Porter Anderson ( @Porter_Anderson ) BA, MA, MFA, is a journalist, speaker, and consultant specializing in book publishing. Formerly with CNN, the Village Voice, the Dallas Times Herald, and other media, he is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives, founded by Frankfurt Book Fair New York, the magazine for the international publishing industry. With Jane Friedman, he produces The Hot Sheet publishing-industry newsletter, providing expert analysis and interpretation in a private subscription bulletin format, expressly for traditionally publishing and self-publishing authors. With Friedman, he programmed the new DBW Indie Author conference in New York in January 2017, as a Hot Sheet project. Anderson also writes the #MusicForWriters series on contemporary composers for Thought Catalog. Anderson also has guided The FutureBook’s coverage of digital publishing for The Bookseller in the UK and led the development of its inaugural Author Day conference in London. This year under the aegis of his Porter Anderson Media…
Jesús Badenes was born in Castellón (Spain) 53 years ago, graduated in Economics from the University of Barcelona with an Extraordinary Prize, later he studied an MBA at the University of Rochester (NY), thanks to a Fulbright scholarship granted by la Caixa. He started his professional career in consulting at McKinsey & Company, where he participated in strategic projects related to the financial sector, consumer goods / marketing and energy. With the new century, he joined Grupo Planeta as a Managing Director in the Books Division, and he started his most beloved professional project, Publishing, which has led him to know the Latin American markets, as well as the Spanish market. During this period, Grupo Planeta has consolidated its leadership in the Spanish market, both in paper edition and in e-books, to subsequently undertake the development of new business models. Jesús is a regular participant in sectorial think tanks, and…
Rafael Ball has been Director of ETH-Library Zuerich, Switzerland, since 1 March 2015. He holds doctorates in biology and science history and studied biology, Slavonic studies and philosophy at the Universities of Mainz, Warsaw and Moscow. He complete a two-year postgraduate qualification as a scientific librarian in 1996 and was head of Central Library in the Research Center Jülich, Germany from 1996 to 2008. Ball was Director of the University Library of Regensburg from 2008 to 2015. He has written and edited numerous publications, and is a dedicated speaker and a lecturer at various universities. His main work and research interests are the library of the future, science communication, the consequences of digitization and the role of the printed book in the digital age.
Zoë Beck gründete den Verlag Culturbooks 2013 zusammen mit Jan Karsten. Zunächst erschien ein reines Digitalprogramm mit Schwerpunkt auf literarischen Texten. Seit 2015 werden regelmäßig auch Printtitel verlegt. Beck arbeitet außerdem als Übersetzerin und Autorin. Für ihre Romane wurde sie mehrfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem Deutschen Krimipreis. Ihr nächster Roman erscheint im Juni 2017 bei Suhrkamp.
Vivian Berghahn is Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director at Berghahn Books. In addition to overseeing the journals division at Berghahn, her responsibilities include advancing the company’s online initiatives and the strategic development of its overall publishing program. With nearly 20 years of experience in academic publishing, she previously worked for Blackwell Publishing and Northeastern University Press and currently serves on the AAP-PSP Committee and as co-opted member of the ALPSP Council.
Katja Böhne is a political scientist, and has been responsible for Marketing & Communications at Frankfurter Buchmesse for ten years. She specializes in corporate communication, corporate branding and consumer brands. Prior to that, she worked for ten years at the international communications agency fischerAppelt for clients in the pharmaceutical industry, for consumer goods manufacturers and as a consultant for corporate projects. Other stops included small communication agencies and a 1-year-internship in the communications department of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
Dr. Siv Bublitz (58) is Executive Vice President Editorial and Strategy of S. Fischer Verlage in Frankfurt. She began her professional career at Rowohlt in 1990 as an editor and later as publishing director of imprints Wunderlich and Rowohlt Berlin Verlag. From 2007 until 2017 she was CEO and Publisher of Ullstein Buchverlage in Berlin. She is an active proponent of the German Booksellers’ and Publishers’ Association where she served as a board member from 2016 until her appointment at Fischer in September 2017.
Friederike Diaz Ortega oversees Amazons in-house publishing business since February 2017. Amazon Publishing Germany is focused on publishing and promoting genre fiction and recently selected nonfiction titles across formats and is connecting authors and readers on Amazon and beyond, in bookstores and on audible.de. Friederike joined Amazon in 2013 and previously oversaw the Vendor Management team for shoes in Germany working with brands and manufacturers to select and broaden the range of available products in the german Amazon store. When she joined Amazon Publishing, she was finally able to bring her passion for literature and books to the workplace. Before joining Amazon, Friederike was working in the Retail Buying and Planning for several Fashion brands in Europe and the United States. Friederike holds a degree in textile engineering and management from University Reutlingen.
Holger Ehling (Jg. 1961) ist Journalist und Sachbuchautor. Er berichtete u.a. aus Afrika, Lateinamerika, Neuseeland und London und war sieben Jahre lang Leiter der Unternehmenskommunikation der Frankfurter Buchmesse. Seit mehr als 20 Jahren begleitet er die Entwicklungen in der Buchbranche, er berichtet regelmäßig über die bunte Bücherwelt in seinen monatlichen Kolumnen im „BuchMarkt“ und „Schweizer Buchhandel“. Daneben berät er Verlage und internationale Buchmessen.
Studium der Politikwissenschaft, Geschichte und Publizistik in Münster, Berlin und St. Louis. 1996 Master of Arts der Washington University in St. Louis. 2000 Promotion in Politikwissenschaften. 2000 – 2003 Senior Consultant Corporate Development bei der Bertelsmann AG. 2003 – 2004 Leiter Point of Sale-Aktivitäten, Der Club Bertelsmann. 2004 – 2008 Alleingeschäftsführer der Birkhäuser Verlag AG, Basel. 2006 – 2008 Alleingeschäftsführer von SpringerWienNewYork in Wien. 2007 – 2008 Mitglied des Konzernvorstands bei Springer Science+Business Media. 2008 – 2014 Geschäftsführer des Verlags Walter de Gruyter. Seit Dezember 2015 Berater, Unternehmer und Investor mit dem Unternehmen fullstopp.
Ashleigh Gardner, Deputy General Manager, Wattpad Studios, Publishing As Deputy General Manager, Wattpad Studios, Publishing, Ashleigh Gardner works with writers and publishers around the world to turn Wattpad stories into books. Under Ashleigh’s leadership, the Wattpad Books team is reshaping the publishing industry, leveraging data and insights from more than 500 million story uploads on Wattpad to find future best-sellers. In addition to publishing stories under the Wattpad Books division, Ashleigh creates meaningful promotional and editorial partnerships with publishers around the world.
Ehrhardt F. Heinold ist seit 1995 geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Heinold, Spiller & Partner Unternehmensberatung GmbH mit Sitz in Hamburg. Seine Beratungsschwerpunkte sind Publishingstrategie, Geschäftsmodellentwicklung und digitale Transformation. Sein Unternehmen berät neben Fach-, Special Interest- und Publikumsverlagen auch Non-Profit-Organisationen (v.a. wissenschaftliche Institute, Stiftungen und Bibliotheken). Heinold ist Autor und Herausgeber von Fachstudien (u.a. „Marktstudie zu Crossmedialen Redaktionssystemen“ und „Change Management in Fachverlagen. Am Beispiel Einführung eines Redaktionssystems“), Verfasser von Fachaufsätzen und Mitautor des Buches „Business E-volution“. Er ist Gründer und Leiter der seit 2002 jährlich durchgeführten Fachtagung CrossMediaForum. Er hat zudem zahlreiche Fachvorträge zu den Themen Zukunft der Medienbranche, Content Management, Cross Media und Digital Publishing gehalten. Heinold ist zudem regelmäßig als Moderator und Referent für die Akademie der Deutschen Medien tätig.
