Conference Agenda

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
The McGraw-Hill Auditorium at 1221 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor - New York City


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8:00 - 8:45 a.m.   Registration and FREE Continental Breakfast
     
8:45 - 9:00 a.m.   Greetings & Opening Remarks
     
    IDPF: Steve Potash, President
   
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.   Panel: Industry Report: New Mobile Devices & eReading Software
     
    Telecom Italia: Guiliano Muratore, Librofonino, Polymer Vision rollable display
    Sony: Ron Hawkins, Vice President, Portable Reader Systems
  Adobe Systems, Inc: Bill McCoy, General Manager, ePublishing Business
    iRex Technologies, Inc: Willem Endhoven, VP Product Development & Business Development
     
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.   Panel: Digital Production Update:  How IDPF and XML Standards permit “One File Format” Workflows for Reflowable Digital Publications
     
    eBook Technologies, Inc.: Garth Conboy, President
    OverDrive: Angela Arnold, Marketing Associate, vendor to the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC)
    OSoft: Mark Carey, CEO
     
11:00 - 11:30 a.m.   Networking Break & Exhibits
     
11:30 – 12:15 p.m.    Panel: Digital Textbook, Interactive Curriculum and Educational Market Update
     
    VitalSource Technologies, Inc.: Frank Daniels, CEO
    Thomson Higher Education: Jonathan Stowe, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
    LiveInk: Randall Walker, CEO
 
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.   Lunch and Networking Session in Exhibit Area (free with registration)
     
1:15 – 1:45 p.m.   Keynote Speaker
     

1:45 – 2:45 p.m.

  Publisher Initiatives with Digital Repositories - the New Print Warehouses
     
    Ingram Digital Group: Kent Freeman, Chief Technology Officer
    Random House: Matt Shatz, Vice President, Digital
    Oxford University Press: Corey Podolsky, Vice President, Technology
    LibreDigital: Craig Miller, General Manager
    HarperCollins: Carolyn Pittis, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing Strategy & Operations
   
2:45 – 3:15 p.m.   Networking Break & Exhibits
     
3:15 – 4:15 p.m.   Panel: Search Engine Update:  Digital Libraries and Commercial Publisher Services
     
    Digital Library Federation: Peter Brantley, Executive Director
    Amazon.com: Jeff Steele, Worldwide Director of Digital Content Acquisition
    Harvard University Library: Dale Flecker, Associate Director for Systems and Planning
    Google: Tom Turvey, Director, Google Book Search Partnerships
 
4:15 – 5:15 pm   Panel: Electronic Newspaper, Magazine & Journal Developments
     
    The Associated Press: Jim Kennedy, Vice President and Director of Strategic Planning
    Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute: Roger Fidler
    Medicos: Pablo Perillan, CEO
     
5:15 p.m.   Closing Remarks

 

 

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