Dr. Sören Auer leads the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) at Universität Leipzig. His research interests are centered around semantic data web technologies. Sören is author of over 70 peer-reviewed scientific publications resulting in a Hirsch index of 17. Sören is leading the large-scale integrated EU-FP7-ICT research project LOD2 and (co-)founder of several high-impact research and community projects such as DBpedia, LinkedGeoData and OntoWiki. He is co-organiser of workshops, programme chair international conferences, area editor of the Semantic Web Journal, serves as an expert for industry, EC, W3C and advisory board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Bläsi has been Professor for Book Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz since 2009; he was Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2004-09. From 1992-2004 he held managing positions in digital publishing and information management at several German publishers. Christoph Bläsi completed a programmer / systems analyst training, studied German, Mathematics and General Linguistics in Freiburg and Brighton (UK) and worked as a researcher in Computational Linguistics in Heidelberg and Bielefeld from 1989-92.

Ulrike Borinski was employed in publishing for 10 years before moving to the Institut für Verbundstudien – IfV NRW – an academic organization for the development and implementation of correspondence courses for those in full-time employment. She coordinates the production of study units from the support of authors to the pre-press stage and runs the project "Development of the study unit portfolio for media-neutral, structured content, workflows for content creation and media output". Ulrike Borinski studied visual communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld and is employed as a communications designer and typographer. She is an expert on new learning technologies (Furtwangen University) and has completed further training as a learning coach.

Prof. Tim Bruysten studied communications design in Aachen and since then has been teaching communications and interaction design, e-learning and the use of new media in Aachen, Düsseldorf and Maastricht. Outside the academic world, he is the Managing Director of richtwert GmbH, which counts among its customers PricewaterhouseCoopers, the publishing group Handelsblatt, RTL and many others. richtwert develops communications concepts for business. Further information: bruysten.com.

Sven-Folker Busch has been the head of technology and senior project manager for strategic projects at picutresafe since 1997. He has years of experience in project planning and the implementation of processes for the management and utilization of digital media. For more than 7 years, he has concerned himself with the automatic digitalization and indexing of text documents. As a project manager, he is responsible for customers from the publishing and media industries, including the Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (dpa) or Westdeutschen Rundfunk (WDR).

Peter Clifton is Managing Partner at +Strategy, a digital media strategy Consultancy specializing in online and traditional business planning and implementation, new product and web platform design and implementation, international business development, sales strategy, restructure and turn-around management. He is also the co-founder of FiledBy, an online social media directory of authors and contributors. Prior to this, he was Sr. Vp and President & CEO of various Ingram Content Group companies and he was the founding CEO of PubEasy, the Global Online Ordering and Inquiry service. He worked for 11 years at John Wiley & Sons and was VP Director of New Media at HarperCollins Children's Division. Peter is a publishing and technology veteran and an entrepreneur.

Christian Dirschl is a content architect at Wolters Kluwer Deutschland GmbH where he leads the content strategy department which deals with current and above all future content requirements in an environment influenced by electronic and software products.
Christian Dirschl is an IT professional and worked for several software companies, among other things as an IT consultant, before joining Wolters Kluwer.

Heide Ebert has been working as a project manager with SCHEMA since 2005. Prior to this she was vice manager of the department "Electronic Publishing" at a publishing house. Additionally she has been teaching different classes including "Structuring of Information with XML and XSL" and "Content Management" at different colleges and universities.

Ingrid S. Goldstein has worked for more than 20 years in the publishing sector and is an expert in the semantic preparation, processing, and cross-linking of content. The computational linguist and art historian, located in London and Heidelberg, advises publishing houses on the development and implementation of digital publishing strategies. She has led industry and research projects for Fraunhofer and realised numerous projects with publishers such as S. Fischer, Walter de Gruyter, and Springer. Today Ingrid Goldstein serves as Head of Language Technology at Oxford University Press.

After finishing his degree in business management, Robert Höllein worked as general manager of STIWA Marketing GmbH in Munich until moving to Buch Bücher.de Gmbh in 1998, where he is in charge of marketing and product development. In 2008 he took on an additional role as a member of the board of directors of Buch Bücher.ch, a full subsidiary of Buch Bücher. de located near Biel, Switzerland. Robert Höllein also oversees the conceptual development of process optimization software for book production with regard to supply chain and web-to-print solutions at both companies. In May 2010, Buch Bücher.de was acquired by the French Group CPI as a crucial part of the ‘1 or 1 Million Books’ strategy.

