Inside SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting: Chefs Reveal Their Game-Changing Insights You Never Saw Coming
Robert Harington
I arrived in Baltimore expecting a downbeat, somewhat morose gathering. Instead, I found my colleagues astonishingly upbeat. They were determined and resolute in their will to discuss difficult topics. So much is uncertain and uncertainty breeds fear, but it also appears to have provoked a will to solve and survive. For me, the main themes of uncertainty that drove our conference lay in how to respond to what appears to be a dismantling of US academic infrastructure, researchers’ ability to do their work, educators’ ability to teach regardless of political doctrine, and inclusive notions of student populations. In addition, the omnipresent and unknown impact of AI in shaping our publishing enterprise and working lives threaded many of our conversations.
