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FutureBook Conference Special The sessions and speakers


Leading the way: the highlights of the 2023 FutureBook Conference


With speakers from across the creative sectors set so share their learnings in the fields of AI, author care, reaching readers and much more, the FutureBook Conference has something for everyone. Here are some of the key sessions...


9.40


Keynote: The Glass Cliff Sophie Williams Following her viral TED Talk on the topic, Sophie Williams, author of the upcoming book The Glass Cliff: Why Women in Power Are Undermined – and How to Fight Back, (see extract, p10), will be discussing the landscape for female leaders beyond the glass ceiling. Not satisfied with asking how we bring women into power- ful positions, she will explore what needs to be done to ensure their success long-term, and the role that we can all play in building a more equitable future of leader- ship for all.


10.00


Keynote: A View from the Bridge Nicola Solomon From AI to freedom of speech, The Societ of Authors has a crucial and powerful role to play in protecting the interests of authors, illustrators and transla- tors, as well as campaigning for the wider cultural environment. In this speech, its outgoing c.e.o. Nicola Solomon—also a deput district judge, a board member of the International Authors’ Forum and the British Copyright Council, and chair of the Creators’ Rights Alliance—looks back at her


08 3rd November 2023


Keynote Nadim Sadek


Keynote Sophie Williams


Keynote Nicola Solomon


past 13 years in the industry and makes thoughtful predictions for what is to come—with AI firmly in her sights.


10.20


Keynote: How Publishing Can Embrace AI Nadim Sadek


As founder and c.e.o. of Shimmr AI, and author of new release Shimmer, Don’t Shake: How Publishing Can Embrace AI, Nadim Sadek has pulled together a team of experts in advertising,


psychology, AI, technology, media and business modelling to transform the way we advertise books. In what promises to be a rousing keynote, he will explore the historical evolution of publishing and AI, and make the case for the book trade taking an active and leading role in shaping a positive, profitable future with this world-changing technology.


10.40


Keynote: Publishing with Positivity L J Ross


With 27 bestsellers under her belt and eight million books sold, L J Ross is one of the most prolific and successful authors working in the UK today. Fom publishing exclusively through her own imprint, Dark Skies, to launching prizes, initiatives and experiences that engage new writers and


readers in the north-east of England, she is also renowned for doing things differently. At FutureBook she will outline her vision for a positive publish- ing future—and explain why the reader always maters most.


11.30


Ask the Leader Aimée Felone Aimée Felone, m.d. of Knights


Keynote L J Ross


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