The media and entertainment industry in India consists of many different segments under its folds such as television, print, and films. It also includes smaller segments like radio, music and Internet advertising. Entertainment industry in India has registered an explosive growth in last two decades making it one of the fastest growing industries in India. From a single state owned channel, Doordarshan in the 1990s there are more than 400 active channels in the country. 

The Indian Media & Entertainment Industry grew from US$12.9 billion in 2009 to US$14.4 billion in 2010, a growth of 11 per cent, according to a report by the FICCI and KPMG. The report also states that backed by positive industry sentiment and growing media consumption, the industry is estimated to achieve growth of 13 per cent in 2011 to touch US$16.2 billion. As the industry braces for exciting times ahead, the sector is projected to grow at a CAGR of 14 percent to reach US$28.1 billion by 2015.

And these are just teasers. We have a fantastic lineup of experts from Entertainment Industry who are coming down to Startup Saturday Ahmedabad - SHOW TIME: The Inside Out of The Entertainment Industry.

And we'd love to have you over to hear these experts & share with us your views on the industry. To do this, you can buy your tickets here: http://bit.ly/ssahm_nov2017

 

Speakers:

Dr Darshan Trivedi

Dr. Darshan Trivedi is an area leader in Media and Entertainment Management (MEM) and Head - Centre for Media & Entertainment Studies (CMES) at MICA, India.

Dr. Trivedi holds a Ph.D. degree in Sociology and Law from Gujarat National Law University. After completing Master’s Degree in Development Communications (Gold Medal), he spent his early career in the development sector. Dr. Trivedi is an area leader in Media and Entertainment Management (MEM) and Head - Centre for Media & Entertainment Studies (CMES) at MICA, India.

Dr. Trivedi has been involved as a consultant / professional with M&E industry contributing in the areas of content strategy, content creation, creatives, research, TV-radio-films-digital productions, operations management, starts ups, upscaling of ventures and restructuring of ventures. Dr. Trivedi has worked with many prestigious institutions and organizations across India and abroad. 

Mr Karan Vyas

Originally from Ahmadabad, Vyas has done his graduation in bio informatics from ,Vidhyanagar. His love for movies and direction was flourishing since childhood due to his film enthusiast father so after his graduation, Karan Vyas joined one of the prestigious film school UCLA , in California USA for his certificate program in film direction. Once done with his film school Vyas did internship at many US Based production houses at Los Angeles, like Quianna films, Red Varden Studios , Base Camp films. He also assisted in Hollywood independent feature film Half Way to Hell. Later Vyas also joined his own film school again for certificate program for film producing .

After spending 4 years in Los Angeles, Vyas return to Ahmadabad and Joined Cineman and started assisting Mikhil on couple of Advertisements. And While du assisting Mikhil, he joined him for co- writing Wrong Side Raju. Which ended up winning 64th National Film Awards for Best Gujarati film. These days Vyas is busy writing a show for Discovery Channel India's, tentatively title "Coach Sir" and He is also adapting National Award winner Marathi film Ventilator's for its Gujarati remake.

Mr Chetan Chauhan

Mr. Chauhan started his career as canvasser with Godrej selling their fax and telex machines, worked with KCT - Karamchand Thapar selling their computer peripherals. He spent some 10 years with The Times of India, Ahmedabad as Marketing executive taking care of Brand activities and ad relevance circulation drive, Mainly branding, promotions and events. He also worked with Reliance Industry with ADAG group taking care of Web stores Marketing all over Gujarat, retails strategy and footfall drive promotions. Next he worked with Future group taking care of Brand Factory with the first store launch in Gujarat and promotions. with not so happy moments in retail moved back to media again in 2007 with Gujarati Midday as Brand Manager Mumbai. The profile includes Branding, Promotions, Marketing and events, left in 2009 working with main Midday national team with plans to start something of his own.

In 2009, he started own agency Promotions Redefined with the focus in Entertainment industry mainly, promoting Art, Culture, Music, Heritage, Movies.  

Ms Aditi Ravel (RJ Aditi)

Former Evening prime time Jock cum Producer with MyFM & RedFM, Film Reviewer & Social Media Infotainer - Running a media and marketing agency for creative and media solutions for Entertainment Industry, mostly active in Regional Films and Live in concert promotions. Supervising Producer for Panorama Studios Gujarat. Creative Producer of Gujarati Film Vitamin She. In Media since last 10 years.

Due to travel for important matters Mr. Abhishek Jain won't be able to join us for this session.

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