This year’s Radio Asia conference in Colombo from May 22 to 24 has released its list of speakers.

The event will provide an opportunity for local radio broadcasters to exchange ideas with leading broadcasters in Europe, United States and the Middle East.

The theme for this year’s ABU-organised event is “It’s All About Content: Positioning New Radio In The Knowledge Society”.

Here’s the complete list of speakers:

• Ovidiu Miculescu, President Director General, Radio Romania

• Ms Joan Warner, Chief Executive Officer, Commercial Radio Australia and Vice-Chair WorldDMB Forum

• John Simon, Simo Radio, UK

• Yasser Garrana, Head of Radio, Arab States Broadcasting Union

• Steve Ahern, Managing Director, Ahern Media & Training, Australia

• Wolfram Tech, Senior Partner, BCI Media Experts , Germany

• Tim Littlechild, Presenter, Radio Television Hong Kong

• Representatives from Japanese broadcaster NHK

• Park Sungchul, Deputy Director Radio, KBS, Korea Republic

• Simon Heung, Hong Kong

• Rob Graham, Managing Director & CEO, EON Radio Group, Singapore

• Anders Held, Head of International Relations, Swedish Radio

• Ian Pooler, Deputy Head, English Programme Services RTHK, Hong Kong

• Dr Mike McCluskey, International Media & Broadcast Consultant

• Errol Jonathans, CEO, Radio Suara Surabaya, Indonesia

• Zakiah Halim, Vice President, MediaCorp, Singapore

• Julia Warner, Head of Marketing & Research, CRA

• Anurag Batra, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, exchange4media group, New Delhi

• James Ross, CEO, Lightning International, Hong Kong

• Rafiqul Haque, Managing Director, Radio Today, Bangladesh

• K.Padmakumar, Asst. Professor, School of Communication, Manipal University, India

• Dr Sreedhar Ramamurthy, Media expert and Community Radio Practitioner, India