Dr. Barry Corey, President of Biola University and author of Love Kindness

Skot Welch, President of Global Bridgebuilders

This session will move beyond academic theory and offer real examples of processes over programs. Organizations that are stuck in the "pleasantries" of diversity and inclusion, and have not yet intentionally committed to a business-imperative, innovation-driven orientation -- risk marketplace irrelevance and miss God's best. More...

Skot Welch (President of Global Bridgebuilders), Joyce Dinkins (Executive Editor, Our Daily Bread Ministries), Jeff Crosby (Publisher, InterVarsity Press), Jeff James (VP Marketing, Nelson Books), and Tim Murphy (CFO, Urban Ministries Inc.)

Elisa Goodwin (The Magellan Project lead for American Bible Society), Doug Lockhart (Senior VP of Bible Marketing and Outreach, HCCP Zondervan), Carl Moeller (CEO, Biblica), Greg Clarke (Group CEO of Bible Society Australia), and Todd Peterson (Chairman Emeritus, Seed Company)

Moderated by Cris Doornbos (CEO, David C Cook global ministry)

Kristen McLean, Executive Director of Business Development, NPD Book (formerly Nielsen Book)

In this informative & thought-provoking session, NPD Book’s Kristen McLean will be bringing together highlights from the current ECPA Landscape Survey of Book Buying Trends in the Christian Market, along with additional data from BookScan, PubTrack Digital, and other sources to help us build a picture of what the current and future Christian Buyer looks like. As always, she will be moving beyond the data to ask us important questions about our strategies for meeting the challenges of our evolving business, and she will be sharing some of the emerging opportunities she sees for content creators moving ahead.

We are clear on the WHY of our mission, but we must continually stay informed and willing to change HOW our content is discovered and delivered. Publishers are continually faced with new innovations in marketing and discovery, and responding technologies that create efficiencies in delivery and workflow. In this session you’ll learn from four publishing technology experts on what’s new and vital in digital discovery, delivery, analytics, and the workflows that tie them all together.

Kelly Gallagher (Vice President of Content Acquisition for Ingram Content Group), Joshua Tallent (Director of Outreach and Education, Firebrand Technologies), Brittyne Lewis (Head of Product, LibreDigital, an LSC Communications Company), and Larry Bennett (Executive Director, Nord Compo NA)

Celebrating the year’s best in Christian publishing: announcing the Christian Book Award® winners and the recipient of the Kenneth N Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award.