W3C Publishing Summit 2017

How Web Technologies are Shaping Publishing Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond

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November 9-10, 2017
San Francisco
CA, USA

The web is the universal publishing platform. Join us for the first-ever W3C Publishing Summit and learn how web technologies are shaping publishing today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Publishing and the web interact in innumerable ways. From schools to libraries, from design to production to archiving, from metadata to analytics to AI, from New York to Paris to Buenos Aires to Tokyo, we will show how web technologies are making publishing more accessible, more global, and more efficient and effective.

You'll learn about things you should be doing now to improve your products and processes; developments coming soon that you need to be aware of; and what is coming next in web publications, EPUB, mobile, and the overall Web Platform that can support your workflows on everything from today's browsers, tablets and smartphones to tomorrow's environments.

The W3C Publishing Summit will be co-located with W3C’s main annual meeting, TPAC, so attendees will have the opportunity to network with Web developers and technical experts, including access to a solutions showcase demo area.

Register now to secure your seat at what is expected to be a sell-out event.

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"The Open Web Platform and its technologies have become essential to how content is created, developed, enhanced, discovered, disseminated, and consumed online and offline.  I hope you will join us at the W3C Publishing Summit, which will be a key opportunity for conversation and learning around the many current and future issues in advancing publishing and the Web"

Jeff Jaffe, CEO W3C

Speakers

Jake Archibald

Google


Ken Brooks

Macmillan Learning


Micah Bowers

Bluefire


Judy Brewer

W3C


Marcos Caceres

Mozilla


Julian Calderazi

DigitalBe


Virginie Clayssen

Editis


Garth Conboy

Google


David Cramer

Hachette Book Group


Romain Deltour

DAISY


Ben Dugas

Rakuten Kobo


James English

New York Public Library


Yasushi Fujita

Founder and CEO, Media DO


Gustav Garzon

Gutenberg Technology


Jeff Jaffe

CEO, W3C


Rick Johnson

VP Product and Strategy, Ingram/VitalSource


Bill Kasdorf

Apex CoVantage


George Kerscher

DAISY


Laurent Le Meur

EDRLab


Thad McIlroy

The Future of Publishing


Nellie McKesson

Programmer and Artist


Cristina Mussinelli

Associazione Italiana Editori


Liisa McCloy-Kelley

Penguin Random House


Tim O'Reilly

Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media


Abhay Parasnis

CTO, Adobe


Marty Picco

VP Product Mgmt, Atypon


John Prabhu

SPi Global


Kristen Ratan

Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko)


Florian Rivoal

Vivliostyle


Tzviya Siegman

Wiley


Jen Simmons

Mozilla


Avneesh Singh

DAISY


Ben Walters

Microsoft


Maurice York

University of Michigan Library/Publishing


Program

9 November
Day One - Thursday

09:00 – 09:10 am
Welcome and Introductions
Jeff Jaffe - CEO, W3C
09:10 – 09:40 am
Keynote: The Future of Content
Abhay Parasnis - CTO, Adobe
09:40 – 10:00 am
Content, Platforms, and Publishers: The International Perspective
Ben Dugas - Rakuten Kobo
10:00 – 10:30 am
Digital Publishing in Asia, Europe, and Latin America
Yasushi Fujita - Founder & CEO Media DO,
Cristina Mussinelli - Italian Publishers Association,
Laurent Le Meur - EDRLab, Julian Calderazi - DigitalBe
10:30 – 10:50 am
BREAK
10:50 – 11:10 am
Publishing@W3C Update
Tzviya Siegman - Wiley, Rick Johnson - VitalSource
11:10 – 11:40 am
Accessibility in Publishing and W3C
Judy Brewer - W3C; Romain Deltour, George Kerscher, Avneesh Singh - DAISY
11:40 – 12:10 pm
Panel discussion: Browser/Web Developer Perspective on Publishing and the Open Web Platform
Jake Archibald - Google, Marcos Caceres - Mozilla, Ben Walters - Microsoft. Moderator:  Garth Conboy - Google
12:10–12:30 pm
Web Standards and the Path to Frictionless Publishing
Jeff Jaffe - W3C
12:30 –  1:30 pm
LUNCH
  1:30 –  1:50 pm
The Fantastic Journey of Reading Systems:
eReader Past, Mobile/Browser Present, VR/AR Future

