Ana María Bermúdez

Es editora en PRH México, presidenta del Comité Jóvenes Caniem, fundadora de BookAlly y profesora del máster en Gestión Editorial y Marketing Digital de la Universidad de Alcalá. Estudió Lingüística y Literatura Hispánica en la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla y el máster en Edición digital por la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Con su Guía para la implementación de la edición universal en editoriales mexicanas, su participación en congresos internacionales y su iniciativa de formación para editores BookAlly, se ha convertido en una de las voces mexicanas que impulsan la adopción de la accesibilidad editorial a nivel internacional.

Ramiro Armada

Asesor comercial Sistema Fierro

Milena Armada

Ceo Lambda Sistemas

Jaime Iván Hurtado

Entrepreneur, publishing manager, speaker, and publishing consultant. He holds a degree in Social Communication and Journalism (Pontifical Javeriana University, 1996) and a specialization in Educational Management (University of La Sabana, 2004). He has studied Marketing and pursued ongoing professional development in communication, marketing, publishing, university publishing, semiotics, e-learning, e-commerce, and higher education. He has taught in these areas at various universities and is a regular participant in international academic training activities.

Alma Ontiveros

She holds a degree in International Relations from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with postgraduate studies in International Economics and Globalization from the same institution.

She has several years of experience and extensive knowledge in the development of the digital publishing industry, focusing on the generation, diversification, innovation, management, and integration of business models across the book value chain, considering both current and future industry scenarios.

Carlos Andrés Martínez

He directs the National and International Hypertext Distribution Program – Netizen in Colombia and Mexico, with reach in more than 14 countries. He holds a degree in Finance and Business from Universidad Piloto de Colombia, where he also completed a master's degree in Marketing.

A specialist in the book value chain, he draws on his experience as a printer, quality inspector, sales consultant, key account manager, and marketing specialist for publishers in Colombia. Now, as distribution manager, he leads projects with more than 400 publishers in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, specializing in university publishing and innovative, customized technological solutions designed to support and meet the needs of those involved in the creation, distribution, marketing, and consumption of editorial content in various formats, such as printed books, magazines, ebooks, print-on-demand, audiobooks, and other types of publications.

Luiz Gaspar

Research Director NielsenIQ 

Mariana Bueno

Coordinadora de Investigación NielsenIQ

Ricardo Costa

Ricardo se ha desarrollado como analista de sistemas y se ha especializado en el sector editorial. Inició su camino profesional en el negocio del entretenimiento, inició como gerente de producto en HBO Brasil y ha formado parte del mercado de los libros por más de veinticinco años, donde se desempeñó como director editorial y de marketing. También fue consultor de planificación empresarial para distintas casas editoriales en la región y socio-director de PublishNews por más de seis años, con una gestión exitosa que llevó a esta empresa a una mayor difusión de sus contenidos.

En 2013, asumió el reto de representar a la Frankfurter Buchmesse —Feria del Libro de Frankfurt— en Sudamérica, y poco tiempo después inició el proyecto de MVB Brasil, el cual también dirige desde hace nueve años.

Mariana Féged

Líder empresarial con más de 20 años de experiencia en ecommerce, innovación digital e internacionalización. Actualmente se desempeña como General Manager para los mercados hispanohablantes en Bookwire, empresa especializada en tecnología editorial y distribución digital de contenidos. Por más de 15 años trabajó en el grupo internacional Bertelsmann, donde lideró la expansión del Círculo de Lectores en América Latina, lanzó la primera plataforma digital de suscripción de ebooks en España y dirigió la estrategia inicial de contenidos digitales. Fue directora de Nuevos Proyectos e Innovación en Arvato, desarrollando estrategias B2B globales y gestionando alianzas estratégicas. En 2018 fundó L’Autre Sac, marca de moda sostenible con impacto social, donde lideró operaciones en tres continentes. Es egresada de la Universidad de Georgetown y de La Sorbona.

Marisol Schulz Manaut

Marisol Schulz Manaut is an editor, commentator, speaker, cultural journalist, and expert in the literary and publishing world. She has received multiple recognitions for her work promoting reading and advocating for the future of books and the Spanish language.

