is the Head of Corporate Communications, Asia Pacific, for Fidelity International. She and her team look after seven countries in Asia Pacific plus the Middle East. Prior to joining Fidelity, Mariko was the Regional Managing Director for Media at Burson Marsteller... Read More →

Friday May 19, 2017 15:30 - 16:45 HKT
Session 2 room Meng Wah Complex /Theater 3

Panel

10:45 HKT

Panel: Independent Filmmaking in the Age of Disruption

Media content is fighting for audience's attention. Consumers choose from the silver screen, TV sets, and mobile devices to watch long-form content productions. How does an effective digital strategy help raising funds for indie filmmaking? The filmmakers and media critics discuss documentaries distribution models, how VR plays a role in the production and best practices on crowdfunding as a form of financing.

Moderators

Matthew Scott

Freelance Journalist

Mathew has been based in Hong Kong for the past 23 years, covering the worlds of film, entertainment and sport for a variety of local international media outlets, including the South China Morning Post, Agence France-Presse and Asia Times.

Speakers

Joanna Bowers

Joanna made her directorial debut in 2009 after graduating from the University of Leeds with a BA in Broadcast Journalism with the BBC. Beginning her career in film in Los Angeles she worked her way up in the industry developing content for networks including MTV and working as a... Read More →

Danny Kim

Graduate Student/Documentary Filmmaker, Duke University

Danny Kim is a documentary filmmaker based in Durham, NC & Seoul, South Korea. Currently working on his MFA thesis film STILL WATERS, a documentary film about Sewol ferry disaster. In 2014, his work with New York City-based director Valerie Veach as a producer on a feature documentary... Read More →

Taehoon Lee

Founder, thekoreaobserver

Taehoon Lee, AAJA Asia Seoul VP and executive producer of the N3Con Seoul 2016, is an award-winning journalist and the CEO of two media startups, Newsbacker and The Korea Observer. Newsbacker, which is on beta, is a crowdfunding and collaboration platform to support independent journalists... Read More →

Saturday May 20, 2017 10:45 - 12:00 HKT
Session 3 room Meng Wah Complex /Theater 4

Panel

10:45 HKT

Panel: The Millennial Experience

Gen Y/Millennial journalists in their 20 and 30s now make up a growing workforce in many newsrooms. Tech and media savvy, they are setting new standards for content and news consumption. How can media organizations recruit and keep these young journalists? What kinds of support do these millennial reporters need to stay engaged?

Moderators

Mike Raomanachai

Anchor, Voice TV

Speakers

Richard Lai

Editor In Chief, Engadget Chinese

Richard is a Hong Kong-based Senior Editor at Engadget as well as the Editor-In-Chief at Engadget Chinese. Over the last 7.5 years, he witnessed the boom of Chinese smartphone brands and, more recently, hardware startups in this part of the world. He was one of the first international... Read More →

Carina Lee

Sales Coordinator, Discovery Networks

Carina Lee is a sales coordinator at Discovery Networks who is taking charge of business operations in Korea region. She is currently managing the main Discovery Channel, Discovery Asia, Animal Planet and Eurosport channel. She is interested on creating the business infrastructure... Read More →

Haruka Nuga

TV News Producer, Reuters

Haruka Nuga is an aspiring video news journalist based in Tokyo, Japan. Having grown up in Hong Kong, she graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Journalism & Psychology. During her time at school she previously worked for Citibank, Bloomberg TV and the Associated... Read More →

Billy Wong

Reporter/Producer, TVB Pearl

Billy Wong is an aspiring TV journalist based in Hong Kong. Before graduating with a journalism degree from The University of Hong Kong, he has interned or freelanced for Associated Press, Bloomberg TV and CCTV Beijing. He now works as a producer/ reporter for TVB Pearl, Hong Kong's... Read More →

Saturday May 20, 2017 10:45 - 12:00 HKT
Main Hall @ HKU Meng Wah Complex /Theater 2

Panel

15:00 HKT

Panel: "Challenges of Expat Reporting"

What are the challenges for reporters who have returned to their or their parents' birthplaces to report for foreign and domestic news organizations? Hear from American and Canadian expat journalists who have been living in Asia for years in countries they now call "home".

Moderators

Richard C. Paddock

Southeast Asia Reporter, The New York Times

Richard C. Paddock is an award-winning foreign correspondent who covers Southeast Asia for The New York Times. He previously covered the region as senior correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and served as Jakarta bureau chief and Moscow bureau chief for The Los Angeles Times... Read More →

Speakers

Wilfred Chan

Journalist

Wilfred is journalist, editor and photographer, social media editor and writer at Fusion, reviewing visual art and photography for CNN Style and co-founding editor of Still / Loud, a new art and culture magazine in Hong Kong.

