April 29 to 30, Nashville
PROGRAM & SCHEDULE
All times are listed in Central Time
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Tuesday | April 29
Tuesday, April 29
7:30 am
Registration opens
8:00 am
Welcome
Jeff Crosby, ECPA President and CEO
8:15 am
Devotions
Ben Mandrell, Lifeway President and CEO
8:45 am
Trends in Publishing
Jane Friedman, Co-founder and Editor of The Hot Sheet, Author, and Industry Speaker
9:45 am
Q&A with Jane Friedman
10:15 am
Break
10:45 am
Reports and Forecasts: The State of Audiobook Publishing – An Industry Panel
Michele Cobb, Executive Director, Audiobook Publishers Association
Cory Verner, CEO, One Audio
Matt Tully, SVP, audio and book publishing, Crossway
Brad Hill, Associate Publisher/Audio, HarperCollins Christian
11:45 am
Lunch
1:30 pm
Building Culture and Integrating Best Practices in a Remote/Hybrid/In-Office Paradigm
Mark James, President and Lead Advisor, Performance Advisors Group, Inc.
2:30 pm
Redeeming the Grind and Glory of Your Job
Bryan Chappell, Author of Grace at Work; President Emeritus of Covenant Theological Seminary
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm
The Genesis of Bookshop.org and What’s Coming Next for Independent Retailing
Andy Hunter, Founder/CEO of Bookshop.org
6:00 pm
ECPA Christian Book Award® dinner and celebration
8:30 pm
Informal Conversations
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Wednesday | April 30
Wednesday, April 30
7:30 am
Registration opens
8:30 am
Cultivating Wisdom In and Through Our Leadership Journey
Uli Chi, Author of The Wise Leader; Senior Fellow at De Pree Center
9:30 am
Accessibility and Christian Publishing: An Industry Panel
Sam Richardson, Chief Executive of SPCK | moderator
Larry Bennett, Executive Director North America, Nord Compo
Michael Johnson, Vice President of Content, Benetech
Bill Kasdorf, Publishing Consultant on Accessibility; Principal of Kasdorf & Associates
Klaus E. Krogh, CEO and founder, 2K/DENMARK
David Rech, President and Founder, Scribe
10:15 am
Break
10:45 am
Enhancing Evangelical Publishing Organizations’ Mission through Open Access Content: Ideas & Responses
Ben Amungaard, Vice President of Aquifer Content at BiblioNexus
11:45 am
Lunch
12:00 pm
ECPA Annual Member Meeting
Scott Mathews, ECPA Board Chair and CEO of Tyndale House Publishers
12:30 pm
Adjourn