For the past twelve years, she has served as the director of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, considered the most important Spanish-language book fair and one of the most significant in the world. Under her leadership, FIL Guadalajara has received several awards, including the prestigious Princess of Asturias Award in the area of Communication and Humanities, shared with the Hay Festival; the Order of Rio Branco from Brazil; and recently, the Sor Juana Medal, a recognition granted by the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico.

She also directs the Los Angeles Spanish Language Book Fair and Literary Festival, an ambitious program aimed at promoting books and reading in Spanish in the United States, founded in 2011.

For over four decades, Marisol Schulz has focused on the book and reading sector, leading editorial areas in various public and private organizations, such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS). She was the editorial director at Plaza y Janés Mexico and spent 17 years at Grupo Santillana, first as executive editor and later as director of the Taurus and Alfaguara imprints in Mexico. She was responsible for the edition of major Ibero-American writers such as Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Saramago, Arturo Pérez Reverte, Elena Poniatowska, Augusto Monterroso, Sergio Ramírez, Carmen Boullosa, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, and Xavier Velasco, among others.

In 2013, the Mexican edition of Forbes recognized her as one of the 50 most powerful women in Mexico. In 2016 and 2020, the magazine Quién named her one of the "50 people who move Mexico." In 2021, she received the National Juan Pablos Award for Editorial Merit, a recognition granted annually by the Mexican Chamber of the Publishing Industry (Cámara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana).

Other activities involving the participant:

Indigenous Literature Award 2025
Diana Moreno Toscano Latin American Young Poetry Prize 2025
Acknowledgments and closing
The privilege of turning off the light
The universal humanist
Inauguration
Opening Ceremony

Luis González

He is the General Director of the GSR Foundation, Vice President of the Spanish Association of Foundations, and Co-Director of the Reading Subcommittee of the IPA. As a member of the elite State Administrators Corps, he led departments in various ministries, and in his last public sector position, he designed and managed the first National Reading Promotion Plan (2001–2004). From the GSR Foundation, he has launched and developed projects such as Readmagine, Lecturalab, Renodo, Canal Lector, and PARIX, the school for the Spanish-language book.

Other activities involving the participant:

Ethics, transparency, and oversight in the use of AI

Marta Martínez

She has been the CEO of Grupo Anaya/Hachette for Spain and Latin America since 2020. With more than 30 years of professional experience, she has worked in various sectors such as media, internet, and telecommunications. Over the past 15 years, she has focused on education and the publishing industry, both in the European and Latin American markets, where she has led business and digital transformation initiatives at Macmillan Education and Grupo Anaya. In addition, Marta Martínez serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Educational Publishers in Spain and the International Executive Committee of Hachette Livre.

José Manuel Anta

He has been the Managing Director of the Federation of Publishers’ Guilds of Spain since 2024. Previously, he served as Director of the Federation of National Associations of Publishers’ Distributors (FANDE) since 1997 and was the founder and Director of the International Publishing Distribution Association (IPDA). He has participated as a speaker in various conferences and seminars on the book sector, publishing, and digital content. He is also a collaborator in the organization of Readmagine, an international event on book and reading innovation held annually in Madrid.

Javier Celaya

Javier Celaya is the co-founder of Dosdoce.com. Through this platform, Javier has been responsible for the launch and implementation of major digital platforms in Spanish-speaking markets (Spain and Latin America), including Bookwire, Storytel, and Podimo, among others. Since 2014, he has been part of the editorial committee for the Anuario de Cultura Digital (Annual Digital Culture Yearbook) of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), which has become a key reference document on the evolution of digital trends in the cultural world.

Dosdoce.com was founded in March 2004 with the purpose of better understanding the digital age we live in. Its goal has been to encourage cultural industry professionals to transform their organizations in order to grow their activities by leveraging the benefits of the internet. Over the years, Dosdoce.com has advised major companies in the digital economy such as ANIARA, Bookwire, Storytel, Podimo, DeMarque, Skeelo, and Bayard, among others. Additionally, it has published over 300 studies on the use of new technologies in various areas of the cultural sector (business models, distribution strategies, digital content creation, etc.) and published thousands of articles to help professionals in the sector understand the opportunities that the internet offers.

Javier Celaya is recognized as a thought leader in the digital transformation of the cultural and publishing industries, continually working to bridge the gap between traditional models and digital innovation.

