RDA's 20th Plenary: Programme

29 November 2022 16653 reads

Mon, 20 March | Tues, 21 March | Wed, 22 March | Thu, 23 March | Fr, 24 March

Research Data Alliance's 20th Plenary (RDA P20) final programme is now available and can be found below. The RDA P20 hybrid meeting will take place 21-23 March 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden and virtually. The main P20 programme includes co-located events components scheduled on the 20 and 24 March 2023. Full list of confirmed co-located events including dates, times and registration links can be accessed via Co-located events page.

All P20 sessions will be held in hybrid format and broadcast to virtual participants via event platform Whova; virtual participants will be able to join any session and interact with in-person attendees. In addition to the live sessions at the conference venue, P20 will be held on Whova, well known event platform from previous RDA's plenaries. No repeat sessions will be held during the 20th Plenary.

RDA P20 session recordings will be available for those registered for the Plenary for 8 weeks and for the wider community eight weeks after the Plenary, on Tuesday, 16 May 2023.

Plenary pathways are now also available and will help attendees to navigate the RDA breakout sessions from a thematic / topical perspective.

Please note, that all times in the programme are final and are in UTC and local Swedish time (Sweden). To check your local time conversions, please click on times.

Monday, 20 March 2023 {Times listed in UTC and local Swedish time (Sweden)}

Tuesday, 21 March 2023 {Times listed in UTC and local Swedish time (Sweden)}

07:15 - 08:00 UTC | 08:15 - 09:00 Sweden | Registration open - The Candela foyer
08:00 - 09:30 UTC | 09:00 - 10:30 Sweden | Opening Plenary Session: Welcome to RDA P20 - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
- The RDA is now turning 10 years old as a community-driven initiative with a mission to build the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing and re-use of data for the benefit of research. What have been the main contributions to younger researchers, data infrastructures and research performing organisations? After a Welcome to the Anniversary Plenary, three reflections and examples from these three perspectives will be presented.
- Moderator: Sverker Holmgren, Director Chalmer e-Commons, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Speakers: Lars Börjesson (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), Hilary Hanahoe (Secretary General, RDA), Natasha Simons (Associate Director, Data & Services, Australian Research Data Commons), Madiareni Sulaiman (Research Data Librarian, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia and PhD candidate, University College London, UK), Wilhelm Widmark (Library Director, Stockholm University, Sweden and Executive Member, Swedish Rectors' Conference (SUHF) Open Science Group).
09:30 - 10:00 UTC | 10:30 - 11:00 Sweden | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:00 UTC | 11:00 - 12:00 Sweden | RDA Plenary Session: Building RDA for the Future - Celebrating 10 years of the RDA - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
- What will the next 5-10 years hold for RDA? With a lens on the past 10 years of RDA and the (r)evolution of the research data ecosystem through contributions from some founding RDA members & funders, and a telescope to the future from Early career and doctorate students, how can and should RDA remain relevant and valuable to its stakeholders?
- Moderator: Sandra Collins, Univ. Librarian, University College Dublin & RDA Council
- Panelists: Kathryn Barker (RDA Community Manager, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)), Connie Clare (RDA Community Development Manager), Julia Gehrmann (PhD student/Scientific Associate at Univ. of Cologne and University Hosptial Cologne, Institute for Biomedical Informatics (BI-K), Beth Plale (Director, Data to Insight Center, Luddy Schgool of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana Univ & RDA NGS (non-governmental structure) founding member, Ross Wilkinson (RDA Founding Member, ex Australian National Data Service), John Wood (RDA Founding Member and Co-author of Riding the Wave).
11:00 - 12:00 UTC | 12:00 - 13:00 Sweden | Lunch
11:00 - 12:00 UTC | 12:00 - 13:00 Sweden | RDA Organisational Assembly Meeting – Newton, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
12:00 - 12:55 UTC | 13:00 - 13:55 Sweden | RDA Plenary Session: Building Institutional Partnerships for the Future - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
- It is very important that government agencies make their decisions based on high quality data and data-driven research. In Latin America and Spain, one of the RDA regional nodes has direct experience of doing this. La Referencia as an Ibero-American (Latin America, Spain and Portugal) network of open access repositories promoting the articulation of “policies and actions in open science, in order to create an ecosystem of open scientific information in the region as a public good, led by the organisms of science and technology”. The Speakers will share their experience working with government institutions of Science, Technology and Innovation as best practice for the RDA on how to improve its articulation with the public sector and policy makers.
- Moderator: Eva María Méndez Rodríguez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Speakers: Federico Cetrangolo (Graduate in Economics (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and Master's in Administration and Public Policies (Universidad de San Andrés)), Freddy Sumba (Computer Systems Engineer, I+D+i Dept, CEDIA), Javier Valdiviezo (System Engineer specialist in GIS with a Master's Degree in Tics applied to Elearning and in teaching-learning environments mediated by digital technologies (University of Barcelona) and in Elearning in the Caribbean University of Curazao. Currently Academic and Continuing Education Coordinator of the Global Association for the Smart Home Technology (CEDIA)).
13:00 - 14:30 UTC | 14:00 - 15:30 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 1
14:30 - 15:00 UTC | 15:30 - 16:00 Sweden | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:30 UTC | 16:00 - 17:30 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 2
17:00 - 19:00 UTC | 18:00 - 20:00 Sweden | Celebrating 10 years Reception at Gothenburg Town Hall to those who will have a glass icon on their attendee badge. Click here for directions
& at Chalmers House (Chalmersska Husets), Södra Hamngatan 11 to those who won't have a glass icon on their attendee badge. Click here for directions.
Join us in Gothenburg with light mingle food and drinks to celebrate RDA’s 10th anniversary, its achievements in the past 10 years, and to recognise the many people who have contributed to it.

