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Save the dateSeptember 20, 202413:00 - 17:00 GMT+8 Add to Calendar
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Venue Location

Times Centre

1 New Industrial Rd, Singapore 536196
Level 4 MPH
Singapore

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Event Details
Event Details

Members are invited to the 57th Singapore Book Publishers Association Annual General Meeting. SBPA will present financial and activity reports for 2023-24. Elections for the 2024-2026 Executive Committee will also be held, followed by a tea reception.

Agenda
Agenda
  • 13:00 - 14:00

    Commerical AI licensing opportunities

    Commerical AI licensing opportunities

    Wiley has established a commercial, legal, and operational framework to provide content for training of builders of AI Large Language Models (LLM). This has developed into a pipeline of new providers plus provision of additional content to existing licensees. Wiley believes that the framework established would benefit other publishers and partners by providing a significant commercial opportunity. Wiley will be presenting these opportunities to our members at the AGM to allow them to benefit fro...
    Wiley has established a commercial, legal, and operational framework to provide content for training of builders of AI Large Language Models (LLM). This has developed into a pipeline of new providers plus provision of additional content to existing licensees. Wiley believes that the framework established would benefit other publishers and partners by providing a significant commercial opportunity. Wiley will be presenting these opportunities to our members at the AGM to allow them to benefit from the framework.

    Chor Meng, Senior Director, Wiley Asia
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    14:00 - 15:00

    NLB presentation to publishers

    NLB presentation to publishers

    Can you turn your book to a chatbot? Should you license your books for chatbots? What is involved in crossing media in this way? How are these specialist chatbots developed? Singapore's National Library, working with Amazon Web Services, has developed two chatbots working with local publisher content, from Marshall Cavendish and ISEAS Publishing. SBPA has asked them to share their experience, from a business perspective, with SBPA members.

    15:00 - 16:00

    AGM proceedings

    AGM proceedings

    16:00 - 17:00

    Tea reception

    Tea reception

Nominated Members for the 2024-2026 Executive Committee
Nominated Members for the 2024-2026 Executive Committee
  • President: Edmund Wee (Epigram Books)
  • Vice-President: Peter Schoppert (NUS Press)
  • Secretary: Melvin Choo (Alkem)
  • Assistant Secretary: Norlin Samat (Poppet's World)
  • Treasurer: Peh Shing Woei (Shing Lee Publishers)
  • Exco Member: Ruth Wan (World Scientific)
  • Exco Member: Mohd Feroz (Taylor & Francis)
  • Exco Member: Eliza Teoh (Bubbly Books)
  • Exco Member: Sim Ee Waun (Pepper Dog Press)
  • Exco Member: Duriya Aziz (Scholastic Education)