Join us for this fascinating discussion, in which our panel of experts will be asking the following questions:

How can we make more transparent research easier?

What are the implications for transparent research?

What are important steps to automate checks for transparency?

📷Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder, Ripeta  and Head, Research Informatics & Publishing, Pennsylvania State University

Cynthia Hudson Vitale is the Head of Research Informatics and Publishing at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries where she leads a team focused on enhancing the technology-driven research capacity of faculty and students particularly in the areas of statistics, digital humanities, research data services, open-access publishing, and maps & GIS. She is a founding member of the Data Curation Network, a multi-institutional initiative building a shared staffing model for making research data FAIR and the principal investigator on a project developing specialized data curation training. She received her BA from St. Louis University and her MA from the University of Missouri, Columbia. Her areas of expertise include information architecture, data curation, and scholarly communication.

📷Mark Leggott, Executive Director, Research Data Canada (RDC)
Mark Leggott serves as the Executive Director of Research Data Canada (RDC) where he builds on the existing progress of RDC and facilitates broad stakeholder outreach to launch programs that strengthen Canada’s research data management capacity. Before joining RDC, Mark enjoyed a successful academic career, most recently as the University Librarian at the University of Prince Edward Island. Mark sat on Canada’s Tri-Agencies Data Management Policy Advisory Committee, and has also contributed to CANARIE’s Software Technical Advisory Committee and Federated Single Sign-On Committee.  Mark brings business acumen and technical savvy to his considerable knowledge of the research data management ecosystem as the founder of the Islandora project, an open source digital asset management system.

📷Leslie McIntosh, CEO & Co-founder, Ripeta
Dr Leslie McIntosh, PhD is the founder and CEO of Ripeta, a company formed to improve scientific research quality and reproducibility. Now part of Digital Science, the company leads efforts in rapidly assessing scientific research to make better science easier. She served as the inaugural executive director for the US region of the Research Data Alliance and is still very active with the RDA.

She has experience leading diverse teams to develop and deliver meaningful data to improve scientific decisions. Dr. McIntosh is an accomplished biomedical informatician and data scientist as well as an internationally known consultant, speaker, and trainer who is passionate about mentoring the next generation of data scientists.

She holds a Masters and PhD in Public Health with concentrations in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from Saint Louis University and a Certificate in Women’s Leadership Forum from Washington University Olin’s School of Business.

📷Sonya Towers, Programme Officer, Open Research at the Wellcome Trust
Sonya Towers a Programme Officer in the Open Research team at the Wellcome Trust, which is leading on work to maximise the availability and use of research outputs (including data, publications, software and materials), in ways that will enrich the research enterprise and accelerate the delivery of health benefits. Prior to this, she worked in the Grants department at Wellcome, working with the funding divisions and the priority areas to deliver Wellcome’s funding schemes. Before joining Wellcome, Dr. Towers completed her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Sussex.

📷Darrell W Gunter, Consultant
Darrell, an experienced digital publishing executive, has been at the forefront of major industry initiatives including: Factiva, ScienceDirect, Scopus, BiomedExperts.com, ReviewerFinder, Underline, and Ripeta. In his consulting practice, he has advised many CEOs from start-ups to the very largest publishers.

An innovator, he has written and lectured about leadership, consultative sales, mobile, semantic, and Blockchain technology. An SIIA CODiE judge since 2007 and is a former Associate Editor of Learned Publishing published by the ALPSP.  His column titled, “The Innovator’s Saga” appears in The Against The Grain publication.

A graduate of Seton Hall University's W. Paul Stillman School of Business, (BS Business Administration- Marketing) and Lake Forest Graduate School of Management (MBA). He has certificates from Rutgers CUEED's EPI program, University of Illinois – Data Visualization and MIT Sloan Exec Edu – Blockchain Technologies: Blockchain Innovation & Applications.

He is an advisor to many startups and serves on three non-profit boards (Third Chapter, USA Boxing Foundation and the Women’s Venture Fund.  At Seton Hall, he is an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University and his radio program "Leadership with Darrell W Gunter" in its 11th season airs 8:00 am Saturday on WSOU HD 89.5 FM / WSOU.net. His previous shows are available on his iTunes Podcast.

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Session 11: Transparent Research