Philipp Hess studied Engineering and Industrial Design in the Netherlands and Japan, before getting into scholarly content while working for Kiron, a platform that offers higher education to refugees. He is currently the Head of Publisher Relations at the Knowledge Unlatched GmbH and is pursuing a complimentary Master Degree at the Hochschule St.Gallen and the University of Arts Berlin in „Leadership in digital Innovation“. His goal is to make knowledge accessible to everyone, everywhere and to help shape the future dissemination of scholarly content.
I’m CEO at Gyldendal, the biggest book publishing house in Denmark. Before that I have been CEO at the Royal Theatre, head of Culture at the National Broadcaster, DR, and CEO at the Danish Newspaper, Information. I hold an MBA and a master in philosophy. I’m 54 and author of eleven novels. Related Links for more information: https://publishingperspectives.com/2018/09/denmark-gyldendal-morten-hesseldahl-book-publishing-safeguarding-old-culture/ http://www.mortenhesseldahl.dk/om-morten/ https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morten_Hesseldahl
Olivia Hetreed is the multi-award winning screenwriter of Girl with a Pearl Earring and Wuthering Heights. Recent international films include Finding Altamira, starring Antonio Banderas, and Bosnia’s first animated feature, Birds Like Us, directed by Faruk Sabanovič. Mohamed al-Daradji’s The Journey is the first Iraqi-made film to screen in Iraq in 27 years. She has a number of projects in development with Sympathetic Ink, her company with Andy Paterson, and with other producers. Olivia is President of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, which represents over 2,000 professional writers in the UK. She is a very experienced international mentor of new writing talent. Previously she was a Film Editor, working on many dramas and documentaries. Related links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Hetreed https://lfs.org.uk/staff/559/olivia-hetreed
Emma House is the Deputy CEO of the Publishers Association and has worked at the PA for 10 years. Previous to this Emma was Head of International Development at The London Book Fair and spent 6 years working in international business to business magazines. The Publishers Association (the PA) represents book and journal publishers in the UK, spanning fiction and non-fiction, academic and education publishing in print and digital. UK publishing has a turnover of £5.7bn, with export income accounting for 60% of revenues. Our membership includes global companies such as Elsevier, Wiley, Pearson, Penguin Random House and Hachette, as well as many independent publishing houses and university presses. Our objective as an association is to provide our members with the influence, insight and support necessary to compete and prosper. Emma’s role is to over the work of the sector councils at the PA, covering academic, STM, education and consumer…
EN: As CTO, Peter Karwowski is responsible for leading the Klopotek Group’s technology strategy, as well as strengthening the development processes and innovation capability. In 2018, he became Deputy CEO of Klopotek, as an additional role. Prior to joining Klopotek, Peter Karwowski was CTO at hgv publishing services, a full service provider of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and long-standing major client of Klopotek. He joined hgv in 2005 and held various IT management positions while developing the IT landscape and service organization. At previous employers like PSH Solutions GmbH, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, and Henke & Partner GmbH, Peter gained a great deal of experience in the publishing industry and gained IT management competences, especially in the field of software engineering. DE: Als CTO ist Peter Karwowski für die Technologiestrategie der gesamten Klopotek Gruppe verantwortlich und stärkt die Entwicklungsprozesse und Innovationskraft des Unternehmens. 2018 wurde er zusätzlich Deputy CEO von…
Robyn Kerkhof leads Selection, Publishing and Curation at Blinkist, an app that offers key ideas from nonfiction books in bitesize audio and text. Launched in 2013, the service has 10+ million users across 130+ countries. Robyn researches and selects the most insightful and illuminating nonfiction titles in English and German to be published as books-in-blinks, and curates Blinkist's app content. Besides being a curator and nonfiction book market expert, Robyn speaks multiple modern and ancient languages, and hold degrees in Linguistics, Literature and Film Studies, as well as Japanese Studies from universities in Berlin, Tokyo and Oxford.
Jens Klingelhöfer ist Geschäftsführer und Co-Founder (2009) des international aufgestellten E-Book-Digitalvertriebs „Bookwire“ (www.bookwire.de) mit Büros in Frankfurt, Barcelona, Sao Paulo, Mexico-City and Moscow. Zuvor war Jens Klingelhöfer als Geschäftsführer von MFM Entertainment in der Musikbranche mit den Schwerpunkten Künstlermanagement, Musikmarketing und Digitalvertrieb für erfolgreiche nationale Musikthemen verantwortlich. Zu Beginn seiner beruflichen Laufbahn war er als Art Director für Medienprodukte tätig und kehrte mit Bookwire in den Buchbereich zurück. Jens Klingelhöfer is managing director and co-founder (2009) of the internationally established german ebook distribution company Bookwire (www.bookwire.de) with offices in Frankfurt, Barcelona, Sao Paulo, Mexico-City and Moscow. Prior to creating this platform, he was managing director of MFM Entertainment, a service to the music industry specialized in artist management, marketing cooperations and digital distribution. At the early days of his career, he was an art director for media products, so that by creating Bookwire, he returned to his initial industry.
English In 1992, Ulrich Klopotek von Glowczewski founded Klopotek & Partner GmbH, which he today continues to head up as Managing Director and CEO. Early on, he took key strategic decisions which continue to set the company apart from its competitors: a clear focus on innovative technology to support business process in publishing houses and media companies, using standard software based on an integrated database to model the entire value-creation chain. By 1998, Klopotek & Partner GmbH had advanced to be the market leader for publishing software in Germany. Ulrich Klopotek von Glowczewski was the architect behind the Klopotek group (headed by Klopotek AG) and a strategic reorientation and internationalization of the company, establishing Klopotek B.V. for the Benelux region and Klopotek Ltd. in the UK in 2000, followed by Klopotek North America Inc. in 2004. In 2006, Klopotek North America acquired Global Turnkey Systems Inc. – a step that…
David Linderman, Executive Creative Director, IBM iX + Aperto, Berlin For over two decades David Linderman has explored the intersection between brands and culture, art, design and technology in internationally awarded client work and art commissions. After eight years exploring creative culture in the UK and US, Linderman returned to Germany in March 2017, as Executive Creative Director for IBM iX + Aperto and member of the global IBM iX Ambassadorship program to explore creative applications for data-driven experience. Together with small teams of creative technologists and designers, Linderman has won numerous international awards such as the Art Directors Club New York, Art Directors Club Deutschland, New York Festivals, the One Show, Clio Award, New York Type Directors Club, IF Communication Award and Webby Awards. In 2015 Linderman received Lifetime Artist status for work included in the permanent collection for Architecture & Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern…
Wolf-Michael Mehl works as Managing Director of Klopotek & Partner GmbH in Berlin. As a member of Klopotek's Sales Management Board, he is responsible for the Global Key Account Management. Michael takes care of Business Development with a focus on bringing Klopotek's latest STREAM solutions to the market. Until 2014 he headed the Software & Technology Services division, where his responsibilities included managing Klopotek’s software development process and customer services. He has a master’s degree in computer science and specializes in software engineering and software project methodology, and has held management positions at Klopotek since 1992.
