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Spring & Summer Speaking schedule

Post author By griffey
Post date April 17, 2015
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Spring and Summer are bringing another round of speaking appearances, all of which I am very excited to be doing. I’m heading to some great conferences and am really excited to meet awesome librarians across the country. If you are going to be attending any of the following, please say hello!

April 20-22 – New Jersey Library Association Conference, Wednesday morning Keynote
April 26-29 – Computers in Libraries 2015, Cybertour on Measure the Future on Monday at 1pm and the Decades of Innovation panel on Tuesday evening (OMG I get to be on a panel with Jan and Meg and Darlene and Marshall SQUEEEEE)
May 20 – Keynoting the Lyrasis eGathering virtual conference
June 1-2 – Keynoting at the MOBIUS consortium conference
June 5 – Keynoting and attending Make-It-Palooza at the Snake River Community Library in Blackfoot, ID
June 25-30 – ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco

If you are planning a conference in the Fall or Winter and are looking for someone to talk libraries, technology, the failures of the present and the promise of the future, or the promise of the present and the failures of the future, get in touch. I would love to speak for your libraries and librarians.

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By griffey

Jason Griffey was most recently the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he worked to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise was useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of Library IT and a tenured professor at the University of TN at Chattanooga.

Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently a chapter in Library 2035 - Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries by Rowman & Littlefield. His latest full-length work Standards - Essential Knowledge, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, was published by MIT Press in March 2025.

He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.

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