Conference News and Coverage

Diamond Sponsors

  • Ingram Industries
  • Adobe Systems, Inc.

Gold Sponsor

  • Mark Logic

Silver Sponsors

  • Blurb
  • copyright Clearance Center
  • iRex Technologies
  • LibreDigital
  • Malloy
  • Microsoft Live Search Books
  • Qoop
  • Safari Books Online
  • SharedBook
Contacts

Sponsors & Exhibitors

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the convention, contact Sharon Cordesse

For Media Partnership opportunities, please contact Avila Reese

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User Groups & Professional Associations

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Sessions

The program focuses on new opportunities and ideas that are just coming to light as possible business models.

Tutorials will take place on Monday.

Tuesday | Wednesday

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Welcome and Announcements
Sarah Milstein, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Time: 8:30AM - 8:35AM
Location: Regency Ballroom
A Brief History of Innovation in Publishing
Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sarah Milstein, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Time: 8:35AM - 8:50AM
Location: Regency Ballroom
Retooling HarperCollins for the 21st Century
Brian Murray, Group President, HarperCollins Publishers
Time: 8:50AM - 9:15AM
Location: Regency Ballroom
FREE: The Economics of Abundance and the Price of Zero
Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine
Time: 9:15AM - 9:40AM
Location: Regency Ballroom
Publishing in a Web 2.0 World
Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Time: 9:40AM - 10:05AM
Location: Regency Ballroom
Q&A
Time: 10:05AM - 10:15AM
Location: Regency Ballroom
Business Models that Guarantee Profitability in Publishing
Bob Pritchett, President and CEO, Logos Bible Software
Time: 11:00AM - 11:45AM
Location: Regency II
Live Search Books
Clifford Guren, Director of Publisher Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation
Time: 11:00AM - 11:45AM
Location: Empire Room
Track: toc2007.track.view
Beyond the Book: Online Content Distribution for Book Publishers
Allen Noren, Director, Online Marketing and Digital Initiatives, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Time: 11:00AM - 11:45AM
Location: Regency I
Digital Rights Management
Michael Jensen, Director of Publishing Technologies, National Acadamies Press
Peter Brantley, Executive Director, Digital Library Federation
Ale de Vries, Product Manager, ScienceDirect
Time: 11:00AM - 11:45AM
Location: Crystal Room
Next-generation Book Selling: Utilizing the Advantages of an Internet Digital Warehouse
Todd Eckler, Libre Digital
Time: 11:00AM - 11:45AM
Location: Fairfield Room
Track: toc2007.track.view
Getting More (A Lot More) Out of Marketing with Authors
Marci Alboher, online column Shifting Careers column for the New York Times, author of One Person/Multiple Careers (Warner Business: 2007)
Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine
Time: 11:50AM - 12:35PM
Location: Regency II
Search and Publishing: Google Q&A with Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Daniel Clancy, Engineering Director, Google, Inc.
Adam M. Smith, Google, Inc.
Time: 11:50AM - 12:35PM
Location: Regency I
Taming the (WWW) Wild Wiki West: Harnessing the Power of Wikis and Social Collaboration for Publishers
Asheesh Birla, Thomson Learning
Time: 11:50AM - 12:35PM
Location: Crystal Room
Bringing Order to Creative Chaos in Publishing
Thomas DeMeo, Director, Product Management, Creative Solutions, Adobe Systems
Time: 11:50AM - 12:35PM
Location: Empire Room
Track: toc2007.track.view
Tools of Change for the Self-publishing Community
Bruce Watermann, Vice President, Print Operations, Blurb
Time: 11:50AM - 12:35PM
Location: Fairfield Room
Track: toc2007.track.view
So Much Data… So Little Time!
Kelly Gallagher, General Manager – Business Intelligence, RR Bowker
Time: 2:00PM - 2:45PM
Location: Crystal Room
Gadgetopia: What New Hardware Offers Publishers
Paul Michelman, Editorial Director, Harvard Business Online
Paul Calento, Senior Vice President, Strategic Development, InfoWorld Media Group
Bill Damon, Findability & Metrics Analyst, Havard Business School Publishing
Time: 2:00PM - 2:45PM
Location: Regency I
Publisher Web Sites: New Options and Approaches
Allen Noren, Director, Online Marketing and Digital Initiatives, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Brian Napack, Holtzbrinck Publishers
Maja Thomas, VP and Publisher, Hachette Digital Media
Time: 2:00PM - 2:45PM
Location: Regency II
It's What the Users Want. E-content Aggregation to Suit Library Needs and End-user Demands
Warren Holder, Electronic Resources Co-ordinator, University of Toronto Libraries
James Gray, CEO and President, Ingram Digital Group
Time: 2:00PM - 2:45PM
Location: Empire Room
Track: toc2007.track.view
Creating New Streams of Revenue for Copyrighted Materials
Caroline Vanderlip, CEO, SharedBook Inc.
Time: 2:00PM - 2:45PM
Location: Fairfield Room
Track: toc2007.track.view
Why Do People Pay for Things They Can Get Free?
Rikard Linde, CEO, Enklo AB
Time: 2:50PM - 3:35PM
Location: Regency II
Social Software: What is It? What Works for Publishers?
Gavin Bell, Creative Technologist, Nature Publishing Group
Time: 2:50PM - 3:35PM
Location: Regency I
RFID in Books: The Benefit for Publishers and Retailers
James Lichtenberg, President, Lightspeed,LLC
Time: 2:50PM - 3:35PM
Location: Crystal Room
It's What the Users Want. E-content Aggregation to Suit Library Needs and End-user Demands (con't)
Warren Holder, Electronic Resources Co-ordinator, University of Toronto Libraries
James Gray, CEO and President, Ingram Digital Group
Time: 2:50PM - 3:35PM
Location: Empire Room
Track: toc2007.track.view
Free Culture and the Future of Publishing
Jimmy Wales, Chairman of the Board, Wikia, Inc
Time: 4:30PM - 4:55PM
Location: Regency Ballroom
Valuing Content in a Web-enabled World
Jeff Patterson, CEO, Safari Books Online LLC
Time: 4:55PM - 5:20PM
Location: Regency Ballroom
Keynote: Bruce Chizen Q&A with Tim O'Reilly
Bruce Chizen, CEO, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Time: 5:20PM - 5:45PM
Location: Regency Ballroom
Sponsor Reception
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: Imperial Ballroom
TOC Lightning Demos
Time: 7:30PM - 9:00PM
Location: Regency Ballroom
Birds of a Feather (BoF) Sessions
Time: 9:00PM - 11:00PM
Gadgetopia
Time: 9:00PM - 10:00PM
Location: Valley Room