Other activities involving the participant:

Creating for childhood: audiobooks and the promise of a new audience

Paulo Cosín

He has been the Editorial Director of Ediciones Morata since 2005. His professional career in the publishing sector began at the SM Group, where he was responsible for marketing school publications, and later at Oxford University Press, where he managed marketing for Children’s and Young Adult Literature in partnership with Grupo Planeta. He currently serves as a member and treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Federation of Publishers’ Guilds of Spain and of the Madrid Publishers’ Association, where he is also Vice President and Coordinator of the Small Publishers Committee. He is also the author of Para qué leer. Fomentar la lectura en jóvenes y adolescentes (Morata, 2022) and La emoción de leer. Leer las emociones (Morata, 2023).

Dolores Prades

Dolores Prades is a founding partner and director of the Instituto Emília, and publisher of Revista Emília and Cuadernos Emília. She holds a PhD in Economic History from USP and is a specialist in children's and young adult literature from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is also the director of the Emília Training Laboratory.

She served as curator and coordinator of the seminars Conversas ao Pé da Página (2011–2015) and Arte, Palavra e Leitura (2018, 2019, and 2020); as coordinator in Brazil for the Latin American and Caribbean Chair of Reading and Writing; and as a guest professor in the Master's program at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She was also curator of FLUPP Parque (2014 and 2015).

Dolores was a member of the jury for the Hans Christian Andersen Award (2016), the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Award (2016), and the Chen Bochui Children’s Literature Award (2019). Since 2018, she has been a consultant for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair for Latin America and works in editorial consulting and fields related to reading and reader education. She is also a translator, researcher, and writer in the field of books and reading.

Other activities involving the participant:

Children’s Book Routes: circulation, connections, and opportunities in Iberoamerica

Negrescolor

Invitado de Honor

Born in Barcelona in 1978. He studied at Escola Massana. He works as an illustrator and participates in various socially engaged projects. His work has received major recognitions, including the Junceda Award, the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition, the Golden Pinwheel (China), the White Ravens List, and the Bologna Ragazzi Award.

Other activities involving the participant:

The album in Barcelona
From illustration to space

Sara Bertrand

Escritora chilena, vive y trabaja en Santiago de Chile.

Es tallerista para la Biblioteca de Santiago y profesora del taller de Escritura Creativa de la Universidad Diego Portales. Ha dictado el curso Apreciación estética de los libros juveniles en la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades en la Universidad Católica de Chile durante los años 2017, 2018 y 2019. Tallerista para Laboratorio Emilia de formación (España y Brasil), donde ha dictado cursos de formación para profesores, mediadores y bibliotecarios, además de talleres literarios para la red de profesores del ayuntamiento de Madrid, España. Ha dictado cursos de creación literaria en España, Colombia, Brasil y Chile. Escribe para Cuaderno Emilia (Brasil) y esporádicamente para la Revista de la Universidad (UNAM, México). Ha trabajado en diarios, revistas y radios. Ha ganado numerosos premios, entre ellos: el The Braw Amazing Bookshelf Bologna Ragazi Award en 2025 con Afuera los fantasmas; el New Horizons Bologna Ragazzi Award 2017 con La mujer de la guarda; el White Ravens 2017 con No se lo coma; el premio Medalla Colibrí lo recibió en 2019; el Sello distinción de la Cátedra UNESCO en Brasil 2019 por Al mulher da guarda y en 2022 su novela Álbum familiar ganó el premio al arte editorial entregado por Caniem, México. Ha publicado en Francia, Italia, España, Brasil, México, Estados Unidos, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Venezuela. Ha sido traducida al francés, catalán, italiano, inglés y portugués.

Other activities involving the participant:

Gabriela Mistral: 80 years since the Nobel Prize

Amanda Mijangos

Ilustradora mexicana egresada de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la UNAM; estudió ilustración en Argentina y México. Desde 2014 ilustra poesía y literatura en libros y revistas dirigidas a personas de todas las edades. Su trabajo ha sido premiado en el Catálogo Iberoamérica ilustra; la Bienal de Ilustración de Bratislava, la Trienal de Ilustración de Tallin (Estonia), la Feria del Libro Infantil de Bolonia y el Catálogo White Ravens, entre otros. Nominada por México al Premio Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2025.

