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Keynote Speaker:  Sue Lacey Bryant

Embracing Technological Change: How Info-Entrepreneurs Can Prepare for the Opportunities

Inquisitive, agile, and talented thought-leaders and advisers, today’s entrepreneurial information consultants are particularly well placed to maximize the opportunities presented by the 4th Industrial Revolution through which we are living and working. These are exciting times, with new opportunities to unlock the value of information for clients.

Tracing the emergence of a personal interest in technological change, Sue Lacey Bryant will touch on the health context in which she works, leading the strategic development of health libraries, incorporating a vital workstream on workforce development.  Sharing the key findings from research commissioned by CILIP, the UK’s library and information association, Sue Lacey Bryant invites us to reflect on how will we respond to the current wave of technological advances.

About Sue Lacey Bryant

Passionate about bringing knowledge to bear on the millions of decisions made by clinicians and patients week in week in, and about improving the quality of healthcare, Sue has extensive experience of shaping innovative roles in Knowledge Management in England.

Sue worked predominantly in primary care, becoming Chief Knowledge Officer for a Primary Care Trust in the UK; and later Director of a Clinical Commissioning Group. With wide experience of developing services, people and products, and change management in the NHS and also in the private sector, Sue enjoyed working as an independent information specialist for 17 years.

Today, leading the development and implementation of HEE’s Knowledge for Healthcare strategy, Sue heads up a top team, working with health knowledge and library teams across England. As head of profession for knowledge and library specialists in the National Health Service in England, Sue is responsible for ensuring this specialised workforce has the confidence and skills needed to maximise investment in digital knowledge resources and mobilise evidence in our digital age.

A member of the UK Mobilising Computable Biomedical Knowledge (MCBK) Steering Group; member of CARE (Coordinated Approaches to Research and care Embedded); Trustee, CILIP Board; Editorial Advisory Board, HILJ; Associate of FCI; Q community; Primary Care Improvement Faculty, NHS England and Improvement. Sue is also an executive Coach.

Roger Summit Lecture Award Recipient:  Jill Hurst-Wahl

Moving Beyond Hope

The founding of Dialog by Roger Summit issued in an era of innovation and hope for information professionals. In every information era, we hope for the cutting edge technologies that will propel us forward. However, what we need now are not new technical variations, but the development of an expanded community. To do that, we need to move beyond hope into action.

About Jill Hurst-Wahl

Jill Hurst-Wahl is a consultant, speaker, writer, researcher, and educator. She is president of Hurst Associates, Ltd., which works with a broad range of organizations. Jill is professor emerita in Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, where she taught graduate M.S. Library and Information Science (MSLIS) courses, including “Copyright for Information Professionals.” She is a former director of the iSchool MSLIS program.

Prior to joining SU, Jill worked as an IT professional, corporate librarian, and information consultant. She is a current member of the Onondaga County Public Library Board of Trustees, EveryLibrary Institute, and Library Futures. She is a former member of the Special Libraries Association Board of Directors, the NYS Regents Advisory Council on Libraries, and the USNY Technology Policy and Practices Council.

Jill is the 2021 recipient of the John Cotton Dana Award, the highest honor given by the Special Libraries Association (SLA). It is given in recognition of a lifetime of achievement as well as exceptional service to SLA and the library and information profession. She blogs at Digitization101.com.

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