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Tom Demeranville is Product Director at ORCID.  He has been helping to build shared scholarly communications infrastructure for the past 20 years.

Kat Rydelek is Product Manager – Artificial Intelligence Products at Frontiers, where she is responsible for building and improving the quality of internal review platforms and tools to facilitate the publishing of high-quality and integrity articles. With over seven years of experience in various industries, spanning scientific publishing, luxury fashion, and properties, she is passionate about building products that combine AI and data to solve business and user problems.

Steve has managed the Secretariat of the UN Global Compact Network UK since 2007, connecting UK companies and other organisations in a global movement dedicated to driving corporate sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals. He has been Chair of the UN Global Compact’s Global Network Council and was a member of the UN Global Compact Board.

He was previously a Programme Director at the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) leading projects across a wide range of responsible business issue areas. Prior to joining IBLF, Steve was the founder and Managing Director of a successful retail sports equipment business in Canada.

He has a B.Comm from the University of British Columbia and an MSc in Business & Environment from Imperial College London.

Dr Jo Wixon is Director of the External Analysis team at Wiley, revealing opportunities and risks in market trends, policies and technology developments and providing actionable strategic insights for the global journals portfolio.

In support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Jo is a HESI SDG Publishers Compact Fellow, and contributes to sustainability work at STM, ALPSP and EASE.

Jo is a Director of ALPSP and supports its goals as Vice-Chair of the Membership & Marketing Committee and Co-Chair of the SDGs and Publishing special interest group.

Francesca Buckland is Senior Director, Product Management for the Web of Science. She joined Clarivate in 2018 after working in product development for Elsevier and as a technology consultant at KPMG.

Francesca also has experience in grants management at the Royal Society in the UK and academic publishing, as well as a degree in Physics from Imperial College London.

Pat Franzen is the Director, Publications and Platform at SPIE, the international society of optics and photonics, where he is responsible for all publications activities including proceedings and conference content, journals, and books.

Prior to joining SPIE, he was the Senior Director, Professional Publishing for Lumina Datamatics, a global content, technology, and commerce company. He is an elected member of COPE Council.

Alice Wood is the Publishers Association’s first ever Sustainability Manager, coming from a sustainability consulting background.

Previously she worked as a Sustainability Analyst in the research team at a TMT consultancy, where she grew its sustainability practice and launched its first sustainability products and reports on the sustainability strategies of global companies, and as a Sustainability Consultant in the real estate and finance industry.

She also worked for an NGO in Bolivia supporting a community in La Paz and has an MSc in Latin American Development. Alice is passionate about all the SDGs but goals very close to her heart are climate SDG 1, SDG 5, SDG 10, and SDG 13.

Hong leads the Intelligent Services Group in Wiley Partner Solution, which designs, develops and promotes intelligent services/products to enable automated, intelligent, and efficient research and publishing journeys by leveraging AI, big data, and cloud technologies. He also established and heads AI R&D Team, which designs award-winning AI-based solutions and next-generation information discovery systems for scholarly research.

Before joining Atypon in January 2017, Hong applied machine learning algorithms for the insurance industry as the CTO of Digital Fineprint served as a senior software engineer and development manager at Schlumberger, and developed racing games for the British video game developer Eutechnyx. Hong holds a Ph.D. in 3D modeling with artificial intelligence algorithms from Aberystwyth University in Wales, an MBA in Digital Transformation and strategy from the University of Oxford, a master’s degree in computer science from The University of Sheffield, and certifications in AI and Cloud from Stanford University and Google.

As well as serving as a distinguished expert in the National Key Laboratory of Knowledge Mining and Service for Medical Journals in China, Hong is widely published on computer science and AI topics and presents regularly at prominent industry events. He has been recently appointed as a Chef in the Scholarly Kitchen 

Tim Kersjes is the Head of Research Integrity, Resolutions at Springer Nature. The Resolutions team consists of highly committed research integrity expects who support in-house editors and Editors-in-Chief in handling and resolving all types of research integrity and publication ethics issues. The cases vary from plagiarism and authorship disputes to peer review manipulation, medical-ethical concerns, data fabrication and image manipulation in submitted manuscripts and published articles.

Tim has worked in publishing for nearly 10 years, 7 of which in research integrity. He has advised on thousands of research integrity cases small and large, and has written hundreds of retraction notices. He is also proud to serve as an elected trustee at the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

I am one of the principal organisers of the PubPeer website, having joined shortly after it launched. I am also a researcher in fundamental neuroscience working in Paris. I believe that scientific progress will be greatly accelerated by immediate public confrontation of ideas and criticism and have worked towards this aim, notably through my contribution to PubPeer.

My views do not necessarily represent those of my academic employers or hosts and my work for PubPeer is carried out in my spare time. PubPeer sells “Dashboard” subscriptions, in particular to journals and institutions.