Curated professional programme

14:00 — 15:00

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Meet the editors- Inside the acquisitions process in the UK

Live EN

Speaker: Federico Andornino, ‎Editorial Director

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

and 4 more speakers

16:00 — 17:00

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Meet the Editors: An Hour with US Editors

Live EN

Speaker: Juan Milà, Executive Editor

HarperVia

and 9 more speakers

18:00 — 19:00

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20-20 Vision: Selling Political and Social Justice Books in the U.S - An event by Books Across Borders (formerly Bookselling Without Borders)

Live EN

Speaker: Cristina Rodriguez, General Manager and head buyer

Deep Vellum Books

and 5 more speakers

10:30 — 11:30

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The Arab World: There is a lot to discover. Fiction from the Arab World and how to get a better overview – with news from Publishing from Beirut

Live EN

Speaker: Abier Megahed , Head of the library of the Goethe-Institut Cairo

and 10 more speakers

14:00 — 15:00

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European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF): Towards a greener book sector

Live EN

Speaker: Neil Springall , Head of Operations

Penguin Random House UK

and 4 more speakers

14:00 — 15:00

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Digitalevents! Denn Sie wissen nicht, was Sie tun ...

Live DE

Speaker: Steffen Meier, Herausgeber

DIGITAL PUBLISHING REPORT

and 4 more speakers

18:00 — 19:00

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Publishing Perspectives Talk: Digital Format Adoption and the Pandemic

Live EN

Speaker: Michael Tamblyn, President and Chief Executive Officer

Rakuten Kobo

and 4 more speakers

10:00 — 11:00

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IPA & FBM: Improving Diversity in Publishing: Who Can Lead the Change Process?

Live EN

Speaker: Sharmaine Lovegrove , Publisher

Dialogue Books

and 4 more speakers

11:00 — 11:45

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THE ARTS+: Little Stories, Big Economics: Taiwanese Stories Growing into All Forms (presented by TAICCA)

Live EN

Speaker: C. F. Hu, President of Taiwan Creative Content Agency

and 3 more speakers

12:00 — 13:00

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Publishing Services & Retail: Gestärkt aus der Krise

Live DE

Speaker: Theresa Bolkart, Senior Consultant / Dozentin für Marketing und Produktentwicklung

Publisher Consultants

and 3 more speakers

17:00 — 18:00

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THE ARTS+: How New Technologies Can Drive Narratives and Communities Forward (Presented by Telefilm Canada)

Live EN

Speaker: Pietro Gagliano

and 4 more speakers

18:30 — 19:30

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THE ARTS+: CONTENTshift Accelerator Finals and Awards 2020

Live EN

Speaker: Felix Rolf, Co-Founder und CEO

artificial connect

and 6 more speakers

11:00 — 12:00

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WIPO and Frankfurter Buchmesse present: An international outlook on publishing, creative content and IP

Live EN

Speaker: Daren Tang, Director General

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

and 5 more speakers

13:30 — 15:00

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THE ARTS+: Meet The Makers: The New Business of Storytelling (Presented by SODEC)

Live EN

Speaker: Stephanie Riggs

and 4 more speakers

18:00 — 19:00

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Publishing Perspectives Talks: Academic Publishing Leaders

Live EN

Speaker: Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing and Solutions Officer

Springer Nature

and 3 more speakers

10:00 — 11:00

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Have a Look at Spain

Live EN

Speaker: María José Gálvez , Direktorin Books and Reading Promotion

Spanish Ministry for Culture and Sports

and 3 more speakers

13:30 — 14:30

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IPA Prix Voltaire 2020: Guerilla Publishing and International Support

Live EN

Speaker: Kristenn Einarsson, Chair of the IPA’s Freedom to Publish Committee

and 3 more speakers

18:00 — 19:00

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Publishing Perspectives Talk: Promoting a Nation's Literature Worldwide

Live EN

Speaker: Fernanda Dantas, Manager

Brazilian Publishers

and 3 more speakers

10:00 — 11:00

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THE ARTS+: Creativity Matters!