In his current position Philipp Neie has been managing Schweitzer Fachinformationen oHG, a leading Information Supplier and Service Company since 2005 as CEO. Prior to this he went through several different stages and territories internationally with the former Subscription Agent Swets und Zeitlinger B.V., starting his role as Customer Service Manager in Frankfurt and emerging his carrier - via a 4 Year CEO-Ship with Swets in the USA - to a Director at HQ in the Netherlands. Going Back Philipp Neie was charged with the CFO Role with one of Virgin Interactive Entertainment subsidiaries in Frankfurt and Hamburg, and prior to this performed as Manager Credit Contol at Nintendo of Europe. Having served as Chassis Pool Administrator with Transamerica Leasing, Inc in San Francisco, CA he was able to put his formal education in the field of Banking Business Administration to use.
Ulrike Ostermeyer, geboren 1964 in Hamburg, verfügt über eine mehr als 25-jährige Verlagserfahrung in den Bereichen Allgemeine Belletristik, Literatur und Sachbuch. Nach einer Ausbildung zur Buchhändlerin in Hamburg und einem Magisterstudium in Romanistik, Germanistik und Betriebswirtschaft in München arbeitete sie zunächst als Literaturagentin in London, war von 1994 bis 2005 Lektorin beim Deutschen Taschenbuch Verlag, wo sie u.a. die Reihe dtv premium mit aufgebaut hat, von 2005 bis 2012 Programmleiterin für Belletristik bei den Ullstein Buchverlagen und bis Ende 2017 Verlagsleiterin des Arche Literatur Verlags, für den sie einen programmatischen Neuauftritt entwickelt hat. 2018 hat sie sich in Berlin mit einem Literaturbüro für Übersetzung, Lektorat und Beratung selbstständig gemacht und arbeitet u.a. als Editor-at-Large für den 2016 gegründeten Schweizer Kampa Verlag sowie als Beraterin im Bereich Literatur für die Agence d’action culturelle des Kulturministeriums Luxemburg. Foto: Anikka Bauer
Dr. Joerg Pfuhl ist seit September 2016 CEO der Holtzbrinck Buchverlage (u.a. Rowohlt, S.Fischer, DroemerKnaur und Kiepenheuer&Witsch). Davor war er als Unternehmensberater, Dozent und Mitglied verschiedener Aufsichtsgremien (u.a. Edel AG, Franz Cornelsen Bildungsholding) tätig. Von 1994 bis 2011 war Dr. Pfuhl in unterschiedlichen Führungspositionen der Bertelsmann AG aktiv, zuletzt als Vorstandsmitglied von Random House und als Vorsitzender der Geschäftsführung der Verlagsgruppe Random House mit Verantwortung für das deutschsprachige Buchverlagsgeschäft. Ehrenamtlich engagiert sich Joerg Pfuhl seit 2004 im Vorstand der Stiftung Lesen.
Michael Reynolds is the Editor in chief of independent publisher, Europa Editions. He is the recipient of the 2016 Golden Colophon Award for Superlative Achievement & Leadership in Independent Literary Publishing, awarded by the Community of Literary and Magazine Presses, and a 2017 Epiphany Magazine Honoree for Publishing Excellence. He has served on the jury for the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, the Gutekunst Prize for Young Translators, and the foreign jury of the Strega Prize. He is a regular speaker at the Columbia School of Journalism’s Columbia Publishing Course, and at publishing and translation conferences in America and internationally. He is a member of the Rutgers University Press Advisory Council, a founding member of the Independent Publisher Caucus Steering Committee, and the founder of Bookselling Without Borders, a scholarship program that diversifies the culture of reading by building bridges between the American bookselling community and the international book industry. Prize-winning and…
Miriam Rosin (geb. Behmer) verfügt über langjährige Erfahrung im Bereich Digital Content, E-Commerce und Business Development: Von 2007 bis 2014 sammelte sie Erfahrungen in Führungspositionen bei eBook.de (ehemals Libri.de Internet GmbH). Als Leitung Produktmanagement verantwortete die Diplom-Germanistin mehrere Jahre die Weiterentwicklung der Plattform sowie die Betreuung strategischer Hardware-Partner. In dieser Zeit war sie als Mitglied des Führungsteams unter anderem am Rebranding von Libri.de hin zu eBook.de beteiligt. Anschließend zeichnete Sie sich als alleinige Geschäftsführerin für das Start Up readfy verantwortlich und schloss hierfür einen Finanzierungsrunde in 7-stelliger Höhe ab. Seit 2017 verantwortet sie als COO von NetDoktor.de die Bereiche Redaktion, SEO, Produktmanagement, IT und Business Development. Ihren Schwerpunkt widmet sie derzeit der Fragestellung wie sich die User Journey auf NetDoktor.de erweitern lässt - mit der Zielsetzung den monatlich ca. 17 Mio Webseitenbesuchern mehr zu bieten als eine reine text- und bildbasierte Informationsplattform sowie weitere Erlösströme zu erschließen. Im Rahmen eines berufsbegleitenden MBA-Studiengangs an der Henley Business…
Mads Rydahl is cofounder of UNSILO, a Danish startup building semantic discovery tools for science. UNSILO works with leading Scientific Publishers like Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Clarivate to enrich articles and manuscripts, provide decision support for the publication workflow, and improve discoverability across all scientific domains.
Sara Sargent is a Senior Executive Editor at Random House Books for Young Readers, where she publishes platform-driven fiction and nonfiction in the picture book, middle grade, and young adult categories. Previously she has held positions at HarperCollins Children’s Books, Simon Pulse (an imprint of Simon & Schuster), and Miramax Books. Sara has worked with #1 New York Times bestselling authors Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, as well as New York Times bestselling authors Laurie Hernandez, Abbi Glines, Ainsley Earhardt, Rosamund Hodge, StacyPlays, and Lisa Maxwell; internationally bestselling author Lily Collins; National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti; and social media influencers Laci Green and Arden Rose. Sara received her Master of Science in journalism from Northwestern University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Prof. Dr. Okke Schlüter ist seit 2008 Professor für Medienkonvergenz im Studiengang Mediapublishing an der Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart. Schwerpunkte in der Lehre sind neben der Medienkonvergenz auch Crossmediales Produktmanagement, Innovationsmanagement/Design Thinking und digitale Geschäftsmodelle. Im März 2017 erschien bei Schäffer Poeschel die mit Stefanie Quade konzipierte „DesignAgility - Toolbox Media Prototyping“. Auf das Studium der Theater-, Film und Fernsehwissenschaften, Slavistik und Betriebswirtschaftslehre in Mainz, Berlin und Moskau folgte die Promotion in Slavistik. Nach Stippvisiten bei BCG und McKinsey ab 1998 Trainee der Ernst Klett AG für Führungskräftenachwuchs, von 2000 bis 2008 Führungspositionen in Unternehmen der Klett-Gruppe. Außerhalb der HdM begleitet er seit 2012 die Innovationsinitiativen protoTYPE und seit 2016 CONTENTshift des Börsenvereins des deutschen Buchhandels als Experte. Referent auch für die Akademie der Deutschen Medien und die Donau-Universität Krems.
