#  Speakers 

 



### June 10 Speakers (Confirmed)  
  


- **Welcome/Introduction:** Mercè Crosas, Director of Data Science at IQSS, Harvard University
- **Keynote:** Christine Borgman, Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA
- **Introduction to Dataverse 4.0 / Where We Are:** Elizabeth Quigley, Usability Specialist at IQSS, Harvard University
- **Lightning Talks: Dataverse Journal Use Cases**
    - **Data in Brief Dataverse:** Paige Shaklee, Publisher at Elsevier
    - **Political Analysis Dataverse:** Jonathan Katz, Kay Sugahara Professor of Social Sciences and Statistics, Caltech
- **Integration with Journals: Open Journal Systems:** Jen Whitney, Systems Librarian at Carleton University
- **Metadata & Data Curation Services:** Thu-Mai Christian, Research Project Coordinator at the Odum Institute at UNC Chapel Hill
- **Preservation Tools: Integration with Archivematica:** Leanne Trimble, Data and Geospatial Librarian at Scholar's Portal
- **Contributing code to Dataverse**: Gustavo Durand, Dataverse Project Manager at IQSS, Harvard University

### June 11 Speakers (Confirmed)  
  


- **Lightning Talks: Dataverse Use Cases**
    - **Project TIER Dataverse:** Norm Medeiros, Associate Librarian for Collection Management & Metadata Services at Haverford College
    - **MIT Libraries Dataverse:** Kate McNeill, Social Science Data Services and Economics Librarian at MIT
    - **International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Dataverse**: Nilam Prasai, Data Curator at IFPRI
    - **Astronomy Data in Dataverse:** August Muench, Journals Data Scientist at American Astronomical Society
- **Data Exploration & Analysis: TwoRavens:** Vito D'Orazio, Post-Doctoral Fellow at IQSS Harvard University & James Honaker, Senior Research Scientist at IQSS, Harvard University
- **Data Visualization with Plotly:** Alex Johnson, Plotly
- **Sharing Privacy Sensitive Data: DataTags:** Michael Bar-Sinai, Fellow at IQSS, Harvard University
- **Storage Systems: Integration with iRODS:** Jonathan Crabtree, Assistant Director for Archives and Information Technology at the Odum Institute at UNC Chapel Hill
- **Open Science Framework Dataverse Add-On:** Speaker TBA
- **Dataverse Internationalization:** Yin Shenqin and Zhang Jilong, Fudan University