The International Book Fair of Bogotá, FILBo, summons professionals from the book sector to participate in its Professional Conferences, which will take place within the framework of the fair, from April 18 to May 2, 2023.

These Conferences are specialized events, which seek to open meeting spaces and business opportunities between national and international actors of the book sector.

 

• International Business Show

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Location: Arco restaurant at Corferias

This is the strategic space to do business around the purchase and sale of books and publishing and translation rights.

For companies not exhibiting at the fair or allies of the Colombian Book Chamber, access the following link:

 

• Children and Youth Literature Congress: Children and Youth Literature in Colombia

Location: FILBo Workshops 2 

The Children and Youth Literature in Colombia has come a long way to achieve visibility and an important positioning in the various scenarios of the book production and reading chain. In our country, both in the creative and publishing fields, a clear panorama of authors, works and publishing labels that identify with its various facets and manifestations is already recognized. In this congress we will develop an approach in order to evaluate and point out the routes to professionalize the publishing process (training, research, marketing), to recognize their achievements on a creative scale (outstanding authors and illustrators), to review their scope in terms of publications (positioned works and catalogues), and to dialogue with foreign specialists to chart new paths and horizons for growth and consolidation (fairs, associations, circuits of dissemination).

Free event; tables for general public and specialized work tables for publishers.

 

• Forum about Translation in the publishing field

Location: Salón F

The Colombian Book Chamber, faithful to its mission of promoting the development of publishing activity in Colombia from all its fields, and in alliance with the Asociación Colombiana de Traductores, Terminólogos e Intérpretes (ACTTI) (Colombian Association of Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters), developed an analysis of the relevant topics and profiles to build a program that contributes to the different professionals involved in the translation process in the country.

It is aimed at translators, publishers, teachers, students and professionals interested in the field of literary translation.

Payment with prior registration.

 

• Book Forums

Location: Gran Salón C

This is a training and professional updating space for the publishing sector that brings together publishers, agents, distributors, booksellers and students around talks and conferences with experts from Colombia and the world. In its twelfth edition, the general topic of Book Forums is the publishing chain as a living ecosystem. Today, the Latin American publishing world is marked by its constant expansion to international markets and its broad development in the region.

Payment with prior registration

 

• Encounter of University Publishers from Mexico and Colombia

April 19th  

Location: Sala José María Vargas Vila

The objective of this encounter is to discuss the recent challenges and current scenarios of the university publishing field in Mexico and Colombia. University publishers from both countries participate to share their strategies and perspectives on the impact of the pandemic in the university publishing field and the challenge of continuous improvement to respond to their commitment to the dissemination of knowledge. 

Free event, with free admission

 

• FILBo Emprende

This initiative seeks to strengthen the publishing industry through an agenda of integral training activities that establishes the relationships, challenges and opportunities of the production chain of the sector. In addition, graduates who are trained will have a commercial space the following year to exhibit and disseminate their publications and projects and thus test what they have learned in an experience that brings books directly into the hands of readers.

Location: Workshops 2

Specialized event, closed to the general public. Pre-registration by call.

 

• Leo Independiente

Location: FILBo Workshops 1

The best cover letter for a publishing house is its catalogue. It represents its identity, its concerns and the trace of its transformation in time. If we are what we publish, what does it mean to say "I read independent publications"?

The first meeting point with readers are the contents of the books, their stories and realities. Reading independent publications means reading the most common meeting points of the catalog of independent publishers in our country.

The six events of Leo Independiente 2023 are a proposal to present ourselves from our thematic contents. We are independent, we are Colombia, Latin America, translations, publishing, illustrated rescues, and child and youth literature and, finally, we are what we publish.

Free events with free admission.

 

• Literature, illustration and artificial intelligence in the light of copyright - International Seminar on Copyright

Location: Gran Salón A

This academic encounter brings together the best national and international copyright experts, who will present topics around the analysis and debate of trends, as well as case studies and business models that are trending internationally and mark the impact of this industry on a global economy.

Free event with prior registration.

 

• International Encounter of Booksellers

Location: FILBo Workshops 1

This initiative seeks to promote the meeting and exchange of experiences between booksellers from Colombia and abroad, through an agenda of activities within the framework of the FILBo. With this, the Colombian Book Chamber seeks to open a training and meeting space to strengthen emerging, traditional and regional bookstores. 

Free event with free admission.

• International Illustration Festival: ILUSTROPÍA

Location: Gran Salón A 

This event brings together illustrators from different countries in talks, conferences, exhibitions and workshops, as well as expanded activities such as illustrated monologues, dramatic readings, illustrated concerts, drawing outings and spaces for collective creation. All this with the aim of strengthening the illustration sector in Colombia and fostering spaces for professionalization and training of audiences.

Payment with prior registration.

 

• Public reading: spaces, strategies and programs

Location: Gran Salón B

It is an event organized by Fundalectura as part of the International Book Fair of Bogotá (FILBO) 2023. This will be a meeting space for mediators, teachers, librarians and reading promoters from different countries to learn about experiences, strategies and projects that consider reading from unconventional spaces; cultural processes built from the firm conviction that written culture is a heritage that belongs to us all and to which anyone can approach significantly. 

Free event with prior registration.

 

• Fourth National Encounter of Proofreaders Living from proofreading: a utopia?

Location: Sala José María Vargas Vila 

Free event with prior registration.

Qualification. This has been one of the constant calls to the proofreaders and, beyond the linguistic, encyclopedic, publishing aspects or use of computer tools, today we are called to think about operational competences (brand management or limits of textual work), non-sexist language use or even the limits between artificial intelligence and proofreading. Hence, in this Fourth National Encounter of Proofreaders «Being open to evolve», we seek to fill these gaps.  

• FILBo Ilustra

Location: FILBo Workshops 2

FILBo Ilustra is part of the professional encounters of children and youth literature, a program recently created to promote debate and training of people interested in learning more about books designed, written, illustrated and published for children and young people. In these two sessions, professionals trained in the field of illustration have a space dedicated to the exploration of graphic language in its different expressions.

• Illustration Masterclass with Roger Ycaza

April 28th 

Location: FILBo Workshops 2

The Ecuadorian illustrator and musician will share his illustration techniques and how they relate to music. He will also explore, along with the attendees, the difference between making your own book and one for a writer.

The Ecuadorian illustrator and musician will share his illustration techniques and how they relate to music. He will also explore, along with the attendees, the difference between making your own book and one for a writer.

 

• Illustrating for little kids: workshop to create an accordion book

Location: FILBo Workshops 2

The Brazilian illustrator Mariana Massarani shares her techniques, her sources of inspiration and her experience in the publishing world as an illustrator of books for children. In addition, she teaches a workshop for new illustrators so that they can create their own accordion book using different techniques, textures, and colors.

Payment with prior registration.