Henning Schoenenberger, Director Product Data and Metadata at Springer Nature, runs a global Data Development department, finding cutting-edge responses to key data questions in the research and library communities in areas such as semantic data, access and data analytics just to name a few. In search of the most state-of-the-art data formats, efficient content and data delivery tools and models, and optimized workflows in relationship with discovery services, Henning has been able to develop processes that meet the needs in the research and library landscape. Picture: Sven Serkis
Christian Schumacher-Gebler ist seit Januar 2014 Geschäftsführer/CEO der deutschen Bonnier Gruppe (u.a. Piper Verlag, Carlsen Verlag, Ullstein Buchverlage, Thienemann-Esslinger und arsEdition) und dort verantwortlich für die strategische Weiterentwicklung der Verlagsgruppe. Von 2007 bis 2012 war er Geschäftsführer der Ullstein Buchverlage in Berlin. Schumacher-Gebler ist Mitglied im Verlegerausschuss und engagiert sich zudem ehrenamtlich in der Federation of European Publishers (FEP) um die deutschen Interessen der Verlagsbranche auf Europäischer Ebene zu platzieren. Vor seinem Einstieg in die Buchbranche studierte Schumacher-Gebler Betriebswirtschaftslehre.
Klaus-Peter Stegen is an all-rounder with more than 30 years publishing experience in every sector of the industry and a competent advisor for every kind of process and service. He is Director of the Publishers' Forum (together with Rüdiger Wischenbart) and was Chief Operating Officer D-A-CH of Klopotek AG in 2015-16. Since the beginning of January 2017, he has been a partner and senior adviser of Newbooks Solutions in Cologne, as well as a business partner of Narses consulting company in Bad Vilbel. The experienced publishing expert was previously employed as a management and HR consultant by TGMC Management Consulting GmbH in Hamburg. He also assisted the Bibliographical Institute – part of the Franz Cornelsen Education Group – as a consultant and interim Sales and Marketing Manager during their reorientation and move from Mannheim to Berlin. Stegen’s career includes management roles at Otto Schmidt, VVA/Bertelsmann, Haufe, Medien Union, and Oetinger…
As Managing Director Books, Dr. Niels Peter Thomas is responsible for Springer Nature’s books portfolio, spanning more than 300,000 academic books across all subject areas, and 13,000 new books each year. He is also in charge of more than 600 editorial colleagues worldwide, coordinating the books business across Springer Nature’s renowned book imprints, such as Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, J.B. Metzler, and others. His main tasks also include further development of print and electronic books, innovative technical features, new business models and workflows. Building on his former position as Chief Book Strategist, he is responsible for defining Springer Nature’s global strategy to shape the future of book publishing and reading. In addition, Niels has been appointed Managing Director of Springer Campus GmbH, which focuses on eLearning and distance learning programmes. Niels joined Springer in 2005 and worked in various editorial and management positions in Heidelberg and Wiesbaden, Germany, as well as…
Patrici Tixis is the director of corporate communications at Grupo Planeta, the largest Spanish and Latin America publishing and media group. Since 2011, he has been its institutional representative in publishing sector associations. He serves as a chair of the largest spanish guild (known as Gremi d’Editors de Catalunya), based in Barcelona, and whose member companies represent over half of Spain and Latin America publishing output. He is vice president of the management board of the Spanish Federation of Publishers Guilds (FGEE in its spanish acronym) and member elected of the executive commite at the IPA, the Internatonal Publishers Asociation. As well he serves as a chair of the catalan Chamber of Books, institution that represents and defends the interest of publishers, booksellers, distributors and printers. Furthermore he is a member of Cedro, the non-profit association of authors and publishers of books, magazines and newspapers, whose task is the protection…
Ludger Wicher hat Wirtschaftswissenschaften mit Schwerpunkt Finanzen an der Universität Witten/Herdecke studiert. 1994 startete er seine Laufbahn bei der Bertelsmann AG als Assistent des Konzernfinanzchefs. Dort war er anschließend im Bereich M&A für Projekte im Bereich Neue Medien und Fachinformationen zuständig. 1997 bis 2000 folgten Stationen als Beteiligungscontroller und Projektleiter Unternehmensentwicklung bei der RTL Group in Luxembourg, dann von 2000 bis 2007 kaufmännische Geschäftsführungpositionen im Bereich E-Commerce, bei der VIVA Fernsehen GmbH und bei einem Fachhandelsfilialisten. 2008 begann Ludger Wicher als kaufmännischer Geschäftsführer bei der hgv, war von 2013 bis 2015 Alleingeschäftsführer und ist seit Juli 2015 CEO/Sprecher der Geschäftsführung. Ludger Wicher engagiert sich ehrenamtlich im Branchenverband, Börsenverein des deutschen Buchhandels, und ist Mitglied im Haushaltsausschuß, im Fachausschuß für den Zwischenbuchhandel und in der IG PRO.
Michaela Wied hat Medienmanagement studiert mit dem Abschluss der Diplom-Medienwirtin (FH). Im Anschluss daran hat sie einige Produktionsleitungsassistenzen bei verschiedenen Fernsehprogrammen gemacht. In Verlage kam sie 2008 mit einem Volontariat als Projektmanagement bei den MVS Medizinverlage Stuttgart (Thieme Verlagsgruppe). Sie blieb einige Jahre dort, um später die Vertriebsleitung Corporate Publishing bei MVS zu übernehmen. Ab 2013 war sie als Produktmanagerin Media Development print / digital bei der MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH. Sie war dort für die crossmediale Neu- und Weiterentwicklung des Börsenblatts und des Buchjournals verantwortlich. Seit 2016 war sie als Manager Business Development Publishing beim Springer Medizin Verlag in Heidelberg tätig. Sie war dort zuständig für die Facharzt-Zeitschriften und für SpringerMedizin.de.
Dr. Rüdiger Wischenbart, born in 1956 in Graz, Austria, is the founder of “Content and Consulting” (since 2003), and a writer specialized in culture, cultural industries, the global book markets, innovation in the book industry, literature, media, and communication. Most recently, he researched and (co-) authored several reports on global publishing markets, notably the “Global eBook” report, the “Global Publishing Markets” survey for the International Publishers Association”, (IPA), and the “Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry”, updated annually since 2007 (initiated by Livres Hebdo, France, and co-published by The Bookseller, UK, buchreport, Germany, PublishNews Brazil, and Publishers Weekly, US). Wischenbart co-authored the “Diversity Reports” 2010, 2009 and 2008 mapping translation markets and cultures across Europe. He serves as director for international affairs to BookExpo America, coordinating its “Global Market Forum”, and he directs the program for the Publishers’ Forum in Berlin. www.wischenbart.com
Alongside his advisory work for investors and industry players, David Worlock chairs Outsell’s Global Leadership Councils, a member-service for CEOs and senior executives of media publishing and information provider firms. David founded Electronic Publishing Services Ltd. (EPS) in 1985, a research and consultancy company working with the digital content industry in developing strategies for products and markets in consumer and business sectors. Outsell acquired EPS in 2006. David received his degree in History from the University of Cambridge.
