Bill Kasdorf is the General Editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing and former President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). He is a recipient of SSP’s Distinguished Service Award, the IDEAlliance/DEER Luminaire Award, and the Book Industry Study Group’s 2014 Industry Champion Award.
As our Friday afternoon keynote speaker at the 2016 Typefi User Conference, Bill spoke about The Grand Convergence: How increasingly interdependent publishing standards are creating an interoperable publishing ecosystem.
Bill serves on the Board of Directors of the International Digital Publishing Forum and its EPUB 3 Working Group. He Chairs the BISG Content Structure Committee and is an active member of the W3C Digital Publishing Interest Group, the International Press Telecommunications Council, the EDUPUB Alliance, and the IDEAlliance Tech Council. In his consulting practice, Bill serves such clients as Pearson, Harvard, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge, the World Bank, OCLC, and the European Union.
The new mandate is interoperability.