NISO Plus keynote

Brandie Nonnecke to Deliver Opening Keynote Address at NISO Plus 2026 in Baltimore

December 2, 2025December 2, 2025 No Comment

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 …

Nancy S. Kirkpatrick Is Our 2025 NISO Plus Global/Online Closing Keynote Speaker

July 9, 2025July 9, 2025 No Comment

We are pleased to announce that Nancy S. Kirkpatrick, JD, MS, will be the closing keynote speaker at this year’s virtual NISO Plus Global/Online conference (September 16–17). Kirkpatrick is the next Dean of Libraries at Smith College, where she will bring her passion for inclusive leadership, strategic thinking, and library innovation to one of the nation’s most prestigious liberal arts colleges. Nancy brings over two decades of leadership in academic libraries and nonprofit organizations. Prior to Smith, she served as Dean of Libraries at Florida International University and as Executive Director and CEO of OhioNet, where she led initiatives in …

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Dr. Mark Aldridge to deliver opening keynote at NISO Plus Global/Online

June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 No Comment

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Aldridge, Associate Professor of Screen Histories at Southampton Solent University and Agatha Christie historian, is the opening keynote speaker of the 2025 NISO Plus Global/Online conference (September 16–17). Dr. Aldridge was lead researcher and writer on the BBC Maestro course on Agatha Christie, which launched in April 2025. The course is particularly notable for its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the voice and appearance of an actress who plays Christie and teaches mystery-writing using the author’s own words. Dr. Aldridge is also the author of …

Cindy Hohl to Give Opening Keynote at NISO Plus 2025 in Baltimore

November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 No Comment

NISO is pleased to announce that Cindy Hohl will deliver the opening keynote address at the NISO Plus 2025 conference in Baltimore on Tuesday, February 11, at 9:30 am ET. Hohl is director of policy analysis and operational support at the Kansas City (Mo.) Public Library and the 2024–2025 president of the American Library Association (ALA). She has also served in a number of other leadership roles in the library community. She is past president of the American Indian Library Association and a board member of the ALA-affiliated Freedom to Read Foundation. She also serves on the Standing Committee of the …

Rachel Bruce to Deliver Opening Keynote at NISO Plus Global/Online

August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 No Comment

We’re delighted to announce that Rachel Bruce, Head of Open Science at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will deliver the opening keynote, “Open research, incentivizing change, and underpinning infrastructure: A UK Perspective,” at the NISO Plus 2024 Global/Online conference (September 17–18). UKRI is the UK’s largest public funder of research, spanning all disciplines as well as innovation with industry. Rachel leads the policies and strategies for open research across UKRI and works with stakeholders across the UK and internationally, including government, universities, and research organizations to support the transition to open, transparent, and impactful research. Rachel has worked in digital infrastructure and scholarly …

Dr. David Weinberger, keynote speaker at NISO Plus 2023

NISO Plus 2023 Opening Keynote Is David Weinberger

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 No Comment

We are delighted to announce that Dr. David Weinberger, of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, will give the opening keynote at NISO Plus 2023 — his talk is scheduled for 10.00am Eastern Time on February 14, 2023. Dr. Weinberger is an American author, technologist, and speaker. In his five books and countless posts and articles he has explored the effect of the Internet and AI on knowledge, on how we organize our ideas, on the disruptive architecture of the Web, and on the core concepts by which we think about our world. His latest book, Everyday Chaos: Technology, …

photo of Dr. Caleb Kibet keynote speaker at NISO Plus 2023

Dr. Caleb Kibet Confirmed as Second Keynote Speaker at NISO Plus 2023

November 10, 2022November 10, 2022 No Comment

We are delighted to announce the second keynote speaker for NISO Plus 2023 — Dr. Caleb Kibet of Pwani University, Kenya, will deliver his talk on February 16, at 9.30 am Eastern Time/5.30pm Eastern Africa Time. Caleb Kibet is a bioinformatics researcher, a lecturer, an open science advocate, and a mentor. He has a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Rhodes University, South Africa. In addition to teaching bioinformatics at Pwani University, Dr. Kibet is a PostDoc at icipe, The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi. As a 2019-20 Mozilla open science fellow, he developed a research data management …

Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak in 2018, by Myleen Hollero Photography

And Our FInal Keynote Is … Dariusz Jemielniak!

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 1 Comment

We’re very happy to announce our third and final keynote — Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak, professor of management and head of the MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies) department at Kozminski University, Poland. Dr. Jemielniak’s work focuses on social data science and collaborative society, open collaboration projects (such as Wikipedia or F/LOSS), strategies of knowledge-intensive organizations, and virtual communities. In 2015, he was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees; in 2019, he was elected to the Polish Academy of Sciences as the youngest member in social sciences and humanities in its history. He is also currently a faculty …

NISO Plus 2022 Closing Keynote Is Dr. Katharina Ruckstuhl

November 5, 2021November 5, 2021 3 Comments

More exciting NISO Plus 2022 news! We’re delighted to announce that Dr. Katharina Ruckstuhl will be delivering our closing keynote, at 9.00pm (ET) on February 17. Dr. Ruckstuhl is an Associate Dean and Senior Research Fellow at the Otago Business School and is the Māori lead of a major New Zealand ‘grand challenge’, Science for Technological Innovation. She has leadership roles with her tribe of Ngāi Tahu, is an ORCID Board member, and a member of the IEEE working party on standards for Indigenous people’s data. She has published on Māori language, mining, Māori economy and Māori science and technology. …

Zeynep Tufekci Announced as Closing Keynote for NISO Plus 2021

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 1 Comment

We are delighted to announce that respected scholar and writer, Dr. Zeynep Tufekci, will be the closing keynote at NISO Plus 2021! Dr. Tufekci is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in the School of Information and Library Science, with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Sociology. She is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Currently a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the New York Times, she is also the author of Twitter and Tear Gas (Yale University Press). Dr. Tufecki’s newsletter, Insight, …