<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)">The organisers and programme committee are very pleased to announce that Catriona MacCallum, newly appointed Director of Open Science, Hindawi and Nikita Shamgunov, co-founder of MemSQL will give keynote presentations at the CODATA 2017 International Conference ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science’, 8-13 October, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Catriona MacCallum</strong></div><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Catriona has more than 19 years experience in scholarly publishing and 14 years in Open <img src="https://about.hindawi.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CM-384x384.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="190" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; float: right;">Access publishing. She worked initially for Elsevier as Editor and Managing Editor of <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Trends in Ecology & Evolution</em>. In 2003 she joined PLOS as they launched their first journal. As well as being a Senior Editor on <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">PLOS Biology</em>, she was involved in the planning stages of <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">PLOS ON</em>E and the PLOS Community Journals and also acted as a Consulting Editor on <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">PLOS ONE</em>. Her most recent position before joining Hindawi in July 2017 was as Director of Advocacy. She took a sabbatical in 2007-2008 as an invited Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin and has a Ph.D. from Edinburgh University on the evolutionary ecology and genetics of speciation. She is currently Chair of the OASPA Policy Committee and a member of the Advisory Boards of OpenAire and the Royal Society (Publishing), the UUK Open Access Efficiencies Working Group and RCUK’s Open Access Practitioner Group.<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"> </strong></p><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><br></strong></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Nikita Shamgunov<br><br></strong></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Nikita Shamgunov co-founded MemSQL <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><a href="http://www.memsql.com/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">http://www.memsql.com/</a></strong> and has served as CTO<img src="https://spark-summit.org/2016/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Nikita-Shamgunov.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="190" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; float: right;"> since inception. Prior to co-founding the company, Nikita worked on core infrastructure systems at Facebook. He served as a senior database engineer at Microsoft SQL Server for more than half a decade. Nikita holds a bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate in computer science, has been awarded several patents and was a world medalist in ACM programming contests.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">CODATA 2017 Keynotes</strong></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Other confirmed keynotes are announced here <<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><a href="http://www.codata.org/news/182/62/Announcing-some-of-the-eminent-CODATA-2017-Keynote-Speakers" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">http://www.codata.org/news/182/62/Announcing-some-of-the-eminent-CODATA-2017-Keynote-Speakers</a></strong>>, here <<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><a href="http://www.codata.org/news/187/62/Ismail-Serageldin-Founding-Director-of-the-Bibliotheca-Alexandrina-will-give-a-keynote-presentation-at-CODATA-2017" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">http://www.codata.org/news/187/62/Ismail-Serageldin-Founding-Director-of-the-Bibliotheca-Alexandrina-will-give-a-keynote-presentation-at-CODATA-2017</a></strong>>, and on the conference website <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><a href="http://codata2017.gcras.ru/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">http://codata2017.gcras.ru/</a></strong></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"> <br><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Deadline for Session Proposals and Abstracts for Presentations, 28 July</strong><br>The deadline to propose conference sessions and papers is now only days away, 28 July: see <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"><a href="http://conference.codata.org/2017/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">http://conference.codata.org/2017/</a></strong></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">CODATA 2017 International Conference, ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven Research’, Saint-Petersburg, <span><span>8-13 October</span></span>, Registration and Information: <a href="http://codata2017.gcras.ru/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://codata2017.gcras.ru/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">CODATA 2017 International Conference, ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven Research’, Now Accepting Proposals for Sessions and Papers: <a href="http://conference.codata.org/2017/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://conference.codata.org/2017/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">What has CODATA delivered recently? See the CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement, 2015-2016 <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830</a></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:asha@codata.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">asha@codata.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris,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