The conference is held in English and is intended for rights and licence managers, literary agents and others from publishing companies and agencies that have an interest in international publishing activities.

The attendance fee for registration is 180 euros and must be paid on the day of the seminar by credit card or in cash.

David Roth-Ey

David Roth-Ey on: Books Unbound: Digital Content in a Shifting Digital Landscape

The Director of Digital Business Development oversees the digital publishing program at HarperCollins UK, including ebooks and audio. He came to HarperCollins UK in 2007 from its US sister company in New York, where he was the editor-in-chief of Harper Perennial and Harper paperbacks from 2004.

Duncan Campell

Duncan Campbell on: All that is Solid Melts into Air: Licensing Academic & STM Content in the Digital Marketplace

He is Associate Director, Digital Licensing, at Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, where he is responsible for managing Wiley-Blackwell’s aggregator, document delivery and abstracting & indexing relationships.

Madeline Mcintosh

Madeline McIntosh on: Amazon Digital Rights and e-book Distribution: A brief overview of the major developments in e-book publishing including Amazon’s Kindle and their other cooperative license programs for publishers

Ms McIntosh is Amazon’s Director of Digital Content Acquisition for Europe and is based in Luxembourg. She works with publishers throughout Europe to make their content available via Amazon’s Kindle.

Tom Turvey

Tom Turvey on: The Google Book Search Program in relation to the new Google Partner Program, other e-book channels and economic models

Mr. Turvey is Director, Strategic Partnerships, in the Search Services group at Google in support of Google Book Search, Google Scholar, Google News Archive Search, Google Magazines, and other print-based content-related products.

Annette Beetz

Annette Beetz on: Content for Mobile Phones: What content is most suitable and has best license sales potential for the mobile phones?

Ms. Beetz has worked as Director for International Sales, Foreign Rights and Corporate Sales at Graefe und Unzer Verlag GmbH. since October 2000. In March 2009 she was appointed Managing Director of the Marketing and Sales department at Graefe und Unzer Verlag GmbH.

Dr. Thomas Seng

Dr. Thomas Seng on: Digital Games and Branded Lines: What content can make the transition to games and digital products?

Dr. Seng is the manager and acting partner of the publishing house Tessloff GmbH based in Nürnberg, Germany. The publishing company is well known for its series identified as “Play, Learn, and Knowledge” as well as supplementary materials for elementary school years.

ZHOU Hongli

ZHOU Hongli: Crossing Borders - Digital Income in China

Mr. ZHOU Hongli is the Chief Copyright Officer (CCO) of Shanda Literature Limited (SDL). Shanda Literature is a business unit of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited that operates China's leading online literature platform.

Evan Schnittman

Chairperson: Evan Schnittman, Vice President of Business

Evan Schnittman is Vice President of Global Business Development at Oxford University Press, New York. He is responsible for all licensing and digital partnerships across Oxford University Press’s various content divisions.