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Adrian Stanley is Chief Business Development Officer at KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL), where he leads global business development and works across the CJK Group to advance innovative solutions in scholarly communications, research integrity, publishing technology, and AI. With more than 30 years in scholarly publishing, Adrian has held senior leadership roles at Digital Science, JMIR...

Violeta Ribarska is Head of Partners, Policy & Engagement at IOP Publishing, the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics in the UK. Working at the intersection of scholarly publishing, research policy and community engagement, she leads a team that builds strategic partnerships with scientific societies worldwide and helps organisations navigate a rapidly changing research...

Vaishali Damle received her B.E. degree in electronics and telecommunications from Pune University and her M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stony Brook University. She has been actively working in the scientific, technical, and medical publishing field for over 20 years. She specialized in editorial content development at Springer Nature from 2004 to 2013. In...

Bob Howard, Executive Vice President of Global Research I joined SAGE in 2000, working in a number of roles in the Journals Editorial Department.  In 2011, I was promoted to Vice President and head of the Research Pillar Senior Management Group (RPSMG).  Today, I lead SAGE’s Research Pillar as we deliver high-quality research in support...

Daan du Toit started his career in the South African Government with the then Department of Foreign Affairs where he trained as a diplomat, serving at the South African Mission to the European Union (EU), where he was responsible from 1997 to 2000 for the early implementation of the South Africa – EU Science and...

Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director at COUNTER Metrics, has been part of the knowledge community since 2001. She held roles within and consulted for learned societies and commercial publishers across operations, technology, editorial, and executive functions, before setting up Mellins-Cohen Consulting in 2020. In 2022, she started running COUNTER, the standard for usage metrics, which became...

Atul Goel is a global business and technology executive with more than three decades of experience transforming and scaling businesses across content, technology, operations, and marketing services. He is President of KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL) and Continuum Marketing,  part of CJK Group, where he leads content services and marketing execution businesses. Atul has built, scaled,...

Todd Toler is the inaugural practice lead for AI in scholarly communication at Ithaka S+R, where he advises publishers, libraries, platforms, and funders on AI strategy and works to build shared approaches to the infrastructure challenges of the agent era, from provenance and rights signaling to common standards for evaluating whether AI tools meet scholarly...

Laura Hassink is President – Journals, overseeing more than 3000 journals and publishing over 700,000 research articles annually. She is committed to promoting inclusion in research. Laura has been instrumental in accelerating Elsevier’s substantial progress in open access publishing, now offering more than 900 gold open access journals. During her 29 years with Elsevier, she...

Todd Carpenter joined the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) in 2006 as Executive Director. In this role, Todd leads the association in the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, discovery, and effective interchange of information in publishing and media. Over the course of his career, he has served in a...