The NEXT-GEN-EXPO

EDUCATION FOR US ALL
Next-Gen-Expo adds Nature Publishing Group's Vikram Savkar to present on How Technology Empowers the Future of Education

About Nature Publishing Group

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online. NPG publishes journals, online databases, and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine.

Focusing on the needs of scientists, Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. In addition, for this audience, NPG publishes the Nature research journals and Nature Reviews journals, plus a range of prestigious academic journals including society-owned publications. Online, nature.com provides over 5 million visitors per month with access to NPG publications and online databases and services, including Nature News and NatureJobs plus access to Nature Network and Nature Education's Scitable.com . For information on NPG publications, online databases and services, visit the A-Z index or go to the catalog.

Scientific American is at the heart of NPG's newly-formed consumer media division, meeting the needs of the general public. Founded in 1845, Scientific American is the oldest continuously published magazine in the US and the leading authoritative publication for science in the general media. Together with scientificamerican.com and 16 local language editions around the world it reaches over 3 million consumers and scientists. Other titles include Scientific American Mind and Spektrum der Wissenschaft in Germany. Scientific American is available for site license access on the nature.com platform.

Throughout all its businesses NPG is dedicated to serving the scientific and medical communities and the wider scientifically interested general public. Part of Macmillan Publishers Limited, NPG is a global company with principal offices in London, New York and Tokyo, and offices in cities worldwide including Boston, Buenos Aires, Delhi, Hong Kong, Madrid, Barcelona, Munich, Heidelberg, Basingstoke, Melbourne, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul and Washington DC. Read our history for a timeline of NPG and the scientific events which have helped shape the direction of the business.

Vikram Savkar, Publishing Director, Boston

Vikram Savkar is Senior Vice President and Publishing Director at NPG with global responsibility for managing NPG's educational publishing programs. Vikram joined NPG to launch Nature Education in January 2007. A new division of NPG, Nature Education publishes innovative, high quality products for graduate, undergraduate, and high school science students worldwide. Prior to NPG, Vikram held a number of management roles in digital and textbook publishing over a 10 year career at Pearson Higher Education, and prior to that served for 3 years as Assistant to the Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. Vikram received degrees in Physics and Classics from Harvard University.

About Next-Gen-Expo

Next-Gen is a highly productive engine and pro-active three day, one-track conference and exposition of new ideas dedicated to innovation that benefits humanity. You will be immersed in the new conversation about entertainment, media, energy, technology, health and how these innovations will benefit you and your collective humanity, enabling both consumer and business to have long-term sustainable lives and careers and visions of your own. Next-Gen-Expo is held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 15, 16 and 17 in West Palm Beach, Florida in the studios of GStar Studios.

Next-Gen-Expo gathers the leaders and innovators of the technology and media industries to give you deep insights into what's enabling your career and life. Big changes that have long term effects on all of us. Next-Gen-Expo is produced by an award-winning production company that has continually secured tremendous media attention for their productions.

Website: www.next-gen-expo.com

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