2019 Speakers
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James Daunt
Managing Director, Waterstones & Chief Executive, Barnes & Noble
KEYNOTE
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Katie Espiner
Managing Director, Orion
KEYNOTE
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Akua Agyemfra
Cultural Strategist, Owner; bea.London
KEYNOTE
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Paul Abbassi
Founder and Chief Executive, Bookstat
KEYNOTE
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Chris Duffey
Senior Strategic Development Manager, Adobe
CREATIVE KEYNOTE
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Steven Inchcoombe
Chief Publishing Officer, Springer Nature
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Aimée Felone
Co-Founder, Knights Of
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Vicky Williams
CEO, Emerald Publishing
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Alice Lloyd
Commissioning Editor, Original Audio and Podcasts at Trapeze/Orion
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Alice Lutyens
Literary Agent and Head of the Original Audio & Podcasts Department, Curtis Brown
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Bec Evans
Writer, Speaker and Startup
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Carol Boswarthack
Head of Barbican & Community Libraries, City of London Corporation
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Danny Takhar
Film and TV Executive and Screenwriter
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Dave Buonaguidi
Co-founder, St. Luke’s, Karmarama & Unltd-Inc
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Derek Owusu
Writer, Poet and Podcaster
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Elise Italiaander
Audio and Digital Manager, DK
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Ella Horne
Co-founder, The FLIP
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Ellis Moore
Rights and Content Manager, Bolinda Publishing
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Emma Stuart
Executive Producer, Kindle Entertainment
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Gaby Wood
Literary Director, the Booker Prize Foundation
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Baroness Rebuck, DBE
Penguin Random House
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Guy Gadney
CEO, Charisma.ai
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Helen Monks Takhar
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Helena Gonda
Co-founder, The FLIP
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James Silver
Writer & journalist.
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Jon Seaton
Co-Founder and CEO
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Lee Langford
Harris Interactive
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Mark Pearson
CEO and co-founder of Libro.fm
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MC Angel
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Richard Fisher
Deputy Chairman of Yale University Press and Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society
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Rose Cartwright
Writer and Creative Director
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Vicky Williams
CEO, Emerald Publishing
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John Bond
CEO &co-founder, whitefox
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Darren Buffonge
Manager & Agent, Frank Lavine Group
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Crystal Mahey-Morgan
Founder, OWN IT!
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Anita Sethi
Writer, journalist and critic
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Lucy Mills
Head of Publishing [Education], English, Humanities and Languages
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Carole Tonkinson
Publisher, Bluebird: Books for Life, an imprint of Pan Macmillan
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Priya Lakhani OBE
Founder / CEO (CENTURY Tech)
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Sam Herbert
67 Bricks co-founder
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Kathryn Earle
Managing Director, Bloomsbury Digital Resources
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Molly Ker Hawn
Director, The Bent Agency UK
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Ella Watts
Podcast Producer, BBC Studios
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Steve Connolly
Group Publishing Director for Digital and Partnerships, Hodder Education
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Sunny singh
Writer and academic
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Rosie Beaumont-Thomas
Events Manager, Waterstones Gower Street
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Ruth Fitzsimons
Managing Director, Podfront UK
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Stephen Wilks
Founder & CEO at Seneca
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Ana Garanito
Head of Scripted, Green Door Pictures
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Caroline Bayley
Director, Pinemarten Education Ltd
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Alexander Fane
MD of Fane
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Dr Becky Sage
CEO Interactive Scientific
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Sharmaine Lovegrove
Publisher, Dialogue Books
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Asi Sharabi
Co-Founder, Wonderbly
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Andrew Franklin
Founder and Managing Director, Profile Books
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Kate Elton
Executive Publisher HarperFiction, HarperNonFiction, Avon & One More Chapter
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Amanda Ridout
Founder and CEO, Boldwood Books
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Ahrani Logan
CEO & Cofounder Peapodicity
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Angela Robertson
Director of Good Thinking PR and Founder of Edinburgh Wellbeing Festival
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Jodie Ginsberg
Chief Executive, Index on Censorship
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Rosamund de la Hey
Mainstreet Trading Company
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Caroline Michel
CEO, PFD
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Cat Jones
MD, Travel and Media, Founders Factory
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Jeff Taylor
Founder and editor-in-chief, Courier Media
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Victoria Loomes
Head of Premium Content,TrendWatching
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Ben Saul-Garner
co-founder, Rebel Book Club
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Catherine Thompson
Ulverscroft
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Tom Hall
Vice President of Experience, Lonely Planet
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Tom Clark
VP, Global Publishing
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Wade Lucas
International Account Manager
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Rhian Roberts
Head of Content Commissioning, Digital – BBC Radio 4, 4 Extra and Radio 3
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Stephen Page
Chief Executive, Faber
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Rachel Mallender
Head of New Content Development, Blinkist
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Ruth Jones
Director, Global Sales for Digital Services, Ingram Content Group
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David Roper
MD, Heavy Entertainment
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Videl Bar-Kar
Global Head of Audio, Bookwire
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Emma Barnes
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Natalie Butlin
Commercial manager, Bookouture
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Jonathan Chocqueel-Mangan
CSO, Pearson
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Troy Juliar
Chief Content Officer, RB Media
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Sam Missingham
Founder and c.e.o., The Empowered Author
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Sara O'Connor
Consonance
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Jonathan Phillips
Head of Penguin Connect, Penguin Random House UK
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David Prescott
Chief Executive, Blackwells
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Alice Revel
Founder, Ampersand Book Co
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David Roth-Ey
Executive Publisher of the literary division of HarperCollins
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Susie Warhurst
SVP of Content, Acast
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Jon White
Business Development Director, Makematic
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Stephen Wilks
Founder & CEO at Seneca
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Kate Worlock
VP/Lead Analyst – Education & Training
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