NEM is setting up for you a magic and visionary programme with international renowned speakers from Industry which will present:
- Various keynotes on ‘the magic of digital in transmedia storytelling’, ‘the magic of digital in publishing creation’, ‘the creative industry challenges in Europe’, ‘the digital era, a new age of humanity’, ‘the magic of immersivity and interactivity’, and more.
- Views from the European Commission and from the Media Industry
- A round table on the intelligence of things : ‘The role of publishers in the Internet of Things
- 3 speed pitches by innovators on the magic of being a startup in the publishing sector
We are glad to welcome prestigious speakers:
Günther Oettinger
European Commission
Commissionner, Digital Economy and Society
Günther H. Oettinger is Member of the European Commission responsible for Digital Economy and Society since November 2014. From 2010 to 2014, he was Member of the European Commission for Energy. For 5 years (2015-2010) he was Minister-President of Baden-Wurttemberg (Germany). And he was appointed chairman of the CDU Baden-Wurttemberg parliamentary group in the State Parliament from January 1991 to April 2005. Günther Oettinger was member of the Governing Board and Federal Executive Committee of the CDU from 2005 to 2014 and chairman of the federal media policy committee of the CDU from 2006 to 2010.
Gilles Babinet
European Digital Champion
Gilles Babinet is a French multi-entrepreneur, born in 1967 in Paris. Since 1989, he created 9 companies in various areas of activity, such as mobile music (Musiwave), co-creation (Eyeka) or Big Data marketing (CaptainDash).
He was appointed Digital Champion in 2012 by Fleur Pellerin, French minister of digital technologies, and works with Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner in charge of digital technologies. This function is the right follow up of his former position as president of the French National Digital Council (CNN).
Gilles Babinet published his first book in January 2014, "l'Ère numérique, un nouvel âge de l'humanité", where he discusses the impact of new technologies on our societies, our lives and our institutions. Throughout his book, he identifies five areas such as Education, Healthcare, the State, Knowledge and Production, that are deeply challenged in the context of the ongoing digital revolution. His new book, “ ig Data : penser l'homme et le monde autrement", came out in February 2015 and deals with economic and social issues linked to the eruption of the data.
He was appointed Digital Champion in 2012 by Fleur Pellerin, French minister of digital technologies, and works with Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner in charge of digital technologies. This function is the right follow up of his former position as president of the French National Digital Council (CNN).
Gilles Babinet published his first book in January 2014, "l'Ère numérique, un nouvel âge de l'humanité", where he discusses the impact of new technologies on our societies, our lives and our institutions. Throughout his book, he identifies five areas such as Education, Healthcare, the State, Knowledge and Production, that are deeply challenged in the context of the ongoing digital revolution. His new book, “ ig Data : penser l'homme et le monde autrement", came out in February 2015 and deals with economic and social issues linked to the eruption of the data.
Jacques Bajon
IDATE
Director of Media and digital content Business Unit
Jacques is in charge of IDATE Business Unit dedicated to media and digital content and Head of the Video Distribution Practice . During its 15 years experience in the Media sector, Jacques has become an expert of the media economics and of the impact of Internet on content. His assignments involve strategic and sector-specific examination of the television/video and its distribution modes, from broadcast to telecoms/IP. Jacques’s previous experience includes analyst for the Eurostaf / Les Echos group, market analyst for Ericsson. Jacques holds a post-graduate research degree (DEA) in International Economics (Université Paris X) and a Master in Strategic Management of Innovation (Toulouse Graduate School of Management).
Michael Bhaskar
Canelo (UK)
Co-Founder & Publishing Director
Michael Bhaskar is Co-founder and Publishing Director of Canelo, a new digital publisher. Previously he was Digital Publishing Director at Profile Books and Serpent's Tail and has worked at Pan Macmillan, a literary agency, an economics consultancy and a newspaper amongst others. He writes widely on media, society and technology and is author of The Content Machine, a book exploring the past present and future of publishing. His new book Curation will be published by Little, Brown next year.
Nina Klein
Associate Partner
Frankfurt Book Fair
Nina is a historian (M.A.), a journalist and a business professional (MBA, thesis on new business models in publishing). Nina worked as a print and radio journalist in Germany for over ten years before moving to Poland in 2002. There she worked as a radio journalist and as director of the Warsaw Book Information Centre (2004-2007). She joined the Frankfurt Book Fair team in 2008 as director of press and public relations. Since 2012 Nina has been an independent communications & business development consultant in Brussels and Frankfurt, with a focus on digital publishing and online services.