Porter Anderson ( @Porter_Anderson ) BA, MA, MFA, is a journalist, speaker, and consultant specializing in book publishing. Formerly with CNN, the Village Voice, the Dallas Times Herald, and other media, he is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives, founded by Frankfurt Book Fair New York, the magazine for the international publishing industry. With Jane Friedman, he produces The Hot Sheet publishing-industry newsletter, providing expert analysis and interpretation in a private subscription bulletin format, expressly for traditionally publishing and self-publishing authors. With Friedman, he programmed the new DBW Indie Author conference in New York in January 2017, as a Hot Sheet project. Anderson also writes the #MusicForWriters series on contemporary composers for Thought Catalog. Anderson also has guided The FutureBook’s coverage of…
Jesús Badenes was born in Castellón (Spain) 53 years ago, graduated in Economics from the University of Barcelona with an Extraordinary Prize, later he studied an MBA at the University of Rochester (NY), thanks to a Fulbright scholarship granted by la Caixa. He started his professional career in consulting at McKinsey & Company, where he participated in strategic projects related to the financial sector, consumer goods / marketing and energy. With the new century, he joined Grupo Planeta as a Managing Director in the Books Division, and he started his most beloved professional project, Publishing, which has led him to know the Latin American markets, as well as the Spanish market. During this period, Grupo Planeta has consolidated its leadership…
Rafael Ball has been Director of ETH-Library Zuerich, Switzerland, since 1 March 2015. He holds doctorates in biology and science history and studied biology, Slavonic studies and philosophy at the Universities of Mainz, Warsaw and Moscow. He complete a two-year postgraduate qualification as a scientific librarian in 1996 and was head of Central Library in the Research Center Jülich, Germany from 1996 to 2008. Ball was Director of the University Library of Regensburg from 2008 to 2015. He has written and edited numerous publications, and is a dedicated speaker and a lecturer at various universities. His main work and research interests are the library of the future, science communication, the consequences of digitization and the role of the printed book…
Zoë Beck gründete den Verlag Culturbooks 2013 zusammen mit Jan Karsten. Zunächst erschien ein reines Digitalprogramm mit Schwerpunkt auf literarischen Texten. Seit 2015 werden regelmäßig auch Printtitel verlegt. Beck arbeitet außerdem als Übersetzerin und Autorin. Für ihre Romane wurde sie mehrfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem Deutschen Krimipreis. Ihr nächster Roman erscheint im Juni 2017 bei Suhrkamp.
Vivian Berghahn is Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director at Berghahn Books. In addition to overseeing the journals division at Berghahn, her responsibilities include advancing the company’s online initiatives and the strategic development of its overall publishing program. With nearly 20 years of experience in academic publishing, she previously worked for Blackwell Publishing and Northeastern University Press and currently serves on the AAP-PSP Committee and as co-opted member of the ALPSP Council.
Katja Böhne is a political scientist, and has been responsible for Marketing & Communications at Frankfurter Buchmesse for ten years. She specializes in corporate communication, corporate branding and consumer brands. Prior to that, she worked for ten years at the international communications agency fischerAppelt for clients in the pharmaceutical industry, for consumer goods manufacturers and as a consultant for corporate projects. Other stops included small communication agencies and a 1-year-internship in the communications department of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
Dr. Siv Bublitz (58) is Executive Vice President Editorial and Strategy of S. Fischer Verlage in Frankfurt. She began her professional career at Rowohlt in 1990 as an editor and later as publishing director of imprints Wunderlich and Rowohlt Berlin Verlag. From 2007 until 2017 she was CEO and Publisher of Ullstein Buchverlage in Berlin. She is an active proponent of the German Booksellers’ and Publishers’ Association where she served as a board member from 2016 until her appointment at Fischer in September 2017.
Friederike Diaz Ortega oversees Amazons in-house publishing business since February 2017. Amazon Publishing Germany is focused on publishing and promoting genre fiction and recently selected nonfiction titles across formats and is connecting authors and readers on Amazon and beyond, in bookstores and on audible.de. Friederike joined Amazon in 2013 and previously oversaw the Vendor Management team for shoes in Germany working with brands and manufacturers to select and broaden the range of available products in the german Amazon store. When she joined Amazon Publishing, she was finally able to bring her passion for literature and books to the workplace. Before joining Amazon, Friederike was working in the Retail Buying and Planning for several Fashion brands in Europe and the United States.…
Holger Ehling (Jg. 1961) ist Journalist und Sachbuchautor. Er berichtete u.a. aus Afrika, Lateinamerika, Neuseeland und London und war sieben Jahre lang Leiter der Unternehmenskommunikation der Frankfurter Buchmesse. Seit mehr als 20 Jahren begleitet er die Entwicklungen in der Buchbranche, er berichtet regelmäßig über die bunte Bücherwelt in seinen monatlichen Kolumnen im „BuchMarkt“ und „Schweizer Buchhandel“. Daneben berät er Verlage und internationale Buchmessen.
Studium der Politikwissenschaft, Geschichte und Publizistik in Münster, Berlin und St. Louis. 1996 Master of Arts der Washington University in St. Louis. 2000 Promotion in Politikwissenschaften. 2000 – 2003 Senior Consultant Corporate Development bei der Bertelsmann AG. 2003 – 2004 Leiter Point of Sale-Aktivitäten, Der Club Bertelsmann. 2004 – 2008 Alleingeschäftsführer der Birkhäuser Verlag AG, Basel. 2006 – 2008 Alleingeschäftsführer von SpringerWienNewYork in Wien. 2007 – 2008 Mitglied des Konzernvorstands bei Springer Science+Business Media. 2008 – 2014 Geschäftsführer des Verlags Walter de Gruyter. Seit Dezember 2015 Berater, Unternehmer und Investor mit dem Unternehmen fullstopp.
Ashleigh Gardner, Deputy General Manager, Wattpad Studios, Publishing As Deputy General Manager, Wattpad Studios, Publishing, Ashleigh Gardner works with writers and publishers around the world to turn Wattpad stories into books. Under Ashleigh’s leadership, the Wattpad Books team is reshaping the publishing industry, leveraging data and insights from more than 500 million story uploads on Wattpad to find future best-sellers. In addition to publishing stories under the Wattpad Books division, Ashleigh creates meaningful promotional and editorial partnerships with publishers around the world.
Ehrhardt F. Heinold ist seit 1995 geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Heinold, Spiller & Partner Unternehmensberatung GmbH mit Sitz in Hamburg. Seine Beratungsschwerpunkte sind Publishingstrategie, Geschäftsmodellentwicklung und digitale Transformation. Sein Unternehmen berät neben Fach-, Special Interest- und Publikumsverlagen auch Non-Profit-Organisationen (v.a. wissenschaftliche Institute, Stiftungen und Bibliotheken). Heinold ist Autor und Herausgeber von Fachstudien (u.a. „Marktstudie zu Crossmedialen Redaktionssystemen“ und „Change Management in Fachverlagen. Am Beispiel Einführung eines Redaktionssystems“), Verfasser von Fachaufsätzen und Mitautor des Buches „Business E-volution“. Er ist Gründer und Leiter der seit 2002 jährlich durchgeführten Fachtagung CrossMediaForum. Er hat zudem zahlreiche Fachvorträge zu den Themen Zukunft der Medienbranche, Content Management, Cross Media und Digital Publishing gehalten. Heinold ist zudem regelmäßig als Moderator und Referent für die Akademie der Deutschen Medien…
Philipp Hess studied Engineering and Industrial Design in the Netherlands and Japan, before getting into scholarly content while working for Kiron, a platform that offers higher education to refugees. He is currently the Head of Publisher Relations at the Knowledge Unlatched GmbH and is pursuing a complimentary Master Degree at the Hochschule St.Gallen and the University of Arts Berlin in „Leadership in digital Innovation“. His goal is to make knowledge accessible to everyone, everywhere and to help shape the future dissemination of scholarly content.
