EDItEUR 46th International Supply Chain Seminar, Tue 14 Oct 2025 at 13:00, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Eventbrite

EDItEUR’s independent International Supply Chain Seminar has a confirmed place on the Frankfurt Book Fair calendar for supply chain and metadata specialists.

The speaker programme for the 2025 Seminar will focus as always on standards and best practices, real-world case studies, and strategies that use technology to extract the most value from the book publishing supply chain. Entry to the conference will be from 12:30, and the main speaker programme will begin at 1pm.

This year, the mini-conference will once again be held at Haus am Dom in central Frankfurt, close to the historic cathedral and only a short U-bahn ride from the Messe or Hauptbahnhof. For previous attendees, this is the same venue as 2024.

The event will be followed by a reception for attendees to celebrate 25 years of ONIX as the standard for communicating rich book industry metadata along the supply chain.

Speaker programme

• panel discussion on accessibility and the EU Accessibility Act, accessibility metdata and the challenges of consumer-focused display of the accessibility attributes of a product, featuring Gregorio Pellegrino of the LIA Foundation, Bruna Benvegnu of Amazon, Arantza Larrauri of DeMarque, Nina Rubach of BookWire, chaired by Chris Saynor of EDItEUR
• Toby Steiner, COO of Thoth Open Metadata, on metadata for OA publishing
• update on work to highlight indigenous contributors and publishers in ONIX: Cat Colwell of the Australian Publishers Association, Lauren Stewart of BookNet Canada, and Isabelle Gaudet-Labine of BTLF
• Tom West, CEO of Publishers Licensing Services, on collective licensing of book content for use with AI
• George Walkley of Outside Context on developments in AI for 2025
• panel discussion on the impact of the EU Deforestation Regulation, featuring Detlef Bauer of Libri, Fride Fosseng of Bokbasen, Gareth Jarrett of Print on Demand Worldwide, and Nina Stavisky of the European and International Booksellers Federation, coordinated by Graham Bell of EDItEUR

Further details of the speaker programme to be added.

Note that the Supply Chain Seminar will be preceded in the morning by a free-to-attend event organised by the Green Book Alliance (https://www.greenbookalliance.org/upcoming-events). Registration is separate, but do please let us know if you will be attending both events.