Karina is the Executive Director of Book Industry Communication Ltd (BIC) and has held this position since February 2012. She has been instrumental in the restructure and re-invigoration of BIC which has seen the creation of an agile members organisation focused on driving and delivering meaningful change and education across all sectors of the UK book industry supply chain.
She has worked in the book industry for over 30 years including 5 years with Dorling Kindersley followed by 12 years at Penguin UK where she held several supply chain and operational roles, latterly as the Digital & Metadata Supply Chain Manager. She has a wealth of operational and data experience in both physical and digital supply chains; previous roles include customer operations, stock management and international sales/rights.
In June 2020, Karina was instrumental in the creation of the International Green Book Supply Chain Alliance, partnering with BISG in the US, and BookNet Canada. Representing BIC, Karina also sits on the EDItEUR Board and the International Steering Committees for Thema and ONIX.
Cyril Labbé received a PhD in Computer Science and a MS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Grenoble-Alpes. He is Professor in Computer Science and at the head of the Information Systems research team (Sigma-team) at the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, France. His research interests include large scale data management and text analysis. His work on text-mining and automatic detection of bogus scientific paper has led to retract or withdraw several hundreds of computer science and biomedical publications.
He created the SCIgen detection software and the Seek&Blastn software, participated to the Problematic Paper Screener website, and created Ike Antkare, a fictitious scientist that had once (dixit Google Scholar) an astonishing h-index.
Alice Henchley is Communications Director, Journals and Editorial, at Springer Nature, where she has worked for the past 10 years. Her current areas of responsibility include global communications of research content, research integrity and editorial policy.
A communications specialist with more than sixteen years’ experience, Alice specialises in research, publishing and policy communication and issues management and is a trustee of the UK’s Science Media Centre. Prior to Springer Nature, Alice held roles at the Royal Society and Zoological Society of London. She has a degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.
Elena Simperl is a Professor of Computer at King’s College London and the Director of Research of the Open Data Institute. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow.
Elena features in the top 100 most influential scholars in knowledge engineering of the last decade. She obtained her doctoral degree in Computer Science from the Free University of Berlin, and her diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich. Prior to joining King’s she held positions in Germany, Austria and at the University of Southampton.
Her research is at intersection between AI and social computing, helping designers understand how to build advanced sociotechnical systems that combine data and algorithms with human and social capabilities. She led 14 European and national research projects, including recently QROWD, Data Pitch, Data Stories, ACTION, and MediaFutures.
Elena’s leadership role in the scientific community has also taken form through chairing several conferences in her field, including the European and International Semantic Web Conferences, the European Data Forum, and the European Semantic Technologies conference. She is the president of the Semantic Web Science Association.
Anna Pendlebury is the Publishing Ethics Specialist at the Royal Society of Chemistry and leads the Publishing Ethics team. As well as overseeing the RSC’s ethical policies and procedures, Anna also has responsibility for leading investigations into post-publication ethical cases across our portfolio of journals, including investigating suspected paper mill articles and implementing preventative measures.
Anna joined the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2009, after completing her first degree from Leeds University and then a PhD from Newcastle University, and has worked across a number journal portfolios in editorial and production roles.
Richard Northover is a product consultant specialising in identity and privacy.
He draws on 20 years’ experience as a developer and product manager to help organisations have simple, consistent, and trusted relationships with their users.
Previously he has worked as Product Director for Identity and Access at Elsevier and as a Service Owner, Product Manager, and Principal Web Developer at the BBC. His background is in science communication, and he has a degree in biology from the University of Edinburgh.
Avi Staiman is the founder and CEO of Academic Language Experts, an author services company dedicated to leveling the research playing field for ESL scholars. He is also the co-founder of SciWriter.ai, the first co-pilot that helps researchers supercharge their writing with responsible AI.
Avi is involved in the scholarly publication community as a chef at Scholarly Kitchen, co-host of the New Books Network ‘Scholarly Communication’ Podcast, and a reviewer for Wiley’s Learned Publishing journal.
Avi is a thought leader on AI tools for research, bridging the gap between publishers and authors and how to support and empower ESL researchers. He is a core member of CANGARU, where he represents EASE in creating legislation and policy for the responsible use of AI in research. He has been a guest lecturer at NYU’s Master’s Program in Translation & Interpreting and the University of Tokyo. His essays have appeared in the Cambridge University Press Blog, The Scholarly Kitchen, Multilingual, and Times Higher Education.
Othman Altalib joined Morressier in July of 2022 and serves as Chief Growth Officer.
Prior to that, he worked at Google and in consulting and other roles at tech organizations. Othman’s focus as Chief Growth Officer is to continue to build the Morressier platform to transform publishing workflows and protect research integrity every step of the way.
As Chief Executive of Ideas Crucible Dan advisors and secures investment capital for technology start-ups and scale-up working with leading venture capitalist and angel investors, where a particular focus is those using AI and VR. As an entrepreneur he has had four startups two of which were exited through acquisition.
He is the long-standing Editor-in-Chief of Virtual Reality (Springer Nature) and studied a Doctorate in the application of artificial intelligence to virtual environments. A Chartered Engineer, inventor on 9 patents, and has lectured and published widely on the subject of AI and its ethics and regulation.
A large part of his career was focused on sourcing innovative tech start-ups and scaleups from around the world and launching multimillion new business ventures for brands including Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, Novartis, BT, and IAG.
He was a Chief Information Officer for BT Group level, where he led innovations from idea into launch across all market facing divisions, including a £25M health business, as well as launching their mobile business in Spain and Italy.
He is Board member for a Property Tech and Cyber Security company, and board advisor to several startups and a tech venture capital fund.
Born on March 10, 1964 in Heidelberg. After graduating from high school in Wiesloch and taking his first steps as a freelance journalist, he began studying biology in Heidelberg, which he continued in Cologne and, after a long research stay in the jungles of Madagascar, completed with a diploma thesis on the island’s reptile fauna.
In parallel to his studies, he promoted his science journalism reporting for agencies, magazines, and, in particular, as a freelancer for the “Kölnische Rundschau”. He began a two-year traineeship there in 1993. In April 1995 he joined the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as an editor for the “Nature and Science” department. He took over management of the department in February 2003.
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