@[youtube](https://youtu.be/yfA6OsBuOAA) ---------- **Sean Davis** is a Senior Associate Scientist at the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute, part of the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health. He received his B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health (thesis advisor, Dr. Daniel Weeks, Human Genetics), respectively. Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center was where he completed his residency in Pediatrics, followed by pediatric hematology/oncology training in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine/National Cancer Institute joint fellowship. Sean works broadly in the areas of genomics and bioinformatics of highthroughput data analysis. In addition to data analysis and biologically-driven projects, he has a strong interest in developing software and tools for analyzing and interpreting genomic data and helps to lead the Bioconductor project. **Ross Epstein** is the Chief of Staff at SafeGraph. Prior to SafeGraph, he was the CEO and co-founder of sales engagement platform Sendbloom, later acquired by LinkedIn. Ross holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Northwestern University. **Lucy Lu Wang** (@lucyluwang) is a Postdoctoral Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI, where she is part of the Semantic Scholar Research team. She works on research related to scientific document representation and understanding, specifically in the areas of biomedical natural language processing, ontology, open access, and meta-science. Her work on supplement interaction detection and gender trends in publishing has been featured in Geekwire, Gizmodo, Axios, VentureBeat, and the New York Times. She completed her PhD at the University of Washington in Biomedical and Health Informatics. **Alison Specht** is an environmental scientist with broad expertise in research, teaching, and community engagement. In the past 10 years she has focussed on facilitating interdisciplinary groups to tackle complex environmental problems using existing data. Her major interests, apart from her domain activities, are to enhance collaboration between scientists, policy-makers and managers to improve environmental outcomes, and improve data management and preservation, data sharing and re-use. In 2009, Alison established the first synthesis centre in the southern hemisphere, the Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a facility of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Between 2015 and 2018 she was Director of CESAB, the CEntre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity in France. In 2011 she initiated the formation of the International Synthesis Consortium. Alison has been a member of the DataONE Usability and Assessment Working Group in the USA since its inception in 2010. She is a member of several RDA interest groups. She is currently an honorary associate professor at the University of Queensland, Australia and an Ecosystem Research Analyst for TERN. She is a co-lead of PARSEC, a five-country Belmont-funded project entitled ‘Building New Tools for Data Sharing and Re-use through a Transnational Investigation of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Protected Areas’. **Keith Webster** was appointed Dean of University Libraries at Carnegie Mellon University in July 2013 and was additionally appointed as Director of Emerging and Integrative Media Initiatives in July 2015. He also has a courtesy academic appointment at the University’s H. John Heinz III College. Previously, Keith was Vice President and Director of Academic Relations and Strategy for the global publishing company John Wiley and Sons. He was formerly Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at the University of Queensland in Australia, leading one of the largest university and hospital library services in the southern hemisphere. Earlier positions include University Librarian at Victoria University in New Zealand, Head of Information Policy at HM Treasury, London, and Director of Information Services at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. Keith has held professorships in information science at Victoria University of Wellington and City University, London. He is a Chartered Fellow and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (UK), and has served on government advisory boards, journal editorial boards, and as an officer in professional and learned societies around the world. He was Chair of the National Information Standards Organization 2018-2019. Keith’s professional interests include research evaluation, learning space design and trends in scholarlycommunication. He is a regular speaker on topics such as the future ofresearch libraries and the impact ofopen science on publishing and libraries.