2026 Keynote Speakers Nominations
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.
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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.
Nate Matias
Dr. J. Nathan Matias is a social scientist and Cornell faculty member who "stud[ies] digital governance and behavior change in groups and networks shaped by AI systems" and "collaborate[s] with the public in citizen behavioral science, working for a world where digital power is guided by evidence and accountable to the public." His research includes concrete interventions to improve the quality of discourse and safety in online communities. These days, he's interested in speaking on AI governance, "community-led field experiments in computing, social-psychology, and technology governance", and independent, non-corporate research. He is an experienced public speaker and also one of the nicest people you will ever meet.
Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. His thesis, completed in 2005, was the first publication to use the term "human computation", referring to methods that combine human brainpower with computers to solve problems that neither could solve alone. In 2007, von Ahn invented reCAPTCHA,[26] a new form of CAPTCHA that also helps digitize books. In 2009, von Ahn and his graduate student Severin Hacker started developing Duolingo, which now has 46.6 million daily active users worldwide.
von Ahn was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in 2009, a Sloan Fellowship in 2009, and a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship in 2007, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2012.
Much of this information was taken from the Wikipedia article, Luis von Ahn.
Lisa Nguyen
Lisa Nguyen is the digital archivist at the UC San Francisco Archives and Special Collections. With over 20 years of experience in archives, Lisa is constantly innovating ways to preserve and share historical collections from audiovisual to born-digital content for future access by researchers and the general public. Lisa is collaborating with others to harness and leverage AI to enhance discovery and access to historical collections in medicine and health sciences, especially from marginalized voices and experiences. At a time when government agencies censor or erase invaluable scientific research/documents/websites, it has become timely and more critical for digital archivists like Lisa to work collaboratively, collectively, and efficiently as a community to document the past in health sciences and to share how they are approaching it. As an archivist, Lisa has presented and participated in global projects in Asia. She brings an international perspective and vision on how technologies are evolving and changing to be utilized for digital archival and library work.
Welcome Lisa Nguyen, Digital Archivist CLIR Preserving Voices, Saving History Celebrating World Digital Preservation Day
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