B2B Space

Saturday, November 23, 2024, 10:00-14:00, Stage 5

The B2B Space at the Ceronia Hall, a new initiative by the Limassol International Book Fair, will be open on Saturday, November 23rd, from 10:00 to 14:00, and available to all the book professionals attending the Conference and the 3rd Limassol International Book Fair for their own, private business meetings.

Limassol Networking Meetings @ Β2B Space

Saturday, November 23, 2024, 11:00-12:00, Stage 5
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On Saturday November 22nd from 11:00 to 12:00, meet our Conference speakers and interested book professionals and discuss key topics of their expertise at the tables of our dedicated B2B Space, a new initiative by the Limassol International Book Fair.

The contact details of the LIBF Conference attendees opting in for the Limassol Networking Meetings during their registration will be shared with the invited professionals.

11:00 Welcome remarks and Project Introduction: ThinkPub

Host Michalis Kalamaras, co-curator of Limassol International Book Fair Conference, will offer brief welcome remarks, followed by a short presentation introducing the ThinkPub project.

ThinkPub is a 12-partners 11-countries consortium co-funded by the Creative Europe EU programme. The project connects publishing and technology companies, trade fairs and industry experts and offers resources for learning key competencies that help publishers and authors understand and respond to changes in the book market drawing from a pool of structured curricula and international experts.

Limassol International Book Fair is a partner of ThinkPub, joining Beletrina (coordinator, Slovenia), Beat Technology (Norway), Carrenho Publishing Consulting (Sweden), European Digital Reading Lab - EDRLab (France), Federation of European Publishers (FEP), Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez (Spain), Polish Chamber of Books, Next Page Foundation (Bulgaria), Norwegian Reading Centre at the University of Stavanger, Thinking (Greece) and Rüdiger Wischenbart Content & Consulting (Austria).

Fields of interest and Participants

Creative Europe: Cooperation grants, Translation grants, Culture Moves Europe

• Meet: The Creative Europe Desk Cyprus Team, Organization for European Programmes and Cultural Relations (OEPCR)
• Interested to meet: Publishers and cultural organisations looking for cross-border cooperation grants, publishers looking for translation grants. Authors, artists and cultural professionals looking for mobility grants in the sectors of architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literature, music, performing arts and visual arts

Frankfurt Book Fair

• Meet: Hanife İçten, Key Account Manager for English-Language World, Cyprus, Greece & Turkey, Frankfurt Book Fair
• Interested to meet: Publishers, booksellers, designers, illustrators

Digital marketing

• Meet: Felicia Hofmann, social media team leader, dtv Publishing Company. Giannis Pliotas, Marketing Director, Dioptra Publications. Sofia-Stella Christou, Assistant manager, Head of digital marketing, Soloneion Book Centre. Michalis Kalamaras, Co-curator, Limassol International Book Fair Conference; publishing consultant; Head of Marketing and Content, Thinking; founder, eAnagnostis.gr.
• Interested to meet: Publishers, booksellers, authors

Arab book market

• Meet: Persa Koumoutsi, translator of Arabic literature; Director, initiative Center of Greek and Arabic Literature and Culture (K.EL.A.L.P.); author. Abdel-Wahab Khalifa, Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting, Queen’s University Belfast.
• Interested to meet: Publishers, literary agents

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Meet: Fatimah Abbas, Publishing consultant, FALA Agency. Emma House, Publishing consultant, Orenham Group; ex-Board Member, PubisHer; Publishing lead, Shimmr AI. Anne Bergman-Tahon, Director, Federation of European Publishers (FEP)
• Interested to meet: Publishers, booksellers, authors

Buying and selling rights

• Meet: Nikos Argyris, publisher, Ikaros Publishing. Chrysothemis Armefti, senior agent, 2 Seas Agency. Haris Ioannides, Co-founder, Limassol International Book Fair; publisher, Armida Books; Board member, Cyprus Publishers Association. Argyris Kastaniotis, publisher, Kastaniotis Editions; Vice President of the Association of Greek Publishers and Booksellers (EN.EL.VI.)
• Interested to meet: Publishers, literary agents