GatherVerse Book Summit

Join in on global expressions at the intersection of emerging technologies and humanity

GatherVerse Book Summit

December 9, 2025

The 38th Global GatherVerse event convenes a new kind of summit: one where we deep dive into the current and future state of books in an age defined by artificial intelligence.

This is a space for authors, researchers, engineers, ethicists, educators, publishers, technologists and readers. We explore what it means to write, publish, and trust books in a time where machine-generated language is flooding the landscape.

We meet to ask direct questions and propose grounded approaches. What happens to human storytelling? What are the standards of authorship? What role should AI play, if any, in literary creation, curation, or education?

The GatherVerse Book Summit creates a commons for collective insight across borders, languages, and disciplines.

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Leading Voices, Global Impact

The Future of Authorship

  • What defines a book in the presence of AI?

  • We examine human authorship alongside generative systems. Are new genres emerging? Are credits and rights being redefined?

  • Speakers from both traditional and non-traditional writing communities will contribute views from the frontlines.

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Publishers and Machines

  • How do publishers discern what’s human-made?

  • What editorial processes must evolve? This section investigates the shifting workflows, review protocols, and contracts behind book production.

  • We’ll explore whether hybrid publishing models can survive or thrive amid growing AI involvement.

Leaders of Change, Architects of Tomorrow

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Empowering Women in Emerging Technologies & Beyond

Fireside Conversations

  • Intimate, live discussions with authors, technologists, educators, and global thought leaders.

  • These firesides serve as direct encounters with those setting the boundaries of technology and literature.

  • Some have embraced AI. Others resist it. Everyone contributes to the reality we must face.

Human Voices in the Machine Age

  • This session focuses on cultural integrity. Language systems are being trained on vast datasets, but whose voices do they reflect, and whose do they silence?

  • We bring in translators, indigenous language advocates, and historians to examine what cultural preservation looks like in this moment.

Humanity at the Heart of Innovation
Spotlight Segments

Roundtables on Bookmaking Today

  • From independent publishers to indie and published authors and more, this series of live roundtables puts professionals in conversation. What’s changed in the process of getting a book to a reader?

  • What workflows are being adopted, and which ones are being abandoned?

Ethics and Attribution

  • What are the emerging norms around citation, ghostwriting, and source integrity in books created or assisted by AI? Do readers deserve to know how a book was produced?

  • This track will unpack where ethics meets marketing, and where disclosure meets trust.

Join a Symphony of Voices and Visions
Women Building What Comes Next

Beyond Print: The Book as Interface

  • A book is no longer bound by paper.

  • We examine interactive publishing, audio-native formats, multimodal storytelling, and immersive book technologies.

  • AI intersects with AR, voice tech, and responsive systems to ask: what does a book become when it listens back?

Educators and the AI-Authored Classroom

  • AI is showing up in student papers, lesson plans, and even textbooks.

  • This session is built for teachers, academic publishers, and curriculum designers who need practical frameworks for recognizing, using, or resisting AI-written content in educational materials.

  • Future authors want to know what is now and next.

Culture Leads Technology
Strength in Stillness

Speak at the Summit

  • We invite authors, aspiring writers, publishers, editors, librarians, ethicists, technologists, and educators from across the globe to apply.

  • Speak from lived experience, share the work you’re doing, or pose the questions your community is wrestling with.

  • We’re looking for perspectives across all levels of the publishing journey.