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EBMA 2025 Annual Meeting
January 27-30, 2025
JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa in Las Vegas, Nevada
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The mission of the Educational Book and Media Association is to foster a unique community that brings together a wide range of wholesalers and publishers in order to address the ever-changing book & media buying needs of the educational marketplace. EBMA’s roughly, 30 wholesale and 90 publisher members coordinate to provide informational webinars and gather annually for a conference featuring industry leaders and influencers engaged in one-on-one meetings, keynote addresses and award celebrations. The annual conference also provides vital publisher programming from industry experts and content providers.
The 2025 meeting will be held January 27-30, 2025, at the JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa in Las Vegas, Nevada. The EBMA 2025 programming will address the educational publishing landscape currently facing a number of challenges that require us to come together as a collective to solve if we are going to remain successful. Book banning and AI need to be tackled head on as we navigate their implications to censorship and content. Conversations about collection development needs and the tools we use for it, like Edelweiss, can help to arm publishers with key insights into how and why selections are being made for schools and how best to assist wholesalers with data to enable informed decision-making.
The 2025 Annual Meeting Program Committee, Sheila Hennessey of Penguin Random House and Amanda MacDonnell of Steps to Literacy are pleased to announce the 2025 meeting theme: Building Collaborative Partnerships in a Shifting Marketplace
SPONSORS |
CG Printers | Edelweiss by Above the Treeline | Focus Strategic Communications, Inc |
Forum Communications Printing | HF Group | MetaMetrics |
R & R Bindery Service, Inc. | School Library Journal |
MEETING AGENDA
| Monday, January 27th | (All time PST and subject to change) |
| 9:00 AM | Board of Directors Meeting |
| 3:00 PM | Registration Opens and 1-on-1 Set Up Begins - Grand Foyer |
| 5:00 PM | First Timers Meeting - Grand A/B |
| 5:30 PM | Opening Reception - Grand Foyer |
| 6:00 PM |
Awards Dinner - Grand CDE See old friends, meet new ones, and celebrate the achievements of our Ludington Award recipient. Ludington Award Recipient: Jason Reynolds, Simon & Schuster |
| Tuesday, January 28th | |
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast - Grand A/B |
| 9:00 AM |
Education Session - Grand CDE Edelweiss: Best Strategies and Uses for Wholesalers, Librarians, and Publishers Panelists: |
| 10:30 AM | 1-on-1 Session Group A - Valencia |
| 10:30 AM |
Publisher Education Session - Grand CDE Collection Development: Key Insights Across the Industry How can publishers present the best, most salient, information to facilitate wholesalers with Collection Development for classroom, school, and public libraries. Panelists: |
| 12:30 PM |
Lunch - Grand CDE Book Challenges, Book Bans: What Does 2025 Bring to the Educational Book and Media Marketplace? This session will include an update on the current lay of the land and legal cases currently before the courts. The panelists will discuss strategies going forward and how the 2024 elections (National, State, and Local) will impact the education market. What are the anticipated legislation changes and what are the best strategies to address them? Panelists: |
| 2:00 PM | 1-on-1 Session Group B - Valencia |
| 6:00 PM |
Dinner and a Movie - Grand CDE |
| 8:00 PM | Dueling Pianos - Grand CDE |
| Wednesday, January 29th | |
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast - Grand A/B |
| 9:00 AM |
Education Session - Grand CDE Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Obstacles for Publishers and Distributors This session will discuss how AI is currently being used in content creation across platforms, the challenges of intellectual property protection and how publishers and distributors can utilize this hyper-growth technology to streamline their businesses. Panelists: |
| 10:30 AM | 1-on-1 Session Group B - Valencia |
| 10:30 AM |
Publisher Education Session - Grand CDE Collection Development: Key Insights Across the Industry How can publishers present the best, most salient, information to facilitate wholesalers with Collection Development for classroom, school, and public libraries. Panelists: |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch- No Programming - Grand CDE |
| 2:00 PM | 1-on-1 Session Group A - Valencia |
| 6:00 PM | President's Reception - Grand Foyer |
| 7:00 PM |
President's Dinner - Grand CDE Featured Author Speakers: |
| Thursday, January 30th | |
| 7:30 AM | Breakfast - Grand A/B |
| 8:30 AM | 1-on-1 Session Groups A & B (1-on-1 sessions ending by 11AM) - Valencia |
| 11:00 AM | Membership Meeting - Grand CDE |
| 11:30 AM | Meeting Concludes |