Christian Keller's work focuses on consulting, training and coaching in the area of knowledge management. With his practical knowledge management background, he has acquired experience in innovation management, process management, quality management, in corporate training and, naturally, in knowledge management.
He has been able to successfully apply his specific know-how in numerous projects – in large, but also in small and middle-sized companies. Mr Keller was the Project Leader for Knowledge Management in a software firm and is currently advising several companies on ways to improve their organization of knowledge. As one of the coordinators of the "Exzellente Wissenorganisation" (Excellent Knowledge Organization) initiative, he is heavily involved in the development of the competition.

Arnoud de Kemp (born in the Netherlands) has been working in Germany since 1984. Until 2004, he was Director for Springer Publishers Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, where he was responsible for new media development (SpringerLink) and the utilization of content. He founded ‘digiprimo’, an internet agency, with Ingrid Maria Spakler in 2004. In 2008 he also took on the roles of Publisher for Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft AKA (Heidelberg) and Co-Editor for the journal ‘Information Services & Use’ (IOS Press, Amsterdam). He has been organizing the annual international APE Conference (Academic Publishing in Europe) since 2006, and for the second time, from 8-10 May 2012, he is going to host the ‘Informare!’ conference in Berlin’s well-known Café Moskau venue.

Dr. André Klahold is a lecturer for content and knowledge management at the University of Siegen. He has been dealing with the subject of content management and media-neutral data management for more than 20 years. Dr. André Klahold is the author of numerous books and academic articles and is the managing director of InterRed GmbH – supplier of component and web content management systems. InterRed GmbH counts leading companies in the media industry among its customers

Christian Kohl is Senior Manager E-Publishing at De Gruyter, an international publishing house renowned for high quality content in the humanities and natural sciences. He is responsible for managing online content and e-commerce platforms, electronic products, workflow and content management systems, and digital workflows. Christian holds a degree in Computational Linguistics and has worked as project manager, software developer, system administrator, event manager, and researcher before joining De Gruyter in 2005. Since 2009 he also teaches courses on E-Publishing and Project Management for the Academy of the German Book Trade.

Nina Kreutzfeldt has been the Director of Content Management EU at Kobo Inc. where she is responsible for contracts with German publishers and content management in Europe since February 2011. Prior to this, she was the Managing Director of Kreuztfeldt Electronic Publishing and then Kreuztfeldt digital for more than ten years and, for this reason, is numbered among the pioneers in the German e-book market. At the end of 90's, she acquired her first experiences online as a project manager at AOL Germany.

Dr. Uwe Naumann was born in Hamburg in 1951. He studied German language and literature, sociology and pedagogy in Hamburg and Marburg. He has worked in the editorial department of the Rowohlt publishing house, producer of the Rowohlt monographies, since 1985, has been the non-fiction director since 2000 and the director of Rowohlt's Digitalbuch Plus program since 2010. Together with Robert Galitz, he developed Rowohlt's enriched e-books.

Dr. Marco Olavarria has been employed at Kirchner + Robrecht management consultants since 1998. He is a managing partner in the company which provides specialized management consulting for publishers. Mr Olavarria is the author of "Product Management 2.0 – New Methods of Product Development in Specialized Publishing Houses" for the Deutsche Fachpresse as well as the Verband Deutscher Zeitschriftenverleger (VDZ) white papers "Systematic Innovation Management for Publishing Houses", "E-Publishing for Publishing Houses" and "Developing Digital Products in Publishing Houses". He also works for the Akademie des Deutschen Buchhandels and the VDZ Akademie as a lecturer.

Anna von Veh is a Director of Say Books, a new digital publishing services company in Auckland, New Zealand. She also works as a Consultant and Project Manager, most recently for Author-it Software Corporation. Previously, Anna was Editorial and Production Manager at Pearson, New Zealand, and was the NZ representative on the Australia-NZ project team for the global Pearson Content Management Project. Anna’s primary interest is in content management, and the intersection of business, technology and creativity. Having worked for years in educational publishing, she knows the importance and desirability of a well-managed workflow, of user-centric design, and the vital role of good content, and people, management.

