BAIPA monthly meetings are now on Zoom, with occasional hybrid meetings (Zoom and in-person). The Zoom links will be provided to you via email on the Friday evening before, around 9 PM.
Therefore, all non-members MUST register in advance in order to participate. However, all current BAIPA members will get the Zoom info for this session automatically.
Please scroll down to the bottom of this page if you need a non-member ticket.
The general meeting begins at 9 am, the speaker presentation is at 11 am, after Q&A, networking time, introductions & announcements.
(Click here for the schedule for the day)
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How to Use AI as an Author/Publisher
Takeaways:
- Learn how today’s most useful AI tools fit into an author’s writing, editing, and publishing workflow
- Learn what AI can and cannot do (and how to avoid common author pitfalls)
- Learn ways to use AI for research, revision, metadata, marketing, and reader engagement
- Create guardrails to protect your voice, your rights, and your professionalism while using AI
About Our Speaker
Thad McIlroy is a publishing technology analyst, author, and principal of The Future of Publishing, based in San Francisco. He is a contributing editor to Publishers Weekly, covering artificial intelligence, digital innovation, and publishing startups. His latest book, The AI Revolution in Book Publishing: A Concise Guide to Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Writers and Publishers, was published in July 2024, revised in May 2025.
McIlroy has authored a dozen books and over five hundred articles on digital publishing. He is co-author of the industry-standard The Metadata Handbook, 2nd Ed (co-authored with Renee Register). McIlroy served for five years as Program Director for Seybold Seminars, the publishing industry’s premier technology conference.
He is a founding partner in Publishing Technology Partners, a consultancy focused on the broad range of strategic technology issues in publishing.
An expert on publication metadata and online book marketing, he has taught the Metadata for Books course at Pace University in New York, in their Masters of Publishing Program. In 2024 he joined the advisory board of Johns Hopkins University Press and became a visiting scholar at the Publishing Master of Professional Studies program at The George Washington University. He is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
