Nokome was originally a marine scientist with over twenty years experience in research for sustainable management of marine resources. He is the Founder of Stencila, which produces living documents that link tables and plots to the underlying datasets. It serves a platform for reproducible research that bridges the gap in collaboration between coders and non-coders. Nokome is based in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Theo has a PhD in developmental cell biology from the University of Cambridge, and moved into publishing as an editor on the biology team at Nature. After a number of years helping to develop Current Biology for Current Science Group and then for Elsevier, Theo was instrumental in the birth of the commercial open access publisher BioMed Central. She joined the non-profit open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) in 2008, initially as chief editor of PLOS Biology. She has been a leader on issues around data access and availability for many years.

From 2014-2017, Phil was the Associate Director for Data Science at the National Institutes of Health. In this role he led the Big Data to Knowledge Program, coordinating access to and analyzing biomedical research from across the globe and making it available to scientists and researchers. He has done exceptional work to make biomedical research accessible, as well as to advance the field of data science. Prior to his time at the NIH, Phil spent 20 years on the faculty at the University of California-San Diego, eventually becoming Associate Vice Chancellor of Innovation and Industrial Alliances.

Erin is the Curation Coordinator for the Portage Network, an initiative of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, now supported by Canada’s New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization (NDRIO). She reviews new dataset deposits for the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR), and as a member of Portage’s Curation Expert Group, she is engaged in developing resources to support a national curation community of practice.

Patrice is a global expert on the application of Machine Learning to research articles. His previous projects include the pdf to TEI converter Grobid and the Deep Learning Framework For Text (DeLFT). He developed DataSeer’s core Machine Learning algorithms and remains actively engaged with the project. 

Kristen Ratan is a seasoned executive and open science advocate with 20+ years leading transformation in scholarly research and research communication. Kristen has a successful track record creating and driving vision, strategy and technology innovations in research, knowledge production, discovery and access. She co-founded the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko) and was Publisher at PLOS prior to that.

After earning a doctorate in Geography from Loughborough University, Jason worked at Blackwell Science in Oxford, UK. He switched to the editorial team and eventually rose to be Senior Editor of US-based medical journals. In 2010 he left Blackwell to found Origin Editorial, offering his journal management expertise to a much wider range of journals. Jason was the founding president of the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors. He works closely with the EQUATOR Network to encourage improved reporting standards among journals, editors, and publishers.

Before joining DeltaThink, Heather was Head of Partnerships for the Knowledge Futures Group, building open source infrastructure for publishers and libraries. Her previous roles include positions at Hypothesis, Proquest, SIPX (formerly the Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange), Springer SBM, and Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger Publishers. She is a frequent speaker and participant at industry events including the COUNTER Board of Directors, the STM Futurelab, Society for Scholarly Publishing, the NISO Transfer Standing Committee, the NASIG Digital Preservation Task Force. She has a Ph.D. in Military and Diplomatic History from Yale University.

Adrian is the General Manager for JMIR Publications, one of the first pure Open Access publishers and an open science innovator.  Prior to JMIR he was Manager Director, Publishers at Digital Science,  and CEO of Charlesworth Group USA/COO of Charlesworth China, living and working in Beijing for 4 years in the early 2000’s.  Adrian bring’s a wealth of experience from the global scholarly publishing industry, having lived and worked on 3 continents, he has held numerous volunteer posts within SSP, including Past President, International Taskforce Chair, and current Co-Chair of the SSP Funder Task Force. Adrian is also an Ambassador with DOAJ, and former Associate Editor for Learned Publishing.