Baltimore -- MD, November 9, 2021. The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) today announced that Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak will be the third keynote speaker at next year's NISO Plus conference (February 15-17, 2022).
Dr. Jemielniak is a full professor of management, and the head of the MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies) department at Kozminski University, Poland. In 2015, he was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees; in 2019, he was elected to the Polish Academy of Sciences as the youngest member in social sciences and humanities in its history. He is also currently a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Dr. Jemielniak's work focuses on social data science and collaborative society, open collaboration projects (such as Wikipedia or F/LOSS), strategies of knowledge-intensive organizations, and virtual communities.
NISO Plus 2022 (February 15-17) is a digital-first, fully virtual global conference taking place across multiple time zones, with a focus on innovation, education, and conversation, which was attended by 850 people in 2021.
"We are excited to hear from Dr. Jemielniak at next year's NISO Plus conference," said Todd Carpenter, NISO's Executive Director. "His work on collaborative knowledge creation and higher education is particularly important in helping to address the challenges of scholarly communication in the modern era."
For more information about NISO Plus 2022, including registration, please visit niso.plus.
About NISO
Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO's mission is to build knowledge, foster discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq@niso.org.