Bringing together case studies, innovators in adjacent industries, and in-depth discussions on the hot topics, Platform Strategies offers powerful insights for publishing leaders. This year, the popular in-person event returned to Washington, DC on September 25th to tackle the technology challenges facing the scholarly publishing industry.
The 2024 event has now ended. View the archive here for recordings and more!
View the preliminary agenda below, then save your seat at this "not-to-be-missed" event!
"As usual, Silverchair put on an interesting, thought-provoking, community event." —Colleen Scollans, Clarke & Esposito"A provoking, informative, and very stimulating time at Platform Strategies. An excellent series of prescient, meaningful discussions on AI, leadership, marketing strategies, publishing integrity, and of course, platform strategies for today, tomorrow, and looking boldly forward to the years to come." —Richard di Santo, JMIR
Agenda
- 8:30 AM - Check-in & Breakfast (Sponsored by DCL)
- 9:00 AM - Welcome: Platform Strategies brings together speakers on the biggest topics influencing scholarly technology. Silverchair CEO Will Schweitzer will review the themes driving innovation and preview the day’s events.
- 9:20 AM - Opening Keynote: Working the polarity between transformative vision and practical traction/results:
Mission-driven enterprises exist to change the world in some way, versus simply maintain the status quo. What is it that enables visionary change take hold and persist?- Alix Vance, CEO & President, AIP Publishing
- Sara Rouhi, Director, Open Science and Publishing Innovation, AIP Publishing
- 9:50 AM - What's your strategy if there is no platform? The very nature of scholarly platforms faces uncertainty as influences like aggregation, OA mandates, and now AI have disrupted the way users experience research content. So what happens if platforms disappear entirely? If content discovery and usage occur outside of publisher-controlled venues? This panel will discuss aspects like licensing, analytics, and the role of members in a possible disintermediated future.
- Roy Kaufman, Managing Director Business Development and Government Relations, Copyright Clearance Center
- Roger Schonfeld, VP, Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums, Ithaka S+R
- Susan King, Executive Director at Rockefeller University Press
- Michael Hardesty, Manager, Digital Products & Platforms, National Academy of Sciences
- Moderated by Hannah Heckner Swain, VP, Strategic Partnerships, Silverchair
- 10:40 AM - Networking Break (Sponsored by Touchstone): Refresh, refuel, and catch up with other attendees in our networking lounges.
- 11:00 AM - Table Topics: Risk & Reward: How do your organizations balance a conservative approach to risk with the opportunity risk of not moving fast enough? How can / do smaller organizations manage risk versus large ones? For-profit versus nonprofit? What are examples of risk-taking you've witnessed in our industry? How have you supported innovation and entrepreneurship in your own organizations? This session will kick off with a short presentation, followed by small group discussions.
- 12:00 PM - Lunch (Sponsored by Hum)
- 1:30 PM - Who invests in innovation? Scholarly publishing has long been plagued by the question, who pays? For OA, for infrastructure, for innovation? As a somewhat niche and highly developed industry, is scholarly publishing still investable? If so, by whom?
- Sven Fund, Managing Director Reviewer Credits
- Sarah Tegen, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Publishing Officer, Publications Division at American Chemical Society
- Sourav Dutta, Chief Strategy Officer, Cactus Communications
- 2:00 PM - Pitch Tank: Innovation dollars can best be spent to achieve _____: You’re given a million dollars to fund a key need in scholarly publishing—how do you leverage it? For cost-savings? Open Access? Research integrity? DEIA? Hear pitches from industry innovators, then vote on where you’d put YOUR money.
- 3:00 PM - Networking Break (Sponsored by OpenAthens)
- 3:20 PM - The Trough of AI Disillusionment: What have we learned? Two years after ChatGPT irreversibly shifted the technology landscape, we find ourselves sliding into what Gartner’s Hype Cycle calls “the trough of disillusionment,” where interest begins to wane as initial experiments and implementations fail to deliver. What can we learn from these early ventures, and what are we hearing from early adopters that can inform our path forward?
- Katherine Eisenberg, Senior Medical Director, DynaMed Decisions, EBSCO
- Dylan DiGioia, Director of Engineering, Hum
- Ahmed Kamel, CEO, Co-Founder, Sinai.ai Inc.
- Jeremy Little, Technical Lead, AI Transformation Team, Silverchair
- Moderated by Emilie Delquié, SVP, Product & Customer Success, Silverchair
- 4:00 PM - Closing Keynote: Reid Blackman: Renowned AI Ethicist and Philosopher Advising Leaders on Ethical AI Principles for Risk Mitigation; Founder and CEO, Virtue Ethics Consultancy; Founding Member, Ernst & Young’s Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board; Author of Ethical Machines
- 5:30 PM - Closing Reception at Wild Days
This event is generously sponsored by Hum, DCL , PSI/Touchstone, OpenAthens, & Digital Science.
