Matthew Day is Head of Open and Data Publishing, Cambridge University Press. Matthew has worked in publishing for over 20 years, starting with editorial work on undergraduate textbooks at Garland Publishing, moving to Open Access journals and databases at BioMed Central and then Nature Publishing Group. Following a couple of years at Wolfram Research, he joined Cambridge University Press where he is responsible for the Press's policies and activities in Open Access, and Open Research more generally, in both academic books and journals.
Sven Fund is Managing Director, Knowledge Unlatched. In 2015, Sven founded fullstopp, a consulting and investment agency specializing on scholarly publishing as well as institutions in the educational space. From 2008 until 2015, he was Managing Director of De Gruyter, Berlin. He was Member of the Executive Board, Springer Science+Business Media (now SpringerNature) in 2007 and 2008. Sven is a lecturer at Humboldt University and publishes on Open Access as well as the digital transformation of the publishing industry.
Dr. Danny Kingsley is the Deputy Director, Scholarly Communication and Research Services at Cambridge University Library. Her role has responsibility for managing funder mandates for open access and research data management. This includes working closely with colleagues within the University, the UK and internationally to ensure good policy development and implementation. Before moving to the UK she established the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group. This followed on from working for four years as the Manager of Scholarly Communication at the Australian National University, a natural extension of her 2008 PhD into the range of ways different disciplines engage with open access. She has worked as a science communicator for 15 years, including two years with ABC Science Online as a journalist for News in Science.
Chris Leonard is Head of Product, Emerald Group Publishing. He has worked for 20 years at the interface of publishing and technology in a variety of roles at Current Science, Elsevier, BioMed Central, Qatar Foundation, and Emerald. His passion is making technology useful, usable, and accessible for academic researchers and information professionals. He has experience of setting up new open access publishing operations with BioMed Central and Qatar Foundation, and is currently looking at all things 'open' within the research environment and how these can be linked together to create a unique experience for authors and readers.
Jonathan Brett-Harris is Managing Director of Ixxus. Prior to joining Ixxus, a subsidiary of Copyright Clearance Center, in May 2017, Jonathan Brett-Harris was executive vice president, managing director of life sciences, and global head of industry & proposition at Thomson Reuters, where he defined the industry segment strategy for the Intellectual Property & Science division. Previously, he served as vice president and managing director at Elan Corporation. Brett-Harris has also held leadership roles at Genzyme Corporation, Hydron Limited, and Eli Lilly.
John Newton is CTO and Founder of Alfresco. John has had one of the longest and most influential careers in content management. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Mateo, California and Maidenhead, United Kingdom, Alfresco is an enterprise open-source software company focused on making business flow quickly, seamlessly, and intelligently, by driving the convergence of enterprise content management and business process management. In 1990, John Newton co-founded, designed and led the development of Documentum®, the leader in content management acquired by EMC®. For the next ten years, he invented many of the concepts widely used in the industry today. John has also been an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital. He was one of the founding engineers at Ingres® where he helped develop the world's first commercial relational database.
Kiren Shoman is Editorial Director of SAGE London. Kiren is responsible for SAGE London’s textbook and reference program, and is the strategic lead of the recently launched SAGE Video portfolio. At SAGE since 1995, Kiren has played an instrumental role in the development of both traditional and digital platforms for disseminating SAGE’s book and textbook content. Kiren works closely with colleagues across SAGE to further explore new product innovations within print and digital publishing, and content development within emerging digital streams.
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator, with fifty-something books to his name. His recent translation from the Portuguese of José Eduardo Agualusa's A General Theory of Oblivion won the International Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. He is a past chair of the Society of Authors and on the board of English PEN and many other organisations that work with literature and free expression.
Nicola Solomon is Chief Executive, Society of Authors, a UK trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators that was founded in 1884. Nicola’s role includes protecting authors' interests in negotiations/disputes with publishers and agents, and campaigning for authors’ rights, including copyright, e-book rights, Public Lending Right, defamation reforms and freedom of speech. Nicola is a solicitor and a Deputy District Judge in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. She is a Board member of the British Copyright Council, the European Writers’ Council and the International Authors’ Forum.
Kathryn Earle is Managing Director, Digital Resources Division, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, where she is responsible for large-scale digital products for the academic library market. Before this, she was Head of Visuals Arts for Bloomsbury and managed the acquisition and integration of Fairchild Books and AVA Publishing. Prior to Bloomsbury, Kathryn was Managing Director of Berg Publishers, which she joined in 1993, leading its management buy-out in 2002 before eventually selling the business to Bloomsbury in 2008. Kathryn conceived of and launched the award-winning Berg Fashion Library. She began her career at the Modern Language Association of America in New York.
Caroline Boyd - CEO - The Copyright Hub Foundation
Coming from a background in research, Caroline ran a bespoke software company for 15 years, specialising in music, publishing and education. She joined the Copyright Hub summer 2014 and has worked with partners and implementers to achieve demonstrations of the unique connectivity between content and licence information that the Copyright Hub provides.
Tracey Armstrong brings more than 20 years' experience in rights management with CCC to the industry. Leading the organization through a period of phenomenal change and challenge, Tracey has helped transform CCC’s licensing solutions to meet the needs of today’s digital publishing world. Tracey holds an MBA from Northeastern University and serves on the Board of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO).
Dr Junaid Mubeen is a research mathematician turned educator, working at the nexus of education, innovation and technology. As Director of Education at Whizz Education, Junaid oversees the educational strategy and development of the Maths-Whizz virtual tutoring service, which has delivered personalised learning to over half a million students worldwide. Junaid has a PhD in mathematics from Oxford and a Master's in Education from Harvard. He writes and speaks on a range of EdTech topics. |
