[Eril-l] Brandie Nonnecke to Deliver Opening Keynote at NISO Plus Baltimore

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Baltimore, MD | December 2, 2025 — The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) is pleased to announce that Brandie Nonnecke, PhD, will
deliver the opening keynote address at the 2026 NISO Plus conference in
Baltimore on Tuesday, February 17, at 9:15 am EST.

Brandie is Senior Director of Policy at Americans for Responsible
Innovation, a bipartisan organization working within and across political
ideologies to address a broad range of policy issues raised by AI. She has
expertise in information and communication technology (ICT) law, policy,
and governance. Prior to joining Americans for Responsible Innovation, she
was the Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, headquartered at the
University of California, Berkeley. She also served as an Associate Adjunct
Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) and a faculty
co-director at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at Berkeley Law.
In 2025 she was appointed to the California Privacy Protection Agency
Board, which protects consumers’ privacy and enforces the law against
businesses that violate consumers’ privacy rights.

Brandie was the host of TecHype, a groundbreaking video and audio series
that debunks misunderstandings around emerging technologies and the laws
and policies that shape them. She served as a Technology and Human Rights
Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy
School and also completed fellowships at the Schmidt Futures International
Strategy Forum, Aspen Institute’s Tech Policy Hub, and the World Economic
Forum.

Her research has been published in Science, Wired, and the Journal of
Information Technology and Politics, among other outlets, and her work has
been cited by the Federal Trade Commission, NIST, and the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy, as well as in the Washington Post,
BBC, and NPR. Brandie received the San Francisco Business Times INSPIRE
Award for her leadership in AI in 2024 and was named one of the 100
Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2021.

"Brandie's expertise and leadership in AI ethics and governance make her an
ideal speaker for the NISO Plus conference," said Todd Carpenter, Executive
Director at NISO. "We look forward to hearing her opening keynote address,
which will set the stage for many important conversations about AI and its
impact on scholarly communications."

About NISO
Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster
discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through
collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional
communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire life cycle of information
standards. NISO is a nonprofit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq at niso.org.



NISO
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: 301.654.2512
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