Librarian and technologist Jessamyn West will talk about what we know about the digitally divided and what works… and what doesn’t to help them interact with the larger world of technology.
2018
Join a panel of experts from the publishing industry and beyond for an overview of blockchain technology: the opportunities and potential roadblocks it could present the publishing supply chain.
Simon Collinson and Nick Barreto (Canelo Digital Publishing) will walk the audience through their Adobe-free toolbelt, giving tips, tricks, and warning of potholes to avoid.
This presentation for marketers who are considering using bots for their business, highlighting what they are, why they’ve become so popular, and how to leverage them for customer service, e-commerce, and more.
Join us for a Loan Stars update where we’ll discuss its impact over the past year, trends we’re noticing, and how you can get involved.
Léonicka Valcius and Anyka Davis interrogate and rethink in-house processes and assumptions that come before publication date, including acquisitions, audience identification, setting sales expectations and budgets, and more.
Handling equations in ebooks is a pain point when dealing with STEM content. Luckily, there are open-source tools that try to pragmatically solve this problem for the web.
Saadia Muzaffar guides us through an exploration of how leaders in the publishing sector can reimagine their work and its impact, and reconcile that with the realities of business and bottom lines.
Learn more about the Canadian book industry’s bibliographic aggregation system and how it’s supporting publishers, distributors, booksellers, and everyone in between.
Using the context of his experience as both a publisher and within an all-you-can-read service, Nathan Hull will explore why providing less choice might actually be of more value to the reader.
A conversation with Ellen Ullman, author of the cult classic memoir Close to the Machine, based on her years as a rare female computer programmer in the early years of the personal computer era.
In addition to a general overview of ebook testing and support at Kobo, this presentation provides some historical context for how processes and reading platforms have evolved at Kobo over the years.