May 3, 2016 – Wheat Ridge, CO – Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced that its keynote speakers for the SSP 38th Annual Meeting to be held June 1-3 in Vancouver, BC are David S. Kidder and Dr. Margaret-Ann Armour.
Kidder, who will speak on Thursday, June 2, is the co-founder and CEO of Bionic, an enterprise innovation accelerator and platform. Prior to Bionic, Kidder served as the cofounder and CEO of Clickable, a digital advertising software service, and he also cofounded SmartRay Network, a mobile advertising pioneer. In The Startup Playbook, his insightful interviews with successful startup entrepreneurs reveal the secrets to launching and commercializing successful startups and enterprise innovations.
A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Kidder received ID Magazine’s International Design Award and Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2008. He is an active angel investor through his fund, Alt Option Return, is a founding member of the Acumen One Percent Fund, and serves on the National Board of the Smithsonian. He is also the creator and co-author of the two-time New York Times bestselling five-book series, The Intellectual Devotional, published by Rodale.
Kidder will speak about his belief that the entrepreneurial spirit isn’t—nor should it be—strictly for startups. On stage, he will profile some of today’s best-known entrepreneurs and highlight their individual “playbooks” for company-building. He will relay their stories, mistakes, common (and successful) strategies, wisdoms, breakthrough moments, management philosophies and techniques with radical transparency.
On Friday, June 3, Dr. Armour will take the stage. Born in Scotland and educated at Edinburgh University (BSc, MSc),and the University of Alberta (PhD), Armour joined the Chemistry Department at the
University of Alberta in 1979 and since 2005 has been Associate Dean of Science, Diversity. Her research is in methods for the disposal of small quantities of hazardous chemical waste. For more than 30 years, she has been active in encouraging women to consider careers in the sciences and engineering, and currently is Chair of the Board of the Canadian Centre for Women in Science, Engineering, Trades and Technology, the WinSETT Centre. Her awards include a 3M Fellowship, a Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case, and the Montreal Medal of the Chemical Institute of Canada. She was also twice named one of the top 100 most powerful women in Canada by the Women’s Executive Network and membership in the Order of Canada, and she has received five honorary degrees.
Armour will speak about encouraging diversity in scientific communication. Many factors have been identified as slowing the movement of women into STEM-related careers, among them the paucity of role
models and mentors, parenting responsibilities, and lingering subconscious stereotypes that influence decision making, for example, in the selection of Board members. She will explore the role of community and professional organizations, industry and academe to address these factors and identify which interventions are most effective. “We are proud and excited to have a strong set of keynotes at this year’s Annual Meeting, covering topics that are applicable and meaningful to SSP’s membership,” said Annual Meeting Program Committee Co-chairs, Laura Ricci and Mary Beth Barilla.
The SSP Annual Meeting will include not only these timely and thoughtful keynote addresses, but also 27 concurrent sessions featuring an international group of presenters from all areas of scholarly communications: publishers, vendors, librarians, and researchers. Topics to be covered include careers/industry, market insight, global challenges, collaborative solutions, product strategy, business development, standards, and best practices. The meeting kicks off with a plenary panel on mentorship on Wednesday, June 1, at 4:00 pm followed by Speed Networking at 5:15 pm and the Opening Reception at 6:30 pm. The Closing Plenary session will feature a frank conversation with an academic, a university press publisher, a publishing educator, and a librarian. Panelists will discuss examples of revolutionary change happening in scholarly communication, noting what we have been holding onto from the past that isn’t working any longer and how innovations can honor traditions while moving
into the future.
For more information and to register for the SSP 38th Annual Meeting visit: https://www.sspnet.org/events/annual-meeting-2016/event-home/. The meeting hashtag is #SSP2016.
About the Society for Scholarly Publishing – The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), founded in 1978, is a nonprofit organization formed to promote and advance communication among all sectors of the scholarly publication community through networking, information dissemination, and facilitation of new developments in the field. SSP members represent all aspects of scholarly publishing — including publishers, printers, e-products developers, technical service providers, librarians, and editors. SSP members come from a wide range of large and small commercial and nonprofit organizations. They meet at SSP’s annual meetings, educational seminars, and Librarian Focus Groups to hear the latest trends from respected colleagues and to discuss common and mutual (and sometimes divergent) goals and
viewpoints.
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