Live EN

Speaker: Andreas Spechtler, CEO Silicon Castles

and 5 more speakers

12:00 — 13:00

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THE ARTS+: Sharing Is Caring? Digital Dilemmas for the Cultural Sector (Presented in cooperation with MUNCH)

Live EN

Speaker: Stein Olav Henrichsen, Director

MUNCH

and 5 more speakers

13:30 — 14:30

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The Future of Sustainable Publishing

Live EN

Speaker: Anke Oxenfarth, Head of Sustainability Department

oekom verlag

and 5 more speakers

15:00 — 16:30

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Scholarly Kitchen at Frankfurter Buchmesse

Live EN

Speaker: Siân Harris, Communications Specialist

INASP

and 4 more speakers

17:00 — 18:00

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Where Publishing and the Pandemic Meet – The Future of Science and the Path to Digital Transformation Starts with Researchers

Live EN

Speaker: Jennifer Goodrich, Director Product Management and Publisher Solutions

CCC

and 5 more speakers

18:30 — 19:30

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Reaching New Readers: How to Expand Your Audience to New Markets

Live EN

Speaker: Maria B. Campbell, President

Maria B. Campbell Associates, Inc. / Maria B. Campbell Associates UK Ltd.

and 3 more speakers

11:30 — 12:30

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Socially critical and environmentally aware - the "New Sobriety" Generation

Live EN

Speaker: Cornelia Funke

and 10 more speakers

15:30 — 16:30

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THE ARTS+: Meet The Makers: Brands, Characters, and New Stories

Live EN

Speaker: Keita Hasegawa, Editor/Brand marketing division

POPLAR publishing, Japan.

and 2 more speakers

18:00 — 19:00

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We are in this together: Women and publishing in Africa

Live EN

Speaker: Anwuli Ojogwu, Editor and Co- Founder

Narrative Landscape Press

and 4 more speakers

10:00 — 11:00

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Imagination-Creativitiy-Resilience: South East Asia’s Creative Industries

Live EN

Speaker: Ayu Utami, Writer

and 5 more speakers

13:00 — 14:00

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IBBY’s Engagement with children

Live EN

Speaker: Jacqueline Woodson, Author

and 6 more speakers

15:00 — 17:00

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Charleston Library Conference Meets Frankfurter Buchmesse

Live EN

Speaker: Jill Heinze, Senior Product Researcher

WillowTree

and 10 more speakers

18:00 — 19:00

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THE ARTS+: Maja Lunde and Annette Ore in Fireside Chat on Adaptation

Live EN

Speaker: Maja Lunde, Bestselling Author and Screenwriter

Norway

and 2 more speakers

10:00 — 11:00

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THE ARTS+: Masterclass: Books Beyond their Covers: Adaptation and the Role of the Book in the 21st-century Media Industries

Live EN

Speaker: Simone Murray

11:30 — 12:30

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FEP & IPA & FBM: European Accessibility Act (EAA): A Chance for Publishing

Live EN

Speaker: Luc Audrain, Expert on e-book accessibility

and 9 more speakers

14:00 — 14:30

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THE ARTS+: A Conversation on Book-to-Film Adaptations

Live EN

Speaker: Camilla Gibb, Author

and 2 more speakers

15:00 — 16:00

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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS YOUR NONFICTION - How Small Publishers of Serious Nonfiction Are Coping in these Difficult Times. A Virtual Discussion and Networking Event

Live EN

Speaker: Colleen Higgs, Founder and publisher

Modjaji Books, South Africa

and 4 more speakers

11:00 — 12:00

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THE ARTS+ x Digital Cross Over: Driving Discoverability through Metadata: Panel

Live EN

Speaker: Luc Moser, Head of Label & New Business

EuroArts Music

and 5 more speakers

16:00 — 17:00

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Have a look at Canada

Live EN

Speaker: Semareh Al-Hillal, President

House of Anansi Press & Groundwood Books

and 4 more speakers

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Meet our #fbm20 speakers!

