Difference between revisions of "2021 Keynote Speakers Nominations"

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As the conference will be virtual this year, we encourage all nominations -- including those from international venues.

We will be accepting nominations from November 10, 2020 until November 25, 2020.

Please include a description and any relevant links. Please try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

The criteria for nominating a candidate to act as keynote are below:

• Speaker’s name (First Name, Last Name)
• Brief description of individual (250-word max)
• Pertinent links (Maximum of 3)
• Contact information of candidate (email address)

If you would prefer to submit a nomination anonymously, please send your nominee(s) to Clara Turp at: clara.turp@mcgill.ca.

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]

Jane Doe (example)

Jane works at ________, doing _______.

Some pertinent history/biography/hyperlinks that elucidates why Jane would be a good keynote speaker.

janes_email_address

Cecily Walker

Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. Her 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://circulatingideas.com/transcripts/cecily-walker/ (podcast conversation)

https://www.vala.org.au/conferences/vala2020/conference-program/keynote-speakers/#cecilywalker (past keynote speaker)

Cecily's email address

Rudo Kemper

Gave an outstanding talk at csv,conf,v5 about working with South American indigenous communities to map & safeguard their stories using the open source project Terrastories (talk is here) . It covered issues of pure tech (architecting around limited internet access), participatory design (building a tool that was useful for the people in question to advance causes that matter to them), indigenous knowledge rights, tech as tool for political advocacy -- this talk was everything. He's on the board of https://native-land.ca/, works for https://www.digital-democracy.org/, studied human geography, and contributes code & docs to Terrastories as well as having worked on the ground in the Amazon.

Twitter @rudokemper

email