| 01.13.2014 | |||||
 8:30 am - 5:00 pm | Digital Design & Production Conference: The Mechanics of E-Book Implementation (DDPC) | ||||
| 8:45 am - 5:00 pm | Launch Kids Conference | ||||
| 9:00 am - 5:30 pm | Making Information Pay for Higher Ed | ||||
| 5:30 pm | Reception: “Out of Print” – A Screening of the Award-Winning Book Industry Documentary Narrated by Meryl Streep, “Out of Print” draws us into the topsy-turvy world of words, illuminating the turbulent and exciting journey from the book through the digital revolution. Jeff Bezos, Jane Friedman, Ray Bradbury, Scott Turow, Darcie Chan, Jeffrey Toobin, Ira Wolfman – parents, students, educators, scientists – all highlight how this revolution is changing everything about the printed word – and changing us.
All proceeds from this reception and screening benefit Goddard Riverside Community Center.
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| Workshops | |||
| 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | Driving Agency Growth: Fresh Case Studies, Models, & Tools for Agents & Managers [More Info] Jason Allen Ashlock, Strategist with Movability, Movable Type Management | Finding and Building an Audience: On Discovery and Discoverability [More Info] Andrew Rhomberg, Founder, Jellybooks.com Ashleigh Gardner, Head of Content, Wattpad | Licensing Copyright in the Digital Age [More Info] Michael Healy, Executive Director (Author and Publisher Relations), Copyright Clearance Center Skott Klebe, Product Evangelist, Copyright Clearance Center Devereux Chatillon, Attorney, Chatillon Law Bill Rosenblatt, President, GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies Kimberly Potvin, Director of Content Acquisition and Intellectual Property Practices, Cengage Learning |
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Workshop: SPi Global - Content Development and Production for Multi-Platform Use [More Info] John Wheeler, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Emerging Technologies , SPi Global | ||
| 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Workshop: SPi Global - EDUPUB: Next Steps for Content Standards for Digital Publishing in Education [More Info] BIll McCoy, Executive Director, IDPF Paul Belfanti, Director of Content Architecture, Pearson Education North America Dan Haynam, Implementation Manager, Inkling | ||
| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Workshop: SPi Global - Smart Content – From Discovery to Engagement [More Info] John Prabhu, VP, Solutions Architect, SPi Global John Wheeler, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Emerging Technologies , SPi Global Nathan Schultz, Chief Content Officer, Chegg Richard Rubin, Executive Director, Editorial & Content Re-engineering Programs, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business | ||
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Boosting eBook Exposure and Discovery Through Libraries [More Info] Alan Inouye, Director of the Office for Information Technology Policy, American Library Association Wendy Bartlett, Collection Development Manager, Cuyahoga County Public Library Larra Clark, Program Director - Office for Information Technology Policy, American Library Association Maja Thomas, Consultant Nora Rawlinson, Founder and Editor, EarlyWord.com | Ebooks and the Law: The Ebook Impact On Contracts, Content and Consumers [More Info] Judith B. Bass, Owner, Law Offices of Judith B. Bass Kim Schefler, Partner, Levine Plotkin & Menin, LLP | Ebook Publishing for Everyone: How Non-Book-Publishing Companies Can Profit from Ebook-Publishing Initiatives [More Info] Jason Allen Ashlock, Strategist with Movability, Movable Type Management Jack Perry, Owner, 38enso Inc. |
| 01.14.2014 | |||||||||
| 8:30 am - 8:35 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks | ||||||||
| 8:35 am - 8:50 am | The Past, Present, and Future of the Publishing Industry [More Info] Mike Shatzkin, Conference Council Chair, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company | ||||||||
| 8:50 am - 9:30 am | CEO Roundtable: The Executive’s View of the Future [More Info] Michael Cader, Creator, Publishers Lunch David Nussbaum, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, F+W Media, Inc. Tim O'Reilly, Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc. Carolyn Reidy, President & CEO, Simon & Schuster Dominique Raccah, CEO & Publisher, Sourcebooks | ||||||||
