Sample Course: 2025 Innovation Showcase

Duration: 2 hrs 4 mins

Description

This course contains the 2025 webinars showcasing new developments and innovations shaping our industry.

From the Winter 2025, engage with expert speakers as they deliver brief presentations and answer your questions live. Don’t miss this chance to learn about the latest trends and solutions in Scholarly Publishing! Learn from Wiley Partner Solutions, Digital Science, Prophy, Cadmore Media, Supadu.

From the Summer 2025, speakers presented their solutions in brief presentations and took questions. Participating Companies: Consensus, DCL, Hum, Silverchair.

Course contents

Organizations

Speakers

Kristin McNealy

VP Product Management, Wiley

Kristin McNealy has worked in academic publishing for nearly 15 years, following a career in neuroscience research. She has been responsible for building system capabilities to drive growth in open access publishing and streamline journal operations. As Vice President of product management at Wiley, she is focused on delivering a best-in-class journal publishing platform that serves authors, editors, reviewers, production colleagues, and other publishers.
Sarah Arbuthnot

Chief Commercial Officer, Supadu

Sarah Arbuthnot is the Commercial & Partnerships Director at Supadu. Sarah has worked for the company since it started in 2010 across customer services and business development. Her interests and experience are focused on consumer behaviour and specifically how consumers behave in the digital world with regards to what they buy and how they shop.
Tyler Ruse

Director, Publisher Solutions, Digital Science

Tyler is Director, Publisher Solutions at Digital Science. Tyler joined Digital Science in 2017 and spends most of his time helping publishers get business value out of data-focused products. Tyler currently lives and works in Boulder, Colorado, USA.Tyler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Colorado, and has been working with scholarly, trade, and education publishers for more than twenty years. Over these two decades, Tyler has held leadership and technology roles at RR Donnelley, LibreDigital, Ingram Content Group, and OCLC.
Simon Inger

COO and Co-founder, Cadmore Media; Renew Publishing Consultants

Simon has worked with a number of start-ups in the scholarly information space for over twenty years (including CatchWord, Renew Publishing Consultants and Accucoms) and in a consultancy and service provider role has nearly thirty years’ experience in meeting the needs of the world’s scholarly societies, both large and small, in North America, Europe and Japan.
Oleg Ruchayskiy

Co-founder, Prophy Science

Oleg is an active scientist with a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. Currently, he holds a professor position at the University of Copenhagen, where he leads a group focused on particle physics and artificial intelligence in physics. As an entrepreneur, Oleg is the co-founder of Prophy—a scientific knowledge management company with the ambition to revolutionize scholarly publishing. As Prophy's CEO, he strives to empower researchers worldwide. Oleg's visionary leadership and scientific expertise shape Prophy's mission to transform peer review, making it more efficient, transparent, and collaborative. With a passion for driving positive change in academia, Oleg's unique blend of expertise and innovation is driving Prophy’s mission to reshape the future of scholarly communication.
David Myers

Data Licensing Alliance

David Myers – Is a serial entrepreneur and a recurring-revenue, licensing and B2B information expert. With over 30 years experience specializing in Strategy, Sales, Legal, Licensing and Business Development, he has drafted, negotiated and closed over 500 domestic and international licensing agreements with partners, customers and distributors. He has also negotiated and closed countless business alliances, strategic partnering, and revenue generation deals. Prior to starting his consulting practice, he was Executive Director, Global Licensing and Business Development with Wolters Kluwer Health for 7 years.
David Turner

Publishing Automation and Digital Transformation Specialist, Data Conversion Laboratory

David Turner is an industry veteran in the areas around content management and content structure. He is particularly adept at demonstrating the business benefits of digital transformation and helping organizations identify ROI KPIs to gauge investments in systems, structure, and semantics. David is fluent across several industries and has helped scholarly publishers, global pharma organizations, and worldwide manufacturers recognize the value of content structure and semantic enrichment. David frequently speaks at industry events on content technology initiatives related to digital transformation, structured formatting, content and document management, metadata enrichment, publishing automation, and compliance information management.
Richard Bennett

Chief Growth Officer, Hum

Richard Bennett is a commercial strategy leader focused on AI-assisted publishing and editorial workflows. Currently at Hum, he works closely with scholarly publishers to design tools like Alchemist Review, which enhance peer review through machine learning and editorial automation. Richard brings deep experience from numerous roles across STM publishing, working at the intersection of technology, research, and publishing innovation.
Samantha Green

Product Marketing Director, Silverchair

Samantha leads Silverchair's product marketing strategy for The Silverchair Platform, ScholarOne Manuscripts + Conferences, and Sensus Impact. She is responsible for collaborating cross-functionally, as well as with external clients and partners to ensure the broadest reach and understanding for Silverchair's product suite. She has worked in the publishing industry for over a decade, including at Wiley and Morressier.
Eric Olson

Co-Founder & CEO, Consensus

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