Organized by the German Book Office in New Delhi, the sixth Globalocal networking event is to take place at the Eros Hotel in Nehru Place in the southern part of the city. The Globalocal platform is a must participate event for publishers and service providers in India – a rich opportunity to trade and network with leading international publishers that the event attracts from around the world. Global publishers want to sell rights to Indian publishers for translating their authors and they are also interested to meet Indian publishers to see what they can carry back for publishing for their own markets. There is an added opportunity to sell services such as translation, typesetting and digitization and for Science, Technology and Mathematics (STM) as well as digital rights management and the conversion to eBooks.
In the foreground of the event are a mix of keynote, roundtable and training sessions. However, the real event is about rights, and matchmaking between publishers and rights and services sellers and buyers. In addition there is an Experts’ Table with a panel of industry experts to give advice and consultation. An opportunity to meet peers, new business partners, to present products and ideas, and interact with leading global publishing and allied industries professionals. Best of all, it is an opportunity to buy and sell.
As at last year’s event, Globalocal 2015 is expected to focus on increasing one-on-one networking opportunities. Globalocal 2015 will also present the Exclusive India Trip for international participants with a view to increasing planned interactions between Indian publishers, distributors, retailers, digital service providers and their international publishing counterparts. For this, the GBO has invited publishers from across the globe, interested in the Indian publishing industry from a business perspective, to visit India from 8 to 14 February 2015 for a cross-country trip from Chennai to Delhi.
CEOs’ Roundtable
On the first day of Globalocal 2015, the CEOs’ Roundtable – a futureforward discussion between strategic decision makers in publishing will take place. Himanshu Gupta, joint managing director, S Chand, Vivek R, head of business development, Flipkart, Emma House, director of publisher relations, The Publishers Association, Manuel Carcassonne, managing director, Les Editions Stock, and Karthika VK, publisher and chief editor of Harper Collins India will take part in the roundtable session chaired by Smita Jha, leader, Entertainment and Media Practice of PwC India.
STM Roundtable
On the second day, Globalocal is organizing an STM Roundtable of major national and international experts in this segment. Ranjan Kaul, managing director, Oxford University Press India, Ramesh Gaur, university librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Vivek Mehra, managing director and CEO, Sage Publications, Michael Healy, executive director, international relations, Copyright Clearance Center, and Nitasha Devasar, managing director of Taylor & Francis will participate in the session. The STM roundtable will be chaired by Sesh Seshadri, owner of Overleaf in its discussion of current and future trends and practices in scientific and technical publishing of books and journals.
Matchmaking and training on rights and licenses
Globalocal 2015 will offer intensive Rights and License training on both days of the event. Topics will include identifying and prioritizing rights markets; finding and contacting potential licensees; and offering and negotiating rights deals successfully, amongst others. This forum will create an interactive ambience for discussing while getting acquainted with the Ps and Qs of serious rights trade, so that, those involved in this part of publishing learn and raise relevant issues. In the afternoon of both days of Globalocal – targeted matchmaking of various local and global segments of the industry will take place with unique precision and energy.
Keynote presentations
Irina Prokhorova, editor-in-chief, New Literary Observer Publishing House will deliver a keynote presentation on the first day of the event, while on the second day, Peter Schoppert, managing director of the National University Singapore Press; and Sameer Shariff, founder and CEO, Impelsys will deliver keynote presentations.