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Change Is Good: How to Get Your Organization Moving Faster [More Info] Carolyn Pittis, Managing Director, Welman Digital LLC | ||||||||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Morning Break and Exhibits | ||||||||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Case Study: Aptara - Building a Baseline EPUB 3 Production Template [More Info] Jean Kaplansky, Digital Content Solutions Architect, Aptara Tzviya Siegman, Senior Content Technology Specialist, John Wiley and Sons | ||||||||
| 10:15 am - 10:40 am | The Winds of Change: Understanding the Global Book Market [More Info] Jonathan Nowell, President, Nielsen Book Jo Henry, Director, Nielsen Book | ||||||||
| 10:40 am - 10:55 am | The Real Ebook Revolution is Just Beginning [More Info] Tim O'Reilly, Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc. | ||||||||
| 10:55 am - 11:05 am | Results of DBW’s Publishing Technology and Start-up Survey [More Info] Mike Shatzkin, Conference Council Chair, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company | ||||||||
| 11:05 am - 11:20 am | Publishers in a Tech-Driven World – Partner or Perish [More Info] Andrew Rhomberg, Founder, Jellybooks.com | ||||||||
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Branded Authors: What Every Publisher Needs to Know [More Info] Peter Hildick-Smith, Founder & CEO, Codex Group | ||||||||
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Data-Driven Decision-Making: Publishing Smarter [More Info] Ken Brooks, SVP, Global Supply Management, McGraw-Hill Chantal Restivo-Alessi, Chief Digital Officer , HarperCollins Publishers Chad Phelps, Chief Digital Officer, F+W Media, Inc. Ken Michaels, Global COO, Macmillan Science and Education | ||||||||
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Break and Exhibits | ||||||||
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Case Study: Inkling - The Culinary Revolution Goes Digital: How Modernist Cuisine at Home Broke the Mold [More Info] Rachel Castillo, Content Architect, Inkling | Case Study: Impelsys - Maximizing Revenue Potential of Your Content Assets Through Innovative Business Models [More Info] Sameer Shariff, Founder & CEO, Impelsys Inc. Terri Lynn Soutor, President, Brain Hive, LLC | |||||||
| 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm | Case Study: Gutenberg Technology - Epub3 & Adaptive Ebooks. Change the Reader's Experience [More Info] François-Xavier Hussherr, Founder & CEO, Gutenberg Technology David Liu, COO, Knewton | Case Study: SPi Global: Print to Digital, Digital First, Simultaneous Publishing - What’s Your Strategy? [More Info] John Prabhu, VP, Solutions Architect, SPi Global Paul Belfanti, Director of Content Architecture, Pearson Education North America Matthew Cavnar, VP of Business Development, Vook | |||||||
| 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Case Study: Aptara - Producing Highly-Interactive eBooks at Scale - Featuring Case Studies from Elsevier, Pearson, and Rowman & Littlefield [More Info] Maria Bartoszewicki, Director of Interactive eBooks, Aptara | Case Study: Ingram - Making the Data Make Sense – How to use Analytics to Drive Digital and Print Decisions [More Info] Ken Brooks, SVP, Global Supply Management, McGraw-Hill Kelly Gallagher, Vice President, Content Acquisition North America, Ingram Content Group | |||||||
| 1:30 pm - 2:20 pm | Investing in Publishing Innovation [More Info] Adam Salomone, Associate Publisher, The Harvard Common Press Troy Williams, President, Macmillan New Ventures David Roland, Chief Venture Capital Officer, Ingram Content Group Clare Peeters, VP, Managing Director - Corporate Development, Axel Johnson | Change People - How to Design a Culture of Growth [More Info] Martin Klopstock, Digital & Operations Director, Kogan Page Ltd. Wendy Elman, Founder & President, Welman Digital LLC Laura Baldwin, President, O'Reilly Media David Nussbaum, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, F+W Media, Inc. | Kids Launchpad: New Ways to Reach Young Readers [More Info] Rebecca Levey, Co-Founder, KidzVuz.com Marjan Ghara, Founder & CEO, BiblioNasium Shira Schindel, Content Acquisitions Manager, Qlovi Jess Johns, Director of Operations, The Idea Logical Company Eric Huang, Development Director, Made in Me | What Consumers Want: Utilizing Data for Acquisitions and Marketing [More Info] Peter McCarthy, Founder, McCarthy Digital David Boyle, SVP of Consumer Insight, HarperCollins Publishers Suzie Sisoler, Senior Director of Consumer Engagement, Penguin Random House James McQuivey, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Rebecca Smart, CEO, Osprey Group | HTML5 is the Future of Book Authorship [More Info] Tim O'Reilly, Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sanders Kleinfeld, Publishing Technology Engineer, O'Reilly Media | ||||
