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==Bryan Alexander==
Bryan Alexander is a futurist, writer, speaker and scholar at the University of Georgetown. I first met Bryan when he worked for NITLE, an organization that encouraged collaboration and use of emerging technologies among liberal arts colleges. He led several workshops on games in education, Web 2.0 and digital scholarship, all well before any could be considered mainstream. Our paths crossed again when I helped to contribute to the New Media Consorium’s Horizon Report where Bryan was a long-time advisor providing insight on how potentially disruptive technologies could influence libraries, museums and higher education.
Recently Bryan has become well known due to the publication of his book Academia Next where he outlined possible future scenarios and their effects on academia. Included is a scenario that considered how a pandemic could change higher ed. His analysis pre-COVID-19 was eerily accurate and earned him interviews with NPR, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and others.
Bryan is an exceptionally engaging speaker, regularly citing examples from the audience during his talk and integrating questions mid-stream. His “brooding”, as he refers to it, is mixed with a personal optimism that is contagious. While an excellent speaker, he brings much more to the conference. Every time I have seen him, he has attended the conference as an active participant and used his vast personal network to connect people with similar interests and problems. If Bryan is selected as the speaker, the conference as a whole will benefit greatly.
[https://bryanalexander.org/ blog]
[https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/academia-next Academia Next book]
[https://twitter.com/BryanAlexander Twitter]
[mailto:bryan.alexander@gmail.com Bryan's email]
==Cecily Walker==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. Her 's 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]
[mailto:speaking@tatianamac.com email]
== Chuck Pell ==
"A confessed 'congenital geek,' Chuck is inventor, artist, scientist and expressive raconteur. As a practitioner of Design Coup d'œil (the habit of seeing overarching structural issues at a glance), Chuck seeks the essential core of any system, whether science, art, or technology. He is most at home in novel situations, figuring things out on the fly. These tendencies have led Chuck to garner experience in surgical robotics, functional morphology, biomechanics, fluid dynamics, miniature robotics, autonomous underwater vehicles, ballistics, maritime communications, entertainment effects, teaching, design (graphic, exhibit and industrial) and filmmaking. Never at rest, he’s had 100 shows of his paintings and sculpture, with dozens of papers published in biology, engineering and patents issued or pending. Having raised millions for research and now on his third startup, Chuck has the nagging suspicion he’s become a serial entrepreneur." (excerpted from [https://www.tedmed.com/speakers/show?id=6472 Chuck's TEDMED bio])
Chuck Pell is a sculptor, roboticist, Emmy-winning television host, and force of nature. His philosophies towards creativity and invention include: uncover hidden assumptions, pursue surprise, and "fail early and often, when it's cheap." His passionate approach to real-world problem solving has a lot to offer the world of GLAM-tech; combined with an avowed love of technology, libraries, and knowledge generally, his perspective will bring a wealth of insight and creativity to the Code4Lib community. Chuck is 1/4 of the way to an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_won_Academy,_Emmy,_Grammy,_and_Tony_Awards EGOT] and was formerly the consulting scientist for an asteroid mining company.
* See [https://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=6987&videoId=6776 Chuck's TEDMED talk on the future of surgery] (cw: contains brief footage and schematics of surgical procedures)
* [https://www.xplorationstation.com/show/Xploration-Earth-2050 Xploration Earth 2050]
[mailto:chuck.pell@gmail.com Email Chuck]
==Naresh Agarwal ==
Naresh Agarwal is an Associate Professor and Director of the Information Science & Technology Concentration at the School of Library & Information Science at Simmons University, Boston. Naresh did his computer engineering at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, worked for six years in technology roles in the voice-over-IP, bioInformatics, and digital cinema industries, and earned his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore's Department of Information Systems, School of Computing. Naresh's current research area is information behavior and knowledge management. He has done extensive research on knowledge management and service innovation in libraries. His recent book 'Exploring Context in Information Behavior: Seeker, situation, surroundings, and shared identities' was published by Morgan & Claypool in 2018, and has another book coming up, 'You know the glory, not the story: 25 Journeys towards Ikigai.' Naresh looks at the way people look for information and the contextual factors that impact their choice of information sources. Naresh also studies serendipitous information encountering, and the causes and effects of non-responsive behaviors of smartphone users. He has been a keynote/invited speaker at workshops and conferences in the U.S., South Africa, Japan, France, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Naresh has held various leadership positions at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). He was a member of its Board of Directors, Co-Chaired its Annual Meeting in 2017, and was awarded the ASIS&T James M. Cretsos Leadership Award in 2012. In 2020, he was elected as the President-elect of ASIS&T.
* [https://www.simmons.edu/academics/faculty/naresh-agarwal university page]
* [http://web.simmons.edu/~agarwal personal website]
* [https://youtu.be/NMQxhZCndyk Sep 2020 keynote speech for the Information Seeking in Context conference]
[mailto:agarwal@simmons.edu Email Naresh]
