Speaker: Bill Reynolds, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, Ryerson University. Bill teaches the students who produce the Ryerson Review of Journalism and has created the feature-writing course for the new Master of Journalism program. Bill has won National Magazine and Western Magazine Awards for his features and was editor of Eye Weekly in Toronto. www.rrj.ca
Speaker: Stephen Pia, Founder and Media Sales Trainer of CoachMEdia based in Boston, spent 16 years in media sales, including 10 years at Ziff-Davis Media. Throughout his career, Stephen has excelled at selling, managing sales teams, creating sales organizations and coaching sales professionals to higher levels of performance. www.coachmediapros.com
Creative Director Dean Mitchell R.G.D. of Fresh Art & Design Inc., a full-service creative studio specializing in publication design will lead the discussion. Dean and his partner Susan took over James Ireland + Associates and merged it with their existing studio in 2006. A well-respected editorial art director, Dean has 24 years of award-winning experience, and has designed and redesigned everything from TV Guide to Flare magazine in the consumer publishing world, and Marketing to Canadian Interiors in the business publishing world. www.freshartdesign.com
Speakers: San Diego-based Aaron Kahlow is managing partner of BusinessOnLine. Aaron has helped some of the most recognizable brands on the globe develop their Web strategies and improve online effectiveness. A member of ABM’s Digital Media Council, Aaron is a recognized authority on the subjects of Web site usability, search engine optimization, Web analytics and overall Web strategy.
Since 1996, Dave Newcorn, VP/eMedia, has run the digital media initiatives of Chicago-based Summit Publishing, which publishes Packaging World and Automation World and produces several conferences. He has participated in ABM’s Digital Media Council, has been quoted in industry publications and has spoken at numerous industry conferences.
Speaker: Robert W.White, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales (Canada), Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), has over 12 years of media sales experience (Rogers, Quebecor, CanWest) and has managed Canadian marketing and sales for ABC for more than 15 years.
Speaker: Eric Schneider, President and CEO of Redwood Custom Publishing, based in Toronto saw the unexploited potential of branded content in North America in 1998. Under his stewardship and pioneering vision, branded content has been acknowledged and embraced by leading international brands as a powerful marketing and communication strategy with applications across media. Eric was the recipient of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2003 and was voted one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2004. Redwood is now ranked as one of North America’s leading custom publishing agencies. www.redwoodcc.com
Speaker: Barry J. Green, Vice President, Director of Circulation & Audience Development at Hearst Business Media, current winner of the ABM 2007 Circulation Career Award, has seen all sides of b2b circulation during his 37-year career. Currently, he is a member of the ABC Business Publications Industry Committee and the ABM Postal Task Force.
Ronda Hughes, Circulation and Show Logistics Director, Advanstar Communications, Inc., is responsible for publications in the Dental, Science, Pharmaceutical, and Automotive markets. She is a member of the BPA Audience Development Advisory Committee (ADAC), and is a BPA certified controlled circulation professional (CCCP).
Speaker: Lou Ann Sabatier, principal of Sabatier Consulting, has 26 years of experience in publishing. With offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City, Lou Ann and her highly-skilled team of seasoned publishing executives work with consumer, trade, association, custom and corporate publishers who cover all the key disciplines of print and Internet publishing. www.sabatierconsulting.com
Speaker: Stephen Pia, Founder and Media Sales Trainer of CoachMEdia based in Boston, spent 16 years in media sales, including 10 years at Ziff-Davis Media. Throughout his career, Stephen has excelled at selling, managing sales teams, creating sales organizations and coaching sales professionals to higher levels of performance. www.coachmediapros.com
Speaker: Diane Burley, an online publishing specialist who knows how to transition printcentric business structures and brands into multi-channel successes, is fluent in advantages and disadvantages of media delivery channels – understanding the workflow, the cultural speed bumps, and the ways to leverage great content! She has held executive positions with CBS Interactive, Gannett and Lucent Technologies. An accomplished and award-winning writer, Burley is a frequent speaker at industry events, including ABM, ASIDIC and Folio:. www.purecontemporary.com
Speaker: Mark Briggs is editor of thenewstribune. com, the flagship Web site for The News Tribune newspaper in Tacoma, Washington. A digital revolution leader from inside a newsroom, Mark has worked in new media for newspapers since 2000 and contributed to workshops, seminars and textbooks on the topic. www.kcnn.org/resources/journalism_20/
Speakers: Nicole Filiatrault, General Manager, IT World Canada; Heidi Spangler, Director of Audience Development, Questex Media. Moderator: Tim Peel, General Manager, CCAB - Division of BPA Worldwide.