Albert Gauthier
European Commission, DG CONNECT
Scientific Officer – Unit G2 – Creativity
Albert Gauthier works at the European Commission in Luxembourg, at Directorate General Connect. The 'Creativity' unit covers a range of activities from funding leading-edge ICT research to innovation and policy support. Research under the ICT programme will explore the potential of information and communication technologies to enhance creative processes in general and in cultural and educational contexts in particular; it will also enhance user experiences with digital cultural resources, including keeping those resources useable at long-term (digital preservation); innovation activities aim at stimulating the up-take of research results in the creative industry; policy support activities - follow-up of the Commission's recommendations on digitisation and digital preservation; promoting Europeana the European Digital Library.
Hadmut Holken
Holken Consultants & Partners
Managing Director
Specializing in b-to-b market research and business consulting in convergent media and IT markets, Hadmut anticipates new content & services related business models in emerging (digital) markets and intervenes where innovation comes to the market.
Her company (www.holkenconsultants.com) is involved in social innovation through the coordination of the French public private partnership Media4D, which focuses on accessibility and media (www.socialmedia4d.com). The company is also partner for dissemination in the European co-funded HBB4ALL project on connected TV and accessibility (www.hbb4all.eu).
Within the European funded MOSAIC project (www.mosaic-med.eu), which aims to set-up technology platforms in the Maghreb and Mashrek regions, her role is to contribute to the SRIA (Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda).
Her company is part of the NEM Steering Board, and Hadmut is in charge of international cooperation for NEM.
Steffen Meier
Readbox publishing
Head of product innovation and marketing
Steffen Meier
born 1965, is head of product innovation and marketing at readbox publishing, a leading technological company of the german publishing industry, dedicated to support publishers in creating and distributing eBooks and other digital products by providing them with services and software-tools. He furthermore was spokesman of the AKEP (Arbeitskreis Elektronisches Publizieren, i.e. Working Group for Electronic Publishing). The AKEP was founded in 1992 within the Publishers‘ Committee of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association (Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e.V.) to promote EP competence in all areas of the publishing industries. In addition Steffen Meier joins the digital commission within the Deutsche Fachpresse (German Association of Business Media / Newspapers), is an active media blogger and consultant at different advanced education institutions.
Before joining readbox, he was for long years head of the online department at Verlag Eugen Ulmer, a german publishing house. Steffen Meier held various management positions in newspaper companies, publishing houses and IT companies.
Jean Dominique Meunier
Technicolor
Vice-President, European Public Affairs
Jean-Dominique Meunier joined Thomson/Technicolor in 1989 as a specialist in strategic sourcing and later worked in a variety of fields that included business development (in partnership with Japanese and Korean companies) and sites general management.A recognized expert in international cooperative R&D, Meunier co-founded a joint public/private regional cluster (150 members) focused on media and networks (pôle de compétitivité mondial Images & Réseaux) in northwestern France in 2005.He was named Director of Thomson Cooperative Programs in 2007 and became Executive Director of the Networked & Electronic Media (NEM), an European Technology Platform (650 members). He holds degrees in engineering and in business management.
Richard Nash
Strategist and serial entrepreneur
Richard Nash is a strategist and serial entrepreneur in digital media. He led partnerships and content at the culture discovery start-up Small Demons and the story app/aggregator Byliner. Previously he ran the iconic indie Soft Skull Press for where has was Independent Publisher of the Year in 2005. He left in 2009 to found Cursor, now an open-source community publishing project. In 2010 the Utne Reader named him one of Fifty Visionaries Changing Your World and in 2013 the UK’s Bookseller magazine picked him as one of the Five Most Inspiring People in Digital Publishing. He advises numerous start-ups and corporations on digital strategy.
François Pernot
Media Participations
C.E.O of the Comics & Animation division
Graduate of HEC Paris, François Pernot joined the Média-Participations Group in 1995 after several assignments in France and in Madagascar in the food and garment industry. Média-Participations is the European leader in comics through their publishing companies (Dargaud, Dupuis, Le Lombard, Urban and Kana) and European established producer and distributor of TV animation series with their studios (Ellipsanime, Storimages, Belvision, Dargaud Media, Cartooners) and their dedicated subsidiaries (Mediatoon and Citel). He was appointed as International and Marketing Manager before being promoted to CEO of Dargaud-Lombard in 1997. Since 2009, François Pernot is the CEO of the Comics and Animation Division of the Media-Participations Group.
Frank Salliau
iMinds
Senior Researcher
Frank Salliau has a master degree in electronics engineering but has mostly worked in software development. In the late 90's he became involved in development of web applications and e-learning. He has been working in the book profession since 2009, as e-Manager for the Flemish book federation organisation Boek.be. In this position he was involved in several ICT projects within the book profession, such as the development of the books-in-print database DANTE (Meta4Books) and Knooppunt, the distribution platform for digital educational content. In September 2014 he started working as senior researcher with iMinds/MMLab at the University of Ghent where he is involved in several publishing related projects, such as FREME, Publisher of the Future, Edutab and TISP.
