IfBookThen: a Recap

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IfBookThen 2013
IfBookThen was held last week and it was a great success both in Milan and in Stockholm!

On Slideshare and under Speakers’ profiles you can find the presentations shown during the conferences.

ITALIAN PRESS REVIEW

Here you can find the Italian press review, all the articles and posts published before and after the conference in Milan.

INTERNATIONAL COMMENTS

Below there are some articles and interviews from international media.

Here you can find the VIDEOS of all presentations!

For hot topics covered at IfBookThen Milan and IfBookThen Stockholm see #ibt13 and #ibtsthlm and our Storify.

 

 

Giovanni Bonfanti

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Giovanni Bonfanti has been working for A.T. Kearney since 1998 and is a Principal in the Milan office.

Overall, he has 15 years of professional experience with international organizations from several industries, such as retail and consumer goods. He is an expert in the publishing sector, with a focus on innovation and operations issues. He has deep expertise across different functional practices: innovation, supply chain, restructuring and organizational design among others. Prior to joining management consulting, he was a logistic planner at two prominent manufacturers in the consumer goods and mechanical industries, respectively.

Learn more:

Here is the VIDEO of A.T.Kearney-Bookrepublic presentation.


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Svein Moe Ihler

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Svein Moe Ihler is covering the Nordic region as a Business Developer working for Océ – a Canon group company. He has gained a long track record in the printing industry, both national and international.

As a representative for a technology provider towards an industry that experience a pressure on the traditional paper based  communication, he has a mission in implementing ideas about new business models for the printing industry.

Nille Svensson

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Nille Svensson is educated at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and design in Stockholm. After graduating in 1997 he has worked as a Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Animator. He is co-founder of, and creative director at Publit and runs a one man publishing house by the name Nilleditions. He is also a lecturer at Beckmans Akademien in Stockholm. Nille will host the “Book of one”-theme in Stockholm.

Marco Ghezzi

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Marco Ghezzi is CEO and Co-Founder at Bookrepublic. He has been working at the intersection of publishing and technology for many years, and has gained extensive experience in developing and managing publishing companies, leveraging all the opportunities new technology has to offer. Marco is the founder and organiser of IfBookThen Milan, and will speak at IfBookThen Stockholm.

 

 

David Walter

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David Walter is Research and Development Analyst for Nielsen BookScan, based in the UK. His work sees him analysing book markets in 9 countries across 5 continents, and collaborating with colleagues and clients throughout these territories. David works with publishers and media partners, and is currently involved in developing a BookScan service for Brazil, which is due to launch in 2013.

Learn more:

Here is the VIDEO of Nielsen presentation.


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Joakim Formo

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Joakim Formo is a norwegian designer, inventor and Senior Researcher at the global telecommunications giant Ericsson. In his work with the User Experience Lab at Ericsson Research he explores tangible design concepts related to the experiential, affective and meaningful aspects of people’s interactions with technologies and networks. Joakim has been with Ericsson Research since 2007, he is based in Stockholm and he probably owns fewer tech gadgets than the average. Joakim will participate at IfBookThen Stockholm.

Serena Danna

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Serena Danna is an Italian journalist. She writes about digital cultures for Corriere della Sera. Previously she worked for Il Sole 24 Ore, for the editorial page and the cultural supplement. She collaborated with the Guardian and with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. She started her journalistic career in 2003, writing for the newspaper il manifesto. She is author of the book “Prodotto interno mafia” (Einaudi, 2011).

Evan Ratliff

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Evan Ratliff is the co-founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of Atavist, a media and software company that produces digital storytelling tools and an award-winning e-singles publishing arm, The Atavist. Having provided its platform to publishers ranging from the Wall Street Journal to TED, this spring Atavist is launching a self-service version of its software for anyone to make books, apps, and digital magazines. An award-winning journalist, Evan’s writing also appears in The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Wired, where he is a contributing editor. He is a three-time finalist for a National Magazine Award, twice as a writer and once as an editor. On the side, he is the story editor of Pop-Up Magazine, one of the most successful live literary events in the U.S., and the co-host of the Longform Podcast.

Learn more:

Here is the VIDEO of Atavist’s presentation.


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Suw Charman-Anderson

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Suw Charman-Anderson is a social technology consultant, journalist and author. She currently writes about publishing, self-publishing and crowdfunding for Forbes.com, and has written about social media, science and technology for The Guardian, CIO Magazine, and .Net Magazine, amongst others. As a social technology consultant, Suw has worked with many household names over the last decade. She also helped launch Indian news website FirstPost.com, a property of the Network18 media group. The print run of Suw’s first novella, Argleton, was crowdfunded through Kickstarter. A keen bookbinder, Suw combines her love for fiction with her passion for the book as a physical artefact. Suw is one of the speakers at IfBookThen in Stockholm.