Programme
| Wednesday 7 February |
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| 8:30 | REGISTRATION OPEN ALL DAY | |
| CONFERENCE OPENING | ||
| 10:00 - 10:20 AM | Mihi Whakatau - Taranaki Whānui | |
| 10:20 - 10:30 AM | House Keeping and Welcome - Chair eResearch 2024 - Rania Alani | |
| 10:30 - 10:40 AM | Opening address - REANNZ CEO - Amber McEwen | |
| 10:40 - 11:30 AM | Keynote Speaker Rodney Wilson - Practical Advice for Conducting Experimental Research Ciena & ONE.NZ platinum sponsor speaker | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 PM | Keynote Ian Foster - Large Language Models in Scientific Research | |
| 12:00 - 1:00 PM | LUNCH sponsored by Xenon | |
| Session A1 | Session A2 |
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| 1:00 - 1:20 PM | Bringing Security in Tuakiri to Next Level. Vladimir Mencl - REANNZ | Building custom web portals for HPC and mid-tier computing. Thomas Berger - NeSI |
| 1:20 - 1:40 PM | “Magically” creating and updating research articles from experiments. Mark Gahegan | |
| 1:40 - 2:00 PM | NeSI's Flexible HPC - A journey through collaboration. Jun Huh - NeSI | What happens after you turn on the flashlight? Building Security Capability. Michael Karich NeSI |
| 2:00 - 2:10 PM | MINI BREAK | |
| 2:10 - 2:30 PM | Harmony in Progress: Research Lifecycle Maturity Model & Digital Transformation at the University of Otago Rasha Abu Safieh - University of Otago | Supporting General Data Protection Regulation for Health Data. Richard Sinnott - The University of Melbourne |
| 2:30 - 2:50 PM | Co-designing machine-actionable Data Management Planning (maDMP) using ReDBox at the University of Auckland. Simon Esling & Yvette Wharton - The University of Auckland | Flooding an HPC: parallelism optimisation in the STRAND project. Maxime Rio - NeSI |
| 2:50 - 3:15 PM | AFTERNOON TEA | |
| 3:15 - 4:15 PM | "Collaboration Cafe: Sharing sensitive research data management practices (BoF). Yvette Wharton - The University of Auckland | Supporting Open Source Leaders in Aotearoa (BoF). Jonah Duckles - Organizational Mycology |
| 4:15 - 4:30 PM | MINI BREAK | |
| 4:30 - 5:30 PM | Data management - how to handle the mountain of data before IT goes broke (BoF). Wallace Chase - University of Otago | Hard Questions for Soft Skills: Carpentries Community Collaboration in Aotearoa & Australia (BoF). Nisha Ghatak - NeSI |
| 5:30 - 7:00 PM | WELCOME FUNCTION - Networking drinks & nibbles sponsored by T4 |
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| Location: Intercontinental Hotel level 2 | ||
| Thursday 8th February |
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| 8:30 AM | REGISTRATION OPEN ALL DAY |
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| HOUSEKEEPING Location: Level 2 Intercontinental Hotel Wellington CBD | ||
| 9:00 - 9:50 AM | Keynote Speaker Dr Carole Goble - "Handling Health Data: FAIR Research Objects for Trusted Research Environments" Sponsored by: Beyond Prediction: explanatory and transparent data science’ Data Science Platform – Funded by MBIE |
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| 9:50 - 10:20 AM | MORNING TEA | |
| 10:20 - 11:10 AM | Keynote Speaker Dr Karaitiana Taiuru - "Navigating the power, potential and perils of technology with research. A focus on Māori Sovereignty and Decolonisation" |
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| 11:10 - 11:30 AM | MINI BREAK (RECONFIGURE ROOM) | |
| Session B1 | Session B2 | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 AM | Science Media Centre Tips on communicating your research | Indigenous Data Sovereignty Checks and Permissions for Code Repositories. David Eyers - University of Otago |
| 11:50 - 12:10 PM | Managing research data at scale: addressing the growing data challenge together. David Jung - The University of New South Wales Sydney | Applying a technical lens to the growing risks in research collaboration David Brownlie - REANNZ |
| 12:10 - 12:30 PM | Why we need a Reference Architecture for Research Data J Max Wilkinson - Australian Research Data Commons | NeSI - infrastructure for growth of research talent and skills. Nick Jones - NeSI |
| 12:30 - 1:30 PM | LUNCH | |
| Session C1 | SessionC2 | |