Micah Bowers - Founder & CEO, Bluefire
  1:50 –  2:10 pm
Educational Publishing Today:
Print + Platform + Personalization

Ken Brooks - COO, Macmillan Learning
  2:10 –  2:30 pm
Reading and Beyond
Liisa McCloy-Kelley - Penguin Random House
  2:30 –  2:50 pm
Creating EPUB Content that Looks and Works Great Everywhere
Mustapha Lazrek and Ben Walters - Microsoft
  2:50 –  3:20 pm
BREAK
  3:20 –  3:50 pm
How New CSS Is Changing Everything About Graphic Design on the Web
Jen Simmons - Mozilla
  3:50 –  4:20 pm
Print Quality Layout via CSS
Dave Cramer - Hachette Book Group, Florian Rivoal - Vivliostyle
  4:20 –  4:40 pm
Digital Projects at NYPL
James English - NYPL
  4:40 –  5:00 pm
France's Mass Digitization Project
Virginie Clayssen - Editis


10 November
Day Two - Friday

09:00 – 09:30 am
Keynote: The Arc of Knowledge
Tim O'Reilly - Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media
09:30 – 09:50 am
Automating Publishing Workflows
Nellie McKesson
09:50 – 10:10 am
Building Open Infrastructure for Scholarly Publishing on a Foundation of Web Standards
Kristen Ratan - Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko)
10:10 – 10:30 am
Digital Preservation as a Foundation of Open Content Creation
Maurice York - University of Michigan Library/Publishing
10:30 – 11:00 am
BREAK
11:00 – 11:20 am
Publication Metadata: The Next Generation
Thad McIlroy
12:10 – 11:40 am
Sense of Place: in the expanse of knowledge
Benjamin Young, Wiley
11:40 – 12:00 am
Digital-first design: the evolution from a traditional Print-first to a Digital-first workflow
Gustav Garzon - Gutenberg Technology
12:00 – 12:20 pm
Scholarly Publishing: Evolving from Print-replica to Native Digital Content
Marty Picco - Atypon

Logistics

The W3C Publishing Summit will take place 9:00-5:00pm Thursday November 9 and 9:00-noon on Friday November 10. Registration will include lunch on Thursday and coffee and snack breaks on both days.

Venue

Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
1333 Bayshore Highway
Burlingame, California, USA, 94010
Phone: +1 650 347 1234
Directions and parking
Business casual suggested

Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport

NOTE: Rooms at the Hyatt were sold out for these dates as of 14 July. W3C has reserved a limited number of additional guest rooms at the Crowne Plaza San Francisco Airport Hotel.

Travel agents suggest TPAC attendees book as early as possible to avoid expensive and undesirable flight/hotel options.

NOTE: if also attending TPAC please register for TPAC first to receive the applicable discount code.



Pricing Per Attendee
General $499
W3C Members $399
W3C TPAC attendees $299

Sponsors

VitalSource logo
SPi Global logo
Apex logo
Atypon logo
Gutenberg Technology logo

Sponsorship Opportunities

Contact Bill McCoy for sponsorship opportunities.

Program Committee

Luc Audrain

Hachette Livre

Paul Belfanti

Ascend Learning

Julian Calderazi

DigitalBe

Dave Cramer

Hachette Book Group

Leslie Hulse

HarperCollins

Bill Kasdorf

Apex CoVantage

George Kerscher

DAISY

Liisa McCloy-Kelley

Penguin Random House

Bill McCoy

W3C

Cristina Mussinelli

Associazione Italiana Editori

Leonard Rosenthol

Adobe

Tzviya Siegman

Wiley

Mateus Teixeira

W.W.Norton