Charleston Premiers

Five Minute Previews of the New and Noteworthy

Date: Thursday, November 5, 2026
Charleston Gaillard Center

These sessions are designed to offer library workers, researchers, publishers and vendors the chance to showcase their newest and most innovative initiatives, technology, products, platforms, and/or content. We encourage applications from library workers, university research projects, researchers, new companies and new products, launched within the last six to twelve months.

Speakers will be organized in a “lightning round” format with 10 companies, each allotted 5-minute presentations, back-to-back. Audience members will vote on several “Best of” categories and awards will be given to the winners. More information on presentation requirements will be sent upon acceptance of your proposal.

2026 Participating Presenters and Companies:

• Kent Anderson, Ad Fontes Science
• Pedro Matriciano, Cashmere
• Kay Ishola, Cat & Class LLC
• Jim Bryant, Citations LLC
• Tejs Grevstad, ConsortiaManager
• Han Zhang, Duke University
• Camille Gamboa, Sage
• Toby Green, The TrustMarc Initiative
• Kendall Bartsch, Third Iron
• Hd McKay, Vanderbilt University

Application Timeline:

• Applications open May 11, 2026
• Application deadline Friday, August 7, 2026
• Decision emails sent to applicants the week of August 24, 2026

Please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@charlestonlibraryconference.com if you have any questions about the application process.

2025 Charleston Premiers Participants:

• Bloomberg: Bloomberg.com Academic Subscriptions
• Cassyni: Cassyni Author Seminars 
• Consensus: Consensus AI literature review
• Copyright Clearance Center (CCC): OA Intelligence
• Crimson AI Inc: DocuMark by Trinka AI 
• Dewey Data: app.deweydata.io
• Figure Two
• Sylla: Sylla Discover & Grow
• Virtusales Publishing Solutions: BiblioSuite
• Zendy

2025 Winners:

Best Design: FigureTwo (Jeff Lang)
Runner up: Bloomberg.com (Ruben Adorno)

Most Impactful: Sylla (Tom Mosterd)
Runner up: FigureTwo

Best New Product: FigureTwo (Jeff Lang)
Runner up: Consensus (Eric Olson)

Congratulations to our winners, and to all of the companies selected for participation!

2024 Charleston Premiers Participants:

This year’s participants included a diverse array of publishers and vendors, each bringing solutions tailored to the rapidly evolving challenges faced by libraries:

• Bloomsbury USA
• CELUS
• Clarivate
• Coherent Digital
• ConsortiaManager
• Elsevier ScienceDirect AI
• Exact Editions
• FromThePage
• Gadget Software – TopicLake™ Insights™
• Gale, part of Cengage Group

2024 Winners:

The Charleston Premiers recognized the best in library innovation with three prestigious awards:

• • Best Design: Elsevier ScienceDirect AI
  • Most Impactful: Coherent Digital Public Health and Social Care
  • Best New Product: Coherent Digital Public Health and Social Care