Pietro Gagliano

Randall Okita

Catherine Mathys

Dr. Julie Nagam

Cindy Au Yeung

Carsten Fink

Chief Economist

Stephanie Riggs

Holger Volland

Vice President Sales & Business Development

Frankfurter Buchmesse

Juergen Boos

Chief Publishing and Solutions Officer

Frankfurter Buchmesse

Félix Lajeunesse

Steven Inchcoombe

Springer Nature

Porter Anderson

Editor-in-Chief

Publishing Perspectives

Jay Flynn

Chief Product Officer of Research, oversees Wiley’s portfolio of research products ranging from journals to digital platforms

Wiley

C. F. Hu

President of Taiwan Creative Content Agency

Beatrice Stauffer

Key Account Manger Frankfurter Buchmesse

Gray Tan

The Grayhawk Agency

Feng-en Tu

Moderator

Felix Rolf

Co-Founder und CEO

artificial connect

Carsten Borchert

CEO

SciFlow

Pascal Heußner

Product designer

PlusPlural

Tony Franzky

CTO

Scriptbakery AI

Frederic Geiger

Questlog

Christina Oskui

General Director of Books and Reading Promotion

PlusPlural

Patrick Kaiser

COO

Scriptbakery AI

María José Gálvez

Spanish Ministry for Culture and Sports

Miguel Barrero Maján

Federation of Publishers Business Union of Spain

Marifé Boix García

Vice-President Business Development Southern Europe and Latin America

Frankfurter Buchmesse GmbH

Pham Doan Trang

former spokesperson for Liberal Publishing House

IPA

Kristenn Einarsson

Chair of the IPA’s Freedom to Publish Committee

Will Nguyen,

campaigner

James Taylor

Director Communications and Freedom to Publish

IPA

Gallimard Fall 2020 Rights List: A Selection

Judith Rosenzweig

Rights Director

Editions Gallimard

Fernanda Dantas

Manager

Brazilian Publishers

Tiia Strandén

Finnish Literature Exchange, FILI

Ricardo Franco Levi

Associazione Italiana degli Editori (AIE)

Seda Röder

Founder & Director Sonophilia Foundation

Matthias Röder

CEO Karajan Institut

Andy Zmolek

Founder of Phracta

Holger Seier

Head of Innovation Marketing Evonik

Stein Olav Henrichsen

Director of Content Strategy

MUNCH

Maryam Jafri

Visual Artist

Leah Dickerman

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Hrag Vartanian

Editor-in-Chief and Co-founder

Hyperallergic

Nikita Mathias

Senior Concept Developer

MUNCH

Manos Kapterian

Senior Vice President of International Operations

Pearson

Lisa Faratro

Customer Service Director & Director of Environment and Sustainability

CPI Group

Berry Wiersum

CEO

Sappi Europe S.A.

Tim Vines

Consultant

Origin Editorial

Siân Harris

Communications Specialist

INASP

Todd A. Carpenter

Executive Director

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Professor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jennifer Goodrich

Director Product Management and Publisher Solutions

CCC

Rachel Burley

Director Product Management

Research Square

Tony Alves

Aries Systems Corporation

Tatiana Khayrullina

Director, Lead Analyst, Scientific and Technical Solutions

Outsell, Inc.

Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire

Author, activist and academic

Centre for African Cultural Excellence

Cornelia Funke

Author

Susanne Baumann

Leitung Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Arena Verlag

Katja Brandis

Autorin

Carla

Lesefan

Maja Löwedey

Projektmanagement & Kommunikation

Bracenet

Karin Plötz

Michael Wrobel

Managing Director

Westermann Druck Zwickau

Jabez Makanda

Profifußballer

Eintracht Frankfurt

Ingo Strube

Referent Nachhaltiger Konsum, Produktbezogener Umweltschutz

Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit

Mirai Mens

Keita Hasegawa

Editor/Brand marketing division

POPLAR publishing, Japan.

