The NYU Advanced Publishing Institute Agenda 2024

Sanyu Dillon
President, Random House Publishing Group, Penguin Random House, presents a top-level perspective on the current publishing landscape.

James Daunt
Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc., outlines a blueprint for booksellers to connect with readers in new and unique ways,  giving each store owner a unique vision and buying power and how publishers can support the process.

Andrea Colvin
Editorial Director of Little, Brown Ink/Hachette Book Group, shares the challenges of starting a graphic novel imprint.

Namrata Tripathi
Founder, Senior Vice President and Publisher, Kokila, Penguin Random House, on how an imprint devoted to inclusive books for children and young adults can be both mission driven and profitable.

Zibby Owens
Founder of Zibby Media, on bundling books, podcasts, a magazine, and a bookstore into a new multimedia, multi-everything business.

Sophie Kaplan
Senior Director, Creative Acquisitions and IP Management, Universal Studios

Lauren O’Connor
Head of IP Acquisitions, Amazon Studios

Ryan Doherty
Executive Editor, Celadon Books/Macmillan

Mary Pender
Agent, UTA, take you inside the process.

Kristin Fassler
Senior Vice President and Director of Integrated Marketing Strategy at Knopf Doubleday, Penguin Random House, explains how to allocate marketing resources, utilize talent, and set goals for budgets of any size.

Andrea Fleck-Nisbet
CEO, Independent Book Publishers Association, outlines how small and independent publishers can reach niche audiences, specialty markets, and marginalized communities through unique and targeted marketing campaigns.

Scott Dickey
Chief Executive Officer, Podium Audio and Bookstat, demonstrates how publishers can most effectively leverage digital book sales data to inform IP acquisitions and marketing investment and identify emerging trends, microgenres, and new fanbases.

Lina Renzina
Partnerships Lead, Lifestyle and Education, TikTok, presents an inside look at best ways for publishers to leverage BookTok and its Creator Marketplace.

Dan Stone
Head of Partnerships at Substack, tells how targeted communities can improve sales, from boosting pre-sales to supporting discovery post-publication.

Jonathan Friedman
Director of Free Expression and Education Programs at PEN America, explains the current wave of book bans, and how publishers, authors, libraries and bookstores can take action.

Andrew Albanese
Executive Editor, Publishers Weekly

Jon Anderson
President and Publisher, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Jonathan Karp
President and CEO, Simon & Schuster

Jonathan Friedman
Director of Free Expression and Education Programs at PEN America

David Steinberger
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Open Road Integrated Media, outlines how to mine the backlist and craft tailor-made Direct-to-Consumer campaigns.

Anna Tavis, PhD
Professor and Department Chair, Human Capital Management at the NYU School of Professional Studies, looks at the new post-pandemic workplace and explores the best practices for managing employees and their changing priorities.

Yolanda Scott
Vice President and Editorial Director of Charlesbridge, shares insights on her own progression from mid- to senior-level management and how other employees can navigate that often challenging pathway.

Marlon Alvarado
Vice President, Talent Acquisition, Scholastic, walks us through the process of how to mentor employees and support foster effective career growth and fulfillment.

Kimberly Ayers Shariff
Executive Vice President, Director of Strategy for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at Penguin Random House

Carrie Bloxson
Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion, Hachette Book Group

Emi Ikkanda
Executive Editor, Tiny Reparations Books, Penguin Random House

Alex Kapitan
The Radical Copyeditor, leads a workshop on using language to promote equity.

David Pogue
Technology writer and Emmy Award-winning correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, presents an overview of the emerging technology.

Andrew Jacobs
Assistant General Counsel, HarperCollins Publishers, explores copyright, defamation, and other legal issues with AI-generated content.

Chantal Restivo-Alessi
Chief Digital Officer, HarperCollins, discusses opportunities and challenges of AI in  publishing workflow.

Stephen McConnell
Digital technology researcher and writer and adjunct professor at the NYU Center for Publishing and Applied Liberal Arts, provides a 30-minute workshop on how to use AI in writing and design, plus a cheat sheet of his recommended AI programs.

Dominique Raccah
President and Chief Executive Officer, Sourcebooks, on building a culture of transparency and experimentation without fear of failure.

Josh Stone
Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder, Book.io, on shaking up the old model and gaining new insights into consumer buying habits and trends.

Annie Stone
Acquisitions Director at Podium Audio

Nicole Resciniti
President of The Seymour Agency

Sue Johnson
Chief Content Officer of Yonder/Webtoon

Katherine Pelz
Editor/Content Creator at ByteDance

Karine Pansa
President of the International Publishers Association, explores the role of publishers as citizens of the world, how to help nations in crisis, and the need to promote global literacy.

Madeline McIntosh
former Chief Executive Officer of Penguin Random House US, explores how the evolution of the book market has impacted the business relationship between publishers and authors and innovations for the future.