Overview
Join colleagues from industry, academia, nonprofits, and government September 20 in Boise, ID!
Agenda:
Are you a Speaker? Travel Support Grantee? Potential participant with questions? Please contact events@westbigdatahub.org with special requests.
Call for Posters + Demos: Submit online before September 1 | Download the PDF Flyer to Share.
Workspace
Logistics
Venue:
Boise State Student Union Building
1402 Bronco Ln
Simplot Ballroom Floor 2
Boise, ID 83706
The easiest entrance to walk to and car drop off is at 1402 Bronco Ln, Boise ID 83706. Look for a charging station and a statue out front, enter through the silver columns and follow signs to floor 2. Here’s a photo of the entrance.
Parking:Parking on-site is limited. We recommend Ride Sharing apps such as Lyft or taxi/cab to and from the Meeting Venue.
Closest Airport:Boise Airport (BOI)
Local Transportation:
Valley Ride City Bus Schedule & Trip Planner
Closest Hotels:
Residence Inn Marriott Downtown
Inn at 500 Capitol
Hyatt Place Downtown
The Grove Hotel
Hotel 43
Hilton Garden Inn Boise Downtown
Partners
We acknowledge partial support from the National Science Foundation under award numbers 1550312, 1550224, and 1550328.
Livestream
Tune into the Livestream 9am-3pm MDT. Join the conversation on social media with #WestData18!
Agenda
Join us on Wednesday, September 19 for a Welcome Reception at Payette Brewing Company 6-8pm! All times are local Boise, ID Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
TIME
SESSION
8:00 am
Light Breakfast + Registration + Community Warm-Up Open time to meet with the West Hub Leadership Team, The National Science Foundation, and other participants
9:00 am
Welcome Jay Larsen, CEO, Idaho Technology Council
9:20 am
Plenary Panel: This is Your Hub Reflecting on regional and global-scale efforts, including Data Science Pedagogy & Practice, the California Safe Drinking Water Data Challenge, Data Carpentry Train-the-Trainer, and Data Ethics.
10:00 am
The State Of The Hub Meredith Lee, Executive Director, West Big Data Innovation Hub
10:20 am
Remarks from the National Science Foundation Beth Plale, Program Officer, National Science Foundation
10:40 am
Networking Break
11:00 am
Lightning talks: More Flagship Initiatives and Strategic Opportunities POWDER: Platform for Open Wireless Data-driven Experimental Research Open Data: Research Datasets in the Cloud CoMSES Net: Promoting accessibility, transparency, reusability, and interoperability for computational modeling Translational Data Science: Upcoming Workshop Opportunity Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference and Datathon
Kobus Van der Merwe, Associate Professor, University of Utah
Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science, Microsoft Research
Allen Lee, Global Biosocial Complexity Initiative, Arizona State University
René Bastón, Executive Director, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub
Video highlights from Stanford University
11:30 am
Community-Led Deep Dive Sessions What are common pain points/challenges? What resources might we share? How might we collaborate, moving forward? Join a deep dive session on current and future projects. Our graphic facilitator will help capture a takeaway ‘roadmap’ for participants, with your input! Data Science for Social Good with Anissa Tanweer, Research Scientist, Human-Centered Data Science, eScience Institute, University of Washington and and Natalie Evans Harris, Co-Founder and COO, Brighthive.io – in Cataldo Room Water Task Force with Connie Maxwell, New Mexico State University; Sam Fernald, New Mexico State University; and Mike Norman, San Diego Supercomputing Center – in Ah Fong Room Health + Medicine: Data-Sharing and Collaboration Opportunities with Onur Torusoglu, Saint Luke’s Chief Data and Analytics Officer; Sandeep Chandra, Executive Director, Sherlock Cloud – in Boyington Room Smart and Connected Communities in the West Big Data Hub with Bill Howe, Associate Professor, University of Washington – in Brink Room Data Science Pedagogy and Practice with JupyterHub and an open-source stack with Chris Holdgraf and Anthony Suen, UC Berkeley – in Simplot Ballroom
12:30 pm
Working Lunch Working Lunch times will be staggered from 11:30-1:30
1:30 pm
Plenary Panel: Spotlight on Education & Training
2:15 pm
Collaboration Opportunities Hear the latest updates about calls for proposals and emerging collaboration opportunities.
3:00 pm
Networking Break and Poster Set-Up
3:30 pm
Poster Session + Lightning Talks
4:45 pm
Closing Remarks Meredith Lee, Executive Director, West Big Data Innovation Hub
5:00 pm
Walk to Reception
5:00 pm
Reception Enjoy a reception at the Alumni & Friends Center from 5-6:30pm. Following the reception, our local host team is making dinner reservations at a variety of nearby restaurants for participants; sign-ups sent via email to registered attendees.
