Sabelo Mhlambi
Keynote Speaker kindly sponsored by Elsevier
Mr. Mhlambi is a a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society and a Fellow at Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab.
His work is at the intersection of human rights, ethics, culture, and technology and emphasizes global south perspectives in AI policy. More about Sabelo Mhlambi.
Fiona Bradley
Co-chair, IFLA Open Access Working Group (NL)
Fiona Bradley leads the IFLA Open Access Working Party, which includes representatives from units and regions across IFLA. She is also a member of FAIFE and the AI SIG, SCOSS advisory committee, and the Open Access Australasia Executive Committee. She is Director, Research & Infrastructure at UNSW Sydney, Australia.
Patrick Danowski
Co-chair, IFLA Open Access Working Group (NL)
Patrick Danowski is enclosed in the OA working group from the start. He is also a member of the professional committee of IFLA and was 4 years chair of the Science and Technology library section. He is co-lead of a project team developing a national datahub to monitor Open Access as part of the Austrian Transition to Open Access 2 (AT2OA2) project. He is the manager of the library of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
Reysa Alenzuela (CZ)
Czech Academy of Sciences
Dr. Reysa Alenzuela is the Head Librarian at the Library of the Oriental Institute (OI) of the Czech Academy of Sciences and a full professor/ consultant on publication and research at Central Philippine University. She was the Senior Librarian at the University of the South Pacific (Vanuatu), the Expert Manager at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan), the Director of the Thomas Jefferson Information Center US Embassy Manila, and the Director of the University of Iloilo Learning Resource Center (Philippines). She is currently a co-editor of ALA International Relations Roundtable’s International Leads and Consulting Editor of the Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice (JISTAP).
Emmy Tsang (NL)
Invest in Open Infrastructure
Emmy Tsang is the Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI, investinopen.org), a non-profit initiative dedicated to improving funding and resourcing for open technologies and systems for research and scholarship. At IOI, she builds and executes communication and engagement strategies to engage funders, budget holders, and other stakeholders in co-creating research, resources, and roadmaps to advance a shared vision to make open infrastructure the default in research.
Jayshree Mamtora (AU)
James Cook University
Jayshree has extensive experience of working in academic libraries in Australia, the UK and the South Pacific and is passionate about working with academics and researchers on all aspects of library research support with particular focus on scholarly communications. She is currently the Manager, Scholarly Communications at James Cook University in Australia. She was instrumental in setting up a national PD event for research librarians in Australia known as Research Support Community Day. Jayshree is also actively involved with the International Federation for Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and is a member of the IFLA Regional Divisional Committee for Asia and Oceania, and the IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section.
Juan Miguel Palma Peña (MX)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
PhD in Library and Information Science at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); He is Academic Librarian at Humanindex: Academic Information System at UNAM; He is Professor of Bachelor's Degree in Librarianship and Information Studies of Distance at UNAM. His lines of research are: scholarly communication; open science; open access. He has been national and international speaker in more than 70 academic events. He is Member of the Commission of Metadata of Institutional Repository UNAM; He has been evaluator of Repositories for the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT); He has been evaluator of open educational resources. He is a member of National System of Researchers of CONACyT from Mexico. He is a Member of Standing Committee of Serials and Other Continuous Resources Section (SOCRS) and Open Access Working Group (OAGW) to IFLA. He has been Coach in WLIC Coaching Initiative to 2020-2022 of Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section to IFLA; He was Member of Standing Committee of Latin America and Caribbean Section to IFLA; He is Member of Mexican Librarians Association (AMBAC).
Siphamandla Mncube (SA)
University of South Africa
Siphamandla Mncube holds a PhD in Information Systems (UCT), Masters in Information Science (Unisa), and Honours in Library and Information Science (UZ). He is currently employed as a senior lecturer at the University of South Africa which is known as a Comprehensive Open Distance e-Learning (CODeL) University in South Africa. Dr Mncube teaches ICTs modules in the advancement of communities and academic libraries and in any other organizations at large; and supervises Masters and PhD students in ICT related subjects. His research interests lie in Open educational resources (OER); emerging technologies for virtual learning, e-learning, Appropriation of ICT, Domestication of ICT; Open sources, Open Access, Digital libraries, Open Distance Learning research, Decolonisation in e-learning and ICT4D.
