| Yochai | Benkler | Harvard Law School | Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society |
| Jeremy | Berg | U. Pittsburgh | Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Science Strategy and Planning, Former NIGMS DIrector |
| Stefano | Bertuzzi | American Society of Microbiology | Executive Director, ASM |
| Needhi | Bhalla | UC Santa Cruz | Associate Professor |
| Peter | Binfield | PeerJ | Co-founder, PeerJ |
| Philip | Bourne | NIH | Associate Director for Data Science, NIH |
| Monica | Bradford | AAAS | Executive Editor, Science Magazine |
| Ralf | Bundschuh | Ohio State University | Chairman of the SAB, arXiv |
| Edward | Campion | New England Journal of Medicine | Executive Editor, NEJM |
| Danielle | Carnival | Office of Science and Technology Policy | Assistant Director, Education |
| Martin | Chalfie | Columbia | Professor, Nobel Laureate |
| Daniel | Colón-Ramos | Yale University | Organizer, Founder CienciaPR |
| Kevin | Davies | American Chemical Society | VP Business Development & Publisher |
| Samuel | Diaz-Muñoz | NYU | Assistant Professor |
| David | Drubin | UC Berkeley | Editor-in-Chief, Molecular Biology of the Cell |
| Mike | Eisen | UCB | Co-Founder of PLoS, Open Access Advocate |
| Daniel | Ford | Johns Hopkins University | Vice Dean for Clinical Investigation |
| James | Fraser | UCSF | Junior Faculty |
| Thierry | Galli | Inserm Research Director | French Alliance of Life and Health Sciences |
| Kenneth | Gibbs | NIH, NIGMS | Program Analyst |
| Paul | Ginsparg | Cornell University | Founder, arXiv |
| Judith | Glaven | HHMI | Senior Science Officer |
| Jon | Glover | Wiley | VP of Peer Review and Open Access Operations |
| Glenda | Gray * | University of the Witwatersrand | President, South African Research Council |
| Eric | Green | NIH | Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH |
| Carol | Greider | Johns Hopkins University | Nobel Laureate |
| Giovanna | Guerrero-Medina | Yale | Executive Director, CienciaPR |
| Pinar | Gurel | NIH | Postdoc |
| Michael | Hendricks | McGill University | Assistant Professor |
| John | Inglis | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Executive Director, CSHL Press |
| Chonnettia | Jones | Wellcome Trust | Head of Insight and Analysis Strategy, Wellcome |
| Heather | Joseph | SPARC | Executive Director |
| Robert | Kiley | Wellcome Trust | Head of Digital Services, Wellcome Library |
| Susan | King | Rockefeller Press | Executive DIrector, Rockefeller Press |
| Marc | Kirschner | Harvard Medical School | Chair of Systems Biology |
| Harlan | Krumholtz | Yale University | Editor-in-Chief, Circulation |
| Christine | Laine | Annals of Internal Medicine | Editor-in-Chief |
| Michael | Lauer | NIH | Deputy Director of Extramural Research, NIH |
| Ruth | Lehmann | NYU | Chair of Cell Biology |
| Maria | Leptin | EMBL | Director of EMBO |
| Jennifer | Lippincott-Schwartz | Janelia Farm & NIH | Scientific Group Leader |
| Jon | Lorsch | NIH | Director, NIGMS |
| Emilie | Marcus | Cell Press | Editor-in-Chief, Cell Press |
| Elizabeth | Marincola | PLOS | CEO |
| Gary | McDowell | Tufts | Postdoc and Co-organizer of FOR Boston 2015 |
| Johanna | McEntyre | EMBL-EBI | Director, Europe PMC |
| Daniel | Mietchen | NIH/NLM/NCBI | PhD Contractor |
| Richard | Nakamura | NIH | Director of the Center for Scientific Review, NIH |
| James | Olds | NSF | Assistant Director, Biological Sciences DIrectorate, NSF |
| Abel | Packer | SciELO | Founder, SciELO |
| Jessica | Polka | Harvard Medical School | Organizer, Postdoc, Former Co-Chair of ASCB COMPASS |
| Bernd | Pulvere | EMBO Journal | Head, EMBO Publications |
| Omar | Quintero | University of Richmond | Assistant Professor |
| Brooke | Rosenzweig | Helmsley Trust | Program Officer, Helmsley |
| Randy | Schekman | UC Berkeley | Editor-in-Chief, eLife and Nobel Laureate |
| Richard | Sever | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Assistant Director, CSHL Press |
| John | Skehel | Crick Institute | Vice President, Royal Society |
| John | Spiro | Simons Foundation | Deputy Scientific Director, SFARI |
| Michael | Stebbins | Arnold Foundation | VP Science and Technology |
| Paula | Stephan | Georgia State | Professor, Department of Economics, Usery Workplace Research Group |
| Bruce | Stillman | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Director, CSHL |
| Carly | Strasser | Moore Foundation | Program Officer, Data-Driven Discovery Initiative |
| Sowmya | Swaminathan | Nature & Nature Journals | Head of Editorial Policy |
| Neil | Thakur | NIH | Special Assistant to the Deputy Director for Extramural Research |
| Annette | Thomas | Springer Nature | CSO |
| Vitek | Tracz | F1000Research | Founder, F1000 |
| Paul | Turner | Yale | Chair, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Ron | Vale | UCSF | Organizer, Lasker Awardee |
| Harold | Varmus | Cornell Medical Center | Organizer, Nobel Laureate, Former NIH and NCI Director |
| Inder | Verma | Salk Institute | Editor-in-Chief, PNAS |
| K | VijayRaghavan * | DST India | Secretary of the Dept. of Biotechnology, India |
| Leslie | Vosshall | Rockefeller University | Senior Faculty |
| Maggie | Werner-Washburne | U. New Mexico | Past President, SACNAS |
| Jon | Wilbanks | Sage Bionetworks | Chief Commons Officer |
| Cynthia | Wolberger | Johns Hopkins University | Professor |
| Nieng | Yan | Tsinghua University | Professor |
| Elias | Zerhouni | Sanofi | President, Global R&D |
* remote speaker