1.    Paul Bashnel, Director of Spoken Features in New Zealand Radio

2.    Asaad Sameer Bagharib, Senior General Manager of  Technology and New Media at Singapore’s MediaCorp Radio; “Making digital radio becomes easy.”

3.    Kim Hye Ryeon, director of international relations at South Korea’s KBS, “Visual Radio.”

4.    Douglas Kelner, UCLA University professor, “Media Spectacle and the 2008 Presidential Election: Some Pre-election Reflections.”

5.    Barry Clark, Announcer and Senior Instructor at Radio Australia

6.    Cliff Bill, Head of News and Events Department at Radio Television Hong Kong, “Application of Content Created by users.”

7.    Michael Brown, Professor of Communication & Journalism at Wyoming University; “International radio and New Media: Meta-Analysis of Studies Printed in the Journal of Radio and Audi Media.”

8.    Parni Hadi, Director General of Indonesia’s Radio; “Radio Goes Green.”

9.    Jun Ogawa, Director of international affairs and strategy of Japan’s TBS network; “The Appeal Campaign Turn the Lights Off.”

10.    Mike Adams, Coordinator of Rapid Response Radio Unit in the UK’s Health Communication Resources; “Disaster Relief: How Can Radio Save Lives?”

11.    Basharat Ahmed Khan, former Deputy Director General of India’s Prasar Bharati network; “The Value of Public Service Radio”

12.    Salvatore Scifo, of the European Union Institute at Turkey’s Marmara University; “Community Radio in the United Kingdom: opportunities and challenged of the ‘third tier’ of broadcasting.”

13.    Mushegh Hovsepyan, Director of Radio and TV Journalism at the University of Yerevan, Armenia; “Radio Market Patterns and Its Development Trends in the Republic of Armenia.”

14.    William J. Drummond, Professor of Journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley; “Public Radio in the United States: Adaptation to digital challenges.”

15.    Steve Ahern, Director of Australia’s AMPT Pty Lt.; “How Should Radio Programming for New Platforms Change?”

16.    Sabine Breitsameter, Professor in Media Art and Science at the Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany; “The Origins of Radio Drama: Three Fundamental Approaches”

17.    David Astley, Secretary General of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)

18.    Palle Bo, Director of Denmark’s Radio guru; “Help your clients get better results.”

19.    Vijay Sadhu, Executive manager at the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Radio
Department, acknowledgement

20.    Michael Keith, of the Boston College Communication Department, the United States

21.    Winston Mano, professor at the Communication and Media Research institute at the University of Westminster, the United Kingdom

22.    Sebastian Paulin, of the Radio Research and Study Group, France


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