

Simon Bell is Head of Strategic Partnerships and Licensing at the British Library. Simon is charged with establishing strategic partnerships with both commercial and non commercial organisations in order to increase access to the collection through digitisation. He ha…more ›

MB Christie is Head of Product Management for FT.com. She assumed this position in January 2007. Christie manages the online product team that handles all of the Financial Times’ digital media; including the core FT.com website, interactive markets data features, blog…more ›

Jonathan Glasspool is Managing Director of Bloomsbury Academic and Professional and Deputy Managing Director of A & C Black Ltd. He was formerly Product Director in Bloomsbury's Electronic Media Division. Previous jobs include Publisher with Reed Elsevier in Sin…more ›

Rochelle Grayson is the CEO of BookRiff, a revolutionary publishing technology company that allows consumers to mix content from virtually any source, while ensuring that content owners and contributors get paid. Rochelle is equally comfortable discussing digital media

Paul Gathercole is Vice President of Digital Tools at Universal Music Group International. He has been at Universal 7 years, where he has specialised in the major issues of tackling piracy and embracing new technology. His previous position was Director of Technology an…more ›

Richard is Group Executive Director of Communication & Innovation at ABC. Richard is a very well known personality in the digital media industry who is respected for his experience and informed opinion. He facilitates innovation and communication at ABC in line wi…more ›

Benedict reports on mobile content, digital media and electronic publishing. He has worked in strategy and business development for NBC Universal, Channel 4 and Orange, and previously worked as a sell-side equity research analyst covering European telecoms companies for…more ›

Kenneth “KC” Estenson is senior vice president and general manager of CNN.com, responsible for all aspects of CNN.com’s business endeavors. A strategic, energetic leader with a track record of success in the development and distribution of digital businesses and content…more ›

Mark Edwards is a writer who, along with his co-author Louise Voss, was the first fully independent UK writer to have a No.1 bestseller on Amazon after self-publishing two thrillers for the Kindle: Catch Your Death and Killing Cupid. Mark and Louise sold 90,000 ebooks …more ›

Duncan Edwards is the President and CEO of Hearst Magazines International, an EVP of Hearst Magazines and Vice Chairman of the National Magazine Company (NatMag), Hearst’s publishing business in the U.K. He is also a Director of The Hearst Corporation. Edwards is resp…more ›

Production Director of The Sunday Times. Simon has worked in the newspaper and magazine industry since the 1980s starting life publishing with a Mac Plus and an Apple LaserWriter. He has moved from a magazine and newspaper sub-editor to implementing editorial systems …more ›

Dominic specialises in helping businesses understand and implement the changes which digitisation brings. Through his networked consultancy The Sound Horizon, he advises C-Level executives and operational management in global brands and startups. The Sound Horizon has…more ›

Gerd is considered a leading expert on topics such as online commerce models, the tele-media economy, social media and social commerce, TV & Radio 2.0, mobile content, innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship, consumer trends, UGC and peer production, copyright, …more ›

Doug has helped with marketing, product development and cost reduction projects across all divisions at Wolters Kluwer, where he is a Vice President in the Corporate Strategy group. In late 2010, he helped the Corporate Strategy group create a Mobility Center of Excelle…more ›

Roman Karachinsky is the CEO and co-founder of News360, a leading personalized news app that aggregates and ranks online news content and sources. News360 is a tool that allows users to discover the freshest, most important and relevant news of the day, individually tai…more ›

ALISON JONES has experienced the publishing industry from several different perspectives over the last 20 years, as student, author, bookseller and publisher. She worked with Waterstone's, Chambers Harrap, Reader's Digest and Oxford University Press before joini…more ›

Mark Johnson is CEO of Zite, the personalized iPad magazine app recently acquired by CNN. Mark was an advisor to Zite for almost two years prior to taking the CEO role and was instrumental in the pivot from Worio to Zite. He brings a strong product and technology backgr…more ›

Andy is recognised globally as a pioneer in developing rich digital experiences for brands. He founded and continues to lead the Creative Research & Development team at AKQA. It specializes in using rich interface development technologies across the full spectrum of…more ›

Justo Hidalgo is co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer of 24symbols, a service that offers readers the ability to read and share digital books in the cloud, working in any reading device with internet connection and that gives users access to an internationa…more ›

David Hicks is the Digital Art Director for Tablets at Future Publishing, in the UK. He successfully launched T3 magazine's iPad Edition which went on to become the UK's best-selling iPad magazine, appeared in the top ten highest-grossing apps for the App Store

Daniel Heaf was made EVP & Managing Director, Consumer Digital in March 2012, after two years as BBC Worldwide’s Digital Director. He oversees all BBC Worldwide’s global consumer-facing digital businesses and is responsible for driving a unified global digital strat…more ›

Oscar Grut is managing director, Digital Editions of The Economist. He is also Group general counsel and company secretary. The Economist Group is the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs. Through its brands (The Economist, EuroFinance…more ›

I work at Dennis Publishing. I used to be a technology journalist, joining the company in summer 2003 as a Staff Writer to help launch Custom PC, a PC hardware magazine covering performance hardware, modding and games, and aiming to be the very best at what it did. I wa…more ›

Walter joined CODEMANTRA in 2008 and took over responsibilities for the company’s Publishing Services Division. He brings to the company his broad experience as senior Business Development/Marketing Executive with knowledge and expertise in the application of automated…more ›

Ammy Vogtlander currently serves as Vice President of Web Strategy and Business Development responsible for identifying opportunities related to new Web concepts and technologies which influence scientific publishing. As part of her role, Ammy sets strategic direction f…more ›

Alison has over 20 years’ research and consulting experience and leads much of Futuresource Consulting’s analysis in the video, games, books and music sectors. Alison joined Futuresource Consulting in 1998 and heads up the Entertainment Content division, working closel…more ›

Before joining Wolters Kluwer in this role, Mr. Sadler was a Partner at Accenture's Strategy and Business Architecture Practice working in the United States and Latin America. Prior to that, he was a Principal at Booz, Allen & Hamilton where he led engagements …more ›

As CEO of Printechnologics, today’s leading technology developer for printed functionalities, Sascha Voigt is responsible for the company’s strategic direction and business development, in addition to overseeing the sales, marketing and finance teams. Voigt cofounded Pr…more ›

As the Chief Technology officer at Elastic Path Software, Sal Visca is responsible for developing the company’s long-term technology strategies, defining a process to bring new enterprise ecommerce solutions to market, and spearheading the development of the Elastic Pat…more ›
The 2nd annual World E-Reading Congress 2012 is dedicated to the growing commercial segment of the publishing industry; digital content. With a speaker faculty unrivalled in its expertise, you will learn from the digital pioneers, innovators and industry power houses, network with C-Level peers and maximize your profit making potential.
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