Lisa Petrides, PhD is founder and CEO of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), an independent, education nonprofit established in 2002, and a pioneer in knowledge sharing and innovation in the education sector. Petrides is a scholar and international open educational...
Wilkinson is chairman of Heminge & Condell (H&C), an investment and strategic advisory firm, and co-founder of Global Business Network (GBN). Through H&C, Wilkinson is involved in venture formation work, and serves as a director and counselor to several companies that he helped create. At...
Kyle K. Courtney, both lawyer and librarian, is the copyright advisor for Harvard University. Working out of the Office for Scholarly Communication, Courtney works to establish a culture of shared understanding of copyright law within the Harvard community and beyond. He also serves as copyright...
Jim Fruchterman is a social entrepreneur who has adapted the Silicon Valley technology approach to empower communities in need by creating scalable software to support social good solutions for accessible education, global literacy, and human rights. As a Caltech-trained engineer and veteran Silicon Valley tech...
Hannah Scates Kettler is a digital humanities research & instruction librarian in the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio at the University of Iowa. She leads digital humanities projects from inception to preservation, managing the process of creation as well as providing research and development support....
Gerald Beasley is the Carl A. Kroch university librarian at Cornell University, a position he accepted in 2017. Prior to his work at Cornell, Beasley was vice-provost and chief librarian at the University of Alberta, where he oversaw the second largest academic research library and archives...
Geoff Harder is the associate university librarian for digital initiatives at the University of Alberta. The University is dedicated to the promise made by founding president Henry Marshall Tory that “… knowledge shall not be the concern of scholars alone. The uplifting of the whole...
David Rumsey is president of Cartography Associates, a digital publishing company based in San Francisco, and is chairman of Luna Imaging, a provider of enterprise software for online image collections. He was a founding member of Yale Research Associates in the Arts, also known as...
Dr. David Rosenthal started the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Program, which enables long-term preservation of web published materials (ejournals, books, blogs, websites, archival materials, etc). He built and tested the initial prototype, developed the OpenBSD-based network appliance technology that LOCKSS peers used...
Dan Cohen is vice provost for information collaboration, dean of the libraries, and professor of History at Northeastern University. Prior to his work at Northeastern, Cohen was the founding executive director of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), where he worked to further the DPLA’s...