Schedule

Networking Breakfast & Registration

Members Only Breakfast with Keynote

SIIA members are invited to join us for a private breakfast with our opening keynote, Michael Chen.

Speed Networking

The Information Industry Summit will kickoff with a speed networking session designed to introduce you to a large number of attendees in an efficient and relaxed way.

How it works: you will have a brief 3-minute meeting with delegates at the event (one minute per person and one minute for discussion). These quick meetings are the starting point for conversation and networking throughout the conference. Make the most out of your conference investment through this unique session.

Opening Remarks

Presenters:

Kathy Greenler Sexton, VP and General Manager, Content Division, SIIA

James Kollegger, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Genesys Partners, Inc.

Ken Wasch, President, SIIA

Inside Secrets of a Media Investor

Want to understand how to position your company, what the market is looking for, potential niche opportunities —even insights on how to talk to VC’s, Banker’s or even Strategic Investors? Michael  Chen will offer his unique perspective based on his 20 years of providing financing (debt and equity) to companies in need of growth capital. Michael founded the Peacock Equity Fund, which invested in digital media companies, and had several successful investments during the span from 2007-2010. Learn how to get your company noticed and financed by key VC firms and Strategic Investors.

Keynote:

Michael Chen, Former President, NBC News' Strategic Initiatives Group, and Founder, Peacock Equity Fund

Networking Break

The British Invasion: Leading the Global Media Charge

When looking across the industry, there are some remarkable UK-based brands that are consistently cited for outstanding performance. We will look at how these organizations have been successful in their home market and are taking their vision global. We will examine how each has managed to build an effective businesses model while many of their peers have floundered. Learn about effective strategy, experimentation and success from these global thought leaders. 

Moderator:

Michelle Manafy, Director of Content, Free Pint Limited

Panelists:

Eric Baumes, Chief Technology Officer, The Economist Online

John Leitch, Executive Director, Metro UK

Ann Sarnoff, COO, BBC Worldwide America

Elissa Tomasetti, VP, Marketing & Global Audience Development, Financial Times

The Innovation Economy

Rapidly emerging technologies and enterprising businesses are shaping the future of the global economy. This session will examine efforts being made to support and expand New York City’s growing innovation and technology sectors and ensure that it is positioned to succeed in the 21^st century.    

Presenter:

Seth Pinsky, President, New York City Economic Development Corporation

Previews

5 minute presentations by new, interesting companies in the content space. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions about each company after the presentation. Demos are available during lunch.

Host:

Larry Schwartz, President, Newstex, LLC

Crowd Fusion

Crowd Fusion, the “publish everywhere” platform, helps publishers rapidly deliver new products across multiple platforms and devices. Built to solve the pain points of publishers at scale, Crowd Fusion’s platform is plugin-based and cloud-hosted – for maximum flexibility and performance.

Presenter:

Brian Alvey, CEO, Crowd Fusion

Narrative Science

Narrative Science transforms data into stories and insights. Our proprietary artificial intelligence authoring system, Narrwhal, produces reports, articles, summaries and more that are automatically created from structured data sources where narratives are created in multiple formats, including long-form articles, headlines, Tweets and business reports.

Presenter:

Stuart Frankel, Chief Executive Officer, Narrative Science

Reportlinker

Reportlinker is professional search engine that finds all market research reports published by thousands of private and public organizations (governments, embassies, statistics agencies, trade unions, private firms, etc.). Reportlinker.com provides full access to 1,000,000 industry reports and 450,000 company profiles covering 300 industries worldwide.

Presenter:

Benjamin Carpano, Chief Executive Officer, Reportlinker

Networking Lunch

SIIA Government Affairs Briefing SIIA Members Only

Do you understand the laws – current and proposed – that could have a significant impact on your business?  As the content industry continues to rapidly adapt to technological advancements and changing business models, policymakers in Washington DC and around the world are considering a wide range of legislative and regulatory proposals that will have a significant impact on the industry, including current and future business models.

Join us for an SIIA Member ONLY briefing to understand these important issues and how they could affect the industry, and your business, for better or worse.  SIIA’s David LeDuc and Mark MacCarthy will provide a review and answer your questions regarding the most critical recent developments and proposals in privacy, intellectual property and cloud computing policy, including:

• Could proposals by privacy regulators in the EU, and potentially the US, to expand the current privacy and data security framework force a change in your policies?
• What could the recent FTC settlements with high-profile companies such as FaceBook and Google mean for other content companies?
• What are the legal and regulatory implications of the transition to cloud and mobile computing?
• What does ICANN’s roll-out of a new domain name system mean for businesses?
• What can content companies expect regarding the future of intellectual property protection?

