Natalia Manola is the CEO of OpenAIRE AMKE (www.openaire.eu), a non-profit pan European e-Infrastructure supporting scholarly communication and open science in Europe. Natalia holds a Physics degree from the University of Athens, and an MS in Electrical and Computing Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has worked for several years as a Software Engineer and Architect in the Bioinformatics commercial sector. She has expertise in Open Science policies and implementation, having served in the EOSC Executive Board 2019-20, and in the Open Science Policy Platform (2016-17).

Aoife is Research Data Coordinator in University College Cork. In 2018 she established the Research Data Service in UCC Library which is dedicated to supporting and facilitating research engagement with Open Research, Open Data and the FAIR Principles through data stewardship training and support. She is PI for the NORF 2022 funded action A5 National Data Stewardship Network and over the last year has formed Sonraí Irish Data Stewardship Network. She Chair of the the CONUL Research Group, a member of RESIN and is actively involved in national and European initiatives such as the Research Data Alliance to further the national transition to an Open Research landscape.

Dr Brendan Devlin is currently Assistant Head of Library Services:Digital Services and prior to this role he was the Faculty Librarian for the College of Sciences and Health in TU Dublin. His current responsibilities are broadly to develop and enhance the Digital Services in TU Dublin Library Services. He is working as part of a national team in partnership with Educampus in a tendering process to acquire a new Library Services Platform for the emerging Technological sector and a number of other Institutions. He was involved as a member of the organising committee for the L2L project and contributed to an article in relation to this project which was published in the New Review of Academic Librarianship.

I decided in 1986 to get a real job. After completing a post dip lib at Aberystwyth I worked in University of Ulster Coleraine for 4 years, University College Dublin 4 years and in DIT/Tudublin for years until I retired in 2021. A new career in tennis has failed to materialise

Ronán is Head of Collections and a member of the Leadership Team in University of Galway. Before that, he was E-Resources Librarian and a member of the LIR Committee for many years, serving as Chair in 2010 and 2011. Current professional interests include strategic resource management in advance of University of Galway’s Learning Commons project, AI in Libraries and organisational psychology.

Sebastian is the Head of Data & Insights at Switch, where he also represents the company as the Delegate for the European Open Science Cloud. He has held key roles in innovation and business development, spearheading strategic initiatives for the organisation. Prior to joining Switch, Sebastian worked as Project Manager Business Intelligence and conducted research in complex network analysis of Telco data within academia.

Peter is Learning & Engagement Librarian, Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick a position he has held since 2008.  Prior to this he worked in the Radio Archives Division of RTÉ (National Broadcaster)  based in Limerick for six years and was responsible for cataloguing and digitizing legacy material.  Peter has presented at numerous national and international conferences.  In 2015 he received the national CONUL Teaching and Learning Information Literacy award.  Subsequently he was one of ten nominees shortlisted for the UK Information Literacy Awards 2016 for best individual practitioner or researcher.

He completed a digital badge in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and is integrating these principles into his training workshops. A graduate of the Specialist Diploma in Teaching Learning and Scholarship from the University of Limerick, and has published in three scholarly peer reviewed journals.  Received his professional Library qualifications from University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Awarded his primary degree in English Literature & Sociology from NUI Maynooth.