 8:45 am - 8:50 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks [More Info] Mike Shatzkin, Conference Council Chair, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company Lorraine Shanley, President, Market Partners International | |||||
| 8:55 am - 9:05 am | A Look at the US Children's Book Market [More Info] Jonathan Nowell, President, Nielsen Book | |||||
| 9:10 am - 9:20 am | Children’s Tech: The Year in Review and Trends for 2015 [More Info] Warren Buckleitner, Editor and Founder, Children's Technology Review | |||||
| 9:25 am - 9:35 am | Changing Media, Changing Content, and Changing Minds: PlayCollective on Kid's ebooks and the Children's Entertainment and Educational Media Landscape [More Info] David Kleeman, SVP, Insights Programs and PlayVangelist, PlayCollective | |||||
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | Information in Context (Q&A) [More Info] David Kleeman, SVP, Insights Programs and PlayVangelist, PlayCollective Warren Buckleitner, Editor and Founder, Children's Technology Review Michael Cader, Founder, Publishers Lunch Jonathan Nowell, President, Nielsen Book | |||||
| 10:00 am - 10:35 am | Starting with Digital: The Art and Business of Digital Storytelling [More Info] Eric Huang, Development Director, Made in Me Ashley Andersen Zantop, Chief Content Officer, Capstone | |||||
| 10:40 am - 11:10 am | Morning Break | |||||
| 11:10 am - 11:20 am | Google for Education [More Info] Chris Palma, Head, Strategic Partnerships, Play Books, Google | |||||
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Amplify's Games and Virtual Library for Students [More Info] Justin Leites, Vice President for Games, Amplify | |||||
| 11:40 am - 12:25 pm | Adventures in Marketing: Case Studies of Traditional and Digital Kids' Book Marketing [More Info] Peter McCarthy, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, The Logical Marketing Agency Morgan Baden, Senior Director of Social Media, Scholastic, Inc. Kim Lauber, Director of Marketing, Random House Children's Books Taylor Foley, Digital Product Manager, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |||||
| 12:25 pm - 1:25 pm | Roundtable Lunch [More Info] Neal Goff, President, Egremont Associates, LLC Marjan Ghara, Founder & CEO, BiblioNasium Kari Ness Riedel, Founder, Bookopolis Peter McCarthy, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, The Logical Marketing Agency David Kleeman, SVP, Insights Programs and PlayVangelist, PlayCollective Maia Haag, Co-Founder and President, i See Me! Inc. Dominique Raccah, CEO & Publisher, Sourcebooks Eric Huang, Development Director, Made in Me Jonathan Nowell, President, Nielsen Book Kartik Hosanagar, Co-Founder, SmartyPAL | |||||
| 1:25 pm - 2:00 pm | The Rise of Fandom: Fan Fiction and Engaging with Fan Communities [More Info] Morgan Leigh Davies, Editor-in-Chief, Big Bang Press Ashleigh Gardner, Head of Content, Wattpad Adam Wilson, Senior Editor, Gallery Books Lanie Davis, Director of e-Publishing, Alloy Entertainment | |||||
| 2:05 pm - 2:40 pm | Building Story and Building Platforms: A Conversation Between Paper Lantern Lit and Susan Katz, President and Publisher of HarperCollins [More Info] Lexa Hillyer, Co-Founder, Paper Lantern Lit Lauren Oliver, Co-Founder, Paper Lantern Lit Susan Katz, President and Publisher, HarperCollins Children's Books | |||||
| 2:45 pm - 3:30 pm | Books to Kids, On Demand: Ebook Subscriptions [More Info] Neal Shenoy, Co-Founder and CEO/Founding Partner, Speakaboos/[212] MEDIA Devereux Chatillon, Partner, Chatillon Weiss LLP Wandy Hoh, Co-Founder, CEO, MeeGenius Kartik Hosanagar, Co-Founder, SmartyPAL | |||||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Afternoon Break [More Info] | |||||
| 4:00 pm - 4:10 pm | Kickstarter for Kids: What Kickstarter is Doing for Children’s Lit and Children’s Lit Publishers [More Info] Maris Kreizman, Publishing Community Manager, Kickstarter | |||||
| 4:15 pm - 4:40 pm | Personalization and the Story [More Info] Maia Haag, Co-Founder and President, i See Me! Inc. Dominique Raccah, CEO & Publisher, Sourcebooks | |||||
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Children’s Book Report: A Wrap-Up Panel [More Info] Mike Shatzkin, Conference Council Chair, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company Lorraine Shanley, President, Market Partners International Suzanne Murphy, VP, Publisher, Disney Publishing Worldwide Barbara Marcus, President and Publishers, Children's Division, Penguin Random House | |||||