Manjula Padmanabhan

Award-winning playwright and novelist

Thorsten Unger

CEO of Unger & Fiedler, Germany

Luc Moser

Head of Label & New Business

EuroArts Music

Lorena Mazuré Loos

Project Manager

International Music + Media Centre, Austria

Dirk Hofmann

CEO, Co-Founder

DAIN Studios Germany

Ronald Schild

CEO

MVB

Isabelle Reusa

UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance

Video Museum, France

Louise Flaherty

Publisher, Co-founder

Inhabit Media

Simon de Jocas

President and Owner

Éditions Les 400 coups

Neil Christopher

Publisher, Co-founder

Inhabit Media

Mark Carney

Rebecca Wearmouth

International Rights Director

Peters Fraser + Dunlop

Ayu Utami

Writer

Sonny Liew

Illustrator

Linda Tan Lingard

Publisher

Integra Creative Media Sdn Bhd

Karina Bolasco

Ateneo UP, Philippines

Trasvin Jittidecharak

Market Insights Indonesia

Silkworm Books

Laura Prinsloo, Chair of the 17,000 Pulau Imaji Foundation

Laura Bangun Prinsloo

Chair

17,000 Pulau Imaji Foundation

Jacqueline Woodson

Author

Liz Page

Executive Director

IBBY

Patricia Aldana

Hans-Christian-Anderson Award

IBBY Foundation

Sherri Aldis

Chief of Publications

United Nations

Rachel Martin

Junko Yokota

Jury Director

Jill Heinze

Senior Product Researcher

WillowTree

Leah Hinds

Executive Director

Charleston Library Conference

Charles Watkinson

University of Michigan Press

Peter Brantley

Director of Online Strategy

UC Davis Library

James J. O'Donnell

University Librarian

ASU Library

Ivy Anderson

Associate Executive Director and Director of Collections

California Digital Library

Carlo Scollo Lavizzari

Lawyer

Roy Kaufman

Managing Director of Business Development and Government Relations

Maja Lunde

Bestselling Author and Screenwriter

Norway

Cornelia Boysen

Producer

Annette Orre

Literary Agent

Oslo Literary Agency, Norway

Simone Murray

Luc Audrain

Expert on e-book accessibility

Cristina Mussinelli

Secretary General

LIA Foundation

Anne Bergman-Tahon

Federation of European Publishers

Paolo Casarini

Software project leader, architect and developer

Wendy Reid

Accessibility and Publishing Standards Lead

Rakuten Kobo

Monica Halil Lövblad

Head of Accessible Books Consortium

Accessible Books Consortium (ABC)

Inmaculada Placienca-Porrer

Senior Expert Social Affairs at Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

European Commission

Peter Kraus vom Cleff

Federation of European Publishers

Thomas Kahlisch

Prof. Dr.

University of Leipzig

Camilla Gibb

Author

Zeresenay Berhane Mehari

Producer & Director

Haile - Addis Pictures

Cameron Bailey

Co-Head & Artistic Director

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)

Colleen Higgs

Hernán López Winne

Paula Bradish

Rights manager (moderator)

Hamburger Edition

Veruschka Selbach

Managing Director

Pluto Books

Michael Healy

Executive Director, International Relations

Tracey Armstrong

President and CEO, CCC & 2nd Vice President IFFRO

Anwuli Ojogwu

Editor and Co- Founder

Narrative Landscape Press

Zukiswa Wanner

Writer, Editor and Publisher

Olivia Snajie

Journalist and editor

Publishing Perspectives

James Murua

Karam Youssef

Al Kotob Khan

Semareh Al-Hillal