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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Welcome and Announcements
Sarah Milstein, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Time: 8:30AM - 8:35AM
Location: Regency Ballroom
The Beauty of Print in a Digital Era
Dale Dougherty, Editor & Publisher, Make, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Time: 8:35AM - 8:50AM
Location: Regency Ballroom
bLink: Completing the Connection Between the Analog and Digital Worlds
Manolis Kelaidis, Designer, Royal College of Art
Time: 8:50AM - 9:15AM
Location: Regency Ballroom
Four Decades of "Tools of Change"
John Ingram, Chairman, Ingram Book Group, Lightning Source Inc. & Ingram Digital Group, Vice Chairman, Ingram Industries Inc.
Time: 9:15AM - 9:40AM
Location: Regency Ballroom
Q & A
Time: 9:40AM - 10:15AM
Location: Regency Ballroom
Next-generation Web Publishing
Jason Hunter, Mark Logic
Time: 11:00AM - 11:45AM
Location: Regency II
Innovations on Onscreen Reading
Clifford Guren, Director of Publisher Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation
Kevin Larson, Researcher, Microsoft Corporation
Time: 11:00AM - 11:45AM
Location: Crystal Room
Direct Sales: Lessons from the Shopping Cart
Allen Noren, Director, Online Marketing and Digital Initiatives, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Stephen Smith, Crossway Books
Todd Sotkiewicz, GM, Lonely Planet
Time: 11:00AM - 11:45AM
Location: Regency I
Taking Advantage of the Coming Era of Mobile Content
Bob Kasher, Digital Services Representative, ICC Macmillan
Time: 11:00AM - 11:45AM
Location: Fairfield Room
Track: toc2007.track.view
Copyright and Content Licensing in Today’s Digital Age
Bill Burger, Vice President, Marketing, Copyright Clearance Center
Time: 11:00AM - 11:45AM
Location: Empire Room
Track: toc2007.track.view
The Strategic Value of Standards in Tomorrow's Digital Supply Chain
Michael Healy, Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group
Time: 11:50AM - 12:35PM
Location: Crystal Room
The Rise of Authentic Media
Derek Powazek, Consultant, Powazek Productions
Time: 11:50AM - 12:35PM
Location: Regency II
Content Applications in the Wild
Stephen Buxton, Director of Product Management, Mark Logic
Time: 11:50AM - 12:35PM
Location: Empire Room
Track: toc2007.track.view
Back to the Future: Major Publishers Revisit Digital Publishing
Jeff Gomez, Director of Marketing, Holtzbrinck Publishers
Theresa Horner, HarperCollins
Claire Israel, Simon & Schuster
Matt Shatz, Random House
Time: 2:00PM - 2:45PM
Location: Crystal Room
Reading Technologies for the Disabled Offer Opportunities for All
Robert Martinengo, University System of Georgia
Time: 2:00PM - 2:45PM
Location: Regency II
Beta Books: The Benefits (and Perils) of Selling Books-in-progress
Dan Gillmor, Founder and Director, Center for Citizen Media
Tonya Engst, Editor in Chief, TidBITS Electronic Publishing
Laurie Petrycki, VP, Online Publishing Operations, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Time: 2:00PM - 2:45PM
Location: Regency I
Online Content Distribution: Safari Books Online
Dennis Kilian, Vice President, Sales, Safari Books Online
Time: 2:00PM - 2:45PM
Location: Empire Room
Track: toc2007.track.view
Digital Object Identifiers: The Next Big (Data) Thing
Amy Brand, Director of Business and Product Development, CrossRef
Time: 2:50PM - 3:35PM
Location: Crystal Room
Collaborative Writing Tools and Techniques: Reality to Fantasy
Adam C. Engst, Publisher, TidBITS and Take Control Books
Time: 2:50PM - 3:35PM
Location: Regency II
POD: It's Not Just for Backlist Anymore
Kurt Beidler, Senior Manager of Business Development, Amazon.com
Rosanne Goodwin, ReadHowYouWant.com
Richard Hollick, Program Manager Print-on-Demand, Oxford University Press New York
Bill Murray, CEO and Co-founder, QOOP, Inc.
Thomas Pierson, Director of Product Management, LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
Time: 2:50PM - 3:35PM
Location: Regency I
Digital Publishing Beyond the Page: Next-generation Tools and Technologies
Bill McCoy, General Manager, ePublishing Business, Adobe Systems
Time: 2:50PM - 3:35PM
Location: Empire Room
Track: toc2007.track.view
Dictionaries and Other Book-shaped Objects
Erin McKean, Chief Consulting Editor, American Dictionaries, Oxford University Press
Time: 4:00PM - 4:30PM
Location: Regency Ballroom


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Please Note: Program content subject to change.