| 5:15 pm | Closing Remarks | |||||
| Tuesday, January 13 | |||||
| 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | Creating Metadata that Works [More Info] Renée Register, Author/Instructor, The Essential Guide to Metadata for Books/Digital Book World University | Finding and Building an Audience: On Discovery and Discoverability 2015 [More Info] Andrew Rhomberg, Founder, Jellybooks.com | What Authors Want and How Publishers Can Adapt: Deep Dive Into New Author Data and Workshop on What Publishers Can Do [More Info] Dana Beth Weinberg, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Director of the MA in Data Analytics & Applied Social Research, Queens College - CUNY | Common Core and Copyright: The Promise & The Problems [More Info] Jay Diskey, Executive Director, Association of American Publishers’ PreK-12 Learning Group Meredith Liben, Director of Literacy and English Language Arts, Student Achievement Partners Cathy Ferrara, Director, Mobile Solutions, Scholastic Education David Rust, Senior Publishing Executive, Sandhill Consulting Group, LLC Ramez Mikdashi, Manager and Head of Content Partnerships, Amplify Learning Andrew Campana, Business Development Manager, Copyright Clearance Center | |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Data, Analytics and Algorithms in Publishing [More Info] Andrew Rhomberg, Founder, Jellybooks.com Peter McCarthy, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, The Logical Marketing Agency Jaimee Callaway, Digital Marketing Director, Perseus Books Group Susan Ruszala, President, NetGalley Josh Brody, CEO, Vook Allison Horton, Marketing Associate, Vook | Kobo: Optimizing English Language Content Sales Internationally [More Info] Nathan Maharaj, Director of Merchandising, Kobo Patricia Simoes, Senior Manager of Publisher Operations, Kobo | The Least of These: Handling the Less-Talked-About Parts of an eBook [More Info] Joshua Tallent, Chief eBook Architect, Firebrand Technologies Dave Ream, Chief Consultant, Leverage Technologies | Mobile Strategies for Digital Publishing: Putting Your Plan into Action [More Info] Thad McIlroy, President, The Future of Publishing, Inc. | |
| Tuesday, January 13 | ||||||
| 9:00 am - 10:15 am | Creating Dynamic Books for Apple and iOS with Apple iBooks Author [More Info] Richard Harrington, PMP, President and Founder, RHED Pixel | |||||
| 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Creating Reflowable EPUB with Adobe InDesign [More Info] Jay Nelson, Author and Publisher, The Skinny Books | |||||
| 11:45 am - 1:00 pm | Lunch on Your Own | |||||
| 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm | Publishing Audio and Video as a Podcast [More Info] Richard Harrington, PMP, President and Founder, RHED Pixel | |||||
| 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Using Wordpress to Deliver Digital Content to An Audience [More Info] Luisa Winters, Certified Instructor, Future Media Concepts | |||||
| 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm | Compressing Audio and Video for Digital Delivery [More Info] Luisa Winters, Certified Instructor, Future Media Concepts | |||||
| Wednesday, January 14 | ||||||
| 9:00 am - 10:15 am | Fixed Layout EPUB for Everyone (Even You)! [More Info] Jay Nelson, Author and Publisher, The Skinny Books | |||||
| 10:30 am - 11:45 am | Why Editing Video in Photoshop is the New Black [More Info] Lesa Snider, Author/Speaker, Photoshop: The Missing Manual/iPhoto: The Missing Manual | |||||
| 11:45 am - 1:00 pm | Lunch on Your Own | |||||
| 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm | Acrobat’s Secret Weapons for Publishers [More Info] Jay Nelson, Author and Publisher, The Skinny Books | |||||
| 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Power Up WordPress: Essential Design & SEO Plug-ins [More Info] Luisa Winters, Certified Instructor, Future Media Concepts | |||||
| 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm | How to Become a Book Graphic Ninja [More Info] Lesa Snider, Author/Speaker, Photoshop: The Missing Manual/iPhoto: The Missing Manual | |||||
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Cocktail Networking Reception | |||||
| Wednesday, January 14 | |||||||||
| 7:30 am | DBW Main Conference Registration Open | ||||||||