I’m CEO at Gyldendal, the biggest book publishing house in Denmark. Before that I have been CEO at the Royal Theatre, head of Culture at the National Broadcaster, DR, and CEO at the Danish Newspaper, Information. I hold an MBA and a master in philosophy. I’m 54 and author of eleven novels. Related Links for more information: https://publishingperspectives.com/2018/09/denmark-gyldendal-morten-hesseldahl-book-publishing-safeguarding-old-culture/ http://www.mortenhesseldahl.dk/om-morten/ https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morten_Hesseldahl
Olivia Hetreed is the multi-award winning screenwriter of Girl with a Pearl Earring and Wuthering Heights. Recent international films include Finding Altamira, starring Antonio Banderas, and Bosnia’s first animated feature, Birds Like Us, directed by Faruk Sabanovič. Mohamed al-Daradji’s The Journey is the first Iraqi-made film to screen in Iraq in 27 years. She has a number of projects in development with Sympathetic Ink, her company with Andy Paterson, and with other producers. Olivia is President of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, which represents over 2,000 professional writers in the UK. She is a very experienced international mentor of new writing talent. Previously she was a Film Editor, working on many dramas and documentaries. Related links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Hetreed https://lfs.org.uk/staff/559/olivia-hetreed
Emma House is the Deputy CEO of the Publishers Association and has worked at the PA for 10 years. Previous to this Emma was Head of International Development at The London Book Fair and spent 6 years working in international business to business magazines. The Publishers Association (the PA) represents book and journal publishers in the UK, spanning fiction and non-fiction, academic and education publishing in print and digital. UK publishing has a turnover of £5.7bn, with export income accounting for 60% of revenues. Our membership includes global companies such as Elsevier, Wiley, Pearson, Penguin Random House and Hachette, as well as many independent publishing houses and university presses. Our objective as an association is to provide our members with…
EN: As CTO, Peter Karwowski is responsible for leading the Klopotek Group’s technology strategy, as well as strengthening the development processes and innovation capability. In 2018, he became Deputy CEO of Klopotek, as an additional role. Prior to joining Klopotek, Peter Karwowski was CTO at hgv publishing services, a full service provider of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and long-standing major client of Klopotek. He joined hgv in 2005 and held various IT management positions while developing the IT landscape and service organization. At previous employers like PSH Solutions GmbH, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, and Henke & Partner GmbH, Peter gained a great deal of experience in the publishing industry and gained IT management competences, especially in the field of software engineering.…
Robyn Kerkhof leads Selection, Publishing and Curation at Blinkist, an app that offers key ideas from nonfiction books in bitesize audio and text. Launched in 2013, the service has 10+ million users across 130+ countries. Robyn researches and selects the most insightful and illuminating nonfiction titles in English and German to be published as books-in-blinks, and curates Blinkist's app content. Besides being a curator and nonfiction book market expert, Robyn speaks multiple modern and ancient languages, and hold degrees in Linguistics, Literature and Film Studies, as well as Japanese Studies from universities in Berlin, Tokyo and Oxford.
Jens Klingelhöfer ist Geschäftsführer und Co-Founder (2009) des international aufgestellten E-Book-Digitalvertriebs „Bookwire“ (www.bookwire.de) mit Büros in Frankfurt, Barcelona, Sao Paulo, Mexico-City and Moscow. Zuvor war Jens Klingelhöfer als Geschäftsführer von MFM Entertainment in der Musikbranche mit den Schwerpunkten Künstlermanagement, Musikmarketing und Digitalvertrieb für erfolgreiche nationale Musikthemen verantwortlich. Zu Beginn seiner beruflichen Laufbahn war er als Art Director für Medienprodukte tätig und kehrte mit Bookwire in den Buchbereich zurück. Jens Klingelhöfer is managing director and co-founder (2009) of the internationally established german ebook distribution company Bookwire (www.bookwire.de) with offices in Frankfurt, Barcelona, Sao Paulo, Mexico-City and Moscow. Prior to creating this platform, he was managing director of MFM Entertainment, a service to the music industry specialized in artist management, marketing cooperations…
English In 1992, Ulrich Klopotek von Glowczewski founded Klopotek & Partner GmbH, which he today continues to head up as Managing Director and CEO. Early on, he took key strategic decisions which continue to set the company apart from its competitors: a clear focus on innovative technology to support business process in publishing houses and media companies, using standard software based on an integrated database to model the entire value-creation chain. By 1998, Klopotek & Partner GmbH had advanced to be the market leader for publishing software in Germany. Ulrich Klopotek von Glowczewski was the architect behind the Klopotek group (headed by Klopotek AG) and a strategic reorientation and internationalization of the company, establishing Klopotek B.V. for the Benelux region…
David Linderman, Executive Creative Director, IBM iX + Aperto, Berlin For over two decades David Linderman has explored the intersection between brands and culture, art, design and technology in internationally awarded client work and art commissions. After eight years exploring creative culture in the UK and US, Linderman returned to Germany in March 2017, as Executive Creative Director for IBM iX + Aperto and member of the global IBM iX Ambassadorship program to explore creative applications for data-driven experience. Together with small teams of creative technologists and designers, Linderman has won numerous international awards such as the Art Directors Club New York, Art Directors Club Deutschland, New York Festivals, the One Show, Clio Award, New York Type Directors Club, IF…
Wolf-Michael Mehl works as Managing Director of Klopotek & Partner GmbH in Berlin. As a member of Klopotek's Sales Management Board, he is responsible for the Global Key Account Management. Michael takes care of Business Development with a focus on bringing Klopotek's latest STREAM solutions to the market. Until 2014 he headed the Software & Technology Services division, where his responsibilities included managing Klopotek’s software development process and customer services. He has a master’s degree in computer science and specializes in software engineering and software project methodology, and has held management positions at Klopotek since 1992.
In his current position Philipp Neie has been managing Schweitzer Fachinformationen oHG, a leading Information Supplier and Service Company since 2005 as CEO. Prior to this he went through several different stages and territories internationally with the former Subscription Agent Swets und Zeitlinger B.V., starting his role as Customer Service Manager in Frankfurt and emerging his carrier - via a 4 Year CEO-Ship with Swets in the USA - to a Director at HQ in the Netherlands. Going Back Philipp Neie was charged with the CFO Role with one of Virgin Interactive Entertainment subsidiaries in Frankfurt and Hamburg, and prior to this performed as Manager Credit Contol at Nintendo of Europe. Having served as Chassis Pool Administrator with Transamerica Leasing,…
Ulrike Ostermeyer, geboren 1964 in Hamburg, verfügt über eine mehr als 25-jährige Verlagserfahrung in den Bereichen Allgemeine Belletristik, Literatur und Sachbuch. Nach einer Ausbildung zur Buchhändlerin in Hamburg und einem Magisterstudium in Romanistik, Germanistik und Betriebswirtschaft in München arbeitete sie zunächst als Literaturagentin in London, war von 1994 bis 2005 Lektorin beim Deutschen Taschenbuch Verlag, wo sie u.a. die Reihe dtv premium mit aufgebaut hat, von 2005 bis 2012 Programmleiterin für Belletristik bei den Ullstein Buchverlagen und bis Ende 2017 Verlagsleiterin des Arche Literatur Verlags, für den sie einen programmatischen Neuauftritt entwickelt hat. 2018 hat sie sich in Berlin mit einem Literaturbüro für Übersetzung, Lektorat und Beratung selbstständig gemacht und arbeitet u.a. als Editor-at-Large für den 2016 gegründeten Schweizer Kampa…
Dr. Joerg Pfuhl ist seit September 2016 CEO der Holtzbrinck Buchverlage (u.a. Rowohlt, S.Fischer, DroemerKnaur und Kiepenheuer&Witsch). Davor war er als Unternehmensberater, Dozent und Mitglied verschiedener Aufsichtsgremien (u.a. Edel AG, Franz Cornelsen Bildungsholding) tätig. Von 1994 bis 2011 war Dr. Pfuhl in unterschiedlichen Führungspositionen der Bertelsmann AG aktiv, zuletzt als Vorstandsmitglied von Random House und als Vorsitzender der Geschäftsführung der Verlagsgruppe Random House mit Verantwortung für das deutschsprachige Buchverlagsgeschäft. Ehrenamtlich engagiert sich Joerg Pfuhl seit 2004 im Vorstand der Stiftung Lesen.
