Supporting the hands-on workshops are lecture and teaching sessions that give students exposure to diverse types of publishing. Leading executives, acknowledged as industry experts, explore a broad range of publishing issues. Here are the topics and faculty for 2017:

• Overview of Publishing (keynote address): Sanyu Dillon, EVP, Director of Marketing, Random House Group
• The Role of the Editor/Acquisition of the Manuscript/Making the Publishing Decision: Andrea Schulz, Vice President, Editor-in-Chief, Viking/ Penguin Random House; Publishing Institute graduate
• The Role of the Literary Agent: Sandra Bond, Owner, Bond Literary Agency, discusses how agents work with authors to represent their books to editors
• Birth of the Book: A discussion between Cynthia Swanson, Author of The Bookseller, HarperCollins, March 2015 and Karl Weber, President, Karl Weber Literary, former Editor and Publisher with McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons, Times Business/Random House, Inc., at the Tattered Cover Book Store on Colfax.
• The Economics of Publishing: Nikko Odiseos, President, Shambhala Publications
• University Press/Scholarly Publishing, a Micro-workshop: Peter Dougherty, Director, Princeton University Press
• College Textbooks/Role of the College Sales Representative: Priscilla McGeehon, College Publisher, Thames & Hudson; Reid Hester, Executive Editor, Psychology, SAGE Publications and former Executive Editor, Political Science, Pearson Higher Education, 1995 graduate of the Publishing Institute
• Digital College Publishing:  Ralph Zerbonia, Senior Manager, Content Digitization, Cengage Learning, 2001 graduate of the Publishing Institute
• Copyediting: Alice Levine, Freelance Editor, formerly Copy Chief, Westview Press
• Proofreading: Janice Braunstein, Assistant Managing Editor, Rowman & Littlefield
• A Day with the Independent Publisher. A panel of experts from several houses across the country. The 2017 panelists will include: David R. Godine, David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, MA; Gary Groth, Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, WA; Jack Jensen, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA; Carolyn Sakowski, John F. Blair, Publisher, Winston-Salem, NC; Marina Tristan, Arte Publico Press, Houston, TX.
• Book Packaging/ Book Producing: Mike Oprins, Vice President, Group Publisher, Quarto Publishing Group
• Religious Publishing: Joel Fotinos, Vice President, Publisher, Jeremy P. Tarcher, an imprint of Penguin Group USA
• Children's Book Publishing, a Micro-workshop: Virginia Duncan, Vice President, Publisher, Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, with commentary from the bookseller's point of view from Judy Bulow, Children's Books Buyer, Tattered Cover Book Store
• Production: Stacy Schuck, Production Manager, The Perseus Books Group
• Book Design: Laura Drew, Creative Director, Quarto Publishing Group
• Social Media Strategies: Erica Barmash, Director of Children's Digital and Trade Marketing, Bloomsbury Children's and Walker Books for Young Readers
• Publicity: Scott Manning, President, Scott Manning and Associates
• Press Releases: Karen Hemmes, Press Release Publicist, Publicity Connections
• How to Get a Job -- a Discussion on Resumes, Interviews, and Making the Connections: Susan Gordon, President, Lynne Palmer Executive Recruitment Agency; and Lynnette Spence, Director, Talent Acquisition, Scholastic, Inc
• Diversity in Publishing: Hannah Ehrlich, Director of Marketing & Publicity, LEE & LOW BOOKS, Inc.
• Digital Innovations in Publishing: Todd Stocke, Vice President, Editorial Director of Sourcebooks
• Legal Aspects of Publishing: Jon Tandler, Attorney, Sherman & Howard L.L.C.
• International Publishing and Subsidiary Rights: Kristin Kliemann, former Vice President, Subsidiary Rights, John Wiley and Sons, Inc
• Scholarly Journals: John Tagler, Vice President and Executive Director, American Association of Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division
• The Role of the Wholesaler: Shawn Everson, Chief Commercial Officer, Ingram Content Group
• The Bookstore: Len Vlahos, Owner of Tattered Cover Book Store, and former Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group
• Publishing Sales - Getting Books to Market: Cathy Langer, Lead Buyer, Tattered Cover Book Store; Deirdre Dolan, Vice President, Sales Manager, W.W. Norton & Company; and Kimin Kirkpatrick, Business Analyst, Trade Sales, W.W. Norton & Company
• Roundtable of Publishing Institute Graduates. How they got their first jobs, what they are doing now
• A morning with Bob Miller, President and Publisher, Flatiron Books/Macmillan; followed by awarding of certificates and a graduation brunch reception