Don’t miss Artificial Intelligence: Finding its Place in Research, Discovery and Scholarly Publishing, the NFAIS Spring Technology Conference, scheduled for May 15-16, 2019 in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Speakers will explore opportunities to unlock the potential role and value these revolutionary technologies will have in building and deploying new uses for data and content.  For details on the program agenda as well as registration costs, please visit: http://bit.ly/2OG5Gyj.

 

The current roster of speakers features a cross-section of views and expertise:

• Amanda Wheatley, Liaison Librarian for Management, Business, and Entrepreneurship and Sandy Hervieux, Liaison Librarian for Political Science, Religious Studies and Philosophy, McGill University
• Karim Boughida, Dean of University Libraries, University of Rhode Island
• Dr. Rosina O’Weber, Associate Professor, Department of Information Science, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University
• Dr. Daniel Vasicek, Data Scientist and Engineer, Access Innovations, Inc.
• Dr. Bamini Jayabalasingham, Senior Analytical Product Manager, Elsevier
• Sam Herbert, Co-founder, 67 Bricks
• Greg Kloiber, Sr. User Experience Designer, ScholarOne Manuscripts, Clarivate
• Bert Carelli, Director of Partnerships, TrendMD
• Ann Gabriel, Senior Vice President Global Strategic Networks, Elsevier
• James J. Vileta, Business Librarian, University of Minnesota Duluth
• Peter Ciuffetti, Director of Product Development, ProQuest
• Dr. Aaron Halfaker, American Computer Scientist and a Principle Research Scientist, Wikimedia Foundation

 

Last year’s Technology Conference on Blockchain technology got a rave review! (See the April 2019 issue of Informed Librarian Online, featuring a thorough write-up,  An Overview of the NFAIS Conference: Blockchain for Scholarly Publishing.)    

 

Are you wondering about how artificial intelligence may impact scholarly communication processes? Register now! Have questions? Contact Benjamin "Maverick" Turley at [log in to unmask] or call 443-221-2980.