Aliaksandr (Alex) Birukou is Vice President Journals, Russia in Springer Nature. His team overseas the program of ~26,000 articles/year in 216 translated journals published by Pleiades Publishing and Springer Nature and covering a variety of disciplines: from mathematics, physics, chemistry to medical and life sciences. Previously he was responsible for the conference proceedings in Computer Science (~900 volumes, 30,000 papers/year, including the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS, series). Apart from editorial work Alex represents editorial in several internal and external R&D projects dealing with optimization or innovation of scientific publishing. Most recent projects include: persistent IDentifiers for conferences (Alex chairs the Crossref/DataCite group; AI and semantic tools for editorial (help in the assessment and topical classification of conferences). Previously, Alex co-founded lod.springer.com, which later was integrated into Springer Nature SciGraph.