Chris Sizemore
BBC
Head of Product Knowledge & Learning
Chris Sizemore is Executive Editor of BBC iWonder and Head of Product BBC Knowledge & Learning, the online home of the BBC's educational and factual content. Chris's background is in content strategy at AOL Time Warner in the States, and he has been with the BBC now for 8 years. Chris has contributed as a content strategist to the BBC iPlayer and programme support projects, and was the executive producer of the BBC's Food website.
Holger Volland
Frankfurt Book Fair
Vice President
Holger Volland is Vice President of the Frankfurt Book Fair and member of the executive board. He is responsible for international business development, heads the book fair's office in Beijing and the division for events. Holger Volland comes to the Book Fair from the German Booksellers and Publishers Association, where he served as head of marketing and communications. From 2005 to 2009, Holger Volland ran the communications departments at Agentur MetaDesign as part of the management team. Holger Volland studied information science. Following stints as creative director of digital pioneer Pixelpark in Berlin and New York and as a visiting lecturer in design at the Hochschule Wismar, Volland led the New Economy Business School of Scholz & Friends. As founder and managing communications agency Leipziger & Partner from 1999 to 2005, he worked with clients from the fields of politics, business and culture and organised large-scale cultural festivals in Germany and Argentina.
Rolf Dyrnes Svendsen
Editor Adresseavisen & chairman of GAMI’s advisory board, the innovation network of WAN-IFRA
Rolf Dyrnes Svendsen is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Global Alliance for Media Innovation (GAMI) founded in January 2015 by WAN-IFRA, the World Association of Newspaper and News Publishers. He is Editor of Adresseavisen, Norway's fifth largest news- and advertising mediahouse. With ten additonal local newspapers situated in the mid-Norway, Adresseavisen is by far the largest compamy and the digital powerhouse of Polaris Media Group. Rolf is also Editor/director at the Polaris Media Lab. The Medialab, located in Trondheim, is supporting more than 30 newspapers in the Polaris Media Group, providing software development and maintainence for editorial and commercial purposes. The Medialab works closely with Schibsted's digital development units with co-location of development teams at Schibsted Tech Polska's Krakow operations. Rolf is also Chairman of the board of NxtMedia since 2011. Nxtmedia is an innovation cluster for the media industry in Middle Norway including newspapers, broadcast and web industry, universities and media software industry aiming to promote innovation and future media technology. Leading companies member of NxtMedia include Polaris Media, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, MKTMedia in swedish Stampen Group, Norwegian Media Businesses' Association (MBL) and New Media Network.
Cyril Labordrie
Cap Digital, France
Graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métier, Cyril has worked in interactive entertainment industry for more than 10 years, he started as a R&D software developer and began quickly to lead teams up to 10 peoples. After having work for one of the biggest French video game publisher in Montreal and after being hired by the world leading publisher company Electronic Arts in San Francisco, he went back to France and created his own company, which released more than 30 games and had partners like Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and Electronic arts. During this experience he became chairman of the board of Cap Digital video game comittee. The interactive development experience led Cyril to a new role in the cap digital cluster, in which he is involved in the newly created European Digital Reading Lab. His role is to promote the only open, accessible and interoperable format EPUB3.
Niels Peter Thomas
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
Managing Director
Niels Peter Thomas studied Industrial Engineering (Electrical Engineering) and worked as a researcher at the Institute of Economics at the Technical University Darmstadt. He received a doctor’s degree (Dr.rer.pol.). Since 2005, he has worked with Springer Science & Business Media (since 5/2015: Springer Nature) in different positions: From 2005 to 2010 he worked in the editorial department in Heidelberg. From 2011 to 2013 he worked as the editorial director in Beijing to build the editorial department and ensure the growth of Chinese market. Since 2013 he is Executive Vice President, “German Language Science Publishing” at Springer. He is in charge of the German-language scientific books, magazines and educational program. He is also a lecturer on “Business models of digital media
Daniel Knapp
IHS
Senior Director
Niels Peter Thomas studied Industrial Engineering (Electrical Engineering) and worked as a researcher at the Institute of Economics at the Technical University Darmstadt. He received a doctor’s degree (Dr.rer.pol.). Since 2005, he has worked with Springer Science & Business Media (since 5/2015: Springer Nature) in different positions: From 2005 to 2010 he worked in the editorial department in Heidelberg. From 2011 to 2013 he worked as the editorial director in Beijing to build the editorial department and ensure the growth of Chinese market. Since 2013 he is Executive Vice President, “German Language Science Publishing” at Springer. He is in charge of the German-language scientific books, magazines and educational program. He is also a lecturer on “Business models of digital media
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