Jea Moon Lee, EP from KCA, Korea; Andew Ji-Yong Kim, president, AK Entertainment (Korea); Jungsoo Kim, content strategy headquarters, TBS (Japan); Hojin Kwon, senior executive director, SBS (Korea); Jun Fukai, deputy director, TBS (Japan).
Digital giants from China: Liqiang Zhao, content partnership, Huawei, Leon Wang, executive editor in chief, iQiyi, Peng Zhang, Sunrise consulting, Wang Yue, international public affairs senior manager, iQiyi, all from China
Broadcasters, platforms and producers: Hazlin Haiz from Infocomm Media, Singapore; Zahira Razak, Farlina Mohamed, Wan Haiz, all from Mediacorp (Singapore) ; David Teo from Metrowealth (Malaysia) ; Jane Lim from MIG Production (Malaysia) ; Jason Teo from Metrowealth (Malaysia) ; Zeb De Costa from iQiyi (Malaysia) ; and Ezra Farabi from Mediacorp (Singapore).
Mami Toyosaki, content acquisition live action, Netflix (Japan); Shalline Chok, VP of sales and acquisitions, YooHoo Media (Australia); Esther Chen, program purchasing director, Shannon Lin, program project manager, both from Wonder Hypermedia Corp. (Taiwan).
Middle East’s MBC Group head buyers: Kawtar Bellafquih, director of acquisitions; Tareq Ibrahim, director of MBC1 MBC Drama & Shahid VIP; Aya Medhat, head of Arabic acquisitions; Zeinab Abulsamh, general manager; Badr Albakree, acquisitions executive.
More than China: Li Hanchun, deputy director, from broadcaster JSBC; Liqiang Zhao, content partnership, from tech titan Huawei; Qi Wang, international manager Asia, Beta Film (Germany); Xiaoming Qin, director of international distribution & acquisitions, JSBC
NHK Japan: Yoko Barrett, Translator, Saimi Suzuki, producer, Tomoko Kumanomidou, senior director, Kayo Fukuda, senior manager
Nicole Shun, Priscilla Chan, both from Viu OTT (Hong Kong); Nina Park, Heewon Lim, both from Lian Contents (South Korea).
Karen Lee, Leong Wai-Lene, both from the telco Singtel, Singapore; Samuel Koh, from Rock Entertainment Holdings, financing and production, Singapore
Buyers from Indonesia, another big growing market: Gamaliel Paulus S, MNC Group; Surya Hadiwinata, PT NET Mediatama Television; Oswin Bonifanz, Unlimited Production.
Jove Lin, head of acquisition, Creative Century Entertainment (Taiwan); Oanh Lam, acquisition executive, Da Ngan, acquisition executive, Do Lan Phuong, acquisition manager, all from BHMedia (Vietnam).
The acquisition team from Duronto TV (Bangladesh): Abhijit Chowdhury, Sheyuti Shahgufta, and Sunjida Siddique. The country is booming in production and OTT platforms
Chie Kamata, head of international, Haruka Takamatsu, sale exec, and Francois Grosjean, Deputy Director of Global Business, all at Fuji TV, Japan; and Tom Miyauchi, Head of Formats at Nippon TV Corp, Japan.
MENA: Dom Wilkins, head of OSN Channels (Dubai)
Rochella Ann Salvador, officer in charge and senior international manager, GMA Network (The Philipines); Ran Kim, producer, Kimjonghak Production (South Korea); YunAh Kim, CEO, Evenent (South Korea).
Japan: Matthew Ireton, CEO, Yoshimoto (USA); Sakura Wang, manager international content sales & acquisitions, Yoshimoto Kogyo (Japan); Cyrus Farrokh, SVP head of worldwide strategy and US operations, Studio Ramsay Global; Kengo Nakai, producer, Ken Tezuka, acquisitions, both from Yoshimoto Group (Japan).
Japanese TV Asahi team: Yukiko Sakaguchi, associate director copyright business developer; Ami Kawamoto, manager programming & entertainment; Sayaka Takahara, programming & entertainment department
