Julia Pavlichenko Software development manager with 15 years of experience, 7 years in ebook digital development. Combine a unique combination of hands-on technical skills, agile project management and people management skills.
CMO of PocketBook SA, responsible for sales and marketing at Pocketbook ,SA since 2011 . 17 years of team-management experience in marketing and sales of consumer electronic goods. Experience in building up а business from «scratch», 6 years in international trade of e-readers hardware and b2b solutions for E book commerce. MBA Degree of IBR ( Steiben, Berlin), Associate of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK).
Tom Bonnick is Nosy Crow’s Business Development Manager and Commissioning Editor. He works on all of the company’s digital publishing, including its highly-acclaimed programme of apps and the innovative Stories Aloud project, and also commissions fiction for the Nosy Crow list. In 2015, he was named Young Independent Publisher of the Year at the IPG Independent Publishing Awards and one of The Bookseller’s Rising Stars, and in 2016 was named a Digital Book World Fellow.
I am an Executive in the Development Services Industry, specialized in Video Games development and live services. My ambition is and always has been to make a difference and have fun. I like to build data driven organizations, where innovation, operational excellence and cost efficiency are just right for whatever company or project I am working on. I enjoy change and actively seek it in at work and at home.
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 co-founded ReBoot Books, a series of professional debates on the international book business (www.rebootbooks.org ), and the Digital Consumer Book Barometer, a market report series with a focus on ebooks, audiobooks, online sales and subscription. (www.global-ebook.com ) Since 2007, he annually updates the Global 50 Ranking of the Publishing Industry (www.wischenbart.com/ranking), co-authors the Diversity Report series n literary translation in Europe (since 2008, www.culturaltransfers.org ), and he coordinates SIDT, a collaborative project for innovation trainings under a Creative Europe grant. (www.sidt-books.eu )
A former Head of Communications at the Frankfurt Book Fair and Director of International Affairs at BookExpo America, Wischenbart authored several books on migration and modernization in Central and South East Europe, notably “Canettis Angst” (1994).
Graduated in Business Administration from ESADE, where she also obtained an MBA, Larrauri completed her training in Arizona, at Thunderbird School, where she obtained a Master in International Management.
Larrauri has been working in the book industry for nineteen years. In 2010 she joined Libranda as Managing Director, the leading international distributor of digital books in the Spanish language. Since the integration of Libranda in the Canadian digital services company, De Marque Group, she is also playing the role of Europe and LATAM market manager at De Marque. Previously, she worked in the commercial area of the publishing group Random House Mondadori (currently Penguin Random House) and in Círculo de Lectores, occupying various positions in the central offices that the book club had in Spain and Portugal.
At Libranda and at De Marque, Larrauri and the team work with publishers, stores, libraries and other agents with the aim of developing digital services for the book industry. She believes that it is an opportunity and a great challenge to participate in the evolution of a sector.
Laura Nevanlinna is the Publisher, CEO and Founder of Kaiken Publishing Ltd., an affiliate of Rovio Animation Company. Kaiken is a Creative Publishing & Content Agency handling all of Rovio’s global book and magazine publishing activities regardless of platform. Previously the Head of Publishing at Rovio Entertainment, Ms. Nevanlinna has worked in educational and trade publishing as well as transmedia&digital for children and teens for over 15 years. She is especially interested in utilising transmedia possibilities in sharing story worlds with fans of brands and Intellectual properties.
A company tagline: Kaiken Publishing Ltd is an affiliate of Rovio Animation Company and the go-to-partner for IP owners wishing to expand into publishing and transmedia.
Jukka Planman is the CEO of Tunnel Ground Inc, creator of Void of Heroes comics and mobile games. Jukka is particularly interested in the UA (User Acquisition) paradox in the gaming industry and how comics have helped Tunnel Ground on this matter.
Managing Director of FANDE www.fande.es and the International Publishing Distribution Association (IPDA) www.ipdaweb.org
Graduate in Economics by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Master in Foreign Trade by CEOE and Postgraduate Course in Market Research at the Autonomous University of Madrid (1995).
Since 1997, performs the work of Managing Director of the Federation of National Associations of Distributors (FANDE), umbrella organization in Spain for about 200 companies engaged in the distribution of books, magazines, newspapers and digital contents.
Participation as speaker at various conferences and seminars on the field of books and print media trade: Congreso Interamericano de Editores, Congreso Iberoamericano de Libreros, Foro Internacional de Edición FIL Guadalajara, Frankfurt Supply Chain Specialist Meeting, Distripress Congress, Editech Milano, Russian Press Distribution Association Congress, Congreso Nacional de Libreros de España, Jornadas LIBER…
Is the coordinator, under the IPDA umbrella, of the European Press Distribution Round Table, The International Meeting of Booksellers and Distributors at the Frankfurt Book Fair and the International Digital Distributors Group
As a writer, articles and interviews published in Spanish and foreign publications related to the distribution of publishing products. Articles published in The Booksellers, Publishing Perspectives, El País, Delibros, Distripress Gazette, Intermedios Comunicación, Trama y Texturas…
Andrew is the founder of Jellybooks, a London based publishing technology company established in 2011. Jellybooks provides audience insights, reading applications, and workflow automation tools to publishers and booksellers. The company also distributes ebooks and audiobooks to schools and young readers. Its clients include many of the leading trade and academic publishers and book retailers in the UK, US, Germany, and Spain.
Andrew is an alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Innsbruck. He considers himself to be a European, having been born in Denmark, grown up in Austria, studied in Austria, Italy and the US, worked in the Netherlands, and now living in London.
