After he received his D.phil in Molecular Biology from the University of York, David decided to join scholarly publishing. Currently, he is a technology strategist with a strong background in developing profitable digital products for research and academic markets. He has more than 15 years of experience in leveraging technology, project management, strategic thinking, relationship building innovations and profitability.

Phill is a consultant, product innovator, business strategist, and research scientist. He is a co-founder of the MoreBrains Cooperative, working at the forefront of scholarly infrastructure, and research dissemination. He’s a member of the Learned Publishing Editorial Board, a partner of the African Journals Partnership Program, an advisory board member for the Researcher to Reader conference, an SSP Scholarly Kitchen Chef, and a judge on the Karger Vesalius Innovation awards. 

Previously, Phill was the CTO at Emerald Publishing. Before that, he held a series of roles at Digital Science, including Director of Publishing Innovation and a senior role in the consultancy division. He was also the first Editorial Director at Journal of Visualized Experiments. 

In a former life, Phill was a cross-disciplinary researcher at Imperial College, London, UK Atomic Energy Authority, and Harvard Medical school. His career spanned plasma physics, biomedical engineering and neuroscience. 

Christian is the Director of Technology & Engineering at PLOS (Public Library of Science). PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.

Ian Mulvany joined BMJ in April 2020 as Chief Technology Officer. Alongside BMJ, he also serves as a part-time board member at Dryad.

Prior to this, he worked at SAGE Publishing. His contribution at SAGE involved developing digital products and services that respond to new methodological challenges facing social scientists in a world of big data. Throughout his career, he has been interested in creating tools that enhance the researcher experience, and help researchers make the best use of the web.

Leslie Lansman, J.D., LL.M. Global Permissions Manager at Springer Nature, Director at Association of Learned Professional and Society Publishers (ALPSP), Chair ALPSP Policy Committee. Leslie is an experienced copyright, licensing, and intellectual property policy expert in both the US and U.K. Recently, she has been actively involved in responding to global governments’ AI legislative proposals.

Rebecca joined Technology from SAGE, part of SAGE Publications, in July 2022 originally as the Product Manager for one of the Product streams, Lean Library. As the Senior Product Manager, she oversees the Lean Library product, balancing strategy and tactics to drive goals, and direction, and is keen to initiate new partnership integrations across the publishing ecosystem to benefit the academic library and their patrons.

Rebecca has held roles in product development, management and commissioning roles within academic publishing for close to a decade.

Einar Ryvarden is the Digital manager of The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. Einar started as a journalist and became an executive editor in the tech media industry. He was later the CTO of Aller Internett, the digital part of Aller, a major Norwegian publish-house. Einar joined JNMA in 2016.

Kunal is a Senior Product Manager at Elsevier, overseeing the product roadmap for SSRN through their discovery and delivery pipelines. His focus has been to create a data-driven approach to product development, in order to quickly innovate and validate new ideas at minimal cost, to ensure value for the end customers. More recently, Kunal has been working with Data Science specialists to take advantage of AI in order to identify and progress automation opportunities.

Kunal has primarily worked within the publishing industry through his career, having worked at Taylor & Francis and Pearson, prior to joining Elsevier almost seven years ago. He holds a BSc in Computer Science, alongside a MSc in Management Information Systems from Manchester Business School.