Monday 11 June

18.30-20.00

Welcome drinks reception, Hilton Metropole Brighton  

Tuesday 12 June

10.00   

Registration and coffee  

10.30  

SCONUL AGM

11.00   

Coffee  

11.15

Welcome from Caroline Taylor, Chair of SCONUL

11.20

Keynote HE reimagined - plus ça change

Paul Feldman, Chief Executive, Jisc

12.15

The SCONUL Fringe

13.00  

Lunch 

14.00

Provocations: Emerging trends in digital humanities and digital learning environments

• Next generation digital humanities
  Professor Caroline Bassett, Professor of Media and Communications and Director, Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex

• Shift happens – higher education in the post digital age
  Simon Walker, Head of the Educational Development, University of Greenwich

15.00

Coffee   

15.30

Keynote Act deliberately and preserve things: the library's role in an age of artificial intelligence

Nicole Coleman, Digital Research Architect, Stanford University Libraries and Research Director, Humanities + Design

16.30

Parallel Sessions

• Supporting members to meet their challenges: developing SCONUL’s new strategy
  Led by Ann Rossiter, Executive Director, SCONUL
• Developing the next generation workforce
  Led by Caroline Taylor, Chair of SCONUL and Chair of SCONUL Workforce Development Group
• Introduction: Blockchain in science
  Led by Dr Sönke Bartling, Associate Researcher: Internet enabled Innovation, The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and Founder, Blockchain for Science
• It's time to get a grip...on the Etextbooks market
  Led by Caren Milloy, Deputy Director, Jisc Collections

17.30

Close

18.40

Meet in the Hilton Lobby to walk to British Airways i360

19.00

Conference Dinner, British Airways i360 (and optional flight)

Wednesday 13 June

9.30

Keynote on the changing shape of HE and building the leadership and workforce to deliver

Alison Johns, Chief Executive, Advance HE

10.30

Parallel Sessions

• Supporting members to meet their challenges: developing SCONUL’s new strategy
  Led by Ann Rossiter, Executive Director, SCONUL
• Developing the next generation workforce
  Led by Caroline Taylor, Chair of SCONUL and Chair of SCONUL Workforce Development Group
• Introduction: Blockchain in science
  Led by Dr Sönke Bartling, Associate Researcher: Internet enabled Innovation, The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and Founder, Blockchain for Science
• It's time to get a grip...on the Etextbooks market
  Led by Caren Milloy, Deputy Director, Jisc Collections

11.30 

Coffee 

11.45

Keynote An Open Revolution - How we can rewrite the rules of the information age

Dr Rufus Pollock, President & Founder, Open Knowledge International and Principal, Datopian

12.45 

Lunch 

13.30

Keynote New Perspectives in Academic Publishing - The Transformational Impact of Open Science

Professor Alexander Grossmann, Founder and President, ScienceOpen and Professor of Publishing Management, University of Applied Sciences (HTWK) Leipzig

14.30

Coffee 

14.45

Keynote Future context

Richard Watson, Futurist-in-Residence, Technology Foresight Practice, Imperial College London

15.45

Closing remarks

15.50

Close