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give information services a measurable and indisputable value; and


l Advanced internet searching for today’s information professional – tools and techniques;


Our community is helping to create a unique and special event by submitting speaker proposals. The call for speakers, which recently closed, resulted in our receiving an outstanding selection of papers and speakers, and our challenge since has been selecting the very best. The reaction to our call and our themes has further underlined our belief that there is a pressing need to come together as a community with common purpose to broaden our knowledge and understanding of the challenges we collectively face. At the time of going to press we are finalising significant keynotes and will issue the first draft conference programme during July.


As soon as this is announced we will open our conference registration. Full two-day tickets will be £595 (+VAT). We will further announce attractive early bird, special and multiple attendee rates so there is a chance for all to come to our conference.


The Disruptor Zone


There are somewhere between 400 and 600 start-ups around the world creating ideas, products and businesses in the scholarly, research and professional information world. The Disruptor Zone gives us the opportunity to invite these exciting


initiatives to attend LII 2016 to show our community their ideas, concepts, business models and execution. Each participant will be given a short presentation time on the main showfloor on day one (6 December). Our team made up of our advisory board, management team and conference chairs, assisted by some invited judges, will help to select the very best of these. The final decision will rest with the audience, who will be encouraged to vote and tweet on their favourites. The successful participants will be invited to present to


‘The ‘rise of the user’ sees millions of research professionals connected to each other’


the conference delegates on day two as part of the main conference programme. There will be a further vote and, by the conference close, we will announce the winner of The Disruptor Zone 2016. The recorded presentation will be made available to the LII community and the winner will be promoted at the launch of LII 2017 in January.


This competitive event takes place on the showfloor and will be available for all LII exhibition visitors and delegates to attend. The Disruptor Zone is designed to offer start-ups, vendors and publishers the opportunity to showcase their newest and most innovative products, platforms, and/or


content. The showfloor sessions will give the audience a chance to learn about, assess and discover those with the potential to have the greatest impact on the LII community. By working with this section of the community we are looking to engage with brand new businesses and help them with their launch marketing programmes. We will help link these start-ups with the investment community – as well as other potential partnering and mentoring organisations – who will be in attendance at LII2016 during the two days. On 7 December the two first-round winning organisations have the opportunity to present to the conference delegates as part of the main conference programme – this is where they can show themselves to an international and highly influential group. This presentation, and subsequent Q&A, will be filmed and shared with the LII community and database as part of the January launch of LII 2017.


Major media opportunity. As part of the build up to LII 2016 Disruptor Zone we are working with Research Information as a key media partner and will be able to publish outlines of the enterprises and ideas in subsequent issues in the months before the show.


If you’d like to apply to take part in The Disruptor Zone, please visit www.londoninfointernational.com


LII 2016 Exhibition I


n addition to the conference and Disruptor Zone, LII 2016 will stage a substantial exhibition of content, products, services and key participants in the publishing ecosystem over two days. Exhibition entry is free for all pre-registered visitors. Register at www. londoninfointernational.com. So far we have Springer Nature as our headline sponsor, Copyright Clearance Center as our Registration Sponsor, Hindawi as our Reception


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Sponsor, plus three Silver Sponsors. Here is a selection of sponsors and exhibitors at the time of writing: Elsevier, The British Library, The Royal Society, American Chemical Society, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Copy Licensing Agency, Data to Value, EBSCO, LM Info, Reprints Desk, JAMA, Mikro, Overleaf, MedArkive, Annual Reviews, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Exhibition registration is


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already well under way – and here is a selection of the types of people and organisations that will be in attendance: directors of information resources, published information managers, honorary research associates, digital developers, international sales managers, heads of E-publishing, senior sales and marketing manager, consultants in chemical information, executive directors, client development managers, information


specialists, publisher relations executives, librarians, heads of business development, academic liaison librarians, patent analysts, vendor portfolio managers, CEOs, key account manager, editors-in-chief, heads of global information, application experts, medical directors, knowledge and content managers, registry heads, and senior digital product managers.


Clive Snell is a director of London Info International


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