The OpenCon 2015 Organizing Committee is involved in all aspects of the meeting, from creating the conference program to deciding which applicants are selected to attend. The Organizing Committee members are listed below:

Chair: Nick Shockey, USA: SPARC; Right to Research Coalition

Nicole Allen, USA: SPARC

Megan Beckett, South Africa: Siyavula Education

Kristofferson Culmer, USA by way of the Bahamas: University of Missouri, National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS)

Koen Demaegd, Belgium: Belgian Medical Students Association (BeMSA)

Ivana Di Salvo, Italy: International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA)

Martin Paul Eve, UK: University of Lincoln (until 1st May 2015) then Birkbeck, University of London; Open Library of Humanities

Jonathan Gray, UK: Open Knowledge; University of London; University of Amsterdam

Arslan Inayat, Pakistan:  President IFMSA-Pakistan

Prateek Mahalwar, Germany: Max Planck PhDnet, Max Planck Society

Joseph Mcarthur, UK: Right to Research Coalition; Open Access Button

Erin McKiernan, Mexico: Wilfrid Laurier University

Ross Mounce, UK: University of Bath; ContentMine

Meredith Niles, USA: Harvard University; University of Vermont (August 2015)

Erin Nordal, Belgium; European Students’ Union (ESU)

Slobodan Radicev, Italy, Serbia: University of Novi Sad; EuroScience

Iara Vidal P. de Souza, Brazil: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro / Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology

Jan Gondol, Slovakia: Ministry of Interior (advisor to the organizing committee)