Facilitator:

David LeDuc, Senior Director, Public Policy, SIIA

Mark MacCarthy, VP, Public Policy, SIIA

News on the Edge: Dispatches from the Frontlines

The print news world careens from optimism (thanks to the tablet!) to pessimism (due to the decline in advertising). This timely session will bring together Alisa Bowen, General Manager of WSJ Digital, and Chris Mayer, Publisher of The Boston Globe, to discuss the challenges--and the upside!--of their recent transition to a paid subscription “All Access” model. Industry expert Ken Doctor will facilitate the wide-ranging discussion that will include the importance of leveraging new technologies and staying on top of emerging business models to retain existing customers and grow new audiences.

Moderator:

Ken Doctor, President/Lead News Analyst, Content Bridges

Panelists:

Alisa Bowen, General Manager, Wall Street Journal Digital Network

Christopher Mayer, Publisher, The Boston Globe

Previews

5 minute presentations by new, interesting companies in the content space. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions about each company after the presentation. Demos are available during the break.

Host:

Larry Schwartz, President, Newstex, LLC

Best Vendor

BestVendor is a free online resource that helps professionals quickly find the best work apps based on the recommendations of people like them. The company's vision is to provide a Yelp-like "social discovery" resource for all business products, starting with web, desktop, and mobile applications.

Presenter:

Jeff Giesea, CEO & Founder, Best Vendor

Praetorian Group, Inc.

The Praetorian Group is the leading online media company in the public safety market. Our properties are visited by more than 2 million first responders and public safety professionals every month. We are deeply committed to providing resources and cutting edge information that help first responders stay safer and better protect their communities.

Presenter:

Robert Dippell, Vice President of Corporate Development, Praetorian Group, Inc.

First Stop Health

First Stop Health is a health 2.0 patient-focused health concierge service for insured middle class consumers sold exclusively online and directly to consumers.  FSH provides solutions to minor and major, urgent and chronic, health issues by using an integrated technology platform to deliver a package of health services and information including telemedicine , health advocacy services, proprietary patient-friendly disease and condition news and information and integrated databases of physician, urgent care and ER location and availability.

Presenter:

Patrick Spain, Chief Executive Officer, First Stop Health

Networking Break

Tech Predictions for 2012

As the leader of  the Strategic News Service, a newsletter about the technology business and the annual “Future In Review” conference, Mark knows technology.  He will be making his top technology calls for 2012, and his theme for the year is “Integrate Everything.”  Is your company ready?

Keynote:

Mark Anderson, CEO, Strategic News Service

Clash of the Titans: The Collision between Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google and its Impact on the Information Industry

Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google, built by the most innovative entrepreneurs in history, are colliding in the marketplace. With such innovation, it’s no surprise that they are integrating their business models backward and forward, with very interesting market dynamics:Google’s Android phones and tablets vs. Apple’s iPhones and iPads; Google+ vs. Facebook;  Amazon Kindle vs. iTunes and iPads; Amazon cloud vs. Google cloud, etc.

Amazon and Apple are colliding on content and product strategies: Apple’s razor/razorblade model  exploits content to sell devices; and vice versa, and, to its classic seamless blend of hardware and software Apple has added the third dimension—content—tightly integrated with a device.

These information wars are fast-forwarding us to a radical new info-structure. Who are the winners and losers in this game of thrones? And what does it mean to the content industry?  A panel of keen observers and players tackles the shape of things to come in the new order.

Moderator:

James Kollegger, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Genesys Partners, Inc.

Panelists:

Ken Auletta, Author of "Googled: The End of the World as We Know it", The New Yorker

Pat Kenealy, Former CEO, IDG, General Partner, IDG Ventures

Scott Kurnit, Founder, Chairman, CEO, AdKeeper

Adam Lashinsky, Author of Inside Apple , Senior Editor, Fortune

Inside Apple Book Signing

Meet and greet and book signing with Inside Apple author Adam Lashinsky, Senior Editor At Large, Fortune Magazine. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Leader:

Adam Lashinsky, Author of Inside Apple , Senior Editor, Fortune

CODiE Awards Reception & Dinner

Meet the companies selected as having the year's best digital content products and services at our 27^th annual CODiE Awards celebration.

Members Only Breakfast with Keynote

SIIA members are invited to join us for a private breakfast with the day's opening keynote, Paul Wojcik.

Networking Breakfast & Registration

Transformation Amidst Market Consolidation

BNA (or as some may remember, the Bureau of National Affairs) was one of the oldest and largest independent professional information companies in the legal, tax, and regulatory space.   They were a “little guy” in a field of giants—yet they enjoyed success for many years despite market consolidation, new technologies, changing market dynamics and a challenging economy. BNA was just acquired by Bloomberg in September, 2011.

