Dr. Mayank Trivedi, University Librarian & Senate Member at Smt. Hansa Mehta Library, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara.He has been instrumental in developing Open Knowledge Gateway(OKG), IR @ MSU and the web portal of Bhaikaka Library,Vallabh Vidyanagar. Prior to the present assignment, Dr Trivedi was University Librarian & Publication Officer at Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar. Dr Trivedi has been actively involved in establishing a new Medical Library from grass root level at CU Shah Medical College as per MCI norms.

Sophie Treinen works for the Food and Agriculture of the United Nations and leads the Knowledge Outreach Team in the Office of Partnership, Advocacy and Capacity Development. She advocates for the gender sensitive and participatory methods using knowledge sharing methods and tools. Experience capitalization, also called systematization, is the process used to learn lessons from good and bad experiences. Good practices are documented when tested and validated. Sharing them enables to up scale them and have them adopted by others.