2021 Program -

The following program is provisional in nature and subject to change as planning proceeds.

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MONDAY

POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

MONDAY 11 OCTOBER

10:30 – 10:50	Online Exhibition
10:50 – 11:50	Keynote Address – Advancing Data Intensive Research in Australia Professor John Shine AC PresAA FRS, President Australian Academy of Science Panel Discussion – Advancing Data Intensive Research in Australia Report Professor Michael Barber AO FAA FTSE, Professor Jane Elith FAA, Dr Danny Kingsley
11:50 – 12:00	BREAK
	BoF Session 1
	Infrastructure, Software and Capabilities	Data	People, Workforce and Communities	Discipline-based eResearch	People, Workforce and Communities
12:00 – 13:30	AuScope Virtual Research Environments: creating computational and data infrastructures to support Innovation in Australian Earth Science Research Dr Jens Klump, Dr Carsten Friedrich, Dr Ulrich Engelke, Mr Vincent Fazio, Dr Lesley Wyborn	Geospatial Capabilities for the next decade: scale, sector and pathways for collaboration and utilisation of spatial data infrastructures Dr Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava, Professor Allison Kealy, Dr Lesley Wyborn, Dr Michael Rigby, Ms Melanie Barlow, Dr Jens Klump, Mr Kheeran Dharmawardena, Mr Simon Costello	ML4AU – A community driven approach to accelerate application of AI and ML for research Komathy Padmanabhan Mingfang Wu Jingbo Wang Titus Tang Tarun Bonu Nick Hamilton,	The Incredible Journey: Building capability to increase uptake of digital research infrastructure in Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Indigenous research practice. Dr. Kylie Brass, Prof. Hugh Craig, Prof. Rachel Fensham, Ms Jennifer Fewster, Prof. Michael Haugh, Dr. Steven McEachern, Dr. Vanessa Russ, Ms. Alexis Tindall, Prof. Joanne Tompkins	Changing patriarchal structures of mentorship programmes Jana Makar, Megan Guidry, Aidan Muirhead, Adam Huttner-Koros, Kerri Wait, Aditi Subramanya, Marco de la Pierre, Loretta Davis
13:30 – 14:10	BREAK
	BoF Session 2
	Infrastructure, Software and Capabilities	Data	People, Workforce and Communities	Data	Infrastructure, Software and Capabilities
14:10 – 15:40	The current state and future potential of Australian research platforms Kerry Levett, Siobhann McCafferty, Jonathan Smillie	ElectronicNotebooks in the Lab and in the Field: Ensuring Metadata and Data are Born Connected Dr Jens Klump, Dr Lesley Wyborn, Dr Penny Crook	A national approach to improve discoverability and accessibility of digital research skills training events, materials and trainers Ms Ann Backhaus, Melissa Burke, Kathryn Unsworth, Anastasios Papaioannou, Darya Vanichkina, Kay Steel, Mark Crowe, Mortaza Rezae, Jon Symon, Christopher McAvaney, Nick May	Enabling FAIR Vocabularies for Interoperability in Cross Domain Research in Australia Dr. Steve McEachern, Dr. Simon Cox, Mr. Rowan Brownlee, Dr. Lesley Wyborn, Dr. Adrian Burton, Dr. Megan Wong	Supporting research success with REDCap Mr Aidan Wilson, Dr Christopher McAvaney, Ms Yelena Fridgant, Mr John Liman, Dr David Jung, Dr Weisi Chen, Mr Shaun Grady, Dr Jerry Lai
15:40 – 15:50	BREAK
	BoF Session 3
	Infrastructure, Software and Capabilities	Data	People, Workforce and Communities	Skills and Training	Analytics, Software and Tools
15:50 – 16:50	High Performance Computing and Machine Learning – The Challenges of Supporting the Emerging ML Community with HPC Infrastructure Miss Kiowa Scott-Hurley, Dr Chris Hines	Supporting data life cycles at the macro scale Dr Steve Quenette, Miss Ai Lin Soo, Dr Rhys Francis, Dr Carina Kemp, Dr Adrian Burton, Ms Carmel Walsh, Mr Max Wilkinson	Metrics for Measuring the Contributions of Research Software Engineers Mr Justin Baker, Mr Nick May, Dr Rebecca Lange	Building a Community of Practice to support scalable governance and the management of FAIR sensitive data use Dr Jenni Harrison	Solutions and Best Practices: Workflows in Data Management and Analytics Dr Siddeswara Guru Claire Trenham Amir Aryani Gerhard Weis Wilma Karsdorp Sergio Pintaldi Ivan Hanigan

TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER

10:30 – 11:00	Online Exhibition
11:00 – 11:50	Keynote Address Johannes Gehrke, Microsoft Technical Fellow and Managing Director, Research at Redmond Lab Session Chair: Luc Betbeder-Metibet
11:50 – 12:00	BREAK
	Oral Presentation	Oral Presentation	BoF Session/Lightning Talks	Oral Presentation/BoF Session
	Skills and Training Session Chair: Rachel Salby	Infrastructure, Platforms and Capabilities Session Chair: Peter Sefton	Discipline-based eResearch	Sponsor Session Chair: Carina Kemp
12:00 – 12:20	Improving researcher training through commercial partnerships Dr Darya Vanichkina	Transport and management of data generated by big-data electron microscopy instruments: the Australian Characterisation Commons at Scale project Dr David Poger	National Environmental Prediction System – System and Design Dr Siddeswara Guru, Michelle Heupel, Beryl Morris, Ben Evans, Andrew Treloar, Stuart Barr, Andre Zerger	Xenon (Sponsor): Transforming HPC Clusters with Modern Architecture and Configuration Management Dr Werner Scholz, Jakub Szarlat
				Infrastructure, Software and Capabilities
12:20 – 12:40	It’s not yoga but sounds like it: Flexibility, training and stretch goals in 2021 Dr Sara King	The continual evolution of Nectar – Australia’s National Research Cloud Dr Paul Coddington, Dr Carmel Walsh, Ms Jo Morris		Organisational Identifiers for Research Infrastructure Mr Melroy Almeida, Ms Siobhann McCafferty
12:40 – 13:00	ResBaz 2020 – the lollie-scramble. What can we learn from the experience?Mrs Laura Armstrong, Ms Yvette Wharton	CloudStor – the next Phase… Ryan Fraser
13:00 – 13:20		Developing the Australian Transport Research Cloud Dr Michael Rigby	Session Chair: Christopher McAvaney The Australian Globus Pilot 2021 Mr Ryan Fraser Helping researcher to explore opportunities beyond traditional methods: transition to artificial intelligence Dr Yoong Goh, Dr Jerry Lai Streamlined Workflow from Instrument to HPC Mr Lev Lafayette UNSW and Intersect: Bursting with Technical Expertise Mr Luc Betbeder-Matibet, Mr Craig Hamilton
13:20 – 14:00	BREAK/Online Exhibition Open
	Oral Presentation	Oral Presentation	BoF Session	BoF Session
	Skills and Training Session Chair: Mark Gahegan	Infrastructure, Platforms and Capabilities Session Chair: Ann Backhaus	Data	People, Workforce and Communities
