José Manuel Anta

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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 Rhomberg

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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.

Viviana Zocco

«The most complete Book Ecosystem in Latin America and some of its most successful businesses»

Viviana Zocco is an argentine businesswoman with over 20 years of entrepreneurial, strategic and operational experience with start-ups and global corporate entities.  In 1992 she founded her first company, Risk Analysis S.A., one of the first local rating agencies in Argentina that was later acquired by Standard & Poor’s and became a case study for Babson College.

A steady trendspotter, Viviana is Founder and CEO of TKM, the leading Spanish Millennial entertainment platform, as well as of a Spanish E-Book Ecosystem consisting of various products such as: BajaLibros, Leamos, BIDI.la, Indielibros, GrandesLibros and Dual Language, among others.

Luis González

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Luis González Martín is Managing Director of GSR Foundation (Spain), recognised as the most influential independent organisation devoted to reading and books in Spanish language countries. Among different initiatives, Luis González launched 2023 PARIX, the school for the Spanish book industry. During previous years he also designed and managed internet projects such as Lecturalab, Lectyo, Renodo, Lectylab or Canal Lector and investigations such as Territorio eBook, LCFL or Lemétrika and founded Readmagine, an international event on innovation in the publishing industry and an experimental program for the creative industries (videogaming and coding school), and worked in the design of the International Centre for R&D of reading (Madrid).

Before his current work at FGSR (since 2004) his career includes previous positions, as senior civil servant, at different Ministries from 1992 to 2004 as Deputy Director General at Ministries of Home Office, Industry and Research and, finally, Ministry of Culture (1999 – 2004) was Deputy Director General for the Promotion of Publishing, Reading and Spanish Literature where created the National Plan for the Promotion of Reading 2001-2004.

He holds a Bachelor in Law (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Master in Fiscal Law and HR Law consulting (UAM) and his further training includes Senior Civil Servants Selective Course (INAP), Senior Civil Servants Course at Civil Service College (London), Directives Program (INAP) and Global Society Seminar (Harvard U.) among others. He is 3rd Vice-president of the Spanish Association of Foundations. He is also a member of the Culture Council of the City of Madrid by unanimous decision of all the political parties.

Jason Mander

Director of Research and Insight at GlobalWebIndex

Jason oversees GWI’s global research study across 34 markets and authors the company’s flagship reports on social networking, mobiles and media consumption. He also blogs for titles like the Huffington Post and MediaPost and is a frequent contributor to stories on media outlets such as BBC News, CNN, the Guardian and Bloomberg.

Prior to this, Jason was Head of Insight at Future Foundation; during his time there, he launched the company’s US service, oversaw its Beyond 2020 innovation series and served as an Account Director for a number of global brands.

Jason first began working with trends as a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Building on a PhD in the Social Sciences, he published a book through Cambridge University Press and presented at a number of international conferences.