Live webinar · Free to attend

Your Content. Someone Else’s AI Product?

What comes next for AI in publishing?

After a week of conversations at Frankfurter Buchmesse, we step back and look at the bigger picture: how publishers are approaching AI, which use cases are gaining traction, and what deserves attention next.

Thursday, 15 October 2026
18:00 CEST · 60 minutes
Live online

18:00 CEST12:00 ET09:00 PT13:00 BRT

Why join?

You’ll learn:

What is at stake for publishers as AI becomes a new way to access knowledge
Where new AI product and revenue opportunities can emerge from content you already own
How to identify the right use case
How publishing content needs to be structured and prepared for AI
How to create pricing models for B2C and B2B - with examples
What happens technically between your archive and an AI-generated answer
How to preserve sources, attribution, provenance and control over your IP
What we learned building Quintessence AI from decades of specialist publishing content
How to start assessing what AI products could be built from your own catalogue

Speakers

Publisher experience meets applied AI.

Wael Abdelmalek

CEO & Co-founder · Uthereal AI

Wael brings 14 years of experience leading data analytics and AI teams, with a focus on healthcare and life sciences. At AWS, he led the sales and delivery of more than $80 million in AI projects. A published, award-winning AI architect, he holds an MSc in Information Security & AI.

João Carvalho

CTO & Co-founder · Uthereal AI

João combines machine learning research with the practical work of building AI products. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning from ETH Zürich and is an associate researcher at the ETH AI Center. An expert in robust machine learning, he also holds an MSc in AI Biomedical Engineering.

David Russell

Quintessence AI

David brings the publisher's perspective to the conversation. His background in marketing and corporate liaison at Quintessence Publishing spans specialist dental content, professional audiences and industry partnerships. He joins the webinar to share the publishing experience behind Quintessence AI.

Questions we will answer

What does "AI-ready knowledge" actually mean?
Why is digitised content not automatically AI-ready?
Where does traditional RAG work, and where does it become limiting?
Why do provenance and evidence matter particularly for publishers?
How can proprietary knowledge stay a competitive advantage in an AI world?
What new workflows and products become possible when knowledge is structured for AI?
What should publishers do first?
What does a realistic AI transformation roadmap look like?

Who should join

Publishing executives and strategy leads
Digital, product and innovation teams
Editorial and content operations leaders
Data, technology and platform owners
Anyone we met (or missed) at Frankfurter Buchmesse

In short

"Your Content. Someone Else’s AI Product?" is a free 60-minute online webinar hosted by Uthereal on Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:00 CEST. It covers AI product opportunities, viable publishing business models, AI-ready knowledge, provenance and how publishers can keep control of their intellectual property. Every registrant receives the recording.

Learn more before the webinar

For STM publishers

Turn journals and research into AI products you own.

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For book and education publishers

Turn your catalogue into AI products you own.

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Meeting us in person first? See where to find us at Frankfurter Buchmesse.