Program

Jon is commercial director at OpenAthens, he has worked in publishing for over 20 years with a variety of commercial and business publishers. His career has spanned the transformation from print to digital as companies have reacted and adapted to new technology. But his belief remains that the fundamental purpose of a publisher hasn’t changed. Accessibility to accurate, intelligent, insightful information has never been more important. Trust is paramount and Jon is delighted that OpenAthens participates in establishing that trust between the publishers, libraries and the end users.

My current role is the CEO of Jisc. Jisc is a not-for-profit membership organisation that provides the UK universities, colleges and skills sectors with a shared digital infrastructure.
I have worked in higher education for most of my career and held a variety of Board level leadership roles, most recently as executive director of corporate services at the University of Sheffield. Prior to Sheffield, I spent eight years at the University of York, as CIO and deputy COO.
I was a member of UCAS council for 8 years, chair of Universities and College Information Systems Association (UCISA), and chair of the Russell Universities Group IT Directors (RUGIT).
I have recently become a governor of York College my local FE provider.

Anna is the Senior Business Development Manager for APAC & MENA at OpenAthens. Having worked for Hodder Education and Sage Publishing before joining OpenAthens, she has vast experience in the provision of content and technical solutions to schools, universities, and research institutions. Since joining OpenAthens, she has been working with libraries across the world to deliver OpenAthens mission to remove barriers to knowledge and connect people to information.

Rick Anderson is University Librarian of Brigham Young University. He has worked previously as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc., as Head Acquisitions Librarian for the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, as Director of Resource Acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno, and as Associate Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication at the University of Utah. He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards and is a regular contributor to the Scholarly Kitchen. He has served as president of NASIG and of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and is a recipient of the HARRASSOWITZ Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award. Rick is the author of three books, including Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2018), which has been published in three languages.

Pavel Kasyanov is principal technical solution consultant at Clarivate. Pavel has been working with Clarivate for almost 20 years, 15 of which he is specializing on Web of Science and various analytical tools based on it. Pavel has a profound experience in scientific discovery, as well as research evaluation and bibliometrics. Pavel helps universities, research institutes, and corporations to quicker access research information and research data that they need, as well as to sustainably increase the visibility and impact of their scientific research.

Jane is senior marketing manager at OpenAthens. She is responsible for the strategic marketing of products of interest to libraries and publishers worldwide. Jane works closely with partners, membership organizations and industry bodies to communicate the benefits of federated single sign-on for simple, seamless access to online content.

Jane previously worked at Jisc in various marketing, events and outreach roles and was involved in a program to transition publishers serving the UK education and research community to federated single sign-on. As part of this initiative, Jane worked collaboratively with other identity federations around the world.

Emma Wilson-Shaw worked in UK academic libraries for over 20 years, primarily in higher education but also in further education and archives & special collections. She is the e-Resource Manager for OpenAthens, working with libraries, publishers and service providers to make the user journey to content as smooth as possible. Her background includes e-resources, systems and authentication support/management, web editing, enquiry service management, and information skills training.