[CODATA-international] Two more keynote speakers have been announced for CODATA 2017: Catriona MacCallum and Nikita Shamgunov

[Asha CODATA]

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.

*Catriona MacCallum*

Catriona has more than 19 years experience in scholarly publishing and 14
years in Open Access publishing. She worked initially for Elsevier as
Editor and Managing Editor of *Trends in Ecology & Evolution*. In 2003 she
joined PLOS as they launched their first journal. As well as being a Senior
Editor on *PLOS Biology*, she was involved in the planning stages of *PLOS
ON*E and the PLOS Community Journals and also acted as a Consulting Editor
on *PLOS ONE*. 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.



*Nikita Shamgunov*
Nikita Shamgunov co-founded MemSQL *http://www.memsql.com/
<http://www.memsql.com/>* and has served as CTO 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.

*CODATA 2017 Keynotes*
Other confirmed keynotes are announced here
<*http://www.codata.org/news/182/62/Announcing-some-of-the-eminent-CODATA-2017-Keynote-Speakers
<http://www.codata.org/news/182/62/Announcing-some-of-the-eminent-CODATA-2017-Keynote-Speakers>*>,
here <*http://www.codata.org/news/187/62/Ismail-Serageldin-Founding-Director-of-the-Bibliotheca-Alexandrina-will-give-a-keynote-presentation-at-CODATA-2017
<http://www.codata.org/news/187/62/Ismail-Serageldin-Founding-Director-of-the-Bibliotheca-Alexandrina-will-give-a-keynote-presentation-at-CODATA-2017>*>,
and
on the conference website *http://codata2017.gcras.ru/
<http://codata2017.gcras.ru/>*

*Deadline for Session Proposals and Abstracts for Presentations, 28 July*
The deadline to propose conference sessions and papers is now only days
away, 28 July: see *http://conference.codata.org/2017/
<http://conference.codata.org/2017/>*

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CODATA 2017 International Conference, ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven
Research’, Saint-Petersburg, 8-13 October, Registration and Information:
http://codata2017.gcras.ru/

CODATA 2017 International Conference, ‘Global Challenges and
Data-Driven Research’, Now Accepting Proposals for Sessions and Papers:
http://conference.codata.org/2017/

What has CODATA delivered recently? See
the CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement, 2015-2016
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830

Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | http://www.codata.org

E-Mail: asha at codata.org
Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96

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