Prospering with Digital:
Making Investments Pay
February 1-3, 2012
Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC
Program
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012
4:00pm—6:00pm
Plenary #1:
(Grand Ballroom)
Organized by Thane Kerner (Silverchair) & Glen Campbell (Elsevier)
Oxford Style Debate of the Proposition
“Privacy is Obsolete in the Digital World”
Business on the web—ergo, and eventually, business, period—relies on data about individual users. Derived from individuals’ activities in the networked environment, these data are collected at ever-increasing dimensions of specificity and granularity. The models of the archetypal (and most successful) web businesses—Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay—rely fundamentally on observing, collecting and using individual activity data. These models have so insinuated themselves in the daily lives of internet users that they are irreversible. They enable optimization of the user experience and the commercial yield that results.
The scale of personal data tracking continues to grow by step factors every few years. Today’s database technology enables volumes of collection and analysis that were infeasible in the early generations of the web, and these tools and processes are on a trajectory to support a virtually unlimited understanding of individual behavior. These technologies support diverse, imaginative, proliferating commercial opportunities, because web interactions are progressively more interwoven with daily life.
Policies that purport to arrest or reverse the tide of individual data collection are not only futile but counter-productive. Personalized services and ultra-customized information flow are demanded by users. Delivering those services requires data collection. Society must come to terms with a post-privacy world in which the systemic exposure of individual activity is a worthwhile (and inevitable) trade-off in return for optimization of information flow.
Speakers:
David Brin, Ph.D.
Futures Unlimited
Oliver Goodenough
Professor of Law
Vermont Law School
David Jacobs
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Mike Zaneis
SVP & General Counsel
Interactive Advertising Bureau
6:00pm-7:30pm
Evening Reception
(State Room)
(Dinner on Your Own)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012
8:00am-9:00am
Continental Breakfast
(State Room)
9:00am-10:00am
Keynote Speaker:
(Grand Ballroom)
Latanya Sweeney, Ph.D.
Director and Founder — Data Privacy Lab
Harvard University
Technology Can Save Privacy
Traditional privacy safeguards for data sharing are rooted in consent and de-identification, and past approaches seem ineffective in today’s data rich networked society. Popular applications, like those of Facebook and Google, trade personal data for services and are acquiring unprecedented amounts of personal information. Privacy seems lost already to some, but even though technology challenges privacy, technology can also save privacy. Recent scientific advances and technical innovations enable new ways of thinking about privacy so that privacy itself can leverage technical advancement. The promise from doing so is that society will not be bound by the false belief that society must choose between privacy and technology, but instead, society will be able to enjoy both privacy and technology.
In this talk, we will examine some new models for privacy in today’s data rich networked society. One of these is MyDataCan, which promises to be a long-term and publicly available online data service that will serve as a hub for personal data sharing. Members of the public will be able to collect, assemble and distribute their own personal data, including health information, and optionally elect to participate in activities that use a person’s data to improve the quality of their life. MyDataCan uses the notion of a personal "can" of data over which the individual has personal access control. With the person’s permission, data can be combined across "cans" to share data for many worthy purposes. If successful, MyDataCan, or similar models, will likely emerge as a tremendous resource for society, providing unparalleled access to personal data, and while doing so, will introduce new ways of thinking about privacy.
10:00am-10:45am
Networking Break
10:00am-10:45am
PSP Business Meeting
(Senate Room)
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12:00pm-1:30pm
PROSE Awards Luncheon
(State Room)
1:30pm-2:15pm
Networking Break
2:15pm-3:30pm
Plenary #2:
(Grand Ballroom)
Moderator:
Dan Duncan
Sr. Director, Government Affairs
McGraw-Hill Companies
Copyright Policies: The Nexus Between U.S. and Foreign Laws
Just as our businesses have grown to serve international markets, so have the debates about copyright law expanded far beyond any one country’s borders. Consistency and predictability in the law provide the best frameworks for business stability and growth. Effective policy engagement requires an understanding of the international landscape, sensitivity to “local” traditions and cultures, and engaging in policy debates both in the U.S. and abroad. A panel of seasoned copyright policy professionals will discuss issues such as Internet piracy, serving students with disabilities and setting parameters for use of “orphan works,” and bring perspectives on why it is important for publishers — regardless of where they are headquartered, to understand and influence policy debates on a global basis.
Speakers:
Allan R. Adler
Vice President for Legal & Government Affairs
Association of American Publishers
Barbara Gratch Cohen
General Counsel
Oxford University Press USA
Steve Metalitz
Partner
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, LLP
Counsel to the International Intellectual Property Alliance
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5:30pm-6:00pm
Networking Break
6:00pm-7:30pm
Evening Reception
(State Room)
(Dinner on Your Own)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012
8:00am-9:00am
Continental Breakfast
(State Room)
9:00am-10:15am
Plenary #3:
(Grand Ballroom)
Moderator:
Scott Grillo
VP, Group Publisher, McGraw-Hill Medical
McGraw-Hill
E-books and the Resizing of the STM Book Industry
The long awaited rise of the e-book finally arrived in full force for STM publishers with the launch of the 4-color tablet. Yet while much of the news is good (e.g. new growth opportunities, increased efficiencies across the supply chain and the ability to include multimedia that truly adds value), the change brings challenges as well. What sort of implications will the migration to digital have for an industry and the infrastructure that has been built over time to support it? How much will a shift to a smaller, more efficient market and distribution model be worth?
To start the discussion around these questions, Ned May, Vice President of Outsell will set the context for this change by presenting a view of the state of the information industry including key trends and issues in the overall professional information space. This will be followed by a deeper exploration of the e-book marketplace with an examination of the market’s key trends, disruptors and new models, as well as highlighting research into the e-book value chain and the implications for STM publishers who want to understand the economics of adding value at every step of the publishing process. The session will then transition to a Q&A with panelists representing all aspects of the book industry today.
Featured Speaker:
Ned May
Vice President & Lead Analyst
Outsell, Inc.
Speakers:
Roger Kasunic
Vice President -- Editing, Design & Production
McGraw-Hill
Clark Morrell
Rittenhouse Book Distributors
Lisa Nachtigall
Director, Business Development, Digital Books Wiley-Blackwell
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Adjournment
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2012 Planning Committee:
Glen Campbell (Elsevier)
Heather Cullen (Elsevier)
Bill Deluise (Wiley)
Dan Duncan (McGraw-Hill)
Cathy Felgar (Cambridge University Press)
Michael Fisher (Harvard University Press)
Nigel Fletcher-Jones (Lexicon Publishing)
Scott Grill (McGraw-Hill)
Susan Harris (American Psychological Association)
Nicola Hill (American Association for Cancer Research)
Susan King (American Chemical Society)
Audrey Melkin (Atypon)
John Purcell (Full Potential Associates)
AAP Staff: Sara Pinto, John Tagler