All-hands meeting 2021

27 Jan 2021, 13:00 → 28 Jan 2021, 12:00 Europe/Copenhagen

Online

Abdulrahman Azab Mohamed (University of Oslo), Anette Lauen Borg (Norwegian Meteorological Institute), Cecilie Winther (DeIC), Hamish Struthers (Linköpings Universitet (NSC)), Jarno Laitinen (CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.), Jonna Helenius (CSC), Sanne Holm (DeIC), Vilma Häkkinen (NeIC)

The NeIC All Hands Meeting is the annual event at NeIC where people working on NeIC projects come together across projects and teams. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the All-hands meeting 2021will be held virtually via Zoom.

The aim of these events is to give NeIC staff a chance to get to know other people working on e-infrastructure in the Nordics so that we can connect and learn from each other. The intended participants of the AHM are personnel contracted on NeIC activities/ projects and key personnel in the EOSC-Nordic project. If you are engaged in EOSC-Nordic or a NeIC project and not sure whether you should participate, please contact your team leader. 

The Zoom links for the event will be made available at a later time.

Please note, the All-Hands Meeting will be recorded. 

The programme at a glance

Wednesday 27 January 2021: 13:00-16:00, followed by an optional Bring Your Own Beverage get-together 

Thursday 28 January 2021: 9:00-12:00

The programme offers a variety of interesting sessions both keynotes, lightning talks and workshops. See the timetable for more detailed information. 

You can also look forward to several fun activities. For example participate in the Nerdy T-shirt Competition and find out if you have the most nerdy T-shirt.

We look forward to a great event with you!

Wednesday, 27 January

13:00 → 13:30 Director's talk: Welcome!

Convener: Gudmund Høst (NeIC)

13:30 → 14:15 Keynote: Covid and the climate: What we’re learning from the lockdowns

14:15 → 14:30 Break

14:30 → 15:00 NORDIC PANDEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE: The PaRI Project

NeIC PaRI will contribute NeIC Strategic objectives, which are aligned with PaRI partners objectives, as follows :

Beneficial collaborations are the principal way that NeIC brings together the needs, interests and resources to create e-infrastructure to support research excellence in the Nordic region. PaRI is implementing those among Nordic and Estonian National Providers and possibly among other European countries.
Nordic Influence is the effect that NeIC has in improving and advancing e-infrastructure for researchers and for society. PaRI aims to enable easy and seamless access to datasets for researchers and possibly non-academic users.
Motivated People are essential in the collaborations and to bring the results into the research domains and society. PaRI is a collaboration of six countries being also the NeIC members (Finland collaborates as an observer) and Germany. PaRI is not tied to COVID-19, but will work on preparing the grounds and expertise for future pandemics. At the core of PaRI is also its consortium’s expertise.
Effective processes bind NeIC into an organization that is able to realize the benefits and influences that come from the collaborations - PaRI aims at contributing to improvement of the processes at partners organizations, e.g., dialogue between the researchers and national providers.

Convener: Abdulrahman Azab Mohamed (University of Oslo)

NeIC PaRI presentation

15:00 → 15:15 The Hidden Tech Behind Everyday Tools: How maps are made

Lightning talks

15:15 → 15:30 The Hidden Tech Behind Everyday Tools: How deep neural networks understand human language

Lightning talks

15:30 → 15:45 The Hidden Tech Behind Everyday Tools: Pathology? Digital?? And artificially intelligent???

Lightning talks

15:45 → 16:00 The Hidden Tech Behind Everyday Tools: Weather nowcast - when will it rain?

Lightning talks

16:00 → 17:00 Activity: BYOB - Bring Your Own Beverage

Thursday, 28 January

09:00 → 09:45 Keynote: LUMI

Conveners: Mr Jarno Laitinen (CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.), Dr Pekka Manninen (CSC)

09:45 → 10:15 Activity: Nerdy T-shirt Competition

10:15 → 10:30 Break

10:30 → 11:30 Workshop: An online workshop about organizing online workshops

10:30 → 11:30 Workshop: EOSC-Nordic cloud demos

10:30 → 11:30 Workshop: How to download data from an API

10:30 → 11:30 Workshop: Quantum computing

11:30 → 11:45 Director's talk: Final words

Convener: Gudmund Høst (NeIC)