Speaker: Michael O. Lavitt, Senior Content Producer, Aviation Week based in New York, has extensive experience in both traditional print and new media. He began his career as a reporter with daily newspapers and then joined McGraw-Hill as news editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology. He held a variety of positions and was the founding editor of AviationWeek.com. Michael is responsible for developing new electronic products and services and for operations of AviationWeek.com and the Aviation Week Intelligence Network, which won the 2006 Neal Award for Best Web Site. www.aviationweek.com
Speaker: Jim Bronskill is a reporter with The Canadian Press and sessional lecturer in the Journalism program at Carleton University. He specializes in security and intelligence, policing and justice-related issues and boasts considerable experience using information laws to uncover stories. Before joining CP, Jim was a reporter with Southam News and TVOntario. He is a co-founder and steering committee member of Open Government Canada, a national coalition formed to guard against undue government secrecy.
Speakers: Vesna Moore, Director of Circulation, Business Information Group and James Zammit, Director of Circulation for CLB Media Inc.
Speaker: Nick Ferrari, Executive Vice- President of American Business Media, brings a breadth of experience in b2b that includes a rich background in advertising, marketing, communications and research spanning more than 25 years.
Peter Legge is an internationally renowned keynote speaker and the best-selling author of numerous books, including his most recently published work The Power of Tact. As President and CEO, Peter is also a savvy businessman and natural opportunist who leads the largest independently owned publishing company in Western Canada, Canada Wide Media Limited, which produces more than 50 consumer and b2b titles. When Peter Legge speaks to an audience, he speaks from experience; a man who understands business and the critical role effective leadership plays in today’s marketplace. Passionately optimistic about periodical publishing, Peter will describe his vision of the magazine industry of the future.
New York-based writer and editor Dale Hrabi is the editor-at-large for Radar magazine and former editorial creative director at Maxim, Details, and Mademoiselle magazines. He has lectured extensively on editorial packaging.
Speaker: Lou Ann Sabatier, principal of Sabatier Consulting, has 27 years of experience in publishing. A popular speaker at publishing conferences, Sabatier is a business strategist, adept at evaluating strategies and operations with resulting recommendations that help publishers achieve their mission. Former clients include a list as diverse as World Vision/Save the Children, the International Monetary Fund, the OECD, National Geographic, American Marketing Association, the Marine Corp League, Chronicle of Higher Education and Penton Publishing. Additional information available at www.sabatierconsulting.com.
Speakers: Michael Gold and Susan West are principals in San Francisco-based West Gold Editorial, a consulting firm specializing in helping publishers and editors invent and perfect their projects, in print and on the Web. Clients include Discovery Communications, British Medical Journal Publishing, ConsumerReports.org, Cooking Light, Heifer International, Dwell, Southern Accents and others. Visit www.westgoldeditorial.com. Also catch Michael Gold’s editorial marketing session T11 and Susan West’s writing for the web session T12.
This session sponsored by The Canadian Press.
Speaker: Greg Keilty is recognized as one of Canada’s publishing stars. As publisher of SkyNews, Canada’s independent magazine for amateur astronomers, he is responsible for all facets of the operation. He is also an award-winning circulator and a principal in the CM Group. He is the consulting Circulation Director for The Walrus, worked for many years at Saturday Night, and is a former faculty member of the Banff Publishing Workshop. In 2005 he was awarded the CMC’s Magazine Marketer of the Year Award.
Speaker: Bob Atkinson is one of North America’s recognized experts in publishing technology, bringing his years of experience working for all types of publishers to Mags U. He has more than 70 publishing clients across Canada and the U.S. using either Adobe or Quark platforms. He is a columnist for Graphic Monthly Canada and Design Edge Canada magazines, writing on technological trends and products for the prepress, printing, publishing and graphic design industries.
Speakers: Kamy Zarbafi, Vice President of Publishing Services Division and Fundraising Services Division, Cornerstone Group of Companies; Jay Hook, Circulation and IT Director, Reni Publishing. Moderator: Richard Murphy, Senior Vice President of Auditing, BPA Worldwide.
Speaker: Bob Atkinson is one of North America’s recognized experts in publishing technology, bringing his years of experience working for all types of publishers to Mags U. He has more than 70 publishing clients across Canada and the U.S. using either Adobe or Quark platforms. He is a columnist for Graphic Monthly Canada and Design Edge Canada magazines, writing on technological trends and products for the prepress, printing, publishing and graphic design industries.
Speaker: Tony Silber is the Publisher/Editor of Folio: and its sister publication, CM (Circulation Management). He is also a partner in the parent company, Red 7 Media, which publishes Event Magazine, Event Design, and Agenda New York. The company produces shows and events for the U.S. publishing industry and has moved aggressively into Internet publishing with the launch of online properties including Websites, e-mail broadcasts, webinars and video.
