We'll meet at the entrance to hall #11 and Mr. Andreas Hagglund, who's been organising the professional programme, will take you on a quick tour covering all important areas of the Fair before finally stopping at the Business Club.
Please note that all networking sessions only are availble for paying trade visitors and exhibitors at the Fair.
Bring your business cards and your English catalogues, text proposals and excerpts to this matchmaking session. This session will be focused on Distributors & Service Providers, but all interested publishers and agents are welcome.
Please note that all networking sessions only are availble for paying trade visitors and exhibitors at the Fair.
Bring your business cards and your English catalogues, text proposals and excerpts to this matchmaking session. This session will be focused on Non Fiction, but all interested publishers and agents are welcome.
Please note that all networking sessions only are available for paying trade visitors and exhibitors at the Fair.
Dr. Hind Zantout, from Heriot WattUniversity Dubai Campus introduces "Scratch" by demonstrating games and animations, and walking the audience through a few simple exercises, covering important concepts and features. Scratch is designed for children between 8-16 and is provided for free by MIT Media Labs. As children create with Scratch, they learn to think creatively, work collaboratively, and reason systematically.
Please note that to benefit the most from this session, consider bringing along your laptops with Scratch installed. Scratch can be downloaded here.
Bring your business cards and your English catalogues, text proposals and excerpts to this matchmaking session. This session will be focused on Academic and STM, but all interested publishers and agents are welcome.
Please note that all networking sessions only are available for paying trade visitors and exhibitors at the Fair.
The Arab publishing houses suffer from a lack of editors which has great consequences. In fact, most publishers rely on the author himself to achieve the duty of the editor which reflects a negative trend in the Arab world. Indeed, what contributes in the dissemination of this phenomenon is that many publishers in the Arab word publish books at the expense of the author, like they are just printing houses. An editor plays a critical role in choosing the right works to publish and shape the language for P&R of the book. This discussion will adress the important issues from different perspectives.
In an innovative project with Foyles of London from the United Kingdom, Neal Hoskins lead producer will look at how digital consumer services can provide virtual bridges to real world bookshops and in turn give writers, publishers and booksellers the chance to retune their lifelong relationships.
Publishers, booksellers, readers and writers are welcome to this fascinating look into the world of books today.
We'll meet at the entrance to hall #11 and Mr. Andreas Hagglund, who's been organising the professional programme, will take you on a quick tour covering all important areas of the Fair before finally stopping at the Business Club.
Please note that all networking sessions only are available for paying trade visitors and exhibitors at the Fair.
Bring your business cards and your English catalogues, text proposals and excerpts to this matchmaking session. This session will be focused on Fiction, but all interested publishers and agents are welcome.
Please note that all networking sessions only are available to paying trade visitors and exhibitors at the Fair.
The session will address the following:
• Key goals of Foundations Math programmes at HCT
• How the blended learning environment has been enhanced to student-centered mobile learning environment in partnership with faculty
• The role of ALEKS in achieving the above transformation
• The paradigm shift of faculty and student roles in the teaching and learning process
ALEKS stands for Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces and is a web-based artificial intelligent assessment and learning system.
Bring your business cards and your English catalogues, text proposals and excerpts to this matchmaking session. This session will be focused on Childrens' Literature, but all interested publishers and agents are welcome.
Please note that all networking sessions only are available for paying trade visitors and exhibitors at the Fair.
Bring your business cards and your products to this matchmaking session. This session will be focused on everything digital, but all interested publishers and agents are equally welcome.
Please note that all networking sessions only are available for paying trade visitors and exhibitors at the Fair.
Neal Hoskins, consultant and E-zone promoter will lead a group round table on issues and opportunities facing publishers and developers today.
This discussion will look at a wide variety of issues facing companies and present a varied group of speakers from this year's eZone who will offer their expertise and answers to some of the burning questions that companies face today.
A public Q & A will follow the first part of talk and we welcome questions from the floor in order to engage in a vibrant debate on this topic.
