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Stuart Leitch

Stuart Leitch

Chief Technology Officer, Silverchair
Stuart leads the strategic evolution and expansion of The Silverchair Platform, designing and leading technology initiatives for greater platform scalability and capability while enhancing Silverchair’s unparalleled flexibility for new product development. Stuart joined Silverchair in 2012 and has twenty years of enterprise architecture, system design, and software development experience in the education, engineering, nonprofit, and investment industries.
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Platform Strategies

Platform Strategies 2023: AI In Scholarly Publishing Keynote

40:29
Artificial intelligence and large language models have the potential to change, even disrupt, every aspect of scholarly publishing, from how infrastructure and platforms are developed to how content is discovered, used, and licensed. This keynote offered a conceptual overview of the technologies and possibilities.
Platform Strategies

Platform Strategies 2025: How AI is Transforming Platform Strategy

37:09
It has been said that software ate the world. Now, AI is coming to eat software. AI models are becoming disproportionately stronger in domains with easily verifiable solutions, such as mathematics and formal reasoning. Software programming is likewise a bounded domain with strong reward signals for models to self-learn. It’s now possible to generate entire toy applications from a single prompt. The very nature of software development is about to get turned on its ear and it’s likely that at progressive companies, humans will be writing only a small fraction of code commits within 5 years. It’s early days in this rapid transformation, but the direction of travel is clear. On-platform, AI functionality is drastically changing the user experience through workflow improvements, improved discovery, and added capabilities. Finally, we're seeing disintermediation trends in traffic patterns as humans increasingly use agentic AI to search and synthesize primary literature. In other words, AI is changing platforms from both ends—where does that leave us?
Platform Strategies

Technology Leader Roundtable

01:09:16
Open source or proprietary technology? Community owned or commercial infrastructure and solutions? Can we create competitive, differentiating features or is all publishing technology a commodity? How do you weigh ownership challenges versus partnership risks? These big questions underlie many of our organizations’ most important business strategy and technology decisions. How are some of our industry’s technology leaders grappling with these issues?
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What Publishers Need to Know About Software Development

43:39
Software development is a complex field with a high project failure rate. This presentation surfaces important considerations that publishers should factor into their decision making and management practices concerning software development.