The State of Risk in Scholarly Communications

Alice is a co-founder of the MoreBrains Cooperative, a consulting organization that specializes in — and supports the values of — open research. Her career has spanned both scholarly publishing (at Blackwell Publishing and then Wiley) and research infrastructures — first as Director of Community Engagement & Support of ORCID, and then in a similar role at NISO (National Information Standards Organization). Alice is actively involved in the scholarly communications community, including as President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) in 2021-22 and as a regular contributor to their Scholarly Kitchen blog. She is passionate about the need for a robust and open global research infrastructure (with a particular interest in metadata and workflows) and about improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility - in scholarly communications and in society at large.

Caroline Sutton is CEO for the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM). Prior to joining STM Caroline served as Director of Open Research for Taylor & Francis. She co-founded Co-Action Publishing, a pioneer in Open Access Publishing and was one of the founders and first President of OASPA where she served on the board between 2008-2021. She has served on numerous boards within the scholarly communications space including the Board of Directors of Dryad (2017-2023), and Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA), the managing organization of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (2013-2022). Caroline holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.

Hong is a product and AI innovation leader in scholarly publishing and former Senior Director of AI Product & Innovation at Wiley, where he set AI vision and strategy, drive the roadmap, and delivered award-winning services that automate research and publishing workflows. He helped define Wiley’s AI ethics principles, drove innovation for the Wiley Research Exchange platform and Atypon experience platform, and led creation of Wiley’s first AI-driven papermill detection tool—now a leading integrity solution. A former head of AI R&D, he built collaborations with top labs worldwide and earned multiple AI awards, including an honorable mention for the 2024 APE Award for Innovation. He holds a PhD in 3D Modeling with AI (Aberystwyth) and an MBA in Digital Transformation (Oxford). His personal research passion is supporting publishers’ success in their transition to Open Science and helping global researchers know more, do more, and achieve more in the era of digital transformation. Hong is widely published on computer science and AI topics and presents regularly at prominent industry events. He also serves as a COPE Advisor, Scholarly Kitchen Chef, Co-Chair of ALPSP’s AI Special Interest Group, member of STM’s Future Lab, and Distinguished Expert at China’s National Key Laboratory of Knowledge Mining for Medical Journals.

Todd Carpenter currently serves as Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a non-profit association that develops and maintains standards for the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information. Prior to joining NISO, Todd was Director of Business Development at BioOne, an online aggregation of biological science journals. He also held management positions at The Johns Hopkins University Press, the Energy Intelligence Group, and the Haworth Press. He serves on the boards of several industry and community organizations, including currently being Chair of FORCE11, a Director at the Book Industry Study Group, at the Baltimore County Public Library, and at the Free Ebook Foundation. Formerly, he served as Treasurer on the Board of SSP and was chair of several SSP Committees. He is editor of the book The Critical Component, Standards in the Information Community, has authored dozens of articles and also contributes regularly as a Chef on the Scholarly Kitchen. Todd is a graduate of Syracuse University and holds a masters degree in business from the Johns Hopkins University.