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:
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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