Michael Reynolds is the Editor in chief of independent publisher, Europa Editions. He is the recipient of the 2016 Golden Colophon Award for Superlative Achievement & Leadership in Independent Literary Publishing, awarded by the Community of Literary and Magazine Presses, and a 2017 Epiphany Magazine Honoree for Publishing Excellence. He has served on the jury for the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, the Gutekunst Prize for Young Translators, and the foreign jury of the Strega Prize. He is a regular speaker at the Columbia School of Journalism’s Columbia Publishing Course, and at publishing and translation conferences in America and internationally. He is a member of the Rutgers University Press Advisory Council, a founding member of the Independent Publisher Caucus Steering Committee, and…
Miriam Rosin (geb. Behmer) verfügt über langjährige Erfahrung im Bereich Digital Content, E-Commerce und Business Development: Von 2007 bis 2014 sammelte sie Erfahrungen in Führungspositionen bei eBook.de (ehemals Libri.de Internet GmbH). Als Leitung Produktmanagement verantwortete die Diplom-Germanistin mehrere Jahre die Weiterentwicklung der Plattform sowie die Betreuung strategischer Hardware-Partner. In dieser Zeit war sie als Mitglied des Führungsteams unter anderem am Rebranding von Libri.de hin zu eBook.de beteiligt. Anschließend zeichnete Sie sich als alleinige Geschäftsführerin für das Start Up readfy verantwortlich und schloss hierfür einen Finanzierungsrunde in 7-stelliger Höhe ab. Seit 2017 verantwortet sie als COO von NetDoktor.de die Bereiche Redaktion, SEO, Produktmanagement, IT und Business Development. Ihren Schwerpunkt widmet sie derzeit der Fragestellung wie sich die User Journey auf NetDoktor.de erweitern lässt - mit der Zielsetzung…
Mads Rydahl is cofounder of UNSILO, a Danish startup building semantic discovery tools for science. UNSILO works with leading Scientific Publishers like Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Clarivate to enrich articles and manuscripts, provide decision support for the publication workflow, and improve discoverability across all scientific domains.
Sara Sargent is a Senior Executive Editor at Random House Books for Young Readers, where she publishes platform-driven fiction and nonfiction in the picture book, middle grade, and young adult categories. Previously she has held positions at HarperCollins Children’s Books, Simon Pulse (an imprint of Simon & Schuster), and Miramax Books. Sara has worked with #1 New York Times bestselling authors Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, as well as New York Times bestselling authors Laurie Hernandez, Abbi Glines, Ainsley Earhardt, Rosamund Hodge, StacyPlays, and Lisa Maxwell; internationally bestselling author Lily Collins; National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti; and social media influencers Laci Green and Arden Rose. Sara received her Master of Science in journalism from Northwestern University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Prof. Dr. Okke Schlüter ist seit 2008 Professor für Medienkonvergenz im Studiengang Mediapublishing an der Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart. Schwerpunkte in der Lehre sind neben der Medienkonvergenz auch Crossmediales Produktmanagement, Innovationsmanagement/Design Thinking und digitale Geschäftsmodelle. Im März 2017 erschien bei Schäffer Poeschel die mit Stefanie Quade konzipierte „DesignAgility - Toolbox Media Prototyping“. Auf das Studium der Theater-, Film und Fernsehwissenschaften, Slavistik und Betriebswirtschaftslehre in Mainz, Berlin und Moskau folgte die Promotion in Slavistik. Nach Stippvisiten bei BCG und McKinsey ab 1998 Trainee der Ernst Klett AG für Führungskräftenachwuchs, von 2000 bis 2008 Führungspositionen in Unternehmen der Klett-Gruppe. Außerhalb der HdM begleitet er seit 2012 die Innovationsinitiativen protoTYPE und seit 2016 CONTENTshift des Börsenvereins des deutschen Buchhandels als Experte. Referent auch für die Akademie der Deutschen Medien und die Donau-Universität Krems.
Henning Schoenenberger, Director Product Data and Metadata at Springer Nature, runs a global Data Development department, finding cutting-edge responses to key data questions in the research and library communities in areas such as semantic data, access and data analytics just to name a few. In search of the most state-of-the-art data formats, efficient content and data delivery tools and models, and optimized workflows in relationship with discovery services, Henning has been able to develop processes that meet the needs in the research and library landscape. Picture: Sven Serkis
Christian Schumacher-Gebler ist seit Januar 2014 Geschäftsführer/CEO der deutschen Bonnier Gruppe (u.a. Piper Verlag, Carlsen Verlag, Ullstein Buchverlage, Thienemann-Esslinger und arsEdition) und dort verantwortlich für die strategische Weiterentwicklung der Verlagsgruppe. Von 2007 bis 2012 war er Geschäftsführer der Ullstein Buchverlage in Berlin. Schumacher-Gebler ist Mitglied im Verlegerausschuss und engagiert sich zudem ehrenamtlich in der Federation of European Publishers (FEP) um die deutschen Interessen der Verlagsbranche auf Europäischer Ebene zu platzieren. Vor seinem Einstieg in die Buchbranche studierte Schumacher-Gebler Betriebswirtschaftslehre.
