From: Benjamin Maverick Turley <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:14:22 +0000

Stakeholders in the scholarly communications ecosystem are beginning to
think about how blockchain might be integrated into their existing
workflows but might still be asking if this technology is the solution they
are seeking to update or even overhaul their legacy models.

This 90 minute workshop will include speakers from the scientific and
publishing industry who are using blockchain to build such solutions and
join us to share their experience.

The goal of this webinar is to help attendees understand the benefits and
challenges of adopting this technology. Attendees will hear about approach,
lessons learned, and will see examples of some of the solutions built.

If you are thinking about how you might use blockchain in your approach to
building researcher focused solutions, then this is the webinar for you!

Attendees will learn:

   - The necessary resources needed to integrate blockchain into scholarly
   communications
   - How organizations should be involved in the discussions as a business
   plan is being built
   - How blockchain can be integrated into their existing OA and
   subscription-based models



*About our speakers*

*Dr. Joris Van Rossum*:

Dr. Joris van Rossum has been working 20 years in the academic publishing
industry. In 2015 he co-founded Peerwith, a marketplace for researcher
services. Before that, Joris was Director of Publishing Innovation at
Elsevier. Earlier roles include Head of Scirus, a vertical search engine
for scientific information, and Senior Product Manager for Scopus. In his
current role, Joris investigates the potential of blockchain technology for
research and scholarly communication for Digital Science.



*Manuel Martin*:

Manuel's career has been focused on supporting large collaborations through
technological innovation. He has led critical data-management, big data and
machine-learning initiatives for the largest and most complex scientific
instrument ever built (CERN LHC). In addition, he has collaborated with
NASA-JPL, Fermilab (U.S. Dept. of Energy) and GSI, among others. He has
contributed, as a guest lecturer, to the Executive Program at ESADE
Business School, and has advised international companies such as Oracle,
BMW, Caixa, Gassco, Eni, UPS.

Working on a complete end-to-end solution that enables manuscript
submission, access for peer review, control to authors for licensing access
and copyright, the ability to share data and publish works.



*Courtney Morris*:

Courtney Morris is the president and co-founder of ARTiFACTS, the first
researcher-specific platform built on blockchain technology. Mr. Morris is
a seasoned executive with deep product development, marketing and strategy
experience in SAAS and information businesses from education, STM
publishing and healthcare. Courtney enjoys skiing and is an instrument
rated pilot.



*Alex Shkor*:

Alex is blockchain architect and an expert in scalable distributed systems.
He had been working as a Chief Technical Officer and a member of the board
of directors at Paralect company for 4 years, but decided to leave to focus
on most challenging academic problems and try to solve them by applying
Blockchain technology and introducing strong economic models, that will
maintain protocol of new society.

 At the moment his primary focus is to form community of researchers, which
will take a role of initial members of decentralized research platform and
be presented in genesis block of the DEIP blockchain at its start point,
and will lead further researcher reviews, affecting thus on a distribution
of emissions across all researchers and disciplines. This will be achieved
by allocating special DIEP-Gravity tokens to the group of initial members
accordingly to their principal activities and specializations.



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