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==Bryan Alexander==
Bryan Alexander is a futurist, writer, speaker and scholar at the University of Georgetown. I first met Bryan when he worked for NITLE, an organization that encouraged collaboration and use of emerging technologies among liberal arts colleges. He led several workshops on games in education, Web 2.0 and digital scholarship, all well before any could be considered mainstream. Our paths crossed again when I helped to contribute to the New Media Consorium’s Horizon Report where Bryan was a long-time advisor providing insight on how potentially disruptive technologies could influence libraries, museums and higher education.
Recently Bryan has become well known due to the publication of his book Academia Next where he outlined possible future scenarios and their effects on academia. Included is a scenario that considered how a pandemic could change higher ed. His analysis pre-COVID-19 was eerily accurate and earned him interviews with NPR, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and others.
Bryan is an exceptionally engaging speaker, regularly citing examples from the audience during his talk and integrating questions mid-stream. His “brooding”, as he refers to it, is mixed with a personal optimism that is contagious. While an excellent speaker, he brings much more to the conference. Every time I have seen him, he has attended the conference as an active participant and used his vast personal network to connect people with similar interests and problems. If Bryan is selected as the speaker, the conference as a whole will benefit greatly.
[https://bryanalexander.org/ blog]
[https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/academia-next Academia Next book]
[https://twitter.com/BryanAlexander Twitter]
[mailto:bryan.alexander@gmail.com Bryan's email]
==Cecily Walker==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. Her 's work centers on user experience, communications, marketing of library services, community digital initiatives, open data, content strategy, transforming the role of librarians and information professionals, and investigating the intersection of social issues, technology, and public librarianship. She is a leading thinker of the intersections on technologies, librarianship and the public good. I believe her work, thoughts and perspective will resonate with Code4Lib attendees.
[https://cecily.info/ website]
* [https://www.xplorationstation.com/show/Xploration-Earth-2050 Xploration Earth 2050]
[mailto:chuck.pell@gmail.comEmail Chuck] ==Naresh Agarwal == Naresh Agarwal is an Associate Professor and Director of the Information Science & Technology Concentration at the School of Library & Information Science at Simmons University, Boston. Naresh did his computer engineering at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, worked for six years in technology roles in the voice-over-IP, bioInformatics, and digital cinema industries, and earned his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore's Department of Information Systems, School of Computing. Naresh's current research area is information behavior and knowledge management. He has done extensive research on knowledge management and service innovation in libraries. His recent book 'Exploring Context in Information Behavior: Seeker, situation, surroundings, and shared identities' was published by Morgan & Claypool in 2018, and has another book coming up, 'You know the glory, not the story: 25 Journeys towards Ikigai.' Naresh looks at the way people look for information and the contextual factors that impact their choice of information sources. Naresh also studies serendipitous information encountering, and the causes and effects of non-responsive behaviors of smartphone users. He has been a keynote/invited speaker at workshops and conferences in the U.S., South Africa, Japan, France, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Naresh has held various leadership positions at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). He was a member of its Board of Directors, Co-Chaired its Annual Meeting in 2017, and was awarded the ASIS&T James M. Cretsos Leadership Award in 2012. In 2020, he was elected as the President-elect of ASIS&T. * [https://www.simmons.edu/academics/faculty/naresh-agarwal university page]* [http://web.simmons.edu/~agarwal personal website]* [https://youtu.be/NMQxhZCndyk Sep 2020 keynote speech for the Information Seeking in Context conference] [mailto:agarwal@simmons.edu Email Naresh]