Paul will talk about how BNA navigated change and transformation, made the hard strategic decisions they needed to, and ultimately decided to join forces with Bloomberg in a move he says “…was a deal that makes perfect strategic sense to change the industry’s competitive landscape.” 

Keynote:

Paul Wojcik, Chairman, Bloomberg BNA

The Future of the Internet - Disruptors of the Next Generation

One of today’s leading technology visionaries provides a high-level overview of the new face of the Internet. Key focuses include: how the world of mobile, social networking, cloud computing, and HTML5 combine to empower consumers and businesses to interact in entirely new ways; and how they may upend existing publishing models.

Presenter:

John Patrick, President, Attitude LLC

MobileApp Previews

MobileApp Previews is a series of 5 minute presentations highlighting apps for the content and content related industry including news, finance, reference, and publishing. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions about the app after each presentation.

Dow Jones Investment Banker App

The Dow Jones Investment Banker app helps bankers find new opportunities and promptly identify significant events and trends in the industries and regions they cover, plus quickly synthesize the impact of change for their clients.

To ensure our clients are the best informed, Dow Jones Investment Banker leverages a dedicated banking-focused editorial team hired from some of the top banking and industry firms, combined with the power and premiere content from Dow Jones Newswires, The Wall Street Journal and Factiva.

For each of the industries and regions we cover, our team daily both selects and writes the most relevant pieces for our audience. 

The visually appealing and easy-to-use app that allows for online and offline reading when our clients are on the go, is unparalleled in giving bankers what they need to compete.

Presenter:

Ian Rosen, Global Director, Investment Banking , Dow Jones

LexisNexis Legal News App

Drawing from the vast LexisNexis® content repository, the LexisNexis Legal News app blends some of the best legal news, video, blog and twitter sources into a  continuously updating content feed.  Free trial access is available, as are in-app purchasing options.  Use the LexisNexis Legal News app to stay current on trends within your practice area, or keep up with commentary from some of the country’s most innovative legal experts.

Presenter:

Scott Livingston, Vice President, LexisNexis Group

Pubget for iPad

Pubget provides tools for making content discovery, access and management much easier for scientific, technical and medical articles. Pubget for iPad is a free app that combines the iPad's portability with Pubget's database of 30 million life science papers. Get full-text from your library's subscriptions straight away: read the articles as PDFs on the spot or save them to take on the go. Built on Pubget's proprietary Path Engine, it's the only app that provides access to all your library's scientific content in one place. 

Presenter:

Ryan Jones, President, Pubget

Networking Break

Distributed Content

Information companies are increasingly looking to distribute content to a much broader collection of endpoints to facilitate research, workflow and transactions. This distributed, transactional model can conflict with the subscription business these companies have relied upon. In this session, we’ll discuss the changes in operating and pricing models that are fundamentally shifting the relationship between the publishers and their clients. During this session we'll cover:

• As subscription revenue comes under increasing pressure, can other models provide even greater value for both buyers and sellers?
• What are the implications of data federation on information company websites and operating models?
• In a world where information is widely distributed and consumed everywhere, how do information companies value customer relationships?

Moderator:

Kevin Collins, Business Consulting, Information Services Lead, Cognizant

Panelists:

Lou Andreozzi, Chairman, Bloomberg Law

Drew Bartkiewicz, Vice President, Strategy Services, Mashery

Rafael Sidi, VP, Products, Elsevier

Writing Stories from Data: Using Narrative to Transform Publishing and Business Analytics

As the publishing industry struggles to deal with a post Google world and more and more data comes online, there is a growing opportunity for the automatic creation of content based upon the analysis of data and the articulation of the stories hidden with it.  In this talk, Dr. Hammond will discuss the technology developed by Narrative Science that enables this work and outline the possibilities that it opens up to both publishers and organizations that are generating data related to their internal business processes.  Focused on content generation, the technology is driven by the idea that stories are the bridge between numbers and knowing.

Presenter:

Kristian J. Hammond, Co-founder & CTO, Narrative Science

MobileApp Previews

MobileApp Previews is a series of 5 minute presentations highlighting apps for the content and content related industry including news, finance, reference, and publishing. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions about the app after each presentation.

