Code4Lib 2025 Keynote Speakers
Hardy Pottinger
The Code4Lib 2025 Keynote Committee is pleased to announce our keynote speakers for 2025: Ruth Kitchin Tillman and Dr. Nikko Stevens.
Ruth Kitchin Tillman is the Cataloging Systems and Linked Data Strategist at Penn State University Libraries. Her current research focuses on library systems and the people who use and maintain them. She has also written and presented on metadata encoding standards, library discovery, linked data, institutional repositories, and labor issues in libraries. She previously worked with institutional repositories as the Digital Collections Librarian at the University of Notre Dame and as the Metadata Librarian in the library at NASA Goddard. Ruth holds an MLS from the University of Maryland. She maintains the EADiva resource which documents EAD2002 and EAD3 for a non-technical audience. She is a former editor of the Code4Lib Journal and maintained the journal's website from 2015-2021.
Dr. Nikko Stevens is a critical technology researcher, software engineer, and community organizer. As an academic, Stevens studies the ways that data infrastructures--data models, databases, data structures--can reinforce existing social inequality, and, crucially, how we can use data infrastructures to guide us towards the worlds we wish to build. As a software engineer, they led the architecture of web properties for billion-dollar corporations like Coca-Cola, Sony, and Instagram, and their work won numerous awards, including at SXSW. As a community organizer, Stevens's work in the Drupal community earned them the Aaron Winborn Award and recognitions by Red Hat and The Linux Foundation. They are currently a postdoctoral researcher at MIT where they are writing *Abolitionist Engineering,* a book about data infrastructure, software engineering, and the contemporary prison abolition movement.
Code4Lib 2025 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge collaborations. The conference will be held March 10 through March 13, 2025 at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ. You can find more information about the conference on the conference website and more information about the Code4Lib community at https://code4lib.org/about/.
The Keynote Committee would like to congratulate Ruth Kitchin Tillman and Dr. Nikko Stevens on their election and thank all the excellent candidates who agreed to be nominated this year.
Hardy Pottinger
On behalf of the Code4Lib 2025 Keynote Committee