Gregorio Pellegrino

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One format to rule them all!

Italian computer engineer, Gregorio Pellegrino has a strong knowledge in the digital publishing field, new media with particular attention to accessibility for visually impaired people. He is a consultant in these areas for publishing companies (especially regarding formats, international standards and authoring platforms). He is the technical manager of Fondazione LIA where he coordinates consulting and training activities for national and international organisations who want to change their production processes in order to embrace accessibility. He is involved in international working-group devoted to accessibility of publications and standard formats.

Grazia Gotti

A New Moral Attitude:
Reading is a problem of Education

Graduated in Pedagogy, in 1983 Grazia Gotti co-founded the Cooperativa Culturale Giannino

Stoppani and the indipendent children’s book store.

She collaborates with several publishers, scouting and curating bookseries.

Since 2003 she is a member of Accademia Drosselmeier, a Study Centre attended by teachers, educators, librarians, book sellers.

Pubblications:

A scuola con i libri. Avventure di una libraia-maestra, Rizzoli, 2013

Ne ho vedute tante da raccontar. Crescere con i libri, Giunti Editore, 2015

21 donne all’Assemblea, Bompiani, 2016

Giuseppe Ciancia

Giuseppe Ciancia born in Italy in 1987. In 2010 he attends lessons of screenplay writing for comics at Accademia delle Belle Arti in Genova. He deals with digital publishing since 2011, when he becomes editor of Verticalismi.it, the first italian webcomics & lab magazine.

Since 2015 he works as editor-in-chief for VERTICOMICS s.r.l., a digital comics distributor. In 2016 he also started working with VERTICOMICS as webmarketer and data analyist.

Eric Briys

Eric Briys is the co-founder of Cyberlibris, a French firm established in 2001. Cyberlibris is the pioneer of digital libraries predicated on streaming + subscription (more here: https://www.thebookseller.com/futurebook/part-1-ku-or-ko-streaming-subscription-and-big-data)

Cyberlibris clients include business schools (www.scholarvox.com), universities (http://univ.scholarvox.com, http://international.scholarvox.com), corporations (www.business-vox.com), public libraries (www.bibliovox.com). Cyberlibris partners with 900 + publishing houses.

Current topic of interest: How to use reading data and datavisualization to enhance content discoverability

Current favorite book: Gabriel Zaid, Los demasiados libros, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_demasiados_libros

Paweł Horbaczewski

Paweł Horbaczewski founded Arta Tech in 2009. As a president is responsible for leading the company’s product development and technology strategy. He also shares responsibility for the company’s day-to-day operations.

Paweł holds a master’s degree in Computer Systems and Networking from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

Under Paweł’s leadership, Arta Tech’s mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology in correlation with electronic paper (E Ink) to make it easier and more enjoyable for people to use e-reading devices such as e-book readers.

Carlos García-Romeral Pérez

Las bibliotecas son espacios de interacción social, científico-técnica  y potenciadores de la cultura en todos sus ámbitos

Phd in Literature, bibliographer, Head of the Public Library Department of the Regional Government of Madrid o, he has been director of the Miguel Hernández Public Library (Puente Vallecas) and of Orcasitas Public Library. He has implemented projects around the value of libraries as triggers for multicultural and multilingual integration. His work addresses the digital transformation of different aspects in the society from the perspective of the role of libraries in avoiding   onsiders that we live technological and cultural gaps.

Jim Bryant

Founder and CEO of Trajectory, Inc. Trajectory is an intelligent network connecting publishers to retailers, libraries and readers around the world. Trajectory is the first company to develop an algorithmic recommendation system for books and was awarded the BISG 2015 Innovation Award.

Founder and CEO of Information Please LLC. Developed the first comprehensive site on the internet designed to help students with their homework. www.infoplease.com is now owned by Pearson. (NSYE: PSO)
Founder and CEO of Pro CD, Inc. Originated the idea of publishing white and yellow page directories in electronic form. Pro CD was the first company to compile all of the telephone company published directories in the United States and Canada. Pro CD grew to become the largest CD-ROM reference publishing company in the world. Pro CD merged with Acxiom (Nasdaq: ACXM) in 1996. Acxiom integrates data, services and technology to create and deliver customer and information management solutions for companies worldwide.

Jiang Yanping

Ms. Jiang joined Openbook in 2000, and she currently works as the Director and General Manager of Openbook. Ms. Jiang is also the adjunct professor of the Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication; invited expert of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television for physical bookstore support fund project; the expert of publishing industry who has received certification authority from Beijing Municipal Government.Beijing OpenBookCo.,Ltd
Established in 1998, Openbook is a professional research and consulting company which focus on book industry. Openbook is also the founder of the monitoring system which contained the most comprehensive retail sales and metadata information of Chinese books. This system has been continuously tracking and monitoring the sales data of Chinese books since 1998 and it currently monitors sales data of Chinese books from more than 3,000 physical bookstores and 20 online bookstores, which covers more than 1,200 counties and cities in mainland China.

Jonas Tellander

Jonas Tellander is CEO and Founder (together with Jon Hauksson) of Storytel, started in 2005. Storytel is currently available in seven countries; Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Holland and Russia, and is planning to launch the service in at least three more countrys during 2017.

Fernando Piquer

Fernando Piquer is CEO at Movistar Riders, an innovative centre for e-sports based in Casa del Lector and linked with reading promotion projects for teenagers.
For more than 20 years, Fernando Piquer’s professional career has been linked to the Internet and digital entertainment. Before the creation of the Movistar Riders eSports club, he founded Bitoon Games, the first Spanish “free to play” games company. He previously was a founding partner of Zinkia, where he participated in the creation and exploitation of the animated series «Pocoyo» and was director of the video game area of this company for more than five years. Throughout his career, he has worked designing digital strategies and products for brands such as: Coca-Cola, BBVA, Vodafone or Endesa, among others.