
Elad Hoffman
Ex Libris
Elad Hoffman has served as the head of pre-sales for Ex Libris EMEA for the last two and a half years, managing a team of 10 European solution architects and bid writers. Elad has a wide background in software solutions and mobile applications for enterprise businesses, including in roles in product management, pre-sales, and instructional designing and training. Elad is currently studying for his executive MBA at the London Business School. Elad is leading the early adopters’ program for Ex Libris’s Esploro research data management solution.
All Sessions by Elad Hoffman
Sponsor Talk: Libraries and Research Assets – The Need for a New Approach
Many in the academia recognize the need for a better, more integrated approach for managing research assets throughout the research cycle – a systematic data management approach that would eliminate duplication of effort, reduce the burden on individual stakeholders, and – above all – would support the institutional goal of increasing the impact of research output. Academic libraries are often at the crossroads of increasing their involvement in supporting research output and improving research data management and are already providing a measure of centralized coherence in their support of academic research. In this session, we will discuss the potential role that libraries can play in driving this transition, by leveraging their expertise in data curation, resource management, and content dissemination, and the infrastructure needed for supporting these processes. We will aim to inspire a conversation around the need for a new, comprehensive approach to research data services. The session will also look at a possible solution via a new library–led initiative being launched (Ex Libris Esploro) that brings together a number of universities and Ex Libris in order to develop a new approach to increase visibility, impact and compliance of research outputs and data while serving the multiple stakeholders.