| 8:45 am - 8:55 am | Welcome and Introduction [More Info] David Nussbaum, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, F+W, a Content + eCommerce Company | ||||||||
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Opening Remarks [More Info] Mike Shatzkin, Conference Council Chair, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company | ||||||||
| 9:20 am - 9:35 am | Innovators, Collaborators, and Change Agents: Walter Isaacson on Transformation and the Digital Revolution [More Info] Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, Aspen Institute | ||||||||
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | How EdTech is Changing the Educational Content Landscape [More Info] Matthew Greenfield, Managing Partner, Rethink Education | ||||||||
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee and Exhibit Hall Opens | ||||||||
| 10:00 am - 7:00 pm | Exhibit Hall Hours | ||||||||
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Sponsor Case Study: Blurb - From Kickstarter to New York Times Pick With Blurb [More Info] Brady Kroupa, Director of Product for ebooks, Blurb | ||||||||
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Epic Content Marketing: Using Your Content to Build a Brand and an Audience [More Info] Joe Pulizzi, Founder, Content Marketing Institute | ||||||||
| 10:50 am - 11:05 am | Leading Change: A CEO's View of the K-12 Market, Technology, and Transforming the Publishing Business [More Info] Linda Zecher, President and CEO, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Michael Cader, Founder, Publishers Lunch | ||||||||
| 11:10 am - 11:20 am | Using Data to Grow Audiences: Lessons from The New York Times Newsroom Analytics Team [More Info] James Robinson, Director, News Analytics, The New York Times | ||||||||
| 11:25 am - 11:55 am | Amazon and the Book Business: A Candid Conversation with Kindle's Russ Grandinetti [More Info] Russ Grandinetti, Senior Vice President, Kindle, Amazon Michael Cader, Founder, Publishers Lunch Mike Shatzkin, Conference Council Chair, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company | ||||||||
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch and Exhibits | ||||||||
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Sponsor Case Study - Ingram: E+P = Formula for Success in Higher Ed [More Info] Kent Freeman, Chief Operating Officer, Vital Source Technologies Inc., an Ingram Content Group company Kelly Gallagher, Vice President, Content Acquisition North America, Ingram Content Group | ||||||||
| 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm | Sponsor Case Study - Lumina Datamatics: Do you have the RIGHT To Go Digital [More Info] John Wheeler, Senior Vice President, Content Technology, Lumina Datamatics | ||||||||
| 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Sponsor Case Study - SPi Global: Key Factors in Content Production for Digital and Global Scale [More Info] John Prabhu, VP, Solutions Architect, SPi Global Craig Bauer, SVP Operations, MacMillan Science & Education | ||||||||
| 1:30 pm - 2:20 pm | The Marketing Skillsets Required in 2015 [More Info] Peter McCarthy, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, The Logical Marketing Agency Jeff Dodes, Executive Vice President, Marketing & Digital Media Strategy, St. Martin's Press Angela Tribelli, Chief Marketing Officer, HarperCollins Publishers Rick Joyce, Chief Marketing Officer, Perseus Books Group Hannah Harlow, Assistant Director of Marketing, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Launchpad - Startups You Should Know About That You Might Not [More Info] Robin Warner, Managing Director, DeSilva & Phillips LLC Kevin Franco, Co-Founder & CEO, Enthrill Peter Hudson, Founder and CEO, BitLit Media Andrew Dorward, Director, BookGenie451 Beni Rachmanov, President, iShook | The New World of Higher Ed: Restructuring College Publishing for a Changing Market [More Info] Joseph Esposito, President, Processed Media Ken Brooks, SVP, Global Supply Management, McGraw-Hill Clancy Marshall, VP of Learning Platforms, Pearson Paul Labay, Vice President, Digital Delivery, Global Education, Wiley Craig Bauer, SVP Operations, MacMillan Science & Education | ||||||
