2025 Keynote Speakers Nominations
Code4Lib 2025 will take place March 10-13, 2025 at Princeton University.
Nominations will close after November 21, 2024.
When making a nomination, please consider whether the nominee is likely to be an excellent contributor in each of the following areas:
1) Appropriateness. Is this speaker likely to convey information that is useful to many members of our community?
2) Uniqueness. Is this speaker likely to cover themes that may not commonly appear in the rest of the program?
3) Contribution to diversity. Will this person bring something rare, notable, or unique to our community, through uncommon experience or background?
Please include a description and any relevant links. Please try to keep the list in alphabetical order.
We require the following information in your nomination for a candidate to act as keynote:
- Speaker’s full name
- Brief description of individual (250-word max)
- Pertinent links (Maximum of 3)
- Contact information for candidate (email address)
The Keynote Committee will attempt to contact all nominees and will only include on the ballot those who consent to be nominated.
If you would prefer to submit a nomination anonymously, please send your nominee(s) to Hardy Pottinger at hardy.pottinger@ucsf.edu.
Please follow the formatting guidelines:
== Nominee's Name == Description of no more than 250 words. [[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]] [mailto:email_link.foo nominee's email address]
Cory Doctorow
Cory is a great speaker, and he is brilliant. He bridges the worlds of learning, technology, ethics, and sanity. He embraces the dystopian without being maudlin. Doctorow married Alice Taylor in October 2008, and they have a daughter named Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, who was born in 2008. (fromBoing Boing via WikiPedia) What more do you really need to know.
LA Times interview ... and many more.
He can be reached at doctorow@craphound.com
Molly White
From Molly's website:
I research and write critically about the cryptocurrency industry and technology more broadly in the Citation Needed newsletter. I also run the websites Web3 is Going Just Great, where I highlight examples of how cryptocurrencies, web3 projects, and the industry surrounding them are failing to live up to their promises, and Follow the Crypto, where I track cryptocurrency industry spending in the 2024 election cycle. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make a better, more human-centered web, and am a passionate advocate for free and open access, digital sovereignty, and ethical technology.
I regularly speak to journalists and do media appearances. I also have given talks and guest lectures, and have advised policymakers and regulators in and outside of the United States.
Before veering into spending so much of my time thinking about cryptocurrency and its implications for the web and society, I was a professional software engineer.
I have also been an active editor of the English Wikipedia for over fifteen years, where I edit under the username GorillaWarfare. I am an administrator and functionary, and previously served three terms on the Arbitration Committee. I care deeply about free and open access to high-quality information, and view projects like Wikipedia as critical infrastructure.
Not from Molly's website:
Molly has intelligent takes on issues of concern to Code4Lib. For example, here's her take on Controlled Digital Lending: Big publishers think libraries are the enemy. She is likely to enjoy and learn from Code4Lib as we enjoy and learn from her.
She can be reached at [molly@mollywhite.net]
Jane Doe (example)
Jane works at ________, doing _______.
Some pertinent history/biography/hyperlinks that illustrates why Jane would be a good keynote speaker.
