Program

Theme

Redefining Business and Technology for STM and Scholarly Publishing is the theme of the 2011 Silverchair Executive Colloquium. Technology is transforming the publishing industry at an ever-accelerating rate, requiring publishers to become more agile in responding to trends and in developing new products that meet the evolving needs of their customers. As we enter the second decade of the millennium, new business models are emerging around personalization and personalized offers: content bundles or collections, metering, mobile applications, and targeted advertising. The environment for STM and scholarly publishing is transforming from a one-size-fits-all product offering to a service-oriented industry.

The 2011 Silverchair Executive Colloquium will explore these themes through engaging speakers, lively debate, and collegial discussion in an intimate setting.

Schedule

Thurdsay, February 17th
6:30 - 7:30 pm	Cocktail Reception
	Villa Crawford Room, Lobby Level
7:30 - 9:00 pm	Wine Pairing Dinner
	Keswick I/II, Lower Level
Friday, February 18th
8:00 am - 9:00 am	Breakfast
	Keswick I, Lower Level
9:00 am - 9:15 am	Opening Comments
	Michael T. Clarke, Executive Vice President, Product and Market Development, Silverchair
	Keswick I/II, Lower Level
9:15 am - 10:30 am	Clay Shirky, Distinguished Writer in Residence and Assistant Arts Professor, NYU
	Keswick I/II, Lower Level
10:30 am - 10:45 am	Break
	Keswick I, Lower Level
10:45 am - 11:30 am	Matt McAlister, Director of Digital Publishing, The Guardian
	Keswick I/II, Lower level
11:30 am - 12:15 pm	Leigh Watson Healy, Chief Analyst, Outsell
	Keswick I/II, Lower Level
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	Lunch
	Fossett's, Lobby Level
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm	Victor Henning, Co-Founder & CEO, Mendeley
	Keswick I/II, Lower Level
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm	Break
	Keswick I, Lower Level
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Product Development Panel
	Kent Anderson, CEO, Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (moderator)
	Brian McCallister, Distinguished Engineer, Ning
	Reid Sherline, Vice President, Publishing, Wolters Kluwer Health
	Scott Mackie, Client Relationship Lead, IDEO
	Keswick I/II, Lower Level
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm	Closing Remarks
	Thane Kerner, Co-Founder & CEO, Silverchair
	Keswick I/II, Lower Level
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Reception
	Villa Crawford Room, Lobby Level

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Speakers

Confirmed speakers are listed below. Please check back periodically as we will be adding additional speakers in the coming weeks.

Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web.

In addition to his consulting work, Clay holds joint appointments at New York University (NYU) as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and as Assistant Arts Professor in the New Media focused graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses focus on the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology—how our networks shape culture and vice versa.

Clay has written extensively about the Internet since 1996. His columns and writings have appeared in Business 2.0, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, and Wired, as well as many other publications. He is the author of numerous books including Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age.

Attendees wishing for a preview might view one of Clay Shirky’s TED talks, including Institutions vs. Collaboration (2005), How Social Media Can Make History (2009), or How Cognitive Surplus Will Change the World (2010).

Leigh Watson Healy

In her capacity as Chief Analyst, Leigh Watson Healy leads all aspects of Outsell’s activities in producing industry research, metrics and tools for assessing the impact and value of information, and user and enterprise information spending, behaviors, and consumption. Leigh leads the team of market analysts and researchers chartered to provide critical data about enterprise information benchmarks and best practices, vendor assessment and portfolio management, and all aspects of information use and consumption in the enterprise.

Based on her extensive experience in information publishing and technologies, strategic and business planning, and product planning, Leigh is an executive-level advisor to a broad range of Outsell clients and is a primary spokesperson for Outsell. She writes and speaks frequently about key trends and issues in the information industry, and she also focuses on information impact assessment and ROI; Web 2.0 communities and expert networks; open access and new publishing models; and changing user, buyer, and advertiser dynamics in the information industry.

