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STM Innovator Fair 2024
Tuesday 3 December 2024 | STM Innovator Fair
Join us as we kick off the first day of the STM Innovation & Integrity Days with our annual Innovator Fair. Here, you meet the industry’s top innovators and trailblazers as they present their latest breakthroughs: the technologies and concepts that are transforming the ways we advance trusted research. This inspired event is a strong way to wrap up 2024, and to seed ideas for a bold new year ahead.
What to expect
- Plenary Presentation: Start off your day with a inspirational introduction to get the conversation started
- Panel discussion: Hear the latest about the role of digital identity in academic publishing
- Lightning Talks: Take in quick, impactful pitches and live demos showcasing innovations and solutions to advance trusted research from a curated list of applicants.
- Interactive Fair: 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.
- Karger Vesalius Innovation Awards: At the conclusion of the day, experience the high-standing Vesalius Innovation Award ceremony that celebrates outstanding advancements and innovations in medicine and scholarly communications from young entrepreneurs and start-ups.
Please note the change of venue! We’re at the Congress Center in London this year.
Who should attend
- Delegates from publishing backgrounds: If you’re vested in technology and innovation, platform management, data management, research integrity, editorial processes, or any publishing function and curious about what technology can do for you, this event is tailor-made for you.
- Technology-driven organisations: Connect with fellow tech-trailblazers and ideators — see what products and platforms are emerging that might make for a potent collaboration to further your goals.
In collaboration with Karger’s Vesalius Innovation Award (VIA)
Co-presented by: BMJ
Programme
| 9:00 | Registration, refreshments & networking |
| 9:30 | Opening and welcome by Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer, STM Solutions |
| 9.35 | Keynote Speaker: Building Trust in a Digital World: Exploring the Landscape of Digital Identity
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| 10:15 | Lightning Talks moderated by: Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer, STM Solutions
The innovators that 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! |
| 11:00 | Interactive Fair 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. |
| 12:00 | Lunch and networking |
| 13:00 | Vesalius Innovation Award (organized by Karger)
Pitches by this year’s finalists for the prestigious Vesalius Innovation Award, followed by the award ceremony. This year’s finalists: |
| 14:00 | Interactive Fair, continued |
| 16:00 | Panel discussion: Past, present, and future role of digital identity in scholarly communications.
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| 17:00 | Closing remarks by Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer, STM Solutions
Atypon representative Sam Parker
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Meet the Innovators
Programme Committee:
- Tony Alves, Senior Vice President, HighWire Press
- Jana Christopher, Image Data Integrity Analyst, Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
- Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer, STM Solutions
- Maria Kowalczuk, Research Integrity Auditor Manager, Frontiers
- Luigi Longobardi, Director Publishing Ethics & Conduct, IEEE
- Coro Power Febres, Research Integrity Manager, Taylor and Francis
- Joris van Rossum, Program Director, STM Solutions
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