Tatiana Bryant (US)
Barnard College, New York City
Tatiana Bryant (@BibliotecariaT) is the principal investigator of this project and the Director of Teaching, Learning, and Research Services at Barnard College in New York City (which is currently located on the ancestral unceded territory of the Lenape people), in addition to a 2017 OpenCon Berlin Fellow, a 2020 OER Research Fellow with the Open Education Group, and a 2021 Pedagogy Lab Fellow at The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies.
Camille Thomas (US)
Florida State University
Camille Thomas (@afrofuturistlib), is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Florida State University and a former SPARC OpenCon Berlin Fellow and Open Education Fellow. Both investigators also identify as Black faculty or staff in higher education. Camille has experience as an author, peer reviewer, and journal editor as well as service with organizations such as SPARC, HELIOS, and ORFG.
Niels Stern (NL)
OAPEN Foundation/DOAB Foundation
Niels Stern is co-director of DOAB and director of OAPEN. He began his career in scholarly book publishing in 2003. Since 2014 Niels Stern has also acted as independent expert for the European Commission on open science and e-infrastructures. Leaving publishing for a few years, he joined the Royal Danish Library in 2017 as head of licensing for five universities and chief negotiator for the national licence consortium in Denmark.
Joanna Ball (UK)
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Joanna Ball joined DOAJ as Managing Director in January 2022, after spending over 25 years in management and leadership positions in academic libraries in both the UK and Denmark, most recently as Head of Roskilde University Library. She currently chairs UKSG’s Board of Trustees.
Yetunde Zaid (NG)
University of Lagos Library, Nigeria
Professor Yetunde Zaid is the University Librarian at the University of Lagos. She has over twenty years of professional practice of managing information services to both students and staff of the university. She was a Fulbright research scholar at the James S. Coleman Africa Studies Centre, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she completed a research to develop an inclusive national tertiary educational policy as a platform for library services delivery to visually impaired students in the Nigerian university system. Her research interests include information resource management, information service delivery for persons with disabilities, public services and library management. Her works have appeared in leading journals of library and information studies.
Adefunke O. Alabi (NG)
University of Lagos Library, Nigeria
Dr Adefunke Olanike Alabi is a Senior Librarian at the University of Lagos. She holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She was a recipient of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) Award. Her research interests include information management, Library services to children, e-learning environment sustainability, open access and indigenous knowledge. Her works have appeared in leading journals of library and information studies.
Olubukola Olatise (NG)
University of Lagos Library, Nigeria
Mrs. Olubukola Olatise is a librarian at the Automation section of the University of Lagos Library. She holds a B.Sc. in Plant Science from the University of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria and Masters of Library and Information Studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She possesses good understanding of core professional skills with endearing interest in best practices. She enjoys using her skills to improve the library user experience; providing effective solutions to users’ information needs and expectations while contributing to the exciting technological advances at the University of Lagos Library. Her current areas of interest are Digital Literacy and Information Management, Information Service Environment, Mobile and Emerging Technologies.
Carli Spina (US)
Fashion Institute of Technology
Carli Spina is an Associate Professor and Head of Research and Instructional Services at the Fashion Institute of Technology, a State University of New York institution. She regularly teaches, publishes, and presents on topics related to accessibility and Universal Design in libraries, including her book entitled Creating Inclusive Libraries by Applying Universal Design and a Library Technology Report on video accessibility. She has years of experience offering training on how to improve library accessibility and inclusion.
Jasmin Schmitz (DE)
ZB Med – Information Centre for Life Science
Jasmin Schmitz received a PhD in information science. She worked as a freelance trainer for a commercial provider for scientific information and as scientific project coordinator in the field of bibliometrics. Since 2014 she is responsible for the Publication Advisory Services at ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences.