Science Commons Symposium – Pacific Northwest

Please join us on Saturday February 20th for an all-day symposium on accelerating scientific discoveries.

Tickets $72.20 Fee $2.79

We have an exciting lineup of speakers including:

John Wilbanks is the VP of Science Commons. John and the Science Commons team help people and organizations from every part of the scientific ecosystem lift legal and technical barriers to research and discovery.

Heather Joseph is the Executive Director at SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. She leads SPARC's advocacy efforts to support widespread adoption of open access to scholarly research.

Antony Williams is a leader in the domain of free access chemistry. He is the VP of Strategic Development for the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the founder of ChemZoo Inc., the original host of ChemSpider prior to acquisition by RSC.

Jean-Claude Bradley is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and the E-Learning Coordinator at Drexel University.

Cameron Neylon is a biophysicist who has always worked in interdisciplinary areas and is a leading advocate of data availability.

Stephen Friend is the founder and president of Sage , a not-for-profit medical research organization designed to revolutionize how researchers approach the complexity of human biological information and the treatment of disease.

More speakers to be announced soon.

The symposium will be held on the Microsoft campus in Redmond Washington. Breakfast pastries, coffee breaks, lunch and an evening reception will be provided thanks to the generous support of Microsoft.

Science Commons Symposium – Pacific Northwest

9:30am to 5:30pm February 20th

Microsoft Campus, Redmond WA