| 1:30 pm - 2:20 pm | Q&A With Joe Pulizzi [More Info] Joe Pulizzi, Founder, Content Marketing Institute | Gaming the Page: Book Publishing Meets Games [More Info] Greg Ferguson, Editorial Director, Full Fathom Five Thomas Leliveld, Founder and CEO, Blloon Keith Fretz, Associate Producer, Scholastic, Inc. Sara Ittelson, Director, Business Development, Knewton, Inc Devereux Chatillon, Partner, Chatillon Weiss LLP | Looking beyond interactive eBooks – A data Driven Approach for a Smarter Reading Experience (Presented by Excelsoft) [More Info] Amit Srivastava, Head of Consulting and Solution Design , Excelsoft Romil Gupta, Product Head, OpenPage Interactive Books and Connected Classroom Solutions , Excelsoft | ||||||
| 2:30 pm - 3:20 pm | Smarter Video Marketing: Taking Your Video Strategy Beyond the Book Trailer [More Info] Peter Kaufman, Founder/President, Intelligent Television Scott Mebus, Head of Video and Television, Fast Company Sue Fleming, Vice President, Executive Director Content and Programming, Simon & Schuster Digital John Clinton, Director of Digital Video, Penguin Random House Heidi Vincent, Vice President of Marketing, National Geographic’s Books, Maps and Home Entertainment group. | In Publishing's Multi-Tech Future, is HTML5 the "Magic Bullet"? [More Info] Bill Kasdorf, Vice President, Content Solutions, Apex Content Solutions BIll McCoy, Executive Director, IDPF Phil Madans, Executive Director, Digital Publishing Technology, Hachette Book Group Dave Cramer, Senior Digital Publishing Technology Specialist, Hachette Book Group Paul Belfanti, Director of Content Architecture, Pearson Sanders Kleinfeld, Director of Publishing Technology, O'Reilly Media | Launchpad - Ed-Tech Startups [More Info] Robin Warner, Managing Director, DeSilva & Phillips LLC Johnjoe Farragher, CEO and Founder, Defined Learning Neal Shenoy, Co-Founder and CEO/Founding Partner, Speakaboos/[212] MEDIA Jason Singer, Co-Founder and CEO, Curriculet | ||||||
| 2:30 pm - 3:20 pm | Subscriptions for Ebooks: How is it Working Out? [More Info] Ted Hill, President, THA Consulting Andrew Weinstein, Vice President, Content Acquisition, Scribd Matthew Shatz, Chief Revenue Officer, Oyster Jonathan Stolper, SVP, Nielsen Book, The Nielsen Company Douglas Stambaugh, VP, Global eBook Market Development and Strategy, Simon & Schuster Steven Zacharius, Chairman, President and CEO, Kensington Publishing Corp. | Building the Trade Publisher of the Future: Trade Publishers Remaking Themselves [More Info] Daniel Houghton, CEO, Lonely Planet Lucas Wittmann, Associate Publisher and Executive Editor, Regan Arts Sara Domville, President, F+W, a Content + eCommerce Company Carolyn Pittis, Managing Director, Welman Digital LLC Andrea Fleck-Nisbet, Executive Director, Digital Publishing, Workman Publishing | |||||||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Afternoon Break and Exhibits | ||||||||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Sponsor Case Study - Streamline your content development process with Jouve EDIT [More Info] Mark Witkowski, VP of New Practices & Technology, Jouve North America | ||||||||
| 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm | Understanding Mobile Marketing and Discovery [More Info] Kristin Fassler, VP, Director of Marketing, Random House Division, Penguin Random House Thad McIlroy, President, The Future of Publishing, Inc. Nathan Maharaj, Director of Merchandising, Kobo Pavan Arora, Chief Innovation Officer, Aptara CJ Alvarado, CEO, Snippet, Inc. | Blue Sky in the Ebook World: On the Horizon of the Digital Book Future [More Info] Chris Kubica, Founder/President, neverend media Peter Meyers, Content strategist & Author Ashley Gordon, Vice President, Content and New Media, indiCo Mark Cameron, Co-Founder and Director, Booktrack Professor John B. Thompson, Author of Books in the Digital Age and Merchants of Culture | Issues and Opportunities in the K-12 Market [More Info] Neal Goff, President, Egremont Associates, LLC Chris Palma, Head, Strategic Partnerships, Play Books, Google Neil Jaffe, President - Chief Strategy Officer, Booksource Erica Lazzaro, General Counsel and Director of Publisher Services, OverDrive, Inc. | ||||||
| 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm | New Innovative Publishers [More Info] Liz Pelletier, Publisher, Entangled Publishing, LLC Peter Borland, VP & Editorial Director , Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, Inc. Georgia McBride, Founder, GMMG Jason Pinter, Founder and Publisher, Polis Books Lorraine Shanley, President, Market Partners International | Media Companies Rethinking Their Models [More Info] Mike Perlis, President & CEO, Forbes Media Lynda Hammes, Publisher, Foreign Affairs magazine Jeremy Greenfield, Contributors Editor, TheStreet.com Kerry Dyer, Publisher and Chief Advertising Officer, U.S. News & World Report Jay Lauf, President and Publisher, Quartz | |||||||
