Andrea Angiolini Responsible of the digital section - Il Mulino Moderator of the session of Educational Worlds 'The school' José Manuel Anta Managing Director - Federation of National Associations of Distributors (FANDE) The need for complete and updated metadata about books for sale, the creation of e-distribution platforms, alternative strategies to the mass market on-demand printing, the promotion and sale of physical and digital books in Spain. Patricia Arancibia Head of International Digital Content - Barnes and Noble’s Digital Group Anne Bergman-Tahon Director - FEP Moderator of the panel discussion 'Future digital strategies for European strategies' Ann Betts Commercial Director - Nielsen Book UK This presentation will look at print books sales trends across various countries, including the US and UK, and how these are being influenced by economic, retail and digital trends. It will include connected devices research covering who are device owners and why they are buying, and information from across the Nielsen Company to provide insight into what is happening in the book world today. Peter Brantley Director of the Bookserver Project - the Internet Archive The shift to digital has profound implications for how libraries acquire, distribute, and preserve books for our societies and future generations. I'll consider new programs that the Internet Archive has launched in partnership with libraries and publishers that attempt to leverage core concepts in intellectual property with new opportunities for access and delivery from public libraries. Aaron Buttarelli Publishing Director - Mondadori education Moderator of the session of Educational worlds 'The school' Virginie Clayssen Senior Digital Develpment Manager - Editis European publishers and ebooks market : going global is an opportunity, local ecosystem makes sense. Smaller markets ask for agility, and digital gives agility in production, distribution, marketing, customer relationship management. It's one more reason for european publishers to embrace digital, in order to actively support the development of local and sustainable print and digital markets.” Gianfranco Cordara Creativ Director - Disney Publishing Worldwide Moderator of the session of Creativ Worlds 'The Apps' Spiro Coutsoucos Partner -Readme Moderator of the session of Creativ Worlds 'Creation as ‘production’: costs and technologies' Liza Daly President of ThreePress Consulting and IDPF board Seminar on EPUB 3: Ebook history and consumer adoption of EPUB 2 and the specification and detail of EPUB 3. Sanford Forte Founder and Director of California Open Source Textbook Project This presentation will review recent innovative educational content distribution strategies deployed by American educational publishers; it will focus on adaptive business and revenue models that are stimulating the change from paper-based book distribution to dedicated digital and hybrid content solutions. Régis Habert MD - Izneo The aim of this presentation is to give a professional overview of the izneo project. By creating izneo in 2010, all the major French Comics Publishers have decided to manage together their future in the digital market. izneo is a digital warehouse (with today more than 2.000 Comics available) that allows all bookshops with a presence on the web to sell digital Comics on line. Adrian Hon CEO and Co-Founder - Six to Start A presentation on the latest innovative and creative storytelling experience from around the world, like subscription-based serialized stories, text and story-based online games, transmedia gaming Ruth Jones Director Publisher Business Development, EMEA - Ingram Content Group The nature of book distribution is changing rapidly, both for print and e-books. In this session, we investigate the ways in which some publishers have changed their models to address the changing global market for books and content Sara Lloyd Digital Director - Pan Macmillan Sara Lloyd will discuss how the themes in her 'Manifesto', originally written in 2008 and possibly the most widely cited piece on the digital future for publishers, are now being played out in reality across the US and the UK. Sara will give some up to date market data and she will explain how four key headline issues that she laid out in the Manifesto continue to be pressing issues for publishers Yasuko Matsui Vice-President - PAPYLESS CO.,LTD The publishing situation in Japan: the problems related to the increases of paper new books, the ebook and the mobile market, new custumers and devices, the ebook rental site ‘Renta!’ and much more. Stefano Mauri President - GeMS He will partecipate at the panel discussion 'Future digital strategies for European strategies' Cécile Moscovitz Research director and assistant director - Le MOTif Costs and value of digital books in the digital French market. Based on researches by Le Motif, there will be an analysis on the costs of production and distribution, the ripartition of the revenues with the authors and the evalution of content in the digital market which is in a continue growth. Siobhan O'Leary Literary agent Negotiating rights to a story world that unfolds beyond the written page and across a variety of media platforms calls up a whole new set of questions. Using specific projects, we will look at how publishers and new media companies are collaborating to monetize transmedia story worlds and bring them to new audiences abroad. Stephen Page Chief of executive - Faber and Faber From a sales and marketing background Stephen Page became Faber's CEO in 2001 and will speak about the challenges he faced taking over a venerable, eighty year-old publishing house and the strategies he and his team have employed in creating new opportunities and developing innovative businesses which see the company successfully negotiating an ever-shifting global landscape. Alessandra Porcelli Business and Economics Publisher - McGraw-Hill Italy In a contest where ‘flexibility’ seems to be the key word, Alessandra Porcelli will give an overview of the Digital Higher education market in Europe and Italy through a presentation which will show two digital platforms implemented by Mc-Graw Hill: Connect and Create. Davina Quarterman Marketing Manager - Wiley-Blackwell She will partecipate of the session on Educational Worlds 'The University' Katharina Rach Production editor - De Gruyter How can we deal with the variety of applications needed for different publication types while striving for cutting edge technology matching the excellence of our content? De Gruyter is consolidating its various online platforms all into one, providing a single access point for title search and all electronic content relating to the De Gruyter list. Filippo Renga Responsible of Osservatorio Mobile Consumer - Politecnico of Milan He will partecipate at the session of Creativ Worlds 'Creation as ‘production’: costs and technologies'