We are delighted to announce that Brandie Nonnecke, PhD, will deliver the opening keynote address at the 2026 NISO Plus conference in Baltimore on Tuesday, February 17.
Brandie is Senior Director of Policy at Americans for Responsible Innovation, a bipartisan organization working within and across political ideologies to address a broad range of policy issues raised by AI. She has expertise in information and communication technology (ICT) law, policy, and governance. Prior to joining Americans for Responsible Innovation, she was the Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley. She also served as an Associate Adjunct Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) and a faculty co-director at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at Berkeley Law. In 2025 she was appointed to the California Privacy Protection Agency Board, which protects consumers’ privacy and enforces the law against businesses that violate consumers’ privacy rights.
Brandie was the host of TecHype, a groundbreaking video and audio series that debunks misunderstandings around emerging technologies and the laws and policies that shape them.
She served as a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and also completed fellowships at the Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum, Aspen Institute’s Tech Policy Hub, and the World Economic Forum.
Her research has been published in Science, Wired, and the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, among other outlets, and her work has been cited by the Federal Trade Commission, NIST, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as well as in the Washington Post, BBC, and NPR. Brandie received the San Francisco Business Times INSPIRE Award for her leadership in AI in 2024 and was named one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2021.
“Brandie’s expertise and leadership in AI ethics and governance make her an ideal speaker for the NISO Plus conference,” said Todd Carpenter, Executive Director at NISO. “We look forward to hearing her opening keynote address, which will set the stage for many important conversations about AI and its impact on scholarly communications.”
