This conference is a follow-up to a panel debate that took place in February 2012 in Oxford, entitled:
Evolution of Science: Open Science and the Future of Publishing
The diverse panel included publishers, funders, academics and entrepreneurs:
- Tim Gowers the Fields Medal winning mathematician,
- Victor Henning the co-founder and CEO of Mendeley,
- Robert Kiley from The Wellcome Trust,
- Alison Mitchell from Nature Publishing Group,
- Cameron Neylon the open science activist and blogger,
- Lord Robert Winston the advocate of public engagement, and
- Alicia Wise from the publisher Elsevier.