Harvard RCD Summit 2025

by | May 14, 2025

Illustration of researchers engaged in data analysis at the Harvard Research Computing and Data Summit, featuring various graphs and data visualizations on screens.

Register by June 1st

This is our draft agenda; more details forthcoming.

June 10th, CGIS – South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 

Parking is available at Broadway Garage with day passes from Harvard Parking and hourly with ZipBy

Morning Social & Light Breakfast

9:00 – 9:45 am Breakfast provided by Driven Tech + Dell Technologies

Sessions I – Tsai Auditorium 

  9:45 – 10:00 am Welcome – Scott Yockel, HUIT  
10:00 – 10:45 am Keynote – Bernardo Sabatini, Co-director of the Kempner Institute Alice and Rodman W. Moorhead III Professor of Neurobiology 
10:45 – 11:00 am Short break 
11:00 – 11:30 am Panel – Challenges in AI Facilitation moderated by Max Shad, Kempner Institute with panelists: Nathan Palmer, HMS; Bala Desinghu, Kempner Institute; Manasvita Joshi, FAS. 
11:30 – 12:00 pm Latest Integrations with Dataverse – Stefano Iacus, IQSS 
12:00 – 12:15 pmFunctional Breakout Instructions

Session II – