The speakers list reads like a who’s who of the publishing industry: Mitch Klaif, senior vice president and chief information officer of Time; Ravi Gopalakrishnan, CTO at Barnes and Noble; Joe Zeff, president of Joe Zeff Design; Ben O'Neill, production manager at the
Jakarta Globe newspaper; and Simon Regan-Edwards, production director at the
Sunday Times. These are just some of the high-profile professionals on the agenda for the
WoodWing Xperience.
In addition, WoodWing will announce a brand new product in the field of digital publishing. More information and the registration form can be found at
xperience.woodwing.com.
In addition to speeches from executives of renowned large publishers worldwide sharing their knowledge, the
WoodWing Xperience will offer two days of multiple parallel tracks, covering the use of WoodWing products, real-life business cases, innovative third-party technologies, in-depth technical sessions and hands-on workshops. Zeke Koch, Roger Risdal and several other prominent members of Adobe's digital publishing team will explain the benefits of the digital publishing alliance between Adobe and WoodWing, how publishers can monetise their digital publications using the Adobe DPS, and much more.
Hans Janssen, CEO of WoodWing Software, will share his analysis of the current digital publishing market and explain WoodWing's strategy based on the demands of the rapidly changing publishing industry. Erik Schut, president of WoodWing Software, will detail how this strategy fits into the WoodWing product roadmap. Members of the WoodWing team will render the evolution of WoodWing's multi-channel publishing system Enterprise from version 7.4 to 7.6, share the Enterprise 8 roadmap up to 2013, explain the advantages of WoodWing's Widgets technology and ways to speed up production in InDesign and Incopy, and much more.
Rebecca McPheters of McPheters & Company will share 'Top Tips for Building Better Apps' based on the findings of the company's iMonitor™ ranking. To date, the extensive research has evaluated more than 5 000 apps from 65 countries.
The
WoodWing Xperience 2012 will be hosted by Russell Viers, a transition expert in the publishing world for the past 15 years. Viers offers a video invitation to the WoodWing Xperience
here.
“The
WoodWing Xperience is an essential event for all publishers who need to provide answers to the challenges the industry is currently facing,” Janssen said. “Efficiency and monetisation are the most important key words in our industry right now. I am sure that the participants will greatly benefit from the experiences our speakers will share in regard to these and other important topics.”
Anyone interested in the
WoodWing Xperience can follow all the latest announcements on
Twitter using hashtag#WWXper.
Last year, the
WoodWing Xperience attracted more than 350 participants from 33 countries – from Japan to the United States and Brazil, from South Africa to the Nordics.