• Part One – The innovators who have been selected to join us for the event will present themselves to the audience in two and a half minutes – a guarantee for a high-energy session!

• Meander the floor, interact directly with innovators, and delve deeper into tools and services that pique your interest. One-on-one meeting pre-booking option is forthcoming.

• Former participants reflect on their journey and discuss lessons learned, pitfalls, and the challenges ahead.

Adam Day, Founding Director, ClearSkies
Sue Hodgson, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Cashmere
Laura Simis, Director of Marketing, Hum
Ravi Venkataramani, CEO, Kriyadocs

Moderated by Martijn Roelandse, Consultant, Park 56

AI is reshaping scholarly publishing. Authors, reviewers and publishers can now automate work at scale, while entrepreneurs can build powerful tools faster and more cheaply than ever. The result is an AI arms race: capabilities spread quickly, barriers to entry fall, and competitive advantages are harder to sustain.

This raises a key question: what is worth building, buying or backing when the technology itself is becoming commoditised? Where does durable value lie: in proprietary data, workflow integration, distribution, scale, network effects, or trust? Bringing together perspectives from publishing, technology, investment and entrepreneurship, this session will explore what organisations are investing in as AI accelerates, and whether we are creating lasting trust infrastructure or simply making every side of the race faster and cheaper.

Tiago Barros, Co-founder, Signals
Amye Kenall, Chief Product Officer, Digital Science
Ian Mulvany, CTO, BMJ
Tim Tait-Jamieson, Head of Publication Ethics, MDPI

Followed by a Drinks Reception sponsored by Silverchair

Moderated by Marie Soulière, Head of Editorial Ethics and Quality Assurance, Frontiers

“AI-hallucinated citations” has become the default explanation whenever a reference list doesn’t check out. But is that framing accurate, or just convenient? Long before LLMs, reference lists were being corrupted by automated DOI-matching and metadata-enrichment tools that fuzzy-match titles, author names, and years against CrossRef or other registries. When a cited work has no DOI (common for older papers, conference proceedings, regional journals, or non-English literature), these tools can silently attach the wrong DOI, or apply other wrong fixes, producing a reference that doesn’t correspond to any single actual paper.
This session challenges the label of so-called AI-hallucinated and fabricated references and will walk through the broad taxonomy of broken references publishers and vendors are finding in production and published papers, examine where each type might originate, and debate what solutions are available to researchers, publishers, and typesetters.

Guillaume Cabanac, Professor of Computer Science, University of Toulouse
Chris Leonard, Director, Product Solutions, Cactus Communications Limited
Sureshkumar Parandhaman, VP of publishing solutions, Integra
Kathryn Weber-Boer, Director, Scientometrics – Scientometric Researcher Engagement, Digital Science

Moderated by Luigi Longobardi, Director, Publishing Ethics & Conduct, IEEE

This practitioner-focused panel offers a candid look into complex, large-scale, and novel research integrity investigations handled across academic publishing. Moving beyond polished success stories, panelists will present short, anonymized case studies detailing the challenges faced, how unexpected issues were managed, and the key lessons learned from each case.

Alice Darlington, Publishing Ethics Expert, Elsevier
Kim Eggleton, Head of Peer Review & Research Integrity, IOP Publishing
Catriona Leslie, Research Integrity Auditor Manager, Frontiers

Moderated by Jennifer Wright, Head of Publication Ethics and Research Integrity, Cambridge University Press

For years, discussions about research integrity have highlighted the role of incentive structures in shaping researcher behaviour. In this session, we will take stock of progress to date with a panel of experts, examining current initiatives, practical interventions, and the steps needed to foster a research culture that better supports integrity, transparency, and quality.

Monica Westin, Director of Open Policy Development, CUP

• Join us for our annual sleuth session, a longstanding conference highlight

Anna Abalkina, Research Fellow, Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Matt Spick, Lecturer in Health and Biomedical Data Analytics, University of Surrey
Gengyan Tang, PhD candidate at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary

Helena Cousijn, Director of Programs and Services, Crossref

In collaboration with STM, Crossref recently conducted a survey of smaller publishing organizations to better understand their perspectives on research integrity and the challenges they face in safeguarding the scholarly record. In this session, we will discuss the survey findings with a panel of publishers, exploring key themes, emerging needs, and opportunities for collaboration across the publishing community.

Moderated by Elizabeth Moylan, Senior Manager, Research Integrity & Strategy, Wiley

• How are researchers and students using AI? And how is this influencing their understanding of research integrity? In this session, we will discuss these questions with leading experts in the field and explore what publishers and editors can expect in the coming years.

Sarah Eaton, Academic Director, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Education and Academic Integrity, University of Calgary