2021 Keynote Speakers Nominations
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.
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.
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.
Regina Gong
Regina Gong is the Open Educational Resources (OER) & Student Success Librarian at Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries. Before joining MSU, Regina was the OER Project Manager at Lansing Community College (LCC) where she led a very successful OER initiative. Regina is well-known in the open education community and has done numerous national presentations and webinars on OER. She is a staunch advocate of openness, equity, and access through her involvement on the SPARC Open Education Advisory Group(link is external) (2019-2022), SPARC Steering Committee(link is external), and Executive Council member of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)(link is external) where she served as VP for professional development. She is also in the MI Statewide OER Steering Committee(link is external); 2019 Open Education Conference Program Committee(link is external), and an OER Research Group Fellow(link is external). Regina obtained her Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) at Wayne State University and is currently pursuing Ph.D. in the Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education (HALE) Program at Michigan State University (MSU). I believe that Regina Gong will bring an important viewpoint related to open education and access and the role of libraries/museums of all types to consider.
Work championing open education past keynote Linkedin profile
Alex Gil
Alex Gil is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University Libraries. He collaborates with faculty, students and library professionals leveraging computational and network technologies in humanities research, pedagogy and knowledge production. He coordinates the Butler Library Studio at Columbia University, a tech-light library innovation space focused on digital scholarship and pedagogy; co-founder and moderator of Columbia’s Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities, a vibrant trans-disciplinary research cluster focused on experimental humanities; senior editor of sx archipelagos, a journal of Caribbean Digital Studies, and co-wrangler of The Caribbean Digital conference series. He is also founder and former chair of Global Outlook:Digital Humanities. Active digital projects include Ed, a digital platform for minimal editions of literary texts, and Wax for minimal exhibits of cultural artifacts; In The Same Boats, a visualization of trans-Atlantic intersections of black intellectuals in the 20th century; and most recently, the nimble tent interventions Torn Apart/Separados and Covid Maker Response. His projects are very exciting and can provide important discussions on global framework in network technologies.
Profile Project LJ's Mover and Shaker Profile
Tatiana Mac
Tatiana Mac (she/they) is an independent American engineer. She is an open source maintainer who created and is building Self-Defined, a modern dictionary about us; and Devs of Colour, a database that will prioritise finding undiscovered Black/brown talent through a thoughtful search algorithm. As a consultant, she works directly with organisations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. An international keynote speaker, she speaks on the intersection of technology and ethics, examining how our products both fit and define our social and environmental settings. You can view her recorded talks on YouTube. She believes the trifecta of accessibility, performance, and inclusion can work symbiotically to improve our social landscape digitally and physically. When ethically-minded, she thinks technologists can dismantle exclusionary systems in favour of community-focused, inclusive ones.