PR Newswire App

PR Newswire launched the first version of its free iOS app in January 2011.  Version 5 of the app is available for iPads, iPhones and iPods running iOS 5 and provides access to breaking announcements from public and private companies, governmental departments and NGOs from around the world, posts from top PR and marketing blogs and PR Newswire's own social media output from its main Twitter and Facebook accounts.  The app enables journalists, bloggers, information workers and other news junkies to set up push and email alerts for content that matches their search terms, providing them with links back to the app or the PRNewswire.com website.  From the app they can also share the releases, videos, blogs and social posts with their friends, colleagues and social networks, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Evernote, Instapaper and others.  The app is available for free here http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pr-newswire/id349893430?mt=8

Presenter:

Joshua Cohen, Director, Content Licensing & Distribution, PR Newswire

Factiva for iPad

The Factiva for iPad app delivers business-critical information to support strategy and help you identify emerging opportunities and risks. Designed for today’s busy professional, this app helps executives, consultants, information managers and researchers strengthen their fact-based decision-making with current data and information.

Available in nine interface languages, the Factiva for iPad app enables you to easily monitor essential news and information across thousands of industries, companies, regions or topics. Access a single, personalized view containing top headlines, quotes, timelines, heat maps and charts, plus perform search and get alerts for relevant, meaningful updates -- anywhere, anytime.

Powered by the largest global, digital business information aggregators and archives in the world, the Factiva for iPad app offers thousands of premium, high-quality business sources, such as leading newspapers, trade publications, blogs and websites, in 26 languages.  

Presenter:

William Bergmann, Executive Director, Factiva Destination Products, Dow Jones & Company

Nexis News Search

LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. A member of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with more than 15,000 employees worldwide. The new Nexis® News Search iPhone® and iPad® application allows users to stay informed and make on-the-spot decisions—wherever they are. Key functionality in the app includes searching, browsing and emailing LexisNexis® licensed news content.  Journalists, various business development professionals, executive leadership, and other information professionals use the app to expand their productivity, uncover opportunities, share mission-critical data and safeguard business assets.  The app is intended for nexis.com® and Nexis® Direct customers, and it is free to anyone with a subscription to one of these products.  Download the app at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nexis-news-search/id476012097?ls=1&mt=8.

Presenter:

Lauren Kaplan, Senior Director, Product And Strategy, LexisNexis Group

Buyer/Supplier Forum

The SIIA and SLA are pleased to co-host the all-new Buyer/Supplier Forum, which will bring Summit attendees together with information professionals with content buying responsibility for a timely discussion on how content will be delivered and licensed in an on demand world

The robust afternoon agenda includes “Special Interest” lunch discussions and sessions led by industry analysts who advise on both the buy and sell side.

The Buyer/Supplier Forum is led by Chair Webb Shaw, J.J. Keller & Associates, Former Chair of the SIIA’s Content Division Board of Directors, and the sponsor of the SLA Rising Star Award and host of the Rising Stars/SLA Fellows Roundtable at SLA's annual conference.

The Buyer/Supplier Forum is free for approved information professionals with purchasing responsibility.

Networking Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 PM

Join other buyers and suppliers for facilitated discussion on a common topic of interest OR enjoy your own networking lunch. 

Minding the Gap: Changes Across Enterprise Content Purchasing and Consumption

2:00 -2:30 PM

Drawing heavily from Outsell’s annual enterprise end-user and information management surveys, this session will provide a look into how the consumption of content is changing and what implications this will have for the coming years. It will also explore what to expect from enterprise content budgets, specifically addressing the top areas of investment for information management professionals next year. 

Presenter:

Ned May, VP & Lead Analyst, Outsell, Inc.

Rapid Response: Matching Premium Content to on Demand User Needs

2:30 - 3:15 PM

To provide innovative responses to their companies' markets and clientele more rapidly and cost-effectively, content users are pushing to have on-demand access to content. With this shift in the premium content value proposition, buyers must tune their information budgets and services to accommodate unpredictable needs for both content discovery and delivery. This session will explore the implications of moving the user to the center of the transaction, and potential impacts on the design and packaging of information products and services required to respond to these needs.

Moderator:

John Blossom, President, Shore Communications, Inc.

Panelists:

Fran Mozloom Goodling, Electronic Resources Manager, Clinical Development and Medical Affairs, Shire Pharmaceuticals

Wally Reiher, Vice President, Information Technology , Exelixis

Buyer-Seller-User: The True Lens for Evaluating ROI

3:15 - 4:00 PM

This session will examine the struggles buyers and sellers face in meeting end-user expectations as they work to create a common way to evaluate content ROI. In light of the complexities of issues such as customization, mobile demand, copyright and licensing requirements, we will provide a guided forum in small breakout groups to examine shared goals, objectives, and lay a foundation for better delivering content products and services.

Presenter:

Robin Neidorf, Director of Research, Free Pint Limited