Wednesday, 22 March 2023 {Times listed in UTC and local Swedish time (Sweden)}

07:15 - 08:00 UTC | 08:15 - 09:00 Sweden | Registration open - The Candela foyer
08:00 - 09:30 UTC | 09:00 - 10:30 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 3
09:30 - 10:00 UTC | 10:30 - 11:00 Sweden | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:30 UTC | 11:00 - 12:30 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 4
11:30 - 12:30 UTC | 12:30 - 13:30 Sweden | Lunch break RDA Plenary 20
12:30 - 14:00 UTC | 13:30 - 15:00 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 5
14:00 - 14:30 UTC | 15:00 - 15:30 Sweden | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
14:30 - 16:00 UTC | 15:30 - 17:00 Sweden | RDA Plenary Session: Building Industrial Partnerships for the Future - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
- This session will set the scene for the new framework "The Value of the Research Data Alliance to Industry'' released in December 2022. Speakers will share and discuss the possibilities and impacts that an accelerated partnership between RDA and industry can have on the global data community. We will highlight common challenges across sectors, as well as complementing competencies and capabilities that we can harness in partnerships for the future.
- Panelists: Monica Lassi (Senior Data Governance Specialist, IKEA), Dan Nygren (Education Lead, Nordics and Baltics, Amazon Web Services), Richard Pitts (Oracle for Research), Henric Rhedin (Director External Research & Exploration Coordination,Volvo Cars), Mimmi Sundler (Head of R&D Data & AI Governance & Policy, AstraZeneca)
16:00 - 17:00 UTC | 17:00 - 18:00 Sweden | RDA Plenary Session: Building the RDA Community for the Future - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
- This interactive session focuses on the RDA community - our individual, organisational and regional members - inviting them to help us shape the RDA Strategic Plan for the next five years (2024-2028). As a community driven initiative RDA will focus its strategy and resources on areas of value and interest to the global research data landscape.
- Moderator: Hilary Hanahoe (RDA Secretary General)
- Speakers: Jill Benn (University Librarian, University of Western Australia, Perth & RDA Council Co-chair), Ingrid Dillo (Deputy Director, DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services), The Netherlands & RDA Council Co-chair), Hilary Hanahoe (RDA Secretary General), Jeff Horne (Co-founder & CEO, Wicket: the World's first Member Data Platform).
18:15 - 21:30 UTC | 19:15 - 22:30 Sweden | Conference dinner at Kajskjul 8 venue. Click here for directions

Thursday, 23 March 2023 {Times listed in UTC and local Swedish time (Sweden)}

07:15 - 08:00 UTC | 08:15 - 09:00 Sweden | Registration open - The Candela foyer
08:00 - 09:30 UTC | 09:00 - 10:30 Sweden | RDA Plenary Session - Building Platform Partnerships for the Future - - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
- Seamless interoperability between data, software and high performance computing is the vision for future science. Such general interoperability remains elusive. Several disciplinary or regional solutions combining these aspects have however been built, and learning on their processes, interfaces, and organisation can provide hints on moving towards more general interoperability. This session presents and discusses the lessons learned from such endeavours.
- Moderator: Ari Asmi, Director, RDA Association (Europe)
- Speakers: Delian Chen (Univ. of Goteborg, IPCC), Tshiamo Motshegwa (Africa Open Science Platform), Dirk Pleiter (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Mikiko Tanifuji (Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform, Japan)
09:30 - 10:00 UTC | 10:30 - 11:00 Sweden | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:30 UTC | 11:00 - 12:30 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 6
11:30 - 12:30 UTC | 12:30 - 13:30 Sweden | Lunch break RDA Plenary 20
12:30 - 14:00 UTC | 13:30 - 15:00 Sweden | RDA Plenary 20th Meeting Breakout 7
14:00 - 14:30 UTC | 15:00 - 15:30 Sweden | Networking Tea & Coffee Break
14:30 - 15:30 UTC | 15:30 - 16:30 Sweden | RDA Closing Plenary - Lindholmen Hall (Hallen)
- Looking to the future of research data and its capacity to solve the grand challenges of society. How can data professionals support Artificial Intelligence and how can AI support research data? The Head of Research from AI Sweden, Magnus Sahlgren, will give his insights to the value of AI for society and tackling societal challenges. The keynote will be followed by the closing ceremony of the 20th RDA Plenary meeting and a view to the next meetings.
- Moderator: Hilary Hanahoe (Research Data Alliance Secretary General)
- Speakers: Magnus Sahlgren (Head of Research, NLY, AI, Sweden),
16:00 - 18:00 UTC | 17:00 - 19:00 Sweden | RDA TAB & WG/IG Co-chairs - Tesla room, Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden

Friday, 24 March 2023 {Times listed in UTC and local Swedish time (Sweden)}

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