BISG will hold its eighth annual Making Information Pay conference (www.bisg.org/mip) on Thursday, May 5, 2011, at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium in New York City.
The conference will feature keynote speaker Kenneth Michaels, EVP & COO, Hachette Book Group, joined by a lineup of industry leaders sharing new ways to think about, create and deliver products that successfully connect with today?s consumer. Confirmed speakers and session topics include:
Kenneth Michaels, EVP & COO, Hachette Book Group ?Publishers as 21st Century Content Providers?
Bill Kasdorf, Vice President, Apex Content Solutions ?Toward Agility & Efficiency: Best Practices for ?Future-Proofing? New Content?
Andrew Savikas, CEO, Safari Books Online and VP, Digital Initiatives, O?Reilly Media ?Flexible & Multi-Channel Content: Real-World Examples from O?Reilly Media?
Madi Solomon, Director of Content Standards, Pearson ?Smart Content: The Importance of Semantics in Publishing?
Brett Sandusky, Director of Product Innovation, Kaplan Publishing ?Building a Smarter Wrapper: Utilizing the Data Locked Inside Digital Content to Increase ?E-? and ?P-? Book Discoverability?
Heather Reid, Director of Data Systems and Services, Copyright Clearance Center ?The State of Current Rights Management Systems: Initial Findings from BISG & CCC?s Joint Survey of Publishers and Vendors?
David Marlin, President and Co-Founder, MetaComet Systems ?Content in the Wild: What Happens When Rights Management Goes Wrong?
Mike Shatzkin, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company ?The Key to Future Profits: More Transactions, Fewer Dollars?
Tara Catogge, Senior Vice President of Inbound Supply Chain, Levy Home Entertainment ?Attention Shoppers: Building Opportunity Based on Customer Behavior Data?