Programme
Sunday 23 March
9.00 - 9.45
Conference registration and welcome coffee
9.55 - 11.00
Welcome words and keynote speech
11.10 - 11.55
Workshop
Building a strong online brand for your bookshop
Panel
Can bookshops boost literacy rates?
Presentation
Book market policies overview by EIBF
Panel
Happy booksellers, happy life: building a team
12.10 - 13.15
Lunch
13.15 - 14.00
Presentation
Fostering mental wellbeing in your shop
Ignite talk session
Innovative ideas
in the bookshop
Presentation
The Latvian Book market:
Facts, figures and marketing
Panel
Training the booksellers of tomorrow
14.10 - 14.55
Afternoon keynote
14.55 - 15.20
Coffee break
15.30 - 16.15
Workshop
Window displays and shop design
Panel
Bookshops without borders: catering to neurodivergent readers
Panel
Book subscriptions and
loyalty programmes
Panel
Hybrid bookselling: managing online
and offline
16.25 - 17.15
End of the day keynote
18.30 - 19.30
Drink reception
19.30
Dinner
Monday 24 March
9.00 - 9.30
Coffee break
09.30 - 10.20
Keynote speech
10.30 - 11.15
Workshop
Building a strong online brand for your bookshop
Panel
Innovative ideas for bookshop longevity
Panel
Non-book products for small stores: developing your own merchandising
Panel
New Adult Fiction and the BookTok Revolution
11.20 - 11.40
Coffee break
11.50 - 12.35
Workshop
Fostering mental wellbeing in your shop
Panel
Events 101: how to start organising your events
Panel
AI and the book trade: changes ahead?
Panel
Working with indie publishers
12.45 - 13.55
Lunch
13.55 - 14.40
Workshop
Window displays and shop design
Panel
Books and bookshops for democracy
Presentation
Creative Europe: book sector projects in the Baltics
Panel
Bookshops beyond the city
14.50 - 15.30
Closing keynote
15.30 - 15.40
Closing words and unveiling the 2026 conference location
15.40
Closing drinks
*Panel session titles and timeslots may be subject to changes
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