EVENTS


FutureBook Live 2019 Meet the speakers


Introducing The experts taking to the stage at the FutureBook Live


Ninety-two speakers will be sharing their expertise at this year’s FutureBook Live conference: here is everything you need to know about each of them ahead of the day


Paul Abbassi Bookstat


Keynote


Paul is founder and c.e.o. of Bookstat, a supplier of daily, title-level online sales data to large publishers, providing


whole-market point-of-sale coverage of e-books, audiobooks and online print sales. Previously, Paul was a tech executive in the video game industry.


Shauna O’Briain Poet, author and hip hop MC


Akua Agyemfra bea.London


Keynote


Akua is a cultural strategist focusing on sport and entertain- ment. As director of creative strategy consultancy bea.London,


she works with Stormzy and #Merky Group, Spotify, NFL UK and more.


Master class


Shauna O’Briain, a.k.a. MC Angel, is a talented wordsmith, performing as a spoken word artist and hip hop emcee as well as writing page poetry. She is the author of Moments of Significance, a non-linear memoir packed with poetry, prose, fragments of memories and meditations on life, philosophy and politics.


Videl Bar-Kar Bookwire


Videl is global head of audio at Bookwire, a leading provider of digital publishing services. He has worked in publishing for over a decade, first as director of the Ways With Words Festival group, then as the first audio publisher at Penguin Random House UK. He is currently a member of the Cheltenham Literature Festival advisory board.


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Emma Barnes Snowbooks, General Products and Make Our Book


Emma is a publisher, programmer and found- ing c.e.o. of three compa- nies: indie publisher Snowbooks; publishing technology house General Products, which produces the widely used publish- ing management system consonance.app; and publishing for schools app Make Our Book.


Caroline Bayley Pinemarten Education


Caroline is the founder of Pinemarten Education, a consultancy and software development company that creates assessment and workload manage- ment tools for teachers. A former English teacher and head of department, she is also the designer/ developer behind SmartRubric, an assess- ment system for non- STEM subject teachers.


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