Ann Michael leads the Transformation Office at AIP Publishing, charged with increasing organizational velocity, flexibility, and strategic alignment in data and analytics, new product development, and ongoing product operations. Ann joined AIP Publishing in January 2022 after more than a decade as Founder and CEO of Delta Think, Inc, a strategic consultancy in scholarly communications.

Since the start of her career, Ann has been passionately interested in organizational evolution and working with organizations that are data driven and future focused. She was instrumental in the 2017 launch of the Delta Think Open Access Data & Analytics Tool, which tracks and assesses the impact of open access uptake and policies on the scholarly communications ecosystem. She is currently leading teams involved in AI experimentation and prototyping at AIP Publishing.

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.

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

Sven Fund is the Managing Director of Reviewer Credits, the peer review expert network. Prior job include leadership positions at Bertelsmann, SpringerNature, De Gruyter, and ResearchGate. He holds a degree in European Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Political Science from Muenster University. He lectures in Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Fiona Romeo is a senior manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, the global nonprofit that makes knowledge free and accessible to everyone around the world. Her team cultivates partnerships with libraries, publishers, cultural institutions, and INGOs to increase Wikipedia editors’ access to reliable sources.

Previously, Fiona was the Director of Digital Content and Strategy at MoMA in New York (WSJ: Museum of Modern Art Taps Digital Chief), where she deepened MoMA’s engagement with Wikimedia through editathons and linked open data (WSJ: Museums Open Up to Power of Wiki). Fiona produced exhibitions at the Science Museum, National Maritime Museum, and Wellcome Collection, with a focus on interactive and inclusive experiences (Eye Magazine: Cutting Edge Curation, New York Times: Is This The World’s Most Accessible Museum?).

As the Head of Digital Media for Royal Museums Greenwich, Fiona led her team to develop the Old Weather and Solar Stormwatch citizen science projects and an annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Before working in museums, Fiona developed digital experiences for broadcast and games at the BBC and Disney and was a friend of the Byron Review, a government-commissioned review that set the agenda for child safety in relation to the internet and video games.

Despite only being with Emerald for a few years, Amy already had the privilege of being involved in significant transformation and evolution. In her role as Chief Transformation officer her focus is on aligning business processes, technology, and culture to support the best real-world impact.

Throughout her career, she has led complex change initiatives, including process reengineering, technology implementations, and cultural shifts. Prior to joining Emerald in 2021 Amy was at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in a range of business areas – Technology, International Property Standards, Commercial delivery, Content Management, Online Editorial and Publishing.

Louise has over 25 years of experience in the scholarly communications sector spanning editorial, product/digital, and senior leadership roles. In her current role as Director of Tutton Russell Consulting, Louise provides specialist consultancy to publishers, societies, universities, and vendors internationally. In an evolving and increasingly dynamic landscape Louise brings an external perspective – supporting organisations as they explore new products, systems, and business models, review current processes, operations and commercial arrangements, and refocus their strategy for the future.

Mackenzie Jorgenson (mackenzie.jorgensen@kcl.ac.uk), a fourth year PhD student in Computer Science at the Informatics Department at King’s College London. Her research focuses on mitigating harm (e.g., discrimination) from automated decision-making systems and taking into consideration the legal implications of those mitigation methods. Mackenzie’s full profile can be found here https://mjorgen1.github.io/?

Sophia Worth (sophia.worth@kcl.ac.uk), a researcher at the Open Data Institute, currently working on the ODI’s Data-Centric AI programme. Sophia has also recently started a PhD at King’s College London exploring the barriers to ethical data practices.

Andrew started his career late last century, working with STEM publishers, legislatures, and the timber and automotive industries during his time as a digital publishing consultant.

At Bloomsbury, he leads the team dedicated to defining and implementing the content strategy, specifying quality standards for structured data, its processing and management in the single-source publishing workflow.

As a contributor to standardisation, Andrew chairs the BSI technical committee on document description and processing languages, leading the UK delegation at ISO meetings. He has been project editor of ISO/IEC 19757-3 (Schematron) – an international standard for XML quality assurance – since 2016, and maintains his own implementation.

He is a regular contributor to conferences relating to markup languages, and helps organise Markup UK (https://markupuk.org/).

Paul Gee is a product development executive and solutions architect with 22 years of experience transforming medical publications into digital platforms that drive audience and revenue growth. In a range of roles at AMA, JAMA, and Wolters Kluwer Health, Paul has built expertise managing product and platform solutions that align technology with the voices of the user and the business to drive measurable value.

Paul is a passionate bridge-builder and a process-centric collaborator who manages and inspires people with the same passion he brings to publishing products.