Bianca Kramer is an advocate for open access and open science, with over 15 years of experience as a scholarly communication and biomedical librarian at Utrecht University Library. Most recently, she coordinated the preparation of the Barcelona Declaration. She co-led the “101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication” project and now focuses on consulting and supporting projects related to open science through her consulting firm, Sesame Open Science. Bianca is also involved in research, workshops, and policy development on open access, peer review, and scholarly communication infrastructure.
Hilary Hanahoe is the Secretary General of the Research Data Alliance (RDA). an international, non-profit, volunteer organisation addressing the need for open and interoperable sharing and re-use of research data and building the social, technical and cross-disciplinary links to enable such sharing and re-use on a global scale. Currently, RDA has a community of over 14,500 individual data professionals from 151 countries collaborating on different open science and open data activities, operating under six fundamental guiding principles of openness, consensus, harmonisation, community-driven, inclusivity, not-for-profit and technology neutrality. Hilary is passionate about the work of the Research Data Alliance and its vibrant volunteer community working to enable the open sharing and re-use of data across the globe.