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]
Anne Washington
Dr. Washington is a public interest technologist and professor of data policy at the NYU Steinhardt school. Her expertise on public sector information currently addresses the emerging governance needs of data science. She has an undergraduate degree in computer science, an MLIS, and a PhD in information systems. She's worked at the Library of Congress and is the Advisory Boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Open Government Foundation.
Nikki Stevens
Dr. Stevens is a faculty associate at Arizona State, maintainer of the Open Demographics project, and past postdoctoral researcher at MIT, in the Data + Feminism Lab. Formerly a software engineer, she studies how software engineering is situated in systems of power -- for instance, the ways that relational database architecture dovetails with carceral logics. She says "if you invite me for a talk (hint hint), I would give talks titled:
- “Abolitionist Data Practices: Applying political goals to data structures”
- “Is my database racist? How white supremacy structures our databases”
- “The history of data modeling” (this one is more exciting than it sounds, I swear!)
- “Beyond ‘anti-racist’ engineering: why anti-racism does not make better software”
Cat Hicks
Dr. Hicks is a psychologist studying developer thriving. Her social science research includes learning cultures, code review anxiety, and the psychological affordances of organizations. She says "I'm passionate about learning equity, access to opportunity, and how we make visible the invisible effort of people operating under extraordinary adversity." I think we would be interested in her research, and she would also be interested in code4lib's overlap with and differences from industry tech culture.
Meredith Martin
As Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton, she has pioneered interdisciplinary initiatives, fostering collaboration across departments and institutions worldwide. She co-chairs the Artificial Intelligence + Digital Humanities special interest group for the Association for Computers and the Humanities and is an editor of the Journal of Cultural Analytics. As Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University, Professor Martin is a leading expert on the intersection of technology and the humanities. Her innovative work, including the Princeton Prosody Archive and forthcoming Poetry’s Data, explores how technologies like natural language processing and machine learning can transform humanities research. Professor Martin would provide a thought-provoking keynote, sparking meaningful discussions about the evolving role of technology in academia and beyond.
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Jane Doe (example)
Jane works at ________, doing _______.
Some pertinent history/biography/hyperlinks that illustrates why Jane would be a good keynote speaker.