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The FutureBook Conference takes place on 27th November in London, with live streams alongside. For more information and tickets, visit
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Of, the winner of Children’s Publisher of the Year at the 2022 British Book Awards, will talk to author and broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied on bringing underrepresented voices to the forefront of commercial children’s publishing, engaging with communities creatively and scaling a sustainable and mission-led business.
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Ask the Leader Briony Grogan Five months into her new role as director of people and culture at Pan Macmillan—following 12 years in HR at News UK—Briony Grogan discusses her outsider perspective on the book trade’s working culture, her ambitious plans for Pan Mac, inclusivit, collaborative action, burnout and more with The Bookseller’s Molly Flat.
11.30
Ask the Leader Maura Wilding
With a career that has spanned both in-house and agency roles, Maura Wilding shares learnings from her campaigning experience and her year as group commu- nications director for Hachete UK, and discusses the strategic thinking, alliance-building and empathic dialogue needed to create change, publish with conviction and share our stories.
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Driving Force: Sales in Publishing, by Women in Publishing Too oſten overlooked, without sales, publishing perishes. On this panel, four of the book trade’s most experienced commercial leads—Anna Derkacz from HarperCollins, Anna Bond from Octopus, Diana Broccardo from
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Ask the leader Maura Wilding
Swiſt Press and Kathleen Farrar from Bloomsbury—will discuss the importance of sales as a func- tion of publishing, what we can learn from sales directors (past and present), and how women in publishing make it happen.
14.00
Listen Up: How AI is Impacting Audio Bringing together the two biggest technologies currently transforming the publishing industry, this panel of experts examine how AI is impacting on everything from narration to commissioning to data. Two audio leaders at major publish- ers, Bonnier’s Jon Watt and Hachete’s Dominic Gribben,
talk with audio producer Ravina Bajwa and Jason Kelly from AI start-up
Sounded.com.
14.00
Ask the leader Aimée Felone
Cover Meeting Live! A Conversation About Design in a Time of AI Freelance book designer Steve Leard brings his podcast “Cover Meeting” to the FutureBook Conference, with a discussion around design in a time of Artificial Intelligence. Guests include freelancer designers Micaela Alcaino and David Pearson, along with Canongate art director Rafaela Romaya.
Ask the leader Briony Grogan
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Insight Insiders: What Data Did Next From social media to SEO to AI, data is driving the entertainment industry—but is publishing keeping up? This panel—featur- ing freelance consultant Niamh Murray, Convert Culture founder Caroline Butler and Pan Macmillan’s Lee Dibble—explores current best practice around gathering, managing and exploit- ing data for books and what innovative approaches might look like, with leaders from digital, comms and retail roles lending their perspectives and ideas to this crucial debate.
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AI Case Study: My Child, the Algorithm This summer, Hannah Silva published My Child, the Algorithm, a memoir of queer single parent- ing told through conversations between the author, her toddler and a predecessor of ChatGPT. In this in-depth session Silva, computational linguist James Carney and Sujoy Roy from Footnote Press discuss the
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Cultural Report: All Tomorrow’s Stories Nancy Adimora
The former head of talent and audience development at HarperCollins, Nancy Adimora launched consultancy OtherStories to help both publishers and agents find and spread outstanding stories from underrepresented writers. In this powerful rallying call, she will introduce her monthly trends and culture report, and discuss why and how the industry needs to build its future on diversit in all its forms.
Timings listed are provisional and subject to change. To see the other talks, panels and sessions scheduled for the Future- Book Conference, visit
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Cultural report Nancy Adimora
surprises, joys and challenges of writing in collaboration with AI, before opening the discussion to the audience to explore reader atitudes, author anxieties and other potential crea- tive opportunities that generative AI offers.
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