SESSION 1 09:00 – 11:00

Opening Session

Chair: YoungSuk “Y.S.” Chi, President, International Publishers Association (IPA)

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Speakers:

Mandla Balisa, Chairman, Publishers Association of South African (PASA)   

Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile, Special Advisor to the Minister of Arts and Culture, Republic of South Africa 

Professor Ngugi wa Thiongo, University of California                          

Video message by Irina Bokova, Director General, UNESCO

SESSION 2 11:30 – 13:30

Publishing & Social Change
Publishing for a New Era

Chair: Brian Wafawarowa, Executive Director, PASA; Board Member, IPA

Speakers:

Francis Gurry, Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)    

John Makinson, Chairman, The Penguin Group, UK 
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Yoshinobu Noma,COO, Kodansha, Japan
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David Langridge, WW Senior Director Publisher & Content Partner Development, Microsoft, UK
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SESSION 3 14:30 – 16:00

The Paper Tortoise and the Digital Hare: Can Publishing Keep up in the Digital Environment?

Chair: Richard Charkin, Executive Director, Bloomsbury, UK; Board Member, IPA

Speakers:

Brian Murray, CEO, HarperCollins, USA; Board Member, IPA

Wendy Strothman, The Strothman Agency L.L.C., USA

Sandy Grant, Chief Executive and Director, Hardie Grant Publishing, Australia

SESSION 4 14:30 – 16:00

Literacy for Digital Natives

Chair: José-Manuel Gomez, President, Grupo Anaya, Spain; Chair, LIBS Committee, IPA

Speakers:

Karin Plötz, Director, Frankfurt Book Fair Literacy Campaign (LitCam), Germany

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Graham Taylor, Director, Educational, Academic and Professional Publishing, The Publishers Association (PA), UK; Chair, Educational Publishers Forum, IPA

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Arthur Attwell, CEO ,Electric Book Works, South Africa

SESSION 5 14:30 – 16:00

Publishing Across Borders

Chair: Stephen Johnson, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Random House Struik (Pty) Ltd., South Africa

Speakers:

Njabulo Ndebele, Author, South Africa

Simon Littlewood, International Director, Random House, UK

Terry Morris, Managing Director, Pan Macmillan, South Africa (invited)

Ian Randle, CAPNET, Jamaica (invited)

SESSION 6 16:30 – 18:00

Open Access, Free Content and Publishing

Chair: Michael Mabe, CEO, International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM)

Speakers:

Wim van der Stelt, Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Springer, The Netherlands

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Salvatore Mele, Head of Open Access, CERN, Switzerland

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Scott Plutchak, Director, Lister Hill Library, University of Alabama, USA

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SESSION 7 16:30 – 18:00

Getting it Right: Government Policies and Education Publishing

Chair: Orenna Krut, Chair, Education Committee, PASA

Speakers:

Nancy Karimi, Jomo Kenyatta Foundation; Chair, Kenya Publishers Association, Kenya

Brian Wafawarowa, Executive Director, PASA, South Africa

Rema Arunachalam, Publishing Manager - School & ELT, Pearson Education, India  

Jose Moyano, President, Asociacion Nacional de Editores de Libros y Material de Ensenanza, Spain (Invited)

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SESSION 8 16:30 – 18:00

Authors, Translators and Agents: Towards a New Deal?

Chair: Alistair Burtenshaw, Director of Publishing & Books, Reed Exhibitions, UK

Speakers:

Chad W. Post, Publisher, Open Letter, University of Rochester, USA

Niq Mhlongo, Author, South Africa

Marc de Gouvenain, Translator, Author, Agent, Pontas Literary & Film Agency, France

Alistair Burtenshaw, Director of Publishing & Books, Reed Exhibitions, UK

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