This event, hosted by the N8 Centre of Excellence in Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR) intended to support the development of soft skills amongst the research support community. It ran from 18th-22nd March 2024 at the Pendulum Hotel and Conference Centre in Manchester. Attendees were DRI technology specialists, such as research software engineers, research infrastructure engineers, and research data managers, and the meeting allowed them to develop additional professional skills to support researchers and accelerate discovery. Both in-person and online attendees were welcome with close to 100 attendees daily.
Each day was broken into sessions based entirely on panel discussions with time for a Q&A in each session, and finished with an informal session which provided further discussion with panellists and networking (generally in the bar).
The links below provide the entire programme, the focus and panellists for each session in the daily schedules, panellist biographies, and an online noticeboard.
Monday 18th March
Tuesday 19th March
Wednesday 20th March
Thursday 21st March
Friday 22nd March
Panellist Biographies