Neil Grindley, Director of Discovery and Content, Jisc

Neil is the Director of Discovery and Content at Jisc, an organization that empowers UK universities, colleges and skills providers to fully exploit the possibilities afforded by digital technologies. He has strategic responsibility for maintaining services, developing products, and providing support to enable universities to acquire, create, manage, find, share and access resources for teaching, learning and research. Neil has managed and led national level initiatives focused on the digital humanities, digital preservation, and data infrastructure services for libraries.

Hannah Mateer, Head of Collections, University of Edinburgh

Hannah Mateer (BA, MA, MCLIP) is Associate Director, Collections Services at the University of Edinburgh where she is a member of the Library’s Senior Management team. Hannah is responsible for the development of print and online collections to support teaching and research, and leads teams providing services which deliver access to library resources. Hannah is a member of the RLUK Collections Strategy Network, Deputy Chair of the Jisc Library Hub Community Advisory Board and Deputy Chair of the SCURL Collections & Metadata Group.

Stuart Hunt, Director of University Library and Collections, University Librarian, Durham University

Stuart Hunt is Director of University Library and Collections and University Librarian at Durham University.  In his role he has leadership responsibility for the University’s libraries, museums galleries and exhibitions, archives and special collections.  He has a track record in strategic leadership, digital transformation and building external partnerships.  Stuart has previously held a number of senior leadership roles in UK universities working in research-intensive Russell Group and post-1992 university libraries.  He is the Chair of the Jisc Library Hub Community Advisory Board and serves, or has served, on regional, national and international committees. He has published articles and given conference papers on content strategy; post-pandemic planning, and; libraries, sustainability and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Simeon Warner, Associate University Librarian for Information Technology and Open Scholarship, Cornell University

Simeon's responsibilities include oversight of IT operations, user experience, web programming, digital preservation, research data support, and open scholarly publishing. He has particular interest in interoperability between information systems and the development of standards and collaborations to facilitate that. Current work includes digital preservation (OCFL), evolution of the FOLIO library services platform, use of linked open data for description and discovery of library resources (LD4L/LD4P), image and A/V interoperability (IIIF), and repositories for open-access scholarly publishing (including work with Samvera and ORCID). Past projects include technical direction of the arXiv e-print archive and development of the OAI-PMH and ResourceSync standards.