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By Erin L. Cox, Publisher | @erinlcox
Register Free for the September 9 Online Conference
On September 9, Bookwire will host their annual online publishing conference focusing on a key area of technological development in the industry. This year’s focus is artificial intelligence (AI).
“All About AI” brings together specialists in the field to highlight how AI is being used in many parts of the industry while providing publishing professionals with ways to adapt artificial intelligence tools to help in their day-to-day work.
Topics to be discussed include:
- Licensing book content to train LLMs, and other monetization strategies
- How AI-powered marketing and automation tools are creating new promotional opportunities
- Expanding audio opportunities through automated narration, with updates on developments in synthetic voices
- Boosting discoverability and sales through AI-generated metadata
- Entering new markets through multilingual publishing with AI
- Examining how other industries are using artificial intelligence to revolutionize pricing strategies and how that can be applied to the book industry
Agenda for the Online Conference:
9 a.m. ET/15:00 CEST
Welcome
Videl Bar-Kar, vice-president for audio at Bookwire
9:10 a.m. ET/15:10 CEST
How Licensing Book Content for AI Models and Companies Can Work
Eric Bartoletti, head of business development at Bookwire and Nicolas Bräuer, general counsel for Bookwire
9:40 a.m. ET/15:40 CEST
How AI Will Open Up new marketing opportunities and automation for book publishers
Nadim Sadek, founding CEO at Shimmr.ai
10:10am ET/16:10 CEST
How artificially generated voices can already be used effectively today and what we can expect in the future
Dustin Blank, head of partnerships with ElevenLabs
10:40 a.m. ET/16:40 CEST
Up Close: How Publishers Are Using AI Right Now
Hannah Johnson, chief customer officer at Veristage
11:10 a.m. ET/17:10 CEST
How AI Enables the Publishing of Multiple Books and Audiobooks in Different Language Markets
Alexander Franck, co-founding co-CEO of GoAudio
11:40 a.m. ET/17:40 CEST
How AI Is Revolutionizing the Pricing of Products in Other Industries
Sebastian Heinz, founding CEO of Statworx
Click here for more information about the conference and to register free of charge.
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