Prof. Gerhard Lauer, Department of Book and Reading Studies, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz
Prof. Miha Kovač, Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies, University of Ljubljana
Luis González, Director General, Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez (FGSR)
Prof. Anna Karakatsouli, Director of the Book History Lab (BHL), Department of Theatre Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
Ava Chalkiadaki, President, Diavazontas Megalono
Dr. Panagiotis Kapos, Vice-President, Hellenic Foundation for Book and Culture (HFBC)
Vangelis Iliopoulos, author, President, Greek IBBY
Anthi Baliou, MSc, Librarian; Head of the Library and Information Centre, University of Macedonia
Katerina Malakate, author, owner of Booktalks bookstore, book club coordinator
- Prof. Miha Kovač, Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies, University of Ljubljana
- Prof. Gerhard Lauer, Department of Book and Reading Studies, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz
- Prof. Nikos Bakounakis, President, Hellenic Foundation for Book and Culture (HFBC)
- Moderator
Lambrini Kouzeli, journalist, To Vima newspaper
Yana Genova, cultural consultant and researcher; founder of Next Page Foundation; co-author of the report “Books in Translation. Trends and Transformations in the European Publishing Market”
Mirella Batziania, Responsible for the content and management of the Books in Print database bookpoint.gr, Greek Collecting Society for Literary Works (OSDEL)
Ricarda Essrich, translator, Founder, Essrich Language Services
Translators, publishers and literary translation
Maria Fakinou, translator, author, & Kostas Spatharakis, publisher, Antipodes Publications
Vasilis Babouris, translator trainer, translator, educational technologist and AI tools specialist; Director of Studies, meta|φραση
In this interactive session, Emily Diamandopoulou will help you get hands-on with AI in book translations:
- The lay of the land: Neural machine translation (NMT), Large Language Models (LLMs), AI-assisted Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) - what is what, and what each is for
- Hallucinations: how they sneak in, and how to catch them
- False confidence: why fluent output is the dangerous kind
- Choosing the right model and tool for the genre, language pair and risk
- Hands-on: Worked examples, comparing different approaches
- Discussion and Q&A throughout
- Emily Diamandopoulou, translator, Founder, Rhyme&Reason and RIMA Language_Tech_Culture
- Discussant
Ricarda Essrich, translator, Founder, Essrich Language Services
- Yana Genova, cultural consultant and researcher; founder of Next Page Foundation; co-author of the report “Books in Translation. Trends and Transformations in the European Publishing Market”
- Kostas Athanasiou, translator
- Katerina Fragou, agent, founder, Iris Literary Agency
- Nikoletta Stathopoulou, Head of Information and Library Department, Goethe-Institut Athen
- Moderator
Grigoris Bekos, journalist, To Vima newspaper; Translated literature and non-fiction editor, Kastaniotis Editions
Sara Lloyd, Group Communications Director & Global AI Lead, Pan Macmillan (Holtzbrinck Publishing Group)
Nathan Hull, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, Beat Technology
Michalis Kalamaras, publishing consultant, Thinking; founder, eAnagnostis.gr
Gautier Chomel, Head of Accessibility & Quality Management, European Digital Reading Lab - EDRLab
In this interactive session, Sara Lloyd will help you get hands-on with AI in publishing:
- Where the time goes: finding the repetitive work worth handing over — and the work you have never had the people to attempt at all
- Three questions before you start: turning principles into a decision you can make in thirty seconds, tested on real cases
- Free or paid: why the account your team uses matters more than the tool they choose
- One AI assistant, five departments: worked examples from editorial, design, production, marketing and sales — each possible with nothing but a subscription
- Being found: how readers now discover books by asking AI assistants, and what that means for publishing in Greek
- Your first pilot: one task, one person, six weeks, one number — written down before you leave the room
- Discussion and Q&A throughout
- Sara Lloyd, Group Communications Director & Global AI Lead, Pan Macmillan (Holtzbrinck Publishing Group)
- Moderator
Michalis Kalamaras, publishing consultant, Thinking; founder, eAnagnostis.gr
- Sara Lloyd, Group Communications Director & Global AI Lead, Pan Macmillan (Holtzbrinck Publishing Group)
- Nathan Hull, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, Beat Technology
- Argyris Kastaniotis, publisher, Kastaniotis Editions
- Oliana Faldami, publisher, Klidarithmos Publications
- Moderator
Michalis Kalamaras, publishing consultant, Thinking; founder, eAnagnostis.gr
30-minutes 1-to-1 meetings with book experts at the ground floor of Goethe-Institut Athen
1-to-1 consultation on digital reading technologies, with Gautier Chomel, Head of Accessibility & Quality Management, European Digital Reading Lab - EDRLab: 10:00-12:00, 12:30-14:30
1-to-1 consultation for publishers on navigating the translation funding schemes, with Yana Genova, cultural consultant and researcher; founder of Next Page Foundation; co-author of the report “Books in Translation. Trends and Transformations in the European Publishing Market”: 15:30-17:30