IG: @amandamijangos

web: www.amandamijangos.com

Adolfo Córdova

Adolfo Córdova (Veracruz, Ver., 1983) is a journalist, writer, researcher, and reading mediator, with a master's degree in Children's and Young Adult Books and Literature from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is a member of the National System of Art Creators of Mexico. He has published 15 books that have received awards such as the National Fine Arts Prize for Children's Story, The Best of the Banco del Libro, the Antonio García Cubas Award from INAH, The White Ravens, the Cuatrogatos Foundation Prize, the Best Children's Books from the New York Public Library, and the Bologna Ragazzi Award. His works have been translated into Maya, Nuntajiiyi, Catalan, Italian, German, Arabic, Russian, and Korean. In 2025, he published Pequeña Flama, Trueno Pequeño (Loqueleo), Río viento (El Naranjo), and an anthology of fairy tales by Marina Colasanti for the UNAM reading materials collection. Since 2014, he has maintained a blog specializing in children's and young adult literature: linternasybosques.com.

Nora Abbott

Nora Abbott is the Chief Operating Officer of myfilmfriend. Before working in film and streaming services, she was a high school special education teacher. Her background in education and her love of libraries guide her work in bringing international cinema to audiences. She lives in Virginia with her husband and cat.

Adriana Sabugal

Adriana Sabugal coordinates contacts between myfilmfriend and Latin America. She also translates the platform's content and subtitles into Spanish. In addition, she is a children's book author and a passionate film buff. She has lived with her family in Berlin for over 20 years.

Patricia García Campos

Paty García es una profesional apasionada por la cultura pop. Su interés por la música, el cine, el estilo de vida y los deportes ha sido un motor clave en su carrera, permitiéndole diseñar estrategias creativas de comunicación para marcas de moda, festivales, eventos de deportes de acción y campañas de influencer marketing.

Es egresada de la carrera de ciencias de la comunicación y periodismo por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, con especialización en comunicación organizacional. Comenzó su carrera como publirrelacionista y hoy cuenta con más de nueve años de experiencia en relaciones públicas e influencer marketing.

Actualmente es parte del equipo de alianzas estratégicas con creadores en TikTok Latinoamérica. Coordina la relación con más de 750 creadores de contenido en la región para fomentar la calidad en la plataforma y el crecimiento de creadores. Lo que más disfruta de su trabajo es poder acompañar a los creadores en su desarrollo profesional, apoyarlos en cumplir sus metas y fomentar una comunidad creativa sólida y auténtica.

@eltiopedro_fut

Es creador mexicano de contenido, arquitecto y profesor de idiomas; inglés, español y portugués. Empezó su carrera digital en 2019, y desde 2023 colabora como presentador en @crackstock, el medio deportivo hispanohablante más grande.

Su contenido de futbol, a través de storytelling, entrevistas y tutoriales, acumula más de 2.6 millones de seguidores en todas sus redes sociales, y supera los 551 millones de visualizaciones anuales.

Además, su experiencia se extiende a la cobertura de eventos de gran envergadura, como el Mundial de Clubes, y al trabajo directo con equipos de futbol de primera línea como Monterrey y Puebla, así como con el equipo de baloncesto Los Capitanes, consolidando su influencia en el ámbito deportivo y de entretenimiento.

@marianaalexagq

Conocida también como @marianaalexagq, mexicana creadora de contenido desde hace cinco años. Su contenido está enfocado en películas y series; hace reseñas, comparte datos curiosos, noticias y análisis. La gente que la sigue sabe muy bien que es fan de Stranger Things, Harry Potter, El señor de los Anillos, Marvel, etcétera. Ella habla de distintos géneros cinematográficos, pero su especialidad son las películas de fantasía, superhéroes y terror. Le gusta mucho ir al cine, leer, salir a caminar. Vive en Ciudad de México, y le gusta la música de Michael Jackson e Imagine Dragons.

Other activities involving the participant:

From book to screen

@sans.reyes

Más conocido en TikTok como @sans.reyes, es un creador de contenido colombiano de libros, series, películas y lifestyle. Por medio de sus videos y recomendaciones promueve la educación inclusiva sobre la comunidad LGBTIQ+. También es autor de Aquellas noches de desvelo, su primera obra.