Speaker: In 1986, Michael Gold co-founded Hippocrates, now a million-circulation magazine called Health, which won four U.S. National Magazine Awards while he served as managing editor and executive editor. After founding West Gold Editorial in San Francisco in 1994, Gold and his partner, Susan West, helped conceive and launch University Business and Dwell magazines, both of which won national awards soon after their debuts. Recent clients have included PC World, the AARP Bulletin, Inc., UCLA Magazine, and Acoustic Guitar. Gold has also consulted for prominent Web publishers in the U.S., including Time Inc./AOL, Consumer Reports, the George Lucas Educational Foundation, and Discovery Communications. Gold is a favourite speaker at Stanford University’s Professional Publishing Course and he returns to Toronto by popular demand after his Mags U 2007 appearance.
Speaker: Susan West is a principal of West Gold Editorial in San Francisco, a consulting firm that helps invent and perfect magazines and Web sites. An award-winning writer and editor, West co-founded Hippocrates magazine (now the Time, Inc. title Health) and recently served as executive editor of Smithsonian magazine. Her print clients include Cooking Light, Southern Accents, Heifer International and Dwell. Recent Web projects include a critique of content and usability for a health information site produced by the British Medical Journal; advice on revamping the site of the George Lucas Educational Foundation; a series of editing workshops for ConsumerReports.com; and development of a content strategy for Navigencs.com.
Speaker: Pat Moylan has over 20 years of magazine ad sales experience. Currently the National Sales Director for The Hockey News, she was also National Sales Manager for Cottage Life and Outdoor Canada, seeing the latter magazine through a re-positioning and developing the highest revenue streams in its then 25-year history. Moylan has taught sales and marketing at Centennial College in Toronto, has served as a faculty member for Magazine Canada’s Advertising Sales School, and is a previous Mags U seminar leader.
Speaker: Ina Saltz is an art director, designer, writer, photographer and professor (at The City College of New York) whose areas of expertise are typography and magazine design. She is a regular columnist for STEP Inside Design magazine and other publications. She was the Design Director at Time magazine (International Editions), Worth, and others including Golf Magazine and Golf for Women. Saltz is on the design faculty of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course and she is a popular and entertaining speaker at design conferences. She has judged numerous design competitions including the U.S. National Magazine Awards and the Society of Publication Designers.
Speaker: Dan Zimerman was a creative ad exec at Foote Cone Belding in Toronto when one holiday season he noticed the plethora of lifestyle magazines focusing on Christmas decorations, recipes and other service topics. Finding that existing Jewish magazines leaned towards heavy topics such as Middle East peace, he and his wife Carol Moskot thought there would be a market for a Jewish lifestyle magazine that emphasized culture rather than religion. Launched before Chanukah last year, Jewish Living was one of Media Industry Newsletter’s most notable launches of 2007.
Speakers: Brian Stendel, President, Brainstone Communications and a rep for such magazines as BC Magazine and The Beaver; Marion da Ponte, National Advertising Manager, da Ponte & Company; Marty Tully, President, Canadian Media Connection. Moderator Paul Jones is the former publisher of Maclean’s and senior vice-president of Rogers Publishing, and is an award-winning columnist for Masthead.
Speaker: Ina Saltz is an art director, designer, writer, photographer and professor (at The City College of New York) whose areas of expertise are typography and magazine design. She is a regular columnist for STEP Inside Design magazine and other publications. She was the Design Director at Time magazine (International Editions), Worth, and others including Golf Magazine and Golf for Women. Saltz is on the design faculty of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course and she is a popular and entertaining speaker at design conferences. She has judged numerous design competitions including the U.S. National Magazine Awards and the Society of Publication Designers.
Speakers: Don Lange, Senior Vice-President, Web Media, Cornerstone Group and a recognized expert on search engine optimization and marketing; June Li, Founder, Managing Director, ClickInsight Corporation and an internationally recognized speaker on web analytics; Scott Karp, Editor, Publisher and Founder, Publishing 2.0 and former director of digital strategy for Atlantic Media, publisher of The Atlantic magazine.
Speakers: Mercy Adinkrah, Press Category Manager, HDS Retail, one of North America’s major magazine retailers; Scott Bullock, President, Circ3 Consulting, specializing in newsstand and circulation consulting, and Masthead’s circulation columnist; Martin McEwen, National Sales Director, LMPI; Peter van de Geyn, Account Executive, Coast to Coast Newsstand Services, Canada’s largest mass-market national distributor.
Here's your chance to hear one of the most provocative commentators on the changing nature of publishing today. Scott Karp is the Editor & Publisher of Publishing 2.0 (www.publishing2.com), one of the most talked-about blogs on how technology is transforming media. Folio: magazine named Karp one of the 40 most influential people in publishing for 2007. He was previously the Director of Digital Strategy for Atlantic Media, publisher of The Atlantic, one of the oldest and most respected media brands in the world. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Publish2, an online news aggregator powered by professional journalists. Karp will speak on his guiding principles for the future of publishing. If you want to know where publishing is headed, this is a unique chance to hear from one of the major new voices in the industry today. Reserve your place now—last year's Future of Publishing luncheon was sold out. Sponsored by The Cornerstone Group of Companies.