Matt McAlister

Matt McAlister began his online media career in Silicon Valley marketing Internet software in 1994. He then spent 9 years at IDG leading the online businesses at The Industry Standard, Macworld and InfoWorld magazines. He joined Yahoo! in 2005 in the Platforms division where he led several open strategy initiatives such as RSS, social media and the Developer Network. In 2008 he joined the Guardian in London to establish the Open Platform which launched formally last year. He is now the Director of Digital Strategy for Guardian Media Group.

Victor Henning

Dr. Victor Henning is the co-founder and CEO of Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com), a London- and New York-based technology startup. Since its launch in 2009, Mendeley has grown into the world's largest research collaboration platform. Max Planck famously said: "Science progresses funeral by funeral". Victor is trying to find gentler methods for advancing science, such as making Mendeley's research database of 60 million crowdsourced documents openly available under a Creative Commons license. For his work, Victor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2011.

Victor received his Ph.D. from the Bauhaus-University of Weimar, where he researched the role of emotion in consumer decision making. He has worked at strategy consulting firm Oliver Wyman, film production company Helkon Media, record labels Sony Music/Columbia and Revelation Records, and completed an MBA in Koblenz, Brussels and Oslo.

Kent Anderson

Kent Anderson is the CEO/Publisher for the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. He has been the Executive Director of Product Development for the New England Journal of Medicine, the Publishing Director for NEJM, and Director of Medical Journals at the American Academy of Pediatrics. He’s worked in healthcare publishing for more than 20 years, and has been a writer, editor, designer, copy editor, managing editor, and publisher. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Scholarly Kitchen, writes fiction under his pen name Andrew Kent, and has degrees in English and business.

Scott Mackie

Scott Mackie is a Health Practice Lead in IDEO’s Boston office, helping shape and lead a diverse range of work in the healthcare sector and developing IDEO’s thinking in this domain. His background is in strategy consulting and engineering design with a focus on medical and consumer sectors.

Scott identifies keenly with IDEO's approach to innovation, using a human-centered approach and applying the appropriate technology to create business-ready solutions. He is also optimistic about IDEO's ability to help speed the transfer of knowledge from the academic community to the business world, all to the benefit of the public.

Scott completed a Master of Philosophy in Technology Policy at the Judge Business School of Cambridge University which included internships at the Royal Society and the House of Commons. He also holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Hons) from the University of Canterbury and is a founder director of a venture company based in the UK.

Brian McCallister

Brian McCallister works as a Distinguished Engineer and Principal Architect at Ning, the world's largest platform for creating social websites. In that capacity he has led the design and implementation of one of the original Platform-as-a-Service offerings on the Internet. Brian has also served as a Vice President and Director of the Apache Software Foundation, which develops a wide range of open source software including the software powering 70% of the World Wide Web. Brian specializes in consumer Internet systems, the intersection of group social dynamics and technology, and community-driven open source software.

Reid Sherline

Reid Sherline is Vice President of Publishing for Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional and Education. His publishing career also includes various roles at Macmillan Higher Education, concluding with Senior Vice President of Digital Media.

Thane Kerner

As co-founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Silverchair, Thane Kerner has since 1993 led the organization’s strategic development of platforms and professional services that focus on the intersection of technology with health care knowledge. Medical informatics, semantic technologies, clinical information processes, and web-based learning are the foundations for a broad variety of Silverchair-created health reference products delivered via networked digital media.

Thane serves on the Executive Council of the Professional and Scholarly Publishers Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers, as Co-Chairman of the American Medical Publishers Committee (AMPC), and on the National Library of Medicine’s Publishers Advisory Panel. He is an advocate for issues of concern to the health information industry and is a frequent speaker and moderator at industry conferences including the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Top Management Roundtable, the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the PSP Annual Conference, the AMPC Medical Informatics Seminar, and the AMPC–National Library of Medicine Biennial Symposium.