Marion Morrow

Marion Morrow, Director Sales & Marketing, Europe, Cenveo Publisher Services

Marion has enjoyed working as the UK Sales & Marketing Director at Cenveo since 2010.

Building on her early career publishing experience in magazine and newspaper production, Marion stepped up to academic books and journals in 1985, spending nine years at Springer followed by nine years at Taylor & Francis.

Marion moved into publisher services on leaving Taylor & Francis, learning first hand how the combination of onshore and offshore production can be such a successful partnership when the mix is right.

David Iddon

David Iddon, BSc (Hons) is an Interaction Designer advocating and embedding user experience at BMJ since March 2016.

He is currently Head of UX and works closely with Product Managers to ensure users’ needs are understood and designed for. He has over 15 years experience in digital product development, cutting his teeth in web design, expanding to front-end development and then firmly finding his feet in the world of UX. He has previously worked in UX roles at Experian, Direct Line and Transport for London.   

Chris Wroe

Chris Wroe, MB BChir is a health informatician with a medical background.

He has been in his current role at the BMJ since January 2019, and is responsible for integrating BMJ Best Practice content into hospital systems. He has 20 years experience in bio-health informatics with a special interest in machine interpretable clinical knowledge and decision support.

He has previously worked as a clinical research fellow at Manchester University, a solution architect at BT Global Services and a senior information architect at Astra Zeneca.  

Petr Knoth

I lead an R&D team working in the domains of text-mining, digital libraries and open access/science. I am the Founder and Head of CORE (core.ac.uk), the world’s largest dataset of open access papers from around the world for people to search and machines to text-mine.

I have a deep interest in the use of AI to improve research workflows. I have acted as a PI in a number of European Commission, national and international funded research projects in the areas of text-mining, open science and eLearning.

Previously, I worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Mendeley on information extraction and content recommendation for research.

Sarah Boyd

Sarah Boyd is Senior Product Manager for Emerald Publishing’s Platforms.

She has product ownership for the technical roadmap of the content ecosystem and has recently overseen the roadmap and delivery of the recent Emerald Insight platform relaunch and migration.

Sarah is passionate about solving customer problems through data and development that deliver value.

Laura Evans

Laura helps organisations use meaningful pictures to tell stories, captivate audiences and get things done.

With a decade’s social research experience, Laura is an expert ‘people understander’; “I’ll work with you to understand your business and your clients,to tell your story so audiences will listen”.

Neil Chue Hong

Neil Chue Hong is Director of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) and a Senior Research Fellow at EPCC, University of Edinburgh. He enables research software users and developers to drive the continued improvement and impact of research software.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Research Software, co-editor of “Software Engineering for Science”, co-author of “Best Practices for Scientific Computing” and “An Open Science Peer Review Oath”, advocate for The Carpentries, and chair of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team on e-Infrastructure.

His current research interests include barriers and incentives in research software ecosystems and the role of software as a research object.

Anita Bandrowski

I am a neurophysiologist by training, but for the past decade, I have been working in informatics to increase access to and utilization of scientific data.

I have led various informatics projects, including the NIF (Neuroscience Information Framework) project, the RRID (research resource identification) project, and SciScore (an AI tool that enables publishers to easily check for compliance for rigor and transparency criteria).

My background in working in Neuroscience data, bioinformatics, and ontology development makes me well-suited to lead SciCrunch, a technology startup focused on making sense of big biological data.

Emma Warren-Jones

Emma Warren-Jones is Co-founder of Scholarcy, a London-based Edtech applying machine learning to extract structured data and knowledge summaries from scholarly content.
Emma has 20 years’ commercial and marketing experience in the Edtech, academic publishing and information industries, launching new discovery software, analytics tools and content platforms to the global research community.

She led the business development for the research and referencing tool, EndNote, and has worked as a freelance writer for several STM publishers.

Erin Foley

Erin is the Director of Rightsholder Relations at Copyright Clearance Center leading a team of Strategic and Key Account Managers who manage relationships, engagement, and service enrollment for publishers across the market including STM, research, trade, news, standards, and more. In her current role, Erin is responsible for representing CCC within the publisher market and advocating for the needs of publishers across CCC’s broad suite of solutions.

Outside of CCC, Erin is very engaged with industry associations like STM and SSP. She is the Chair of the STM Early Career Publishers Committee, Co-Chair of the SSP Annual Meeting Program Committee, ECPC Liaison to the STM Open Research Committee, and more. She was one of three 2023 recipients of the SSP Emerging Leader Award.

Erin frequently attends industry events like STM conferences, the SSP Annual Meeting, Frankfurt and London Book Fairs, and more. Further information about Erin can be found on her LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-foley-2b203827/) and you can contact her anytime via email at efoley@copyright.com.