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Sponsor Case Study - Ninestars - The BIG question. Will videos work for Publishers? [More Info] Karen Grantham, VP Sales – Americas, Digimafia/Ninestars | ||||||||
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Sponsor Case Study - Shindig: The Untapped Power of Reader Community - Why Personal Recommendations Drive More Sales Than Recommendation Engines [More Info] | ||||||||
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Cocktail Networking Reception | ||||||||
| 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Digital Book Awards Gala [More Info] Ira Wolfman, President, POE Communications | ||||||||
| Thursday, January 15 | |||||
| 7:30 am | DBW Main Conference Registration Open | ||||
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast Meetings with Conference Speakers [More Info] | ||||
| 8:45 am - 8:50 am | Welcome and Introduction | ||||
| 8:55 am - 9:20 am | OK, What's Next? [More Info] Seth Godin, Author/Founder, squidoo.com Michael Cader, Founder, Publishers Lunch Mike Shatzkin, Conference Council Chair, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company | ||||
| 9:25 am - 9:40 am | A Strategy for the Future: Brian Murray on Taking HarperCollins into the Digital Age [More Info] Brian Murray, President and CEO, HarperCollins Publishers | ||||
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | The Changing Mix of What Sells in Print: How ebooks Have Changed the Print Book Marketplace [More Info] Jonathan Nowell, President, Nielsen Book | ||||
| 10:00 am - 3:30 pm | Exhibit Hall Hours | ||||
| 10:05 am - 10:35 am | Morning Break and Exhibits | ||||
| 10:05 am - 10:35 am | Sponsor Case Study: Innodata - The "Flash Boys" Effect: Analyzing the 440 % increase in media mentions of “High Frequency Trading” [More Info] Jim Donnelly, Director of Content, MediaMiser | ||||
| 10:35 am - 10:50 am | Publishing and Other Media in a World of Engineers [More Info] Ken Auletta, Annals of Communications writer for the New Yorker magazine and author of Googled: The End of the World As We Know It | ||||
| 10:55 am - 11:10 am | Smart Data: A Look at Data -- Big and Small -- For Publishing [More Info] Hilary Mason, CEO and Founder, Fast Forward Labs | ||||
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | The Author's Choice: How Authors Decide Between Traditional and Self-Publishing [More Info] Judith Curr, President and Publisher, Atria Publishing Group | ||||
| 11:35 am - 11:55 am | Apple and the Book Business: A Conversation with Apple's Keith Moerer [More Info] Keith Moerer, Director of iBooks Store, Apple, Inc. | ||||
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Break and Exhibits | ||||
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Sponsor Case Study - Libre Digital - The Catbird Seat: How You Can Influence Book Sales in Today’s Online Retail World [More Info] Brittyne Jackson, Product Manager, LibreDigital, an RR Donnelley Company Coretta Bell Sexton, Senior Business Development Manager, LibreDigital, an RR Donnelley Company | ||||
| 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm | Sponsor Case Study - Virtusales - Lessons Learned: The process, Purpose and Outcome of Transitioning to an Integrated Publishing Software System [More Info] Rodney Elder, VP, Commercial Operations, Virtusales Publishing Software John Stephenson, IT Product & Project Manager , Harvard University Press | ||||
| 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Sponsor Case Study - Manipal Digital Systems - 8 Ways to Improve Your Editorial and Production Processes - And See Dramatic Results! [More Info] Dan Dube, Senior Consultant, Manipal Digital | ||||
