Join our third edition of a yearly meeting of research IT specialists, organized by the EnhanceR association!
Event Format
An in-person event for members of the Swiss research IT community, this symposium provides a platform for professionals to meet, network, and exchange knowledge.
Dive deep into the trends of the field, collaborate on shared challenges, and present your innovative projects in engaging show-and-tell sessions.
Take the opportunity to share both success and failure stories, learn from your colleagues, and collaborate on advancement of FAIRness in Swiss academia.
Focus Areas
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Research IT contribution to FAIRness
- FAIRness in practice: ideals vs reality
- Ensuring FAIR AI/ML in research
- Ontologies: what are they and why use them?
- Assisting FAIRness lifecycle: from early planning to beyond projects' end
- Infrastructures for FAIR data: in-house and public landscape
Date and Venue
EnhanceR Symposium is a full-day event on Nov 7th, 2024. The event was hosted at the Empa-Akademie in Dübendorf.
Address (Google Maps):
Empa-Akademie
Überlandstrasse 129
8600 Dübendorf
How to participate
The registration for the event is now closed. If you still want to participate, please write to office@enhancer.ch, but we cannot guarantee that we can accomodate due to capacity planning in advance.
The event is open to all research IT specialists and research software engineers in Switzerland, whether your organization is part of the EnhanceR network or not. Participation is free of charge, but registration is mandatory. Lunch and coffee breaks for participants are sponsored by EnhanceR.
You can also add the event to your calendar.
Target audience
The event's goal is to connect research IT specialists: experts who empower research by providing specific, advanced IT services.
Examples include research software engineers, high-performance and scientific computing experts, data and information scientists, as well as research data management experts, data stewards and data analysis specialists in Swiss higher education institutions, Swiss research institutions and private companies that have a focus on serving public academic institutions (e.g. SWITCH).
Keynote speakers
Mark Wilkinson is the lead author of the primary FAIR Data Principles paper, and lead author on the first paper describing a complete implementation of those principles over legacy data.
He is a founding member of the FAIR Metrics working group, tasked with defining the precise, measurable behaviours that FAIR resources should exhibit, and the author of the first software application capable of a fully-automated and objective evaluation of “FAIRness”.
Lars Holm Nielsen is Head of Open Science Repositories at CERN IT where he leads Open Science services and projects for large-scale scholarly repositories. He built and grew Zenodo.org from a proof of concept to being the world's largest general-purpose research repository supporting researchers around the world in any discipline to share and preserve their research products. He further leads the 25 partners InvenioRDM open source repository platform, helping institutions and domains to provide Open Science services.
He has pioneered innovative solutions across research domains for research software citations as well as unlocking FAIR biodiversity data. He's work focuses on providing core enabling infrastructure for Open Science to help accelerate scientific discovery and ultimately improve how science is conducted.
Organizers
The EnhanceR association is a nationally and internationally recognized network for Swiss research IT expertise. As of 2024, it counts 10 Swiss higher education, infrastructure and research institutions as members. Its motto is "Enhancing research through IT expertise."
The association's goal is facilitating research excellence in Switzerland to ensure it maintains its leadership position. It achieves this goal by federating Research IT specialist groups at various academic institutions across Switzerland. It creates value by allocating its expertise where and when it is most needed, the interests of the community of users and support teams of scientific computing applications nationally and internationally.
For questions regarding EnhanceR or the event, reach out to us at office@enhancer.ch
EnhanceR thanks Empa for providing the venue at Empa-Akademie and co-organizing the event.
Previous Events
Looking for previous EnhanceR Symposium materials? Visit the 2022 edition or 2023 edition website.