Richard Charkin

Richard Charkin is a former president of the International Publishers Association and the United Kingdom’s Publishers Association. For 11 years, he was executive director of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. He has held many senior posts at Macmillan, Oxford University Press, Current Science Group, and Reed Elsevier. He is a member of the international advisory board of Frankfurter Buchmesse, and is a senior adviser to nkoda.com and Shimmr AI, a non-executive director of Liverpool University Press, and Cricket Properties Ltd., and has founded his own business, Mensch Publishing. He is the author, with Tom Campbell, of ‘My Back Pages; An Undeniably Personal History of Publishing 1972-2022, that will be published in Spanish later this year.

John Martin

John Martin is the former CEO of Sanoma Learning (HQ in Helsinki, Finland) and is currently Chairman of ILT Education (HQ in Stockholm, Sweden), Board Member of Infinitas Learning (HQ in Utrecht, The Netherlands) and an advisor and investor in various education and edtech companies across the continent.

He has broad experience in the market for learning solutions having led companies that serve some 15M students and 1.5M teachers across Europe and has extensive expertise in internationalisation and digital transformation. 

Prior to joining Sanoma, John worked in strategy consulting (ContentConnected) and in science publishing (Wolters Kluwer). He has a Ph.D. in bioinformatics.

Nick Coveney

Nick Coveney is Senior Key Account Manager for Digital Services at Ingram Content Group, with over fourteen years’ publishing industry experience, working previously in a variety of roles as an Editor and digital product specialist. Nick led digital product development at a range of major publishers including; Hachette UK, Bonnier Books, HarperCollins UK and Verso Books as well as working for many years as publisher relations and content lead at Rakuten Kobo.

Camilla Riccadonna

Camilla is a digital marketing consultant with a focus on the publishing industry and the Italian market. After a master’s degree in International Publishing at City University of London, Camilla worked for a number of independent publishers, before joining digital marketing agency The Tandem Collective, where she leads the implementation of international social media campaigns.

Paula Gallejones Fernández

Paula Gallejones Fernández, has been managing digital products since the beginning of her career; from airplane entertainment platforms, and Wi-Fi connection, to gaming and subscription marketplaces. Now, as Head of Product in Mondia Digital she manages the delivery of the end-to-end solutions of the subscription marketplace to telcos around the world. By doing this, users can subscribe via their telco companies to different products via a single point of access – bringing additional value than subscribing in isolation. Motto: if you believe is doable, go and prove it.

Stacy Scott

As a blind Mathematics graduate, I have both the lived experience and professional vantage point from which to understand the challenges faced by learners with a print-disability and I am forever committed to breaking down barriers and improving the availability of accessible education – and enhancing independent study – for all.

I have been professionally involved in the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) education sector, forming the basis for my career – beginning as a University advisor; and following a trajectory through a diverse and rewarding career.

In prior roles, I worked in Bangladesh, India and across several countries in Africa, on making education more inclusive, which saw my involvement in a vast array of diverse, illuminating and extremely meaningful and challenging projects.

I then headed the RNIB Bookshare Service in the UK; working with over 1,100 publishing partners, to bring their content onto the RNIB Bookshare platform, to be used by students with any print-disability, for free. The platform grew rapidly and currently provides over 760,000 free eBooks in a variety of accessible formats.

Moving closer to accessibility challenges in academia, I have just taken on the role as Accessibility Manager for Taylor & Francis, where I will aim to provide a clearer, more cohesive strategy on accessibility across the company, building on the wonderful, award-winning work T&F has already achieved.

I can often be found in the ‘accessibility community’ speaking at events or hosting/attending panels. I also chair the Accessibility Action Group for the Publishers Association. A group which brings publishers, vendors, stakeholders and end users together, to break down barriers to accessing any, and all, published materials. Something that still remains my raison d’etre!

Nicolás Parola

Nicolás  Parola is an expert in educational innovation. For over a decade, Nicolás held leadership roles in innovative education across various government sectors in Argentina and Buenos Aires.
Currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer at publica.la for the past two years, he combines his expertise in education and passion for innovation to drive operational excellence. Nicolás is dedicated to transforming the publishing market through strategic vision and leadership, making a positive impact on the industry.

Laura Clavero

Degree in Political Science from the UAB and a Master’s degree in Sales and Marketing from ESADE in Barcelona.

More than 25 years of experience in printing business working in Canon with different responsibilities, involved in several stages of the business processes, marketing, purchasing, logistics and business development. First in Canon Imaging Supplies, delivering a wide range of media for all print applications, and from 2022 as Category Head of Commercial Printing too, implementing solutions that produces a wide range of printed materials, including books, direct mail marketing materials, posters, catalogs, magazines, transactional statements, very focused on the print-on-demand world.

Emmanuel Paul

Graduated from emlyon Executive MBA, Emmanuel Paul has dedicated his career to the International Development and Management of Innovative companies, both multinational groups and startups. He successfully managed the African and Middle Eastern growth of a Mobile Money startup. He is now exploring the Spanish EdTech field for Mobidys, an Inclusive yet Innovative French Publisher that is currently scaling up its ambitious goal of empowering all children to read.

Carlota del Amo

Since 2013 is Director of Corporate Communication at Penguin Random House Group Spain. Since 2016 left the communication of books and authors to focus on the group’s corporate communication tasks focused on external communication, the brand or institutional relations. In 2022 added internal communication and corporate social responsibility of the group to her duties. She graduated in Information Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid and in Executive Program in Corporate Communication and Management at IE Business School. She started her career in journalism making local and cultural journalism compatible in 1994 and in 1999 began working in the press department of Plaza & Janés. Since then, and after the merger that created Random House Mondadori in 2001, coordinated and directed the press departments of different labels and divisions of the group such as Random House Literature, Debate or Lumen, among others.