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The Bookseller's FutureBook conference to return in December alongside two new awards
The Bookseller’s FutureBook Conference and Awards will return on 1st December 2025 at County Hall, London. The three themes of this year’s conference are to be Leadership, Strategy and Vision. The 2025 conference will reflect the huge changes the book industry is facing: from AI to audio, technology is driving another huge wave of transformation and models of publishing are shifting, inclusion is stalling and culture is in upheaval in both exciting and worrying ways.
The FutureBook Awards are also returning this year and in 2025 will feature two new awards, one for sales professionals and a second for production personnel, adding to the successful freelance award that was introduced last year. For more information on the Conference and Awards, visit the FutureBook webpage.
FutureBook 2025 puts the spotlight squarely back on innovation and disruption and is designed specifically for senior leaders across all areas of the industry. The conference will feature world-leading experts delivering impactful keynotes across the three crucial themes. After each keynote, two pairs of industry leaders will engage in discussion about what they have heard, where they are positioned in their organisation and how they think the trade needs to change. These conversations will be nuanced, informed and brutally honest and will help steer ideas and actions for the year ahead, creating a day of challenge and inspiration.
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Alongside the keynote stream, there will also be three deep-dive sessions into Future Work, Future Campaigns and Future Global, which will be led by experienced practitioners in each field. The experts will drill into case studies, key insights and trends set to influence the trade over the next year, as well as offering detailed discussions on how book professionals can lead – rather than follow – the change that is coming.
FutureBook conference programmer Molly Flatt said: "When I first got involved with FutureBook back in 2015, there was a palpable sense of urgency. New technologies and ideas were everywhere and publishing people felt a real need to step up their pace of change. A decade on, we feel that another wave is cresting, so we’ve redesigned every element of FutureBook to provide leaders with the clarity, insight and inspiration they need to not just surf it, but steer it. It’s going be an unmissable day."
Philip Jones, editor of The Bookseller who co-founded the Conference a decade ago, added: "An industry facing great change needs leaders at whatever level to step up, and this year’s Conference and Awards will amplify and inform those who are already leaning in."
Launch offer tickets for this year’s conference are available now.
Sponsors for this year’s conference include WH Howes, Audible, London Book Fair, Nielsen BookData and Rakuten Kobo. To become a sponsor email Gaby.Pitts@thebookseller.com.
FutureBook Award categories
Future Leader of the Year
Leader of the Year
Start-up of the Year
FutureBook Excellence Award
Freelancer of the Year
Sales Professional(s) of the Year
Production Professional(s) of the Year
