| 0800 – 1800 |
Registration | Boulevard Foyer Registration Desk |
| 0800 – 0850 |
Networking Breakfast, Exhibition & Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer
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| Room |
Boulevard Auditorium |
| Session Chair |
David Abramson and Frankie Stevens |
| 0850 – 0855 |
Welcome to Country |
| 0855 – 0905 |
Welcome
David Abramson, Frankie Stevens, Co-Chair, 2023 eResearch Australasia Conference |
| 0905 – 0915 |
Official Conference Opening
Joe Kelly MP, Member for Greenslopes, Deputy Speaker of the Queensland Parliament |
| 0915 – 1000 |
Collaborative, Coordinated, and Connected: Canadian Approaches to Open Infrastructure, National PID Strategy, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Clare Appavoo, Executive Director, Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)

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5 minute Quick Break |
| Room |
Boulevard Auditorium |
Boulevard B1 |
Boulevard B2 |
Boulevard B3 |
Boulevard Room |
| Theme |
National Collaborative Endeavours |
Enabling Platforms & Services |
Enabling Platforms & Services |
Foundational & Advancing Computation |
Developing & Training for Now and the Future |
| Session Chair |
Linda O’Brien |
Luc Betbeder-Matibet |
Paul Coddington |
Abdullah Shaikh |
Sach Jayasinghe |
| 1005 – 1025 |
BoF Session
The Australian National PID Strategy and Roadmap. What is this? Why should I care? How does it benefit me?
Linda O’Brien, Natasha Simons
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Unravelling Media Impact on Public Discourse: An Examination of News Framing and Sentiment Analysis using NewsTalk
Robert Fleet
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A report on two years’ work on a standards-based architecture for a Data Commons
Peter Sefton
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Building the world’s fastest* CryoEM processing platform (*under $100K)
Jason Andrade, James Bouwer
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DReSA – a story of continuing collaboration in skills training
Melissa Burke, Kathryn Unsworth
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| 1025 – 1045 |
The Australian Digital Observatory: The Stories We Can Tell
Richard Sinnott |
Building Galaxy Labs to advance life science research
Gareth Price
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NeSI’s Flexible HPC – A programmable infrastructure for advanced research solutions
Jun Huh
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Kit out to amp up – The ARDC Trainer Toolkit
Adeline Wong
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| 1045 – 1105 |
From Heurist to the Data Commons: Linked Open Data for Humanities Collections
Tim White
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On-demand Research Notebooks with all the Trimmings
Alex Ip
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ASKAPsoft/Yandasoft deployment in Pawsey’s Setonix for ASKAP project
Paulus Lahur
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| 1105 – 1145 |
Morning Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer
Catering Sponsored by: |
| Room |
Boulevard Auditorium |
Boulevard B1 |
Boulevard B2 |
Boulevard B3 |
Boulevard Room |
| Theme |
Leveraging Data Assets |
Enabling Platforms & Services |
Enabling Platforms & Services |
Foundational & Advancing Computation |
Developing & Training for Now and the Future |
| Session Chair |
Luc Betbeder Matibet |
Sara King |
David Abramson |
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Yolante Jones |
| 1145 – 1205 |
‘Don’t ruin it with mandatory questions. Mandatory questions aren’t cool.’: Building a popular research data manager
Andrew Kneynsberg
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Australian Imaging Service: Looking Beyond Imaging to Support Clinical Research
Ryan Sullivan
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Streamlining software deployment and access: two container stories
Mark Gray
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What does our research community need for the next generation of computing infrastructure? Australiasia Leadership Computing Symposium 2023 debrief
Jingbo Wang
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Trainstation: A unified virtual environment for programming training
Abdullah Shaikh
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| 1205 – 1225 |
Searching Every Nook and Cranny – The Challenges of Locating Research Data in Universities
Dianne Brown
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An update on the NeSI AgResearch Partnership as the rubber hits the road
Georgina Rae, Ben Taylor
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Introducing ARDC’s Virtual Desktop and Jupyter Notebook services
Andy Botting
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Building Bunya: An Evergreen and Bespoke Approach to High-Performance Computing Clusters
Sarah Walters, Ashley Wright, Owen Powell
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BoF Session
How Training Development through Collaboration, can Support Organisational Strategies for Safe Data Management
Yolante Jones
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| 1225 – 1245 |
From UNSW Data Archives to UNSWorks – learnings from the ARDC Data Retention project
Ai Lin Soo
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Smart Compounds: Overcoming Challenges
Jan Hettenhausen, Rebecca Lang, Julie Toohey
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Presenting the idea behind SciDir – A scientific software distribution repository for bringing reproducible software containers securely to HPCs in Australia
Steffen Bollmann
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Simulating Quantum Computing on Traditional HPC Systems: Developing Tomorrow’s Quantum Algorithms on Today’s CMOS Hardware
Werner Scholz
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| 1245 – 1305 |
The ARDC Data Retention Project. Outcomes and the path to a sustainable and inclusive national research data infrastructure investment
J Max Wilkinson

