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Speexx to Chair Roundtable at International SIPA Conference

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Leaders from the World’s Largest Publishing Organisations Meet to Discuss the Impact of Technology and Change on the Global Information Publishing Industry.

Munich - Friday 23rd March 2012 - Armin Hopp, Founder and President of digital publishing (dp), provider of the award-winning Speexx online language training solution, will chair an interactive roundtable at the international SIPA conference for specialized information publishers, held in Munich, Germany, from 28 to 30 March 2012.

The roundtable discussion, Disrupting the Education Industry: Leveraging Technology to Create New Business Models, hosted by SIPA and facilitated by the German Book Trade Academy, will take place on Friday 30th March in Munich/Germany. The focus is to bring together publishing industry leaders to learn, collaborate and share best practices on a number of topics such as leveraging technology, metrics for measuring quality and ROI of user generated content as well as mobile and collaboration technologies and preparing a digital framework for moving to the cloud.

Armin Hopp commented: "The publishing industry needs to recognize that technology integration is as much about change as it is about technology. The ability to change and leverage technology to create new and sustainable business models will be crucial to the future of the information publishing industry."

The SIPA Conference, which is taking place for the 4th time, is hosted by SIPA (Specialized Information Publishers Association, Washington, USA), VNR Verlag and The German Book Trade Academy (Munich, Germany).

For a full schedule of the event please visit:  http://www.buchakademie.de/konferenzen/international/sipa_2012.php