The first Karnataka Talks OOH! conference gets underway today at the Royal Orchids hotel in Bangalore. The conference will be attended by senior government officials, media owners, brand marketers, OOH specialist agencies, and other key stakeholders of the industry.

The focus of the conference is to discuss and identify new ways to'Accelerating Karnataka OOH Industry Growth'. The industry gathering will be addressed by M Lakshminarayana, Commissioner, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP); Dr Anup Dayanand Sadhu, Senior Divisional Commercial Manager, Bangalore Division, South Western Railway; Pawan Bansal, Chief Operating Officer, Jagran Engage (OOH Division of Jagran Group); Vishwanath K S, General Manager - Traffic, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC); S M Jawad, President, Outdoor Advertising Association, Bangalore; Ranadeb Paul, AVP & Business Head -- South & East & National Head, Activation, Kinetic Worldwide India; Lokesh Kumar R, Director, IKON; Leela Sampagni of Karnataka State Aids Prevention Scoeity; and Rashmi Niranjan, Associate Professor, MSRIT, Bangalore.