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REDCap Platform-as-a-Service
Lyall Weir
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Developments in the University of Auckland’s Instrument Data Service: The move towards a production ready service.
Chris Seal
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Building custom web portals for HPC and mid-tier computing
Thomas Berger
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| 1305 – 1415 |
Lunch, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer
Catering Sponsored by: |
| 1335 – 1415 |
Lightning Talks will be held during lunch breaks at the “Lightning Talk Stage”
Chair: Luc Betbeder Matibet
h5pydantic, from a Synchrotron through Python to HDF5, Clinton Roy
How can Organisations take a data-driven approach to Research Security? Elizabeth Smee
CRediT in action – a global study: How is it used by researchers? How can it be used by institutions? Simon Porter
Leveraging our licences: creating automated transcription solutions from enterprise platforms, Cameron Fong
Developing a Carpentries-style Machine Learning workshop Jens Brinkmann
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| Room |
Boulevard Auditorium |
Boulevard B1 |
Boulevard B2 |
Boulevard B3 |
Boulevard Room |
| Theme |
Enabling Platforms & Services |
National Collaborative Endeavors |
Enabling Platforms & Services |
Enabling Platforms & Services |
National Collaborative Endeavors |
| Session Chair |
Jens Klump |
Amanda Lawrence |
Aleem Uddin & Greg D’arcy |
Linda O’Brien |
Jana Makar |
| 1415 – 1435 |
BoF Session
Emerging Uses of PIDs in NCRIS Research Workflows
Jens Klump

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BoF Session
Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences – the next ten years
Isabel Cereon, Amanda Lawrence, Steven McEachern, Nikita Sharma

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BoF Session
Software Containers in Australian Research Sector: ARCOS Community Building and Collaboration on SciDir – a Scientific Software Distribution Project
Aleem Uddin, Greg D’arcy, Steven Manos, Mark Gray, David Powell, Paul Coddington, Jake Yip, Ping Chen
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Profiling Strategies for Accelerating Neural Network Training on HPC GPU Clusters
Oliver Cairncross
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BoF Session
How do you keep the candle lit and not burn it from both ends (as a community & as a community member)
Jana Makar, Aditi Subramanya, Marco de la Pierre, Adam Huttner-Koros, Kerri Wait, Loretta Davis
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| 1435 – 1455 |
Introducing the IRISS Geosocial Data Integration Service: Integrating information on people, places, time, and space.
German Eduardo Gonzalez Gonzalez, Tomasz Zając

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| 1455 – 1515 |
Trialling Collective Access as a data curation and hosting platform
Mike Laverick
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| 1515 – 1535 |
Afternoon Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer
Catering Sponsored by: |
| Room |
Boulevard Auditorium |
Boulevard B1 |
Boulevard B2 |
Boulevard B3 |
Boulevard Room |
| Theme |
Enabling Platforms & Services |
Enabling Platforms & Services |
Enabling Platforms & Services |
National Collaborative Endeavours |
Developing & Training for Now and the Future |
| Session Chair |
Luc Betbeder-Matibet |
Sach Jayasinghe |
Jens Klump |
Stefanie Kethers |
Jingbo Wang |
| 1535 – 1605 |
Metadata collection at microscopy research facilities: from distant goal to near future?
David Poger
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How to fight bushfires with data: aggregating, curating and harmonising data
Kylie Black
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Integrated Digital East Antarctica: consolidating a software toolkit for data-driven Antarctic Science
Michael Sumner
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Introducing Research Link Australia – A new information capability linking research, business and government
Mingfang Wu, Lyle Winton
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Upskilling researchers in Machine Learning
Jens Brinkmann, Maxime Rio
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| 1605 – 1625 |
Rakeiora Genomics Platform: building a prototype for genomic medicine in Aotearoa
Claire Rye
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Presenting the Bushfire Data Commons Dashboard
Richard Sinnott
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BoF Session
Australia’s Scalable Drone Platform – What it is, Lessons Learnt, Moving Forward
Jens Klump
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BoF Session
Driving community engagement with National Research Infrastructures
Melissa Burke, Kerry Mora, Sarah Thomas, Emma Joughin, Aidan Heerdegen, Kelsey Druken, Kathryn Unsworth
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BoF Session
AI Skill Training Pathway: Bridging Gaps and Fostering Inclusivity
Slava Kitaeff, Patrick Tung, Jingbo Wang, Maxime Rio, Mike Laverick, Mitchell Hargreaves, Mark Crowe, Abdullah Shaikh

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| 1625 – 1645 |
The Atlas of Living Australia’s Journey to Empower Biodiversity Research through Public Cloud
Sathish Sathyamoorthy, Fabiana Santana

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NewsTalk: Developing a full stack data-as-a-service on the Nectar ARDC Research Cloud
Matthew Bettinson
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| 1645 – 1705 |
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Early warning systems for life-threatening companion animal diseases: Heartworm and Tick Alert
Sahil Arora
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| 1705 – 1805 |
Happy Hour | Boulevard Foyer |