Starting as a researcher, Gregor Wolf’s studies at the Technical University of Berlin focused on applied informatics and software engineering, and he graduated as a computer scientist. He was one of the authors of the software development method PetS before leaving academic research to join the software industry. After working as a consultant for several public authorities and software companies, Gregor Wolf joined Klopotek when the company was founded in 1992. From 2000-01 he was managing director of the BtoB Company, Hannover, a content management company. He has held several management positions in the Klopotek Group in Germany and the UK. In 2005, he was appointed Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and member of the Executive Board of Klopotek AG. In his position as CTO, he is responsible for research, technology standards, and the technology strategy. Gregor has been invited as speaker to many international congresses, he was member of the program committee board of the 2008 (Berlin) and 2009 (Sydney) MBSDI conferences. He is member of the executive board of the Bizycle research consortium, and member of the advisory board of Model Labs GmbH.

Helmut von Berg has been a Director at Klopotek & Partner GmbH since 2004. He has hosted the “Forum Herstellung im Verlag” conference series since 2005 and initiated the “Publishers’ Forum” in 2009. During his many years managing production and publishing processes, he has held positions such as head of production, material scheduling and purchasing at Droemer Weltbild in Munich and head of production at Droemer Knaur and Walter de Gruyter. Prior to that he was a managing partner of an offset printing company. He headed the Berlin Production Workshop, a group that dealt with the development of benchmarks for processes and workflows. He is active as a consultant for business process analysis and is co-coordinator of the Frankfurt Book Fair’s publishing production forum (“Forum Verlagsherstellung”).

Dr. Torsten Casimir has been Editor-in-Chief at Börsenblatt and Publishing Manager at MVB (Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH) since 2006. Prior to these roles, he was in charge of the arts/culture section of the Rheinische Post, a position he came to after finishing his formal training in newspaper editing with Westfälische Nachrichten and completing his university studies in Journalism, German, and Music. Torsten Casimir gained his doctorate in 1989 and has served in teaching positions for universities in Münster and Düsseldorf.

Ehrhardt F. Heinold, born on 27.12.1961, studied history, sociology and German language and literature in Hamburg and has years of freelance experience as an editor, journalist, seminar instructor and consultant. He has been a managing partner at the consultancy firm Heinold, Spiller & Partner Unternehmensberatung GmbH BDU located in Hamburg. He heads the e-consulting department and has supervised numerous consulting and professional development projects in the field of publication and content management. Heinold has been running the blog http://publishing-business.blogspot.com since 2007.

Heinold is the founder and organizer of the annual symposium CrossMediaForum which has been taking place since 2002.

Heinold is the author and publisher of specialist studies and articles ("Publishers Online", "Trade Journals Online", "Media-neutral Publishing", "Trade Publishers on the Internet" and "Production in Publishing - Status quo and Perspectives", "Market Study of Cross Media Editorial Systems" and "Change Management in Specialist Publishers. Example – Introducing an Editorial System"), and co-author of the book "Business E-volution" (Gabler / Vieweg 2000). In addition, he has given numerous presentations on content management, cross media, electronic publishing and social media. Heinold is a course instructor at the Akademie des Deutschen Buchhandels (head of the certified training course Project Manager E-Publishing ADB, "Selecting and Implementing Content Management Systems" among other things).

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Having developed software for publishers since 1985, Ulrich Klopotek von Glowczewski founded Klopotek & Partner GmbH in 1992. The company, which concentrates on standard software and innovative technology, has become the market leader in Germany. Since expanding its focus to include international markets in 2000, Klopotek now also has a leading position in the most important publishing markets in the United States, Benelux and the UK.

Ursula Welsch provides consulting services for clients in the area of electronic publishing, focusing on media-independent data management and workflow optimization (www.welschmedien.de). She is also owner of XML School (www.xml-schule.de).

Alongside his advisory work for investors and industry players, David chairs Outsell’s Global Leadership Councils, a member-service for CEOs and senior executives of media publishing and information provider firms. David founded Electronic Publishing Services Ltd. (EPS) in 1985, a research and consultancy company working with the digital content industry in developing strategies for products and markets in consumer and business sectors. Outsell acquired EPS in 2006. David received his degree in History from the University of Cambridge.