Panel: Global Research on Open Platforms: Nectar, Monash University, eRSA & University of Melbourne

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Audience Level All levels Synopsis Digital data and digital methods are turning our old notions of research upside down. They’re the new language of research, and cloud is one of the many tools we can apply to the art of discovery. Big questions and big research will need to speak this new language, a language which connects minds and platforms globally. What are we doing right now in aid of this vision? And what’s coming? Speaker Bios: Dr Steve Quenette: Steve has been Deputy Director of Monash University’s eResearch Centre since 2010. The centre’s mandate is to greatly accelerate use and access to world-class computational, data-oriented and multi-modal research infrastructure and scientific methodologies. The centre services almost 5000 researchers across Monash University, the Monash precincts and Australia. He is responsible for driving high-performance computing on the cloud, data-analysis driven computing infrastructure and safe environments for medical research, all leading to world-first announcements. Steve is an applied mathematician and computer scientist, with a primary research area of programming language theory, and application to parallel programming, computational problems in the sciences, and inversion. He has long applied this expertise to geodynamics and geophysical problems, previously holding a position at Caltech and being co-author to software underpinning numerous a Nature papers. Sarah Nisbet: Sarah Nisbet is eRSA’s Marketing and Communications Manager. Sarah began her career delivering communications solutions in the health care sector where she mastered the art of working across institutions, departments and organisational silos. Sarah has a Bachelor of Media from the University of Adelaide and an Industry Certificate (Festival & Event Design & Management), she is also a member of the Australian Science Communicators and the Public Relations Institute of Australia. She specialises in delivering creative and innovative marketing and communication solutions and has managed local and national projects for eRSA, NeCTAR, NeAT, AeRO and the State Government of South Australia. Having successfully deployed a new tier 0 user documentation system at eRSA, Sarah was the project lead for the tier 0 development for core NeCTAR services, supporting a national initiative to provide world class user support for the Nectar Cloud. Sarah is currently the Project Manager of the Australian National Cultures and Community Project, which is looking to enable better data sharing and discoverability between researchers and archives. Alongside stakeholders, such as National Library of Australia, National Australian Archives, Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office (TAHO) and Queensland State Archives, we’re developing an Open API to test the concept that if a research adds value (transcription, metadata, annotation) to a dataset from a cultural institution, how can that be shared back to the source institution (API, catalogue record, linked records, machine to machine capabilities)? This pilot project aims to operationalise a national, sustainable and scalable API standard that will allow data (and metadata) sharing and transfer between the Prosecution Project, TAHO and QSA. Paul David Coddington: Dr Paul Coddington is a Deputy Director of NeCTAR, responsible for the Nectar national Research Cloud, and also Deputy Director of eResearch SA. He has over 30 years experience in eResearch including computational science, high performance and distributed computing, cloud computing, software development, and research data management. Steven Manos: Principal Advisor, Research Computation Strategy, The University Of Melbourne. Dr. Steven Manos is currently developing strategies and implementing projects which will support the compute and data-intensive nature of research over the next decade at the University of Melbourne. Throughout 2011 and 2012, he led the development of the Nectar OpenStack research cloud at the University of Melbourne, and led the Research Platforms team of nearly 30 people who are responsible for digital research platforms, training and engagement. His personal mission is evolve and develop a workforce and community that will transform the way research happens in a data-rich world. Part of the solution is to lift the digital prowess and literacy of the research community by arming them with the digital platforms and skills. He does this by building communities, actively training researchers in innovative ways and establishing innovative and extremely usable platforms for research. In the past he did a PhD in Physics at Sydney University and a stint of post-doctoral research at University College London. He lives in Melbourne with his partner and son, and enjoys designing and making furniture. OpenStack Australia Day - Melbourne 2017 http://australiaday.openstack.org.au/melbourne-2017/