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| + | Xe Iaso is "a technical educator, conference speaker, twitch streamer, vtuber, and philosopher that focuses on ways to help make technology easier to understand and do cursed things in the process." They are best-known in the code4lib community for their work on [https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis Anubis], which "weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers" and is widely used by code4libbers defending cultural heritage web sites from bot onslaught. They are [https://xeiaso.net/talks/ an experienced and engaging conference speaker]. They have gotten pretty engaged with the code4lib community as they support our use of Anubis, and I think it would be neat if we all got to meet each other. | ||
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Revision as of 13:14, 17 October 2025
Please add Keynote speaker nomination using the template below. See 2025 Keynote Speakers Nominations as example.
Keynote speaker nominations for the Code4Lib 2026 Conference will be accepted through October 24, 2025.
If you would like to nominate anonymously/without Code4Lib wiki account, you can send email to Maccabee Levine and he will add the nominee to this page.
Kate Deibel
Katherine "Kate" Deibel has had a varied career in academia working within and across many disciplines, including computer science, education, disability, comics, digital literacies, and libraries. After transitioning in her first year of graduate school, she earned her PhD in computer science and engineering at the University of Washington in 2011 with a multidisciplinary study of the social and technological factors that hinder adoption of reading technologies among adults with dyslexia. As an ardent advocate for usable and accessible technologies, she works and educates to ensure that library technologies are effective tools for both library patrons and staff. Having worked in library technologies at the University of Washington and Syracuse University Libraries, she now is the systems librarian at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, spearheading their adoption of open library systems such as FOLIO and VuFind.
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Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz is a science journalist who also writes science fiction. They are the author of several books, including Automatic Noodle, an instant USA Today bestseller, The Terraformers, which was nominated for the Nebula Award, and Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age. They have a monthly column in New Scientist magazine, and are the co-host of the Hugo-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. (from Website)
Newitz was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for 2002 to 2003, supporting them as a research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2004 to 2005 Newitz was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and from 2007 to 2009 was on the board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. (from Wikipedia)
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Xe Iaso
Xe Iaso is "a technical educator, conference speaker, twitch streamer, vtuber, and philosopher that focuses on ways to help make technology easier to understand and do cursed things in the process." They are best-known in the code4lib community for their work on Anubis, which "weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers" and is widely used by code4libbers defending cultural heritage web sites from bot onslaught. They are an experienced and engaging conference speaker. They have gotten pretty engaged with the code4lib community as they support our use of Anubis, and I think it would be neat if we all got to meet each other.
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