| 2:30 pm - 3:20 pm | Start-Ups Working with Publishers [More Info] Andrew Rhomberg, Founder, Jellybooks.com Jason Illian, Founder & CEO, BookShout Henrik Berggren, Founder, Readmill Joanna Stone Herman, Co-Founder/CEO , Librify Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World | Change Process - How to Improve Team Productivity [More Info] Kevin Sullivan, Editor in Chief, Digital Products, F.A. Davis Company Daryl Lubin, Vice President, Digital Program and Portfolio Management, McGraw-Hill Education Bill Bosak, President, Graymatr Group Julie Blattberg, Executive Director, Consumer Engagement, Open Road Integrated Media Inc. | New Opportunities with Common Core and Digital Content in the Classroom [More Info] Neal Goff, President, Egremont Associates, LLC Roy Kaufman, Managing Director of New Ventures, Copyright Clearance Center Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, New Canaan High School Jeff Livingston, SVP, Education Policy and Strategic Alliances, McGraw-Hill Education Mary-Alice Moore, VP, Editorial Director, Book Publishing, Boyds Mills Press and Highlights For Children | Supply Chain – Managing Print Inventory and Sales in the Digital Age [More Info] Ken Brooks, SVP, Global Supply Management, McGraw-Hill Craig Bauer, SVP, Publishing Operations & Strategic Planning, Hachette Book Group Larry Goldberg, Executive Director of Inventory and Operations, Abrams Jack Perry, Owner, 38enso Inc. | Emerging Strategies for eBook Production [More Info] BIll McCoy, Executive Director, IDPF Liisa McCloy-Kelley, VP, Director eBook Development & Innovation, Penguin Random House Publishing Group Sesha Bolisetty, VP, Content Management, John Wiley and Sons Samantha Cohen, Director, Digital Content Development, Simon & Schuster Paul O'Neill, Production Developer, Sourcebooks | ||||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Afternoon Coffee Break and Exhibits | ||||||||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Case Study: De Marque - The New Library Model [More Info] Marc Boutet, Co-Founder/President and CEO, DeMarque | ||||||||
| 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm | Publishers Working with Start-Ups [More Info] Rick Joyce, Chief Marketing Officer, Perseus Books Group Leslie Hulse, SVP, Digital Business Development, HarperCollins Publishers Edward Nawotka, Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives Stephen Laster, Chief Digital Officer, McGraw-Hill Education Andrea Fleck-Nisbet, Executive Director, Digital Publishing, Workman Publishing | Change Tech - How to Find And Select (The Right) Tools [More Info] Steve Kasdin, Director of Digital Strategy, Curtis Brown Don Seitz, SVP of Business Development, Author Solutions, Inc. Carolyn Pittis, Managing Director, Welman Digital LLC Matthew Bennett, Director, Strategic Publishing Operations, Hachette Book Group Donna Ketler, Director, Content Management & Technology , John Wiley and Sons | Understanding and Reaching the YA Market [More Info] Sean Moss, Digital Marketing Officer, Walker Books Marianna Ricciuto, Digital Commerce Manager & Online Marketer, Harlequin Teen Alvina Ling, Executive Editorial Director, Little, Bown Books for Young Readers Jean Feiwel, Publisher, Swoon Reads, Macmillan Kristen McLean, Founder & CEO, Bookigee.com | Beyond Representation: Building New Businesses From an Agenting Base [More Info] Jason Allen Ashlock, Strategist with Movability, Movable Type Management Scott Waxman, Chairman and Co-founder , Diversion Books Richard Curtis, President, Richard Curtis Associates, Inc Joe Regal, CEO, Zola Books Brenda Marsh, Consultant, Clinton Street Consulting | Crossing the Chasm: Finding Digital Solutions for Non-Narrative Content [More Info] Pavan Arora, Chief Innovation Officer, Aptara Gus Gostyla, VP, Business Development, Inkling David Wilk, Owner, Booktrix Ron Martinez, Founder, Aerbook.com Bill Kasdorf, Vice President, Content Solutions, Apex CoVantage | ||||
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Networking Reception - Sponsored by 3M | ||||||||
| 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Digital Book Awards Gala - Additional Fee Required [More Info] | ||||||||
| 01.15.2014 | |||||
| 8:30 am - 8:35 am | Welcome | ||||
| 8:35 am - 8:50 am | Amazon’s “Everything” Strategy [More Info] Brad Stone, Journalist/Author, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon | ||||
