Hot Key Books are proud to host this Women in Digital Publishing Panel featuring four innovators in the digital space.

There will unique insights from the panellists' different areas of expertise, questions about successes, failures, trends and the future of digital in publishing, and a little bit about what it's like to be a woman in digital.

This networking event is for people in publishing with an interest in digital. It will have a slight young reader slant.

The panellists:

Annie Auerbach, Director, Foresight and Trends, Flamingo International
Annie looks after Flamingo’s Trends Offering in London. She is responsible for generating global socio-cultural trends, explaining their impact on human behaviour and showing how they can be leveraged by brands. She has worked extensively on youth and technology projects and speaks at conferences about trends, digital and how research is evolving. Annie also works on FYI, the company’s trends magazine, and more recently, Flamingo’s Big Ideas Breakfasts. She studied at Oxford and these days enjoys cycling but not uphill, growing vegetables in her metre-squared patch and reading novels.

Helen Kogan, Managing Director of Business and Management, Kogan Page
Helen is Managing Director of Kogan Page, one of Europe’s leading independent business and management book publishers. She is a member of the Publisher’s Association Council and the London Book Fair Executive Committee. Kogan Page publishers over 120 titles a year and has offices in Philadelphia and New Delhi. Kogan Page has long established channels to market for its digital product. Investment in digital supply chains, reformatting capability, piracy protection and global metadata feed networks has enabled Kogan Page authors to fully exploit their intellectual property and to optimise revenue streams through a variety of digital formats.

Tishna Molla, COO, Power to the Pixel
Tishna is the COO of Power to the Pixel. Her background spans project development, production & finance; talent representation and rights negotiations across film, books, TV and theatre. Power to the Pixel specialises in new ways for content creators and businesses to develop and finance stories to engage with audiences across multiple platforms. The company’s core activities include consultancy, training, and facilitating the exchange of ideas and building of international partnerships between media professionals and between industries.

Rebecca Smart is CEO of Osprey Group, a UK-based international publishing company focused on producing the best content for enthusiasts across a broad range of specialist areas including military history, heritage and nostalgia, transport history, crafts, antiques, science fiction and fantasy. Osprey Group publishes under four brands: Osprey Publishing, Shire, Old House and Angry Robot. A fifth brand, Strange Chemistry (YA genre fiction), will launch in September 2012 and a crime fiction brand, Exhibit A, will follow in Spring 2013. What defines the company is not what it creates but for whom it creates. Osprey Group recently won the Independent Publishers’ Guild Award for Specialist Consumer Publisher of the year 2012, and in December 2011 Rebecca won the FutureBook award for ‘most inspiring digital person’.

Please arrive at the Hot Key office at 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start, see our map here. There is limited space and tickets are available on a first-come-first-served basis. Drinks and nibbles will be served.

Hot Key Books is a new publisher of fiction for young readers from ages 9 to 19 and part of the Bonnier Publishing Group.