> Inaugural Ceremony
 
 

•  Event: WPBA(World Professional Blogger-Journalist Association) Inaugural Ceremony

• Period: November 17th (Mon) ~ 18th (Tue) 2008

• Location: Level 2, Convention centre, Hanwha 63 City, Youido, Seoul, Korea

• Sponsor: Global News Network 'AVING'

• Scale: Approximately 350 people (blogger, journalists, officers and businessmen)

• Programs: WPBA official ceremony (Making a formal announcement on promotion & protection of the rights of professional bloggers worldwide, Events: performances, tours)

 
Time Schedule Note

10:00 - 10:10

Registration

10:10 - 12:00

WPBA Inaugural Ceremony

WPBA founding declaration

Chairman,
Organizing Committee

WPBA Presentation

Vice Chairman,
Organizing Committee

Video Presentation

IBNMA President,
Paul Chaney

Introduction of Attendees

12:00 - 12:50

Lunch Conference

13:00 ~ 16:10

Business Model For Blogger-Journalist Forum

(Taiwan) How blogging helps survive the economic downturn and the three global blogging trends for 2009

Mr.6: Voofox,
CEO

(USA) Digg and Bloggers: Best practices for Digg integration

Matt Van Horn : DIGG,
Business Development Manager

(China) Way to interactive blog in vertical portal

Liu XiaoDong: CNET NETWORKS China,
Super vice president

(India) Blogging scene in India

Dhiram Shah:
New Launches,
Editor

(USA) Blogging vs. Journalism from an international perspective

Jochen A. Siegle: MomentiMedia,
Co-founder

(Singapore) Citizen journalism in Singapore

Nicholas Aaron Khoo

(Korea) Community computing within a U-city

Ezra Jeoung:
Korea U-city Association,
Chief researcher

(Korea) Intelligent metablog searching, Qrobo semantic blog search engine

Chris Kang: Semantics,
Executive Director

16:10 - 16:20

Break

16:20 - 17:40

Photo News Competition

17:40 - 18:00

VIP ASIA 2008 AWARD

18:00 - 19:30

Dinner Conference

C-motech CEO
AVING Publisher

19:30 - 20:00

Congratulatory Performance, Taekwondo & Myosung

20:00 - 20:30

Closing Ceremony

*The program may be rescheduled in unforeseen circumstances.