| 1:30 pm - 2:20 pm | Making Smarter Marketing Decisions with Reader Engagement, Insight, and Data [More Info] Alex White, CEO & Co-Founder, Next Big Sound/Next Big Book Ashleigh Gardner, Head of Content, Wattpad Jess Johns, Director of Operations, The Idea Logical Company Judith Curr, President and Publisher, Atria Publishing Group Peter McCarthy, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, The Logical Marketing Agency | Global Publishing Tactics: Understanding Distribution, Metadata, Pricing, and Marketing to Maximize Sales in Different Markets [More Info] Gareth Cuddy, Founder and CEO, ePubDirect Marcus Woodburn, Vice President, Digital Products, Ingram Content Group Inc. Len Vlahos, Executive Director, BISG Amanda Edmonds, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google | Case Studies: Building a Vertical From the Ground Up [More Info] Mary Ann Naples, SVP, Publisher, Rodale Phil Sexton, Publisher, Writer's Digest Edward Nawotka, Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives Eric Shanfelt, SVP, eMedia, HarperCollins Christian Publishing Adrian Norman, VP Marketing and New Products, Simon & Schuster | Q&A with Hilary Mason [More Info] Hilary Mason, CEO and Founder, Fast Forward Labs Matt Harris, Director of Business Development, LibreDigital, an RR Donnelley Company | The Audiobook Boom – How the Fastest Growing Segment of the Publishing Industry is Driving New Competition and User Adoption (Presented by Findaway World) [More Info] Andrew Weinstein, Vice President, Content Acquisition, Scribd Ralph Lazaro, VP of Digital Products, Findaway World Tom Mercer, Digital Library Business Development, 3M Michele Cobb, President, Audio Publishers Association Ana Maria Allessi, Vice President Digital Innovation & Publisher, HarperAudio |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Afternoon Break and Exhibits | ||||
| 2:30 pm - 2:50 pm | Sponsor Case Study - ePubDirect - Crushing International eBook Sales: Learn from the experts [More Info] Gareth Cuddy, Founder and CEO, ePubDirect | ||||
| 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm | Strategies for Digital Advertising and Managing Paid Media Campaigns [More Info] Alyson Forbes, Advertising Director, Hachette Book Group Christine Hung, Associate Director of Marketing, Penguin Random House Tom Thompson, Vice President, Group Director, Verso Advertising Caitlin Friedman, Vice President, Marketing & Brand Management, Scholastic, Inc. Heather Myers, Founder, President and Strategic Lead , Spark No. 9 | Global Market Spotlight: Reports From Markets Around the World [More Info] Thomas Minkus, VP Emerging Media & English Language Markets, Frankfurt Book Fair Marcello Vena, Founder and Managing Partner, All Brain Carlo Carrenho, Founding Partner, PublishNews (Brazil) Simon Dunlop, Co-Founder, Bookmate Gareth Cuddy, Founder and CEO, ePubDirect Evan Schnittman, EVP, Chief Marketing & Sales Officer , Hachette Book Group | Rethinking Direct: Publishers Building and Scaling Direct-to-Consumer Businesses [More Info] Dominique Raccah, CEO & Publisher, Sourcebooks Chantal Restivo-Alessi, Chief Digital Officer , HarperCollins Publishers David Wilk, Owner, Booktrix Evelyn Bridge, eCommerce Marketing Director, F+W, a Content + eCommerce Company Mary Cummings, Editorial Director , Diversion Books | Authors Facing the Industry: Data and Insights From Authors on the Publishing Business, Author-Publisher Relations, and Marketing [More Info] David Vinjamuri, Contributor/Author, Forbes/Accidental Branding: How Ordinary People Build Extraordinary Brands Jane Friedman, Publisher, Scratch magazine Rick Chapman, Managing Editor/Author, Softletter Dana Beth Weinberg, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Director of the MA in Data Analytics & Applied Social Research, Queens College - CUNY Bianca D'Arc, Author | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm | Price Promotions [More Info] Josh Schanker, Founder/President, BookBub Rachel Chou, Chief Marketing Officer, Open Road Integrated Media Matthew Cavnar, Co-Founder, Vook Laura Hazard Owen, News Editor and Digital Publishing Reporter , GigaOM Nathan Maharaj, Director of Merchandising, Kobo | Should Amazon be Constrained and Can They Be? [More Info] Barry Eisler, Author, The Detachment Annie Lowrey, Journalist, New York Magazine Barry Lynn, Director, Open Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, New America Foundation Ken Auletta, Annals of Communications writer for the New Yorker magazine and author of Googled: The End of the World As We Know It | Reading Data: What We Know About How People Read [More Info] Micah Bowers, Founder and CEO, Bluefire Productions Michael Tamblyn, President and Chief Content Officer, Kobo David Burleigh, Director of Marketing & Communication, OverDrive, Inc. Chris Kenneally, Director, Business Development & Author Relations, Copyright Clearance Center Jared Friedman, Co-founder & CTO, Scribd | ||
