NZ Carpentry Connect 2025

Date: Monday, 10 February 2025
Venue: Beatrice Tinsley 111 at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch

NZ Carpentry Connect is a FREE pre-conference event hosted by New Zealand eScience Infrastructure. Although the event is co-located with the eResearch NZ conference, you do not need to be attending the eResearch conference to participate.

The Carpentries community members around the globe have expressed great interest in coming together more frequently to exchange ideas and knowledge, collaborate and network. Thus, the Carpentry Connect events were born! These events are friendly, fun, and a safe space for exploring what is happening in your local Carpentries community.

REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

NZ Carpentry Connect will be held in a hybrid format with options to attend online on Zoom or in-person at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch.

Click here to register for either options

NZ CARPENTRY CONNECT 2025 PROGRAMME 

Monday, Feb 10 at Beatrice Tinsley 111, University of Canterbury Campus, Christchurch & Online
11:00 Welcome
11:10 – 11:45 Conference Opening and Keynote Address: Dr Kari Jordan
11:45 – 13:00 Session: Skill up!
11:45 – 12:20 Incubator Spotlight: Responsible machine learning in Python by Tom Pollard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:20 – 13:00 Now what? Strategies for strengthening the NZ Carpentries community with Rina Hannaford, AgResearch
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch & Networking
14:00-15:00 Carpentries Spotlight
14:00-14:30
Trustworthy AI by Chris Endemann,University of Wisconsin-Madison
14:30 – 15:00
Crowd sourcing the motivation with Murray Cadzow, University of Otago
15:00 – 15:30 AI-assisted Coding with Codeium by Olga Minaeva, NWO and Giulia Crocioni, Netherlands eScience Centre
15:30 -15:50
Incubator Spotlight: Advanced Git by Iva Momcheva, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
15:50 – 16:00 Wrap up
End of Event

 

NZ CARPENTRY CONNECT 2025: Organising Committee

  • Francois Bissey, University of Canterbury, Christchurch NZ
  • Michael Coe, University of Canterbury, Christchurch NZ
  • Murray Cadzow, University of Otago, Dunedin NZ
  • Nisha Ghatak, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure, Auckland NZ
  • Tom Saunders, University of Auckland, Auckland NZ
  • Tyler McInnes, Genomics Aotearoa, Dunedin NZ
  • Rina Hannford, AgResearch, Palmerston North NZ
  • Wes Harrell, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, Wellington NZ