Patrick Howie is the Founder and CEO of MediFind, the world’s fastest growing platform helping patients get the one thing they need most – time.
Prior to founding MediFind, Patrick was the head of global analytics for MSD, Patrick has been quoted by numerous news organizations and is the author of The Evolution of Revolutions: How we create, shape, and react to change.
Phil is the founder and architect of Scholarcy.
Phil has previously led NLP teams for a number of startups, and has 20 years’ experience developing content enrichment and automated knowledge extraction solutions for the publishing, education, legal and healthcare sectors.
Daniel Keirs is an associate director at IOP Publishing based in Bristol, UK, with responsibility for developing publishing and open science strategy for the company’s journals programme spanning the physical and environmental sciences.
Prior to joining IOP in 2016, Daniel held a number of roles managing global journals and books portfolios in the natural, applied and social sciences at both society and commercial publishers including Wiley, ICE Publishing and Taylor & Francis.
Daniel has been involved in open access publishing for the past 8 years, and since moving to IOP has become a keen supporter of open access and open science developments in the physical sciences.
10 years of experience in publishing, working at the London Review of Books, Pearson, Taylor & Francis and Springer Nature. Graduate of the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute. Special interest in Identity & Access Management.
Sabine Kleinert is a Senior Executive Editor at The Lancet. She is a member of the Senior Management Team of The Lancet Group with responsibilities for research integrity, publication ethics, and Open Access policies.
In 2018, she initiated Preprints with The Lancet in partnership with SSRN as one of the first medical preprint offerings. She served as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics from 2006 to March 2012 and was involved in the Conferences on Research Integrity from their beginning in 2007.
She is a member of the Governing Board of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation and Co-Chair of the 7th World Conference on Research Integrity, to be held in Capetown, South Africa, in 2022.
Her background is qualification as a medical doctor in Germany and training as a Paediatrician and Paediatric Cardiologist in the UK, Belgium, Australia, the USA and Australia.
Shirley Decker-Lucke is the Content Director at SSRN, where she is responsible for ensuring the platform supports content and researcher needs for the dissemination of early stage research (including preprints). Throughout her career she has focused on merging content and technology in innovative ways that serves the research and those who rely upon it. One such example is the creation of a Coronavirus Research Hub to quickly share preprints in support of global efforts to fight the pandemic. Before this she was Publishing Director at Elsevier.
Maxime Gabella is Founder CEO of the startup MAGMA Learning, whose mission is to enhance human learning with machine learning.
After a DPhil in theoretical physics at the University of Oxford, he held several research positions at top institutions like the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Maxime believes that learning is not only one of the greatest joys in life, but may also turn out to be the deepest process in the Universe.
Tony Ross-Hellauer is leader of the Open and Reproducible Research Group (ORRG) at TU Graz and Senior Researcher at Know-Center. His research focuses on a range of issues related to open science evaluation, skills, policy, governance, monitoring and infrastructure.
Tony has a PhD in Information Studies (University of Glasgow, 2012), as well as degrees in Information and Library Studies and Philosophy. He is coordinator of the EC H2020 project ON-MERRIT researching issues of equity in Open Science and FAIR Data Austria, a major project to advance FAIR data practices at the national level.
He is formerly OpenAIRE Scientific Manager and Editor-in-Chief of the MDPI open access journal ‘Publications’, is co-author of the Open Science Training Handbook, and co-leads Transpose, a grassroots initiative to build a crowdsourced database of journal policies for preprints and peer review.
Darren is the founder and CEO of Deanta, a Publishing Solutions Provider with offices in Dublin and Chennai. A trusted publishing professional with over 20 years of experience in the publishing services business.
Darren built Deanta with a clear vision to disrupt and modernise the service industry through the union of talent, innovation and technology.
Darren remains a hands-on and vocal CEO, supporting a roster of international clients whilst projecting a clear voice across the industry.
Tammy Hanna is the Director of Professional Development & Education Products at ACS Publications, where her team is responsible for scoping, developing, and launching revenue-generating products that support the chemistry community.
Tammy was previously Assistant Director and Publisher at ACS Publications and an instructor in the Chemistry Department at Texas Tech University.
She holds a BS from Harvey Mudd College and a PhD in inorganic chemistry from Cornell University.
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