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Innovation Showcase

Join us for a special, free webinar highlighting new and exciting industry innovations. Speakers will present solutions or technology in seven-minute presentations, providing a unique opportunity to get a glimpse of the latest developments in the industry. 

Moderator: 

David Myers, CEO, Data Licensing Alliance, Inc.

Speakers: 

Chirag “Jay” Patel, Head of Sales (Americas), Cactus Communications
Chirag “Jay” Patel is a business development professional with Cactus Communications and specializes in working with publishers and professional societies on the implementation of AI solutions. He wants to improve the user experience by utilizing AI to better classify content, make content easier to discover and find, build custom content collections, simplify access, and personalize the content. He also leads the SDG initiative at Cactus Communications, which is a signatory of the SDG Publishers Compact. Before joining Cactus Communications he advised various startups developing solutions for advertising, virtual conferences, producing video content, and journal publishing. When he is not working on AI solutions, he likes to goof around with his kids, read, listen to a podcast, spend time in the garden, or go for a walk.

John Challice, SVP of Business Development, Hum

Introducing Alchemist: Hum’s new suite of data-fed AI tools for scholarly publishers. John Challice, SVP of Business Development at Hum, shares how Alchemist, Hum’s new AI engine, transforms first-party data into valuable insights that enable hyper-personalization of content & ads, drive author recruitment, uncover special issue topics, and even predict future audience behavior.

Florian Kirchner, Xpublisher

Trust the Cloud: Transform Scholarly Publishing with Xpublisher. We will show how cloud-based Xpublisher, with its integrated intuitive online XML editor, DAM, workflow engine and automated multichannel publishing solution, can transform scholarly publishing.

Jason Roberts, Origin

Making Editorial Reporting Easy with Origin Reports. Sentence overview of the presentation Jason Roberts, senior partner at Origin Editorial, will show how Origin Reports can make editorial reporting for journals easy, fast, accurate, and reliable.

Samantha Green, Head of Content Marketing, Morressier

Protecting research integrity every step of the way. Showcasing Morressier’s industry-leading fraud detection, multi-source identity verification, and automated workflows. We’ll reveal how protection services offer solutions at all points of the research lifecycle, allowing customers to scale and diversify their publishing outputs with confidence.

Ravi Venkataramani, CEO, Kriyadocs
Ravi Venkataramani, is the Chief Executive Officer of Kriyadocs. Kriyadocs is an ecosystem for scholarly publishers that manages publishing workflows end-to-end, from submission to review to distribution. With an ethos of bringing agility into publishing, Kriyadocs provides a comprehensive publishing platform and services to a global clientele of leading academic, professional, and scholarly publishers. Ravi spearheads the company’s growth strategy. A strong believer in the use of technology to enhance human potential, he has successfully fostered product incubation initiatives through collaborative partnerships with customers. Guided by Ravi’s visionary leadership, coupled with his deep understanding of the publishing ecosystem, Kriyadocs endeavors to transform scholarly publishing by leveraging technology and innovation to build solutions that provide a fantastic experience for researchers throughout their publishing journey.

Yvonne Campfens, Executive Director, Stichting OA Switchboard
Yvonne Campfens holds a MSc Econometrics degree from University of Amsterdam, and has worked in academic publishing and related service sectors for almost 30 years (Elsevier, Swets Subscription Services, Bohn Stafleu van Loghum/Springer Media, Springer Nature). She was involved in collaborative and workflow solutions like ASA model licenses (1999), ALPSP Learned Journal Collection (2004) and TRANSFER Code of Practice (2009). In 2018, she started her own consultancy business, and has been involved with OA Switchboard since 2019. In 2020 she was appointed Executive Director of Stichting (‘foundation’) OA Switchboard.

Open Up OA. “Open Up OA” delves into the challenges currently faced by stakeholders in complying with OA policies. This webinar will explore the various benefits that the OA Switchboard offers to publishers and how Kriyadocs simplifies the integration process with the OA Switchboard API. With Kriyadocs, publishers can effortlessly connect with the OA Switchboard, facilitating streamlined information sharing among publishers, institutions, and funders.