| 8:50 am - 9:05 am | Deconstructing Amazon [More Info] Benedict Evans, Consultant, Enders Analysis | ||||
| 9:05 am - 9:15 am | Amazon’s Growing Share of the Institutional Market [More Info] Joseph Esposito, Independent Management Consultant | ||||
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | The Future of Amazon and the Publishing Business [More Info] Mike Shatzkin, Conference Council Chair, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company Brad Stone, Journalist/Author, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Benedict Evans, Consultant, Enders Analysis Joseph Esposito, Independent Management Consultant | ||||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Morning Break and Exhibits | ||||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Case Study: Jouve - Smart, Lean, Agile: A series of Mini-case Studies About Solving Real-World Workflow, Business, and Technology Challenges [More Info] Thomas Riendeau, Director of Business Development, Jouve North America | ||||
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information [More Info] Emanuel Rosen, Author, The Anatomy of Buzz | ||||
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | What Authors Want: Understanding Author Priorities in the Self-Publishing Era [More Info] Phil Sexton, Publisher, Writer's Digest | ||||
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | Should Traditional Publishers Feel Threatened by the Potential of Self-Publishing? [More Info] Dana Beth Weinberg, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Director of the MA in Data Analytics & Applied Social Research, Queens College - CUNY | ||||
| 11:00 am - 11:15 am | Mad Money's Jim Cramer Reports on Investment Prospects for the Publishing Industry [More Info] Jim Cramer, Author of the new book: "Get Rich Carefully", CNBC's Mad Money | ||||
| 11:25 am - 12:15 am | Amazon Q & A [More Info] Brad Stone, Journalist/Author, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Joseph Esposito, Independent Management Consultant Benedict Evans, Consultant, Enders Analysis Laura Hazard Owen, Book Publishing Reporter, GigaOM | Reaching Book Reading Communities Online [More Info] Ashleigh Gardner, Head of Content, Wattpad Patrick Brown, Director of Author Marketing, Goodreads Sarah Wendell, Co-Founder, Smart Bitches, Trashy Books Jane Litte, Founder, Dear Author | Examining New Business Models [More Info] John Tayman, Founder and CEO, Byliner Karl Weber, Chairman, Editorial Board, LID Publishing Chris Kenneally, Director, Business Development & Author Relations, Copyright Clearance Center Lyron Bennett, Business Development Manager, Sourcebooks Brandi Larsen, Book Country Director, Penguin Random House | The Future of Bookstores [More Info] Roxanne Coady, CEO, RJJulia Booksellers Margot Sage-EL, Owner, Watchung Booksellers Sarah McNally, Owner, McNally Jackson Books Chris Kerr, Owner, Parson Weems LLC Bradley Graham, Owner, Politics & Prose | Subscriptions for Books: Publishers Putting Books into Subscription Models [More Info] Sara Domville, President, F+W Media, Inc. Deborah Forte, EVP/President, Scholastic Inc./Scholastic Media Lorraine Shanley, President, Market Partners International Mary Cummings, Editorial Director , Diversion Books Chantal Restivo-Alessi, Chief Digital Officer , HarperCollins Publishers |
| 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Lunch Break and Exhibits | ||||
| 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | Case Study: Bowker - Metadata and Identifiers Driving New Business Models [More Info] Laura Dawson, Product Manager for Identifiers, Bowker Han Huang, Product Manager, Data Licensing, Bowker Patricia Payton, Senior Manager, Publisher Relations and Content Development, Bowker | Case Study: Innodata - National Fire Protection Association and Innodata Create Highly Interactive Digital Products with Optional Back-to-Print Workflow [More Info] Angela Burke, Product Manager, National Fire Protection Association Gayle Hart, Content Architect, Innodata | |||
| 12:45 pm - 1:15 pm | Case Study: Datamatics - Tools for Seeing What’s Next [More Info] Gordon Laws, Senior Vice President, Datamatics-PMG | Case Study: Qbend - Selling Direct and Building Your Community [More Info] | |||
| 1:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Case Study: Inkling - Create a Complete Digital Library: Build Beautiful, Structured Collaborative Content at Scale [More Info] Paul Dever, Elsevier Dana Lindsay, Manager - Content Process & Training Team, Inkling | Case Study: Blurb - Print or Digital: Authors Create, Readers Decide [More Info] Donna Boyer, Chief Product Officer, Blurb | |||
| 1:45 pm - 2:35 pm | Optimizing Metadata for Global Impact [More Info] Cameron Drew, Director, Global Content Acquisition, Kobo, Inc. Len Vlahos, Executive Director, BISG Phil Madans, Director, Publishing Standards and Practices, Hachette Book Group Laura Dawson, Product Manager for Identifiers, Bowker Noah Genner, President & CEO, BookNet Canada | Panning for Gold: Marketing the Backlist [More Info] Peter McCarthy, Founder, McCarthy Digital Anne Marie Tallberg, VP, Associate Publisher, St. Martin's Press Jennifer Weltz, Vice President, Jean Naggar Literary Agency Sanj Kharbanda, VP, Digital Strategy, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Agile Content: Developing Responsive Publishing Models [More Info] Michael Cairns, Chief Operating Officer - Online Division, Publishing Technology Amanda D'Acierno, SVP, Publisher, Penguin Random House Audio, Fodor's and Living Language Pip Tannenbaum, Digital Product Development Director, Parragon Books | Digital Experiments: How University Presses Are Reinventing Publishing [More Info] Gita Manaktala, Editorial Director, MIT Press Marlie Wasserman, Director , Rutgers University Press Greg Britton, Editorial Director, Johns Hopkins University Press John Sherer, Director, University of North Carolina Press Peter Berkery, Executive Director, Association of American University Presses | Building Direct Sales Relationships: Suppliers Helping Publishers Get There [More Info] Sameer Shariff, Founder & CEO, Impelsys Inc. Ted Hill, President, THA Consulting Doug Lessing, President, Firebrand Technologies Micah Bowers, Founder and CEO, Bluefire Productions Marc Boutet, Co-Founder/President and CEO, DeMarque |
| 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm | Future of Libraries [More Info] Brian Kenney, Library Director, White Plains Public Library Jamie Watson, Collection Development Coordinator, Baltimore Public Library Meredith Schwartz, Senior Editor, News & Features, Library Journal Chris Fischbach, Publisher, Coffee House Press Christopher Platt, Director of BookOps, New York Public Library | Social Media: What Matters, What Doesn’t, and How to Know the Difference [More Info] Kristin Fassler, Director of Marketing, Penguin Random House Rachel Chou, Chief Marketing Officer, Open Road Integrated Media Brad Parsons, Director of Culinary Marketing, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Murray Izenwasser, Co-Managing Partner/Strategy Practice Lead, Biztegra Penny Sansevieri, Founder and CEO, Author Marketing Experts, Inc. | Publishing Without Inventory [More Info] Marcello Vena, General Manager of the Digital Trade Book Business, RCS Libri Allison Dobson, VP, Business Development, Random House Phil Ollila, Chief Content Officer, Ingram Content Group Arthur Klebanoff, CEO, RosettaBooks | Publishers Building Vertical Communities [More Info] Randy Petway, Chief Operating Officer, Publishing Technology Lucille Rettino, Vice President, Director of Marketing, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division Jeanenne Ray, Senior Marketing Manager, John Wiley and Sons Erin Cox, Business Development Director , Publishing Perspectives Irene Gallo, Associate Publisher, Tor.com | Subscription Service Providers [More Info] Devereux Chatillon, Attorney, Chatillon Law Bryan Batten, Founder, eReatah Andrew Weinstein, Vice President, Content Acquisition, Scribd Matthew Shatz, Head of Strategy and Partnerships, Oyster Justo Hidalgo, Co-Founder, 24symbols |
| 3:35 pm - 4:05 pm | Afternoon Coffee Break and Exhibits | ||||
| 3:35 pm - 4:05 pm | Case Study: App Annie - Big data to the rescue! Set your data free with App Annie Analytics [More Info] Nick McIntosh, Senior Product Manager, App Annie | ||||
| 4:05 pm - 4:20 pm | Putting Publishers Back in the Driver’s Seat [More Info] Matt MacInnis, Founder & CEO, Inkling | ||||
| 4:20 pm - 4:35 pm | Rethinking Failure: Finding the opportunities in our challenges [More Info] Dominique Raccah, CEO & Publisher, Sourcebooks | ||||
| 4:35 pm - 5:15 pm | Looking Forward/Looking Back [More Info] Michael Cader, Creator, Publishers Lunch Mike Shatzkin, Conference Council Chair, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company Simon Lipskar, President, Writers House John Ingram, Chairman and CEO, Ingram Content Group Mary Ann Naples, VP, Publisher, Rodale | ||||
