Name: Closing Remarks & Open Publishing Awards Ceremony
Start: 2021-12-09T21:00:00+0000
End: 2021-12-09T22:00:00+0000

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Closing Remarks & Open Publishing Awards Ceremony

Open Publishing Awards celebrates individuals and communities developing open creative, technological, scholarly, artistic, and civic publishing projects.

As we witness a rise in the creation of content, software, systems, and infrastructure that help share knowledge globally without barriers, the Open Publishing Awards seek to recognize the contributions of individuals and organizations that advance open in publishing. A moment for reflection and chance for celebration, the Open Publishing Awards bring together people, projects, and organizations from around the world to shine a light on one another.

https://openpublishingawards.org/

Moderators

Osman Aldirdiri

Vice President, FORCE11

Speakers

Adam Hyde

Founder, Coko Foundation

Adam is a publishing pioneer having founded many methods, technologies, and organizations in this space including Book Sprints (https://www.booksprints.net), Coko (https://coko.foundation), Paged.js (https://www.cabbagetreelabs.org), and the Open Publishing Awards (https://www.openpublishingawards.org... Read More →

Pete Forsyth

Principal, Wiki Strategies

Pete Forsyth is a Wikipedia expert, adept in the collaborative processes that have produced the world’s most extensive and most widely read body of knowledge. He helps organizations engage with Wikipedia to achieve their goals, while honoring the core policies and values of the... Read More →

Neil Chue Hong

Director, Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh

Neil Chue Hong is the founding Director and PI of the Software Sustainability Institute and a Senior Research Fellow at EPCC, based at the University of Edinburgh. He graduated with an MPhys in Computational Physics, also from the University of Edinburgh. He completed an internship... Read More →

Omo Oaiya

CSO, Chief Strategy Officer, West and Central African Research and Education Network

Omo Oaiya is the Chief Strategy Officer of the West and Central Research and Education Network (WACREN). He coordinates the LIBSENSE initiative, a collaboration of the regional African RENs (ASREN, Ubuntunet Alliance & WACREN) to build capacity in their NREN communities to strengthen... Read More →

Gimena Del Rio Riande

Researcher, CONICET

Dr. Gimena del Rio Riande is an Associate Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual (IIBICRIT-CONICET, Argentina). She holds a MA and Summa Cum Laude PhD in Romance Philology (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Her main academic interests... Read More →

Julia Norrish

Book Dash

Violeta Ilik

Dean of Libraries, Adelphi University

Kat Walsh

lawyer

Free content and free software licensing

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Professor/Coordinator for Research and Teaching Professional Development, University Library, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Natasha Simons

Associate Director, Data & Services, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

Natasha Simons is Associate Director, Data & Services, with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). Based in Brisbane, Australia, Natasha drives national-scale initiatives and projects that build world class data infrastructure for researchers and that contribute to the ARDC’s... Read More →

Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran

Socio Tech Resarcher, LUMOS IND (WITc)

Alison McGonagle-O'Connell

Senior Director of Marketing, HighWire Press

Jennifer Gibson

Executive Director, Dryad

Jennifer is Executive Director of Dryad, the open data publishing platform and community committed to the reuse of all research data. Since 2005, she has worked with scientists, funders, publishers, libraries, developers and others to explore fresh paths toward accelerating discovery... Read More →

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FORCE2021