About Keynote Seminars

Keynote organises a season of day-long seminars each Autumn and Winter, targeting publishers, developers, marketers and distributors, and their customers and suppliers, who invest, or wish to invest, in electronic product.

Keynote's aim is to help directors and managers confront issues in the fast-moving world of technological change with a view to creating more efficient and more profitable businesses.

Keynote's unique format of presenting each topic through a Keynote Speaker followed by pairs of debating speakers on specific issues allows for maximum participation by delegates. Delegate numbers are limited for maximum interaction and participation.

Keynote people:
Mark Bide brings 30 years' extensive experience of managing publishing operations and forming new production and delivery strategies for emerging technologies.

Vivien James is an active publisher of long experience, formerly publisher of Blueprint, who brings to the seminars her unique experience of publishing in consumer and academic markets and is now Publishing Director and IT executive of Pavilion Books.

Richard Balkwill acts as consultant to publishers seeking management training and to the Publishers Licensing Society and adds his substantial expertise in training and rights matters.

Charlotte Berrill, Blueprint and Keynote's original founder, continues her involvement in a range of publishing companies concentrating on electronic publishing issues.