14:00 – 14:20	NeSI training: overcoming challenges – raising capability Ms Megan Guidry	‘Rolling out new kit’ for NZ Data Scientists, a user-centred approach Georgina Rae	Making the most of the Research Data Alliance Dr Romain David Dr Tom Honeyman Dr Stefanie Kethers Ms Kerry Levett Ms Priyanka Pillai Dr Kristal Spreadborough Dr Andrew Treloar	Inclusion and diversity in hiring processes Jana Makar, Megan Guidry, Aidan Muirhead, Adam Huttner-Koros, Kerri Wait, Aditi Subramanya, Marco de la Pierre, Loretta Davis
14:20 – 14:40	Maximising the potential of training materials through FAIRification Dr Melissa Burke	Towards a HASS Research Data Commons for language and text analysis Dr Peter Sefton, Mr Moises Sacal
14:40 – 15:00	Evaluating the long-term impact of digital skills training on researchers’ workflows and outputs Dr Anastasios Papaioannou, Mr Aidan Wilson, Dr Ghulam Murtaza	Creating national capability in secure research Ms Jo Dalvean
15:00 – 15:20	Working towards a principledly-aligned and institutionally-contextualised RDM educational/training experience for the research community Dr Adrian W. Chew	Monash SeRP: The secure e-research platform Mr Mat Ishac, Mr Jerico Revote
15:20 – 15:30	BREAK
	Oral Presentation	Oral Presentation	Oral Presentation/BoF Session	BoF Session
	People, Workforce and Communities Session Chair: Aditi Subramanya	Infrastructure, Platforms and Capabilities Session Chair: Mingfang Wu	Skills and Training Session Chair: Liz Stokes	Data
15:30 – 15:50	The Digital Skills GitBook project: creating an open-source online guide for researchers and the broader academic community Dr Sara King, Ms Katie Mills	Growing ORCIDs Linda O’Brien	Self-assessment tool for good practice in research data management Ms Janice Chan, Mr John Brown	MyTardis: FAIR data management for instrument data Samitha Amarapathy, Manish Kumar, Dmitry Yakhnov, Dr Mike Laverick, Noel Zeng, Dr Chris Seal
		Growing ORCIDs Linda O’Brien
15:50 – 16:10	The future of meetings: how we can do better than “a return to normal” Claire Trenham, Stefanie Kethers	A pilot Persistent Identifier Service for research in CSIRO Jonathan Yu	Training collaborations: Getting specific about sustainable impact Laura Armstrong, Anastasios Papaioannou, Dr Darya Vanichkina, Ms Liz Stokes, Michael Lynch, Matthias Liffers
	Infrastructure, Platforms and Capabilities
16:10 – 16:30	State of play of Cloud Resources for Researchers in Australia Carina Kemp	Exploring the connections between ORCID and other identifiers using Augment API Mr. Peter Vats, Dr Martin Fenner

WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER

10:30 – 11:00	Online Exhibition
11:00 – 11:50	Keynote Address – Rathana Chea Session Chair: Ian Duncan
11:50 – 12:00	BREAK
	Oral Presentation	Oral Presentation
	Infrastructure, Platforms and Capabilities Session Chair: Peter Sefton	Data Session Chair: Alex Reid	ARDC Digital Research Skills Summit 2021
12:00 – 12:20	Multi-modal and Collaborative High-End Visualisation System for Scalable Deployment A/Prof. Tomasz Bednarz, Mr Luc Betbeder-Matibet	Research Community Requirements Are Driving Expanded Scale Data Management Features in iRODS Mr David Fellinger	Skills initiatives: 20/21 reflections Welcome Panel discussion: Liz Stokes – ARDC Dr Mark Crowe – QCIF Ann Backhaus – Pawsey Moderator, Kathryn Unsworth – ARDC
12:20 – 12:40	EcoCommons – the platform of choice for ecological and environmental modelling Dr Elisa Bayraktarov	data movement as a service — “PO Boxes for data with managed couriering inbetween” Chris Myers	Skills initiatives: Stories from the field Chair, Kathryn Unsworth – ARDC Dr Paula Martinez – ARDC Dr Siddeswara Guru – TERN Sally Lowenstein – BoM Tarun Bonu – Monash University Matthias Liffers – ARDC
12:40 – 13:00	EcoCommons’ use of data and the Nextflow computational pipeline for running reproducible workflows on the cloud Mr Arve Solland	Introducing the Australian Digital Observatory: Providing Social Media Data and Analytics at Scale for Australian Researchers Prof. Richard Sinnott
13:00 – 13:20	Introducing the world’s first Biosecurity Virtual Lab – BioSecurity Commons Mr Paul Tudman	Implementing DORUS at DSTG – our pathway to provisioning Ms Amanda Nixon	Skills initiatives: Ideas Board Blast Facilitators: Dr Sara King – AARNet Dr Ghulam Murtaza – Intersect
13:20 – 14:00	BREAK/Online Exhibition Open
	Oral Presentation	BoF Session
	Infrastructure, Platforms and Capabilities Session Chair: Kerry Levett	Data	ARDC Digital Research Skills Summit 2021
14:00 – 14:20	Galaxy Australia – a strengthened national life science service that engages globally Dr Gareth Price, Mr Simon Gladman	A Community-led Clinic on FAIR Data Quality Information for Australian and New Zealand Researchers Dr Ivana Ivanova, MS Irina Bastrakova, Dr Lesley Wyborn, Dr Mingfang Wu	Community call to action: Emerging challenges and opportunities Facilitators: Dr Mark Crowe – QCIF Dr Francis Gacenga – USQ Dr Jingbo Wang – NCI
14:20 – 14:40	Research Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (rVDI) to speed up the time to science Mr Craig Windell
14:40 -15:00	Dementias Platform Australia (DPAU) to accelerate dementia research internationally Ms Rory Chen		Community call to action: Skills agenda for 2022 Facilitators: Ann Backhaus Dr Darya Vanichkina – University of Sydney Dr Anastasios Papaioannou – Intersect
15:00 – 15:20	Exploring EcoCommons’ paths for impact and sustainability Dr Robert Clemens
15:20 – 15:30	BREAK
	Oral Presentation	BoF Session
	Infrastructure, Platforms and Capabilities Session Chair: Luc Betbeder-Matibet	Discipline-based eResearch – BoF	ARDC Digital Research Skills Summit 2021
15:30 – 15:50	Tracking research projects: the engine room of knowledge creation Ms Natasha Simons, Ms Siobhann McCafferty	Standardised data collection and exchange – ecology site survey case study Dr Siddeswara Guru	Networking Facilitators: Skills Summit Steering Committee
15:50 – 16:10	Scalable bioinformatics workflows for growing ‘-omics’ datasets on National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Dr. Tracy Chew
16:10 – 16:30	The Australian Apollo Service – establishing a national service – the process that got us there Dr Tiff Nelson

THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER

10:30 – 11:00	Online Exhibition
11:00 – 11:50	eResearch Infrastructure Panel (“DDeRP”): a discussion with the heads of the main Australian e-Infrastructure providers Heath Marks – AAF, Rosie Hicks – ARDC, Chris Hancock – AARNet, Mark Stickells – PAWSEY, Sean Smith – NCI Facilitator: Linda O’Brien – ORCID Session Chair: Alex Reid and Linda O’Brien
11:50 – 12:00	BREAK
	Oral Presentation	Oral Presentation/BoF Session	BoF Session/Lightning Talks
	Analytics, Software and Tools Session Chair: Paul Coddington	People, Workforce and Communities Session Chair: Kathryn Unsworth	Future-Focussed – eResearch Strategy
12:00 – 12:20	The UQ Image Processing Portal (IPP): A Web-based graphical interface for microscopy image analysis on a GPU cluster Dr Hoang Nguyen	Development of a REDCap Governance Model at La Trobe University Dr Sam Ryan	Data is Only Half the Battle Dr Paula Andrea Martinez, Gene Melzack, Vanessa Crosby, Luc Betbeder-Matibet, Stéphane Guillou, Dr Tom Honeyman, Liz Stokes
12:20 – 12:40	Updates on Yandasoft/ASKAPsoft Deployment using Docker and Singularity Dr Paulus Lahur	Flattening the curve of RDM support requests: Triaging with REDCap Dr Cameron Fong
12:40 – 13:00	Extending REDCap through External Modules Mr Aidan Wilson	BoF – Communicators assemble! Sharing best practice across eResearch communications & outreach teams Jana Makar
13:00 – 13:20	An update on the AEDAPT project and NeuroDesk – A cross-platform data analysis environment for reproducible neuroimaging Dr Steffen Bollmann		Session Chair: David Abramson Unlocking unstructured health data using Natural Language Processing pipelines Ms Farnoosh Sadeghian Dr Adam Morris Using smart technology to more effectively and efficiently monitor quality of cancer care Mr Chris Mac Manus WHPC AusNZ: A regional, inclusive chapter for D&I awareness and opportunities Ms Aditi Subramanya Accommodating high demand for researcher training and support through a partnership between SIH/Intersect in a Go8 environment Dr Jianzhou Zhao, Dr Darya Vanichkina, Dr Anastasios Papaioannou The benefits of the Data Fabric for accelerating and sustaining research data Mr Benjamin Wu
13:20 – 14:00	BREAK/Online Exhibition Open
	Oral Presentation	Oral Presentation	Oral Presentation/BoF Session
	Analytics, Software and Tools Session Chair: Paul Coddington	People, Workforce and Communities Session Chair: Nicole Clark	Sponsor Session Chair: Lesley Wyborn
14:00 – 14:20	An Exploration of Deep Learning Solutions in Diverse Application Domains Prof. Richard Sinnott	Concept mapping across Reproducible Research, Data Management and Sensitive data Mrs Amanda Miotto, Mrs Julie Toohey	Fujitsu (Sponsor): The Data Journey – a strategy to accelerate your AI outcomes
			Infrastructure, Platforms and Capabilities
14:20 – 14:40	Scalable machine learning for global weather prediction at high spatial and temporal resolutions Professor John Taylor	Dr Who? What skills and qualifications make an eresearch professional and how do you get them? Dr Ghulam Murtaza, Dr Anastasios Papaioannou, Miss Peta Scot, Miss Kathrun Unsworth	Drones in Field Research Dr Jens Klump, Dr Tim Brown, Dr Steve Quenette
14:40 -15:00	Why choose Nextflow as institution-wide bioinformatics workflow environment? Dr Paul Whatmore	Are you interested in building a garden? The UQ Research Management Business Transformation Team can help. Mrs Helen Woodman, Dr Shirin (Maryam) Jamarani
15:00 – 15:20	CRAMS – Open source capability for Cloud Resource Allocation and Management Mr Samitha Amarapathy	Developing an operating model for a modern eResearch organisation Mr Anthony Beitz
15:20 – 15:30	BREAK
	Oral Presentation	Oral Presentation	BoF Session
	Analytics, Software and Tools Session Chair: Keith Russell	Discipline-based eResearch Session Chair: Kathryn Unsworth	Infrastructure, Platforms and Capabilities
15:30 – 15:50	Automating Trust: using machine learning and natural language processing to bolster better research and enhance trust in science Dr Leslie Mcintosh	Sensitive data and information standards – shared territory with rich rewards Dr Steven McEachern, Ingrid Mason, Peter Vats	ARCOS: Project update and community use cases Andrew White
15:50 – 16:10	Workflow Orchestration on HPC with Airflow, Cookie-cutter Templates and Jupyter Notebooks Dr Blake Seers	A GLAM Workbench for humanities researchers A/Prof. Tim Sherratt
16:10 – 16:30	Redefining data analysis tools using the SeRP@Curtin platform Dr Jenni Harrison	OneGeochemistry: a Proposed International Framework to Enable Online Interchange of Globally Distributed Geochemical Data. Dr Lesley Wyborn
16:30 – 17:30	Poster Session Visualise Your Thesis International Competition Announcement Poster Session

FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER

10:30 – 11:00	Online Exhibition
11:00 – 11:50	Canada’s eReseach Journey Mark Leggott, Executive Director, Research Data Canada Session Chair: Phil Gurney
11:50 – 12:00	BREAK
	Oral Presentation	Oral Presentation	BoF Session
	Data Session Chair: Gareth Williams	People, Workforce and Communities Session Chair: Carina Kemp	Data
12:00 – 12:20	Building rich data discovery interfaces from RO-Crate collections with Oni Mr Michael Lynch	A National Research Software Agenda and Research Software at the ARDC Dr Tom Honeyman Paula Martinez	Data Versioning Downunder: What are OUR Needs and OUR Key Actionable Recommendations for Supporting Data Infrastructures? Dr Jens Klump, Dr Lesley Wyborn, Dr Mingfang Wu, Ms Julia Martin, Dr Donald Hobern
12:20 – 12:40	MyTardis at the University of Auckland – retrospective Mr Noel Zeng, Dr Mike Laverick	Piloting a text and data mining service charter at the University of Sydney Library Dr Kayla Maloney, Ms Catie Croaker
12:40 – 13:00	Launching AusGeochem: the AuScope Geochemistry Network’s laboratory data platform Dr Bryant Ware	Key Value Indicators: The Concept, Progress and Future of eResearch Value Dr Jerry Lai, Dr Ghulam Murtaza, Dr Aidan Wilson, Dr Marium Khan
13:00 – 13:20	Institutional Underpinnings – a Collaborative Approach to University Research Data Management Dr Nichola Burton	Thematic Research Data Commons – national-scale data assets, digital tools and platforms within key thematic areas, addressing Australia’s pressing science and research priorities Rosie Hicks
13:20 – 14:00	BREAK/Online Exhibition Open
	Oral Presentation	Oral Presentation	BoF Session
	Data Session Chair: Alex Reid	Discipline-based eResearch Session Chair: Ian Duncan	Data
14:00 – 14:20	Re-publication and Duplication of Digital Datasets: raising concerns on emerging issues of authority, identity and ethics. Dr Lesley Wyborn	Developing an end-to-end audio transcription eResearch service in the Cloud Mr Adam Smith	The future of meetings: an exploration of how to build conference community Aidan Hotan, Stefanie Kethers, Rika Kobayashi, Vanessa Moss, Glen Rees, Chenoa Tremblay, Claire Trenham
14:20 – 14:40	A Data Governance lens on active research data management Dianne Brown	The Australian Rare Cancer Portal: A national novel online referral service for optimising and coordinating care for rare cancer patients Dr Allison Bourne
14:40 -15:00	Improve data discovery and metadata interoperability via publishing structured metadata on the Web Dr Mingfang Wu	Patient registries to cater for the evolving needs of dynamic eConsent and language translations Ms Yvette Wyborn, Mr Adam Smith
		Infrastructure, Software and Capabilities
15:00 – 15:20	Building a cloud-based Sensitive Data Platform (without compromising usability or security) Mr Robert Pocklington, Mrs Gen Rosewall	Bushfire data challenges Dr Sheida Hadavi
15:20 – 15:30	BREAK
	Oral Presentation	Oral Presentation	BoF Session
	Data Session Chair: Adrian Burton	Data Session Chair: Carina Kemp	People, Workforce and Communities
15:30 – 15:50	PITSCHI: Particle Imaging depoT using Storage CacHing Infrastructure Dr Hoang Nguyen	Using Figshare and Symplectic Elements to create a more efficient and FAIR workflow Braden Coad, Jess Reynolds, Kay Lino	Facilitating Virtual International Networking: Earth and Environmental Science Partners (E2SIP) Downunder Dr Lesley Wyborn, Dr Simon Cox, Ms Natasha Simons, Dr Jens Klump
		Analytics, Software and Tools
15:50 – 16:10	Future proofing the University of Canberra’s Research data. Dr Anesh Nair	Australian BioCommons ToolFinder: discovery of bioinformatics software in an Australian infrastructure context Dr Ove Gustafsson
16:10 – 16:30	Towards an Institution-Wide Research Data Management Framework Mrs Laura Armstrong	eResearch Life Cycle: The Deakin Work Readiness Project Cathy Caballero, Caroline Rosenberg, Dr Jerry Lai
16:30 – 16:40	Conference Close Session Chair: David Abramson

POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

Tuesday 19 October

Friday 22 October

12:00 – 16:00

(12:30 – 16:00)

Loome and the Azure Cloud for On-demand Research

Peter Manoukian, Felipe Ayora

*Free to Attend: Limited to 20 attendees

Data Fabric for Research Data

Mr Benjamin Wu

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