| 1:30 - 1:40 PM | DeepWeather: using deep learning to produce high-resolution weather forecasts over New Zealand. Emily O'Riordan - Bodeker Scientific | The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and NeSI. Georgina Rae - NeSI |
| 1:40 - 2:00 PM | Software Development Challenges and Best Practices in an Instrument Data Service. Andrew Wilson - Centre of eResearch - The University of Auckland | Optimizing Research Data Management: A journey into the unknown. Katie Hannan - CSIRO |
| 2:00 - 2:20 PM | Applying Large Language Models to Data Driven Research Platforms. Richard Sinnott - The University of Melbourne | |
| 2:20 - 2:30 PM | MINI BREAK | |
| 2:30 - 2:50 PM | Accelerating Geothermal Modelling with Cloud Computing John O'Sullivan - The University of Auckland | Our research data landscape. Nick Jones - NeSI |
| 2:50 - 3:00 PM | Bridging the Gap with OpenOnDemand. Guillem de Valles - HPCNow! | Connecting Researchers Anywhere. Yesh Ramesh - Head of Networks REANNZ |
| 3:00 - 3:30 PM | AFTERNOON TEA | |
| Session D1 | Session D2 |
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| 3:30 - 4:30 PM | Unravelling the data lifecycle (BoF).Claire Rye - NeSI | Upskilling researchers in Machine Learning (BoF).Mike Laverick - The University of Auckland |
| 4:30 - 4:50 PM | Progressing Sensitive Research Data Management Maturity at Waipapa Taumata Rau | UoA. Bincy Jacob & Yvette Wharton - The University of Auckland | Using eduroam to reduce digital inequality. Paul Gunn - REANNZ |
| 4:50 - 5:00 PM | Women in HPC Australasia, 3 years on. Jana Makar - NeSI | Taking the lid off the National Seismic Hazard Model technical delivery - a New Zealand research project in the age of cloud computing Chris B. Chamberlain, Christopher J. DiCaprio - GNS Science |
| 5:00 PM - 5:10 PM | Do I Need a DOI? Andrea Goethals - National Library of New Zealand | |
| 6:00 PM | CONFERENCE DINNER | |
| Foxglove Bar & Kitchen (33 Queens Wharf, Wellington Central) | ||
| Friday 9th February | ||
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| 8:30 AM | REGISTRATION OPEN ALL DAY | |
| 8:55 AM | HOUSEKEEPING Location: Level 2 Intercontinental Hotel Wellington CBD | |
| 9:00 - 9:50 AM | Keynote Speaker: Jan Sheppard - Creating new futures with data | |
| 9:50-10:10 AM | MORNING TEA | |
| 10:10 - 11:00 AM | Keynote Speaker: Rosie Hicks - The future of digital research infrastructure | |
| 11:00-11:20 AM | MINI BREAK | |
| Session E1 | Session E2 | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 AM | VUW-SNAP a Network Hub for Simulation, Numerical methods, Analytics and Programming. Patricia Hunt - Victoria University of Wellington | Advancing Australia’s eResearch landscape with cutting-edge infrastructure. Aditi Subramanya Pawsey |
| 11:40 - 12:00 PM | Project orchestration and building self-service tools. Daniel Bentall - Plant and Food Research | Weathering the Storm: Engineering Natural Disaster-Resistant eResearch Infrastructure. Aaron Murrihy - REANNZ |
| 12:00 - 12:20 PM | Fishing for parallelisation strategies. Alexander Pletzer - NIWA | Supporting the NASA/New Zealand remote-sensing airborne mission: Rongowai. Mike Laverick - The University of Auckland |
| 12:20-1:10 PM | LUNCH | |
| Session F1 | Session F2 | |
| 1:10 - 1:30 PM | Developing and implementing a RDM Policy at the University of Auckland. Laura Armstrong - The University of Auckland | Leveraging our greatest unique resource, University of Otago student internship program. Wallace Chase - University of Otago |
| 1:30 - 2:30 PM | Collaboration Cafe: Sharing sensitive research data infrastructure architectures (BoF). Yvette Wharton - The University of Auckland | "Bridging the Digital Divide: Supporting Aotearoa's Journey to Digital Literacy Excellence (BoF). Nisha Ghatak - NeSI |
| 2:30-2:40 | MINI BREAK | |
| 2:40 - 3:00 PM | NeSI’s Research Developer Cloud: A cloud native platform enabling challenging solutions. Jun Huh - NeSI | A Day in the Life (of eResearch). Marcus Gustafsson - The University of Auckland |
| 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Making research data count (BoF). Claire Rye - NeSI | "Is this community for me?" Managing & resolving imposter syndrome (BoF) Jana Makar - NeSI |
| 4:00 - 5:30 PM | AFTERNOON FAREWELL REFRESHMENTS: this will be an opportunity for networking before everyone leaves | |
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