Let’s Talk! Networking and professional programme

International networking
Let's Talk! offers selected publishers from Germany, Southeast Europe and Turkey an exclusive platform to network with each other across national borders.

Knowledge transfer and training
Industry experts from Germany, Southeast Europe and Turkey share their experiences and best practices with the aim of furthering their professional expertise.

Cultural exchange
Publishers tend to focus their attention on the Western world. However, networking amongst publishers can also bear fruit at the regional level, as proven by cross-national publisher training courses which Frankfurter Buchmesse has been organising all over the world for many years with the support of the German Foreign Office. Let's Talk! aims to support and promote dialogue between Germany and the countries of Southeast Europe and Turkey, as well as within the region itself.

Continuity
By continuing and expanding on the specialist programme series Let's Talk!, the organisers are building on a successful, transnational cooperation established in Thessaloniki 2021, when German-language countries were Guest of Honour there.

Freedom of expression
All over the world, freedom of expression is being compromised. Multilateral meetings like Let's Talk! open up a space for free expression and strengthen the work of liberal publishers, by connecting them with colleagues from other countries.