Klaus-Peter Stegen is an all-rounder with more than 30 years publishing experience in every sector of the industry and a competent advisor for every kind of process and service. He is Director of the Publishers' Forum (together with Rüdiger Wischenbart) and was Chief Operating Officer D-A-CH of Klopotek AG in 2015-16. Since the beginning of January 2017, he has been a partner and senior adviser of Newbooks Solutions in Cologne, as well as a business partner of Narses consulting company in Bad Vilbel. The experienced publishing expert was previously employed as a management and HR consultant by TGMC Management Consulting GmbH in Hamburg. He also assisted the Bibliographical Institute – part of the Franz Cornelsen Education Group – as a…
As Managing Director Books, Dr. Niels Peter Thomas is responsible for Springer Nature’s books portfolio, spanning more than 300,000 academic books across all subject areas, and 13,000 new books each year. He is also in charge of more than 600 editorial colleagues worldwide, coordinating the books business across Springer Nature’s renowned book imprints, such as Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, J.B. Metzler, and others. His main tasks also include further development of print and electronic books, innovative technical features, new business models and workflows. Building on his former position as Chief Book Strategist, he is responsible for defining Springer Nature’s global strategy to shape the future of book publishing and reading. In addition, Niels has been appointed Managing Director of Springer Campus…
Patrici Tixis is the director of corporate communications at Grupo Planeta, the largest Spanish and Latin America publishing and media group. Since 2011, he has been its institutional representative in publishing sector associations. He serves as a chair of the largest spanish guild (known as Gremi d’Editors de Catalunya), based in Barcelona, and whose member companies represent over half of Spain and Latin America publishing output. He is vice president of the management board of the Spanish Federation of Publishers Guilds (FGEE in its spanish acronym) and member elected of the executive commite at the IPA, the Internatonal Publishers Asociation. As well he serves as a chair of the catalan Chamber of Books, institution that represents and defends the interest…
Ludger Wicher hat Wirtschaftswissenschaften mit Schwerpunkt Finanzen an der Universität Witten/Herdecke studiert. 1994 startete er seine Laufbahn bei der Bertelsmann AG als Assistent des Konzernfinanzchefs. Dort war er anschließend im Bereich M&A für Projekte im Bereich Neue Medien und Fachinformationen zuständig. 1997 bis 2000 folgten Stationen als Beteiligungscontroller und Projektleiter Unternehmensentwicklung bei der RTL Group in Luxembourg, dann von 2000 bis 2007 kaufmännische Geschäftsführungpositionen im Bereich E-Commerce, bei der VIVA Fernsehen GmbH und bei einem Fachhandelsfilialisten. 2008 begann Ludger Wicher als kaufmännischer Geschäftsführer bei der hgv, war von 2013 bis 2015 Alleingeschäftsführer und ist seit Juli 2015 CEO/Sprecher der Geschäftsführung. Ludger Wicher engagiert sich ehrenamtlich im Branchenverband, Börsenverein des deutschen Buchhandels, und ist Mitglied im Haushaltsausschuß, im Fachausschuß für den…
Michaela Wied hat Medienmanagement studiert mit dem Abschluss der Diplom-Medienwirtin (FH). Im Anschluss daran hat sie einige Produktionsleitungsassistenzen bei verschiedenen Fernsehprogrammen gemacht. In Verlage kam sie 2008 mit einem Volontariat als Projektmanagement bei den MVS Medizinverlage Stuttgart (Thieme Verlagsgruppe). Sie blieb einige Jahre dort, um später die Vertriebsleitung Corporate Publishing bei MVS zu übernehmen. Ab 2013 war sie als Produktmanagerin Media Development print / digital bei der MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH. Sie war dort für die crossmediale Neu- und Weiterentwicklung des Börsenblatts und des Buchjournals verantwortlich. Seit 2016 war sie als Manager Business Development Publishing beim Springer Medizin Verlag in Heidelberg tätig. Sie war dort zuständig für die Facharzt-Zeitschriften und für SpringerMedizin.de.
Dr. Rüdiger Wischenbart, born in 1956 in Graz, Austria, is the founder of “Content and Consulting” (since 2003), and a writer specialized in culture, cultural industries, the global book markets, innovation in the book industry, literature, media, and communication. Most recently, he researched and (co-) authored several reports on global publishing markets, notably the “Global eBook” report, the “Global Publishing Markets” survey for the International Publishers Association”, (IPA), and the “Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry”, updated annually since 2007 (initiated by Livres Hebdo, France, and co-published by The Bookseller, UK, buchreport, Germany, PublishNews Brazil, and Publishers Weekly, US). Wischenbart co-authored the “Diversity Reports” 2010, 2009 and 2008 mapping translation markets and cultures across Europe. He serves as director for…
Alongside his advisory work for investors and industry players, David Worlock chairs Outsell’s Global Leadership Councils, a member-service for CEOs and senior executives of media publishing and information provider firms. David founded Electronic Publishing Services Ltd. (EPS) in 1985, a research and consultancy company working with the digital content industry in developing strategies for products and markets in consumer and business sectors. Outsell acquired EPS in 2006. David received his degree in History from the University of Cambridge.
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Newly confirmed speaker: Robyn Kerkhof
Robyn Kerkhof leads Selection, Publishing and Curation at Blinkist, an app that offers key ideas from nonfiction books in bitesize audio and text. Launched in 2013, the service has 10+ million users across 130+ countries. Robyn researches and selects the most insightful and illuminating nonfiction titles […]
Newly confirmed speaker: Katja Böhne
Katja Böhne is a political scientist, and has been responsible for Marketing & Communications at Frankfurter Buchmesse for ten years. She specializes in corporate communication, corporate branding and consumer brands. Prior to that, she worked for ten years at the international communications agency fischerAppelt for clients […]
Newly confirmed speaker: Philipp Neie
In his current position Philipp Neie has been managing Schweitzer Fachinformationen oHG, a leading Information Supplier and Service Company since 2005 as CEO. Prior to this he went through several different stages and territories internationally with the former Subscription Agent Swets und Zeitlinger B.V., starting his […]
Neu bestätigte Referentin: Zoë Beck
Zoë Beck gründete den Verlag Culturbooks 2013 zusammen mit Jan Karsten.
Zunächst erschien ein reines Digitalprogramm mit Schwerpunkt auf literarischen Texten. Seit 2015 werden regelmäßig auch Printtitel verlegt. Beck arbeitet außerdem als Übersetzerin und Autorin. Für ihre Romane wurde sie mehrfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem […]
Newly confirmed speaker: Niels Peter Thomas
As Managing Director Books, Dr. Niels Peter Thomas is responsible for Springer Nature’s books portfolio, spanning more than 300,000 academic books across all subject areas, and 13,000 new books each year. He is also in charge of more than 600 editorial colleagues worldwide, coordinating the books […]
KNV und die Folgen: Debatte auf dem Publishers‘ Forum
Erst die Marktstudie über 6 Millionen verlorene Buchkäufer. Nun der Konkurs und die drängende Investorensuche der größten Auslieferung der Buchbranche in Deutschland. Plus die Neu-Ausrichtung ganzer Programmschienen und, als Dauerbrenner, der Umbau der Verlagsorganisation, der so vieles stemmen soll: neue Zielgruppen gewinnen, Direct-to-Consumer-Prozesse implementieren, Format-übergreifendes Publizieren ermöglichen, die Effizienz steigern …
Programmplanung, Distribution, Konsumgewohnheiten: wie das […]
KNV and the Consequences: debate at the Publishers’ Forum
First, the market survey and the 6 million lost book-buyers. Now, Germany’s biggest book distributor is bankrupt and urgently searching for investors. Plus, the reorientation of entire program segments and – a perennial issue – the restructuring of publishing houses that is supposed to do so much heavy lifting: winning over new customers, implementing direct-to-consumer […]
Neu bestätigter Referent: Sven Fund
Studium der Politikwissenschaft, Geschichte und Publizistik in Münster, Berlin und St. Louis. 1996 Master of Arts der Washington University in St. Louis. 2000 Promotion in Politikwissenschaften. 2000 – 2003 Senior Consultant Corporate Development bei der Bertelsmann AG. 2003 – 2004 Leiter Point of Sale-Aktivitäten, Der Club […]
Newly confirmed speaker: Vivian Berghahn
Vivian Berghahn is Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director at Berghahn Books. In addition to overseeing the journals division at Berghahn, her responsibilities include advancing the company’s online initiatives and the strategic development of its overall publishing program. With nearly 20 years of experience […]
Drei Beispiele, warum das Publishers‘ Forum für Sie wichtig ist
Welche Triebkräfte haben die größte Wirkung in der jetzigen Transformation des Publishing: Neue Technologien? Oder neue Geschäftsmodelle? Oder doch vor allem Verschiebungen in den Vorlieben der Konsument*innen?
Hier drei Beispiele, wie das Publishers‘ Forum am 9. und 10. Mai in Berlin helfen kann, die hitzigen Diskussionen in […]