K.Oanh Ha

Asia Consumer Team leader, Bloomberg News

K. Oanh Ha is the Asia Consumer Team Leader for Bloomberg News, where she oversees regional coverage of consumer trends and companies from luxury to casinos to retailers. She was previously Bloomberg’s Vietnam bureau chief based in Hanoi, heading a team responsible for covering... Read More →

Catherine Lai

Reporter, Hong Kong Free Press

Catherine is a Canadian journalist and photographer who lived in Beijing for almost two years, working in TV and online media. Aside from Hong Kong and mainland affairs, she is also interested in urban spaces, art and feminism. She holds a BA in Literature and Art History from the... Read More →

Yuri Nagano

Senior Reporter, Mergermarket Group

Saturday May 20, 2017 15:00 - 16:15 HKT
Main Hall @ HKU Meng Wah Complex /Theater 2

Panel

15:00 HKT

Panel: Follow the Money

To get to the heart of many stories, good reporters know to follow the money. Learn strategies to covering companies and their executives deeply and finding the hidden narratives within the numbers.

Moderators

Sherisse Pham

Tech, Business Reporter, CNNMoney

Sherisse Pham is a tech and business reporter for CNNMoney and CNN International in Hong Kong. Prior to that, she was based in Washington, D.C., where she was a general assignment weekend correspondent and digital producer. She also worked as a correspondent in London with CNN International... Read More →

Speakers

Enda Curran

Senior Reporter, Bloomberg News

Hailing from a farming family in the hills of County Wicklow, Ireland, Enda covers major themes and trends driving Asia’s economies as a correspondent for Bloomberg News. Recent coverage has focused on China’s transition, Myanmar's fading star and Japan’s struggle for growth... Read More →

Youkyung Lee

Associated Press, Reporter

Youkyung Lee joined the Associated Press Seoul bureau as a technology writer in 2012, covering consumer electronics, mobile and internet trends as well as South Korea’s startup scenes and big businesses known as chaebol. Before joining the AP, Lee covered technology, business and... Read More →

David Webb

Activist Investor, Webb-site Reports

A Hong Kong resident since 1991, former investment banker David Webb retired in 1998 to focus on his investments and to establish Webb-site.com, a non-profit platform for better corporate and economic governance in Hong Kong, which now has over 22,000 subscribers to its free newsletter... Read More →

Saturday May 20, 2017 15:00 - 16:15 HKT
Session 1 room Meng Wah Complex /Theater 1

Panel

16:30 HKT

Panel: Covering the North Korea Crisis

President Donald Trump is the new sheriff in town, and he is trying to shake up relations with North Korea. How the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, will react is anybody's guess. What will Kim do if Trump shakes too hard? Veteran news leaders talk about the challenges of covering a country that speaks through official pronouncements issued through state-run media, where access is severely restricted and people aren't able to talk freely.

Moderators

Ken Moritsugu

News Director for Koreas and Japan, Associated Press

Moritsugu oversees the AP’s video, text and photo newsgathering for Japan and the Koreas. He has been a leader in AP’s efforts in Asia to reshape coverage for the digital age. Moritsugu started his journalism career at The Japan Times in Tokyo. He later was a reporter for the... Read More →

Speakers

Ted Anthony

News Director, Associated Press

Ted Anthony oversees the Asia-Pacific news operations of The Associated Press — video, photos and text, nearly 200 staff and freelancers, from North Korea to the Pacific Island, Japan to India. A longtime national and foreign correspondent, he has reported from more than 25 countries... Read More →

Mike Chinoy

Senior fellow, USC U.S.-China Institute

Mike Chinoy is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the U.S.-China Institute at the University of Southern California and the creator of the Assignment China documentary film series on the history of American correspondents in China. He is also an independent consultant on media strategy... Read More →

Giles Hewitt

Asia Pacific Editor in Chief, Agence France-Presse

Giles Hewitt has been AFP's Asia-Pacific editor-in-chief since January 1, 2017 Giles, 54, was recruited by AFP Hong Kong in July 1990. A British national, he was born in India and graduated from the University of East Anglia in Norwich. From 1993 to 1997 Giles worked in AFP’s Beijing... Read More →

Taehoon Lee

Founder, thekoreaobserver

Saturday May 20, 2017 16:30 - 17:30 HKT
Main Hall @ HKU Meng Wah Complex /Theater 2

Panel