The Open Science Summit unites researchers, life science industry professionals, students, patients and other stakeholders to discuss the future of collaborative science and innovation.
This, our second year, features in-depth sessions on new models for drug discovery and clinical trials, personal genomics, the patent system, the future of scientific publications, and more.
Please join us in unleashing the full potential of open science to solve the most urgent problems facing humanity.
Team
Joseph Jackson – Founder
Joseph P. Jackson III is a philosopher, entrepreneur, activist, and organizer in the Open Science Movement. His goal is to assist the emergence of a new political-economic paradigm that enables sustainable prosperity for all based on distributed, decentralized, appropriate technologies, fully hackable and modifiable to suit the needs of users. He is the CEO of LavaAmp Inc. and the co-founder of BioCurious, a novel community lab effort in the Bay Area.
Khadijah M. Britton - Chief Communications Officer
Khadijah M. Britton, JD is a passionate advocate for open science in the public interest. As founder and CEO of BetterBio, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to empowering disenfranchised communities with information they need to lead healthy and successful lives, she teaches low-income communities of color the research and critical thinking skills to excel in our technology and life-science driven economy. She contributes critical examination of science research and communications to mainstream publications including Scientific American Blogs and the Boston Phoenix.
Lorenzo Albanello – Chief Science Advisor
Lorenzo Albanello is a synthetic biologist who studies therapies for human rejuvenation. Previously he was a developer of knowledge bases in bioinformatics for an Italian corporation with the aim of translating human scientific knowledge into shared formats that can enable artificial intelligence.
He is also interested in bio-hacking and DIY scientific hardware. In all his experiences he realized how the scientific research rate and quality will be dramatically boosted by greater openness, and this led him to actively join the Open Science movement.
Matt Senate – Operations Coordinator
Matt Senate is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley in mathematics. He spends his time working on solutions for access to research, education, knowledge generally and other important resources. He is a Wikipedia regional ambassador, a free culture advocate, and a learner (like you).
Ujval Kondragunta – Operations Coordinator
Ujval Kondragunta is a biotechnology consultant for LavaAmp Inc providing strategic insights on funding and penetration into overseas markets. He is interested in new business models for driving scientific innovation and the application of web 2.0 technologies for health-care education and scientific research and financing. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology where he conducted research on stem cell protein biochemistry.