2019 Speakers

James Daunt

Managing Director, Waterstones & Chief Executive, Barnes & Noble

Katie Espiner

Managing Director, Orion

Akua Agyemfra

Cultural Strategist, Owner; bea.London

Paul Abbassi

Founder and Chief Executive, Bookstat

Chris Duffey

Senior Strategic Development Manager, Adobe

Steven Inchcoombe

Chief Publishing Officer, Springer Nature

Aimée Felone

Co-Founder, Knights Of

Vicky Williams

CEO, Emerald Publishing

Alice Lloyd

Commissioning Editor, Original Audio and Podcasts at Trapeze/Orion

Alice Lutyens

Literary Agent and Head of the Original Audio & Podcasts Department, Curtis Brown

Bec Evans

Writer, Speaker and Startup

Carol Boswarthack

Head of Barbican & Community Libraries, City of London Corporation

Danny Takhar

Film and TV Executive and Screenwriter

Dave Buonaguidi

Co-founder, St. Luke’s, Karmarama & Unltd-Inc

Derek Owusu

Writer, Poet and Podcaster

Elise Italiaander

Audio and Digital Manager, DK

Ella Horne

Co-founder, The FLIP

Ellis Moore

Rights and Content Manager, Bolinda Publishing

Emma Stuart

Executive Producer, Kindle Entertainment

Gaby Wood

Literary Director, the Booker Prize Foundation

Baroness Rebuck, DBE

Penguin Random House

Guy Gadney

CEO, Charisma.ai

Helen Monks Takhar

Helena Gonda

Co-founder, The FLIP

James Silver

Writer & journalist.

Jon Seaton

Co-Founder and CEO

Lee Langford

Harris Interactive

Mark Pearson

CEO and co-founder of Libro.fm

MC Angel

Richard Fisher

Deputy Chairman of Yale University Press and Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society

Rose Cartwright

Writer and Creative Director

Vicky Williams

CEO, Emerald Publishing

John Bond

CEO &co-founder, whitefox

Darren Buffonge

Manager & Agent, Frank Lavine Group