Teaming Up to Transform: Scaling Responsible AI through Strategic Partnerships

Although every year in the scholarly publishing ecosystem is a balancing act of innovation, optimization, and value creation, 2025 is shaping up to be particularly challenging as the pace and scale of change is accelerating more than we’ve ever seen before. There is increasing pressure to provide value to and to meet the incredibly diverse needs of the global research community while maintaining financial health for our own organizations, living our values, and continuing to protect the scholarly record. With AI, open access, integrity, and mistrust frequently dominating the conversation, we are in the midst of an unprecedented shift in both our industry and society as a whole. As always, the SSP community continues to focus on bringing together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, researchers and countless others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information. We look to the 47th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to continue this tradition and welcome all colleagues and community stakeholders.

Matt Giampoala serves as the Vice President for Publications for the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He’s responsible for overseeing AGU’s publications, including 21 journals and its books program. Matt has extensive experience as a publisher of journals and books across the spectrum of STM publishing and has led efforts in expanding access and engagement through open science and reproducibility initiatives. He is an advocate for promoting diversity and mentorship in scholarly publishing. Before arriving at AGU, he served in roles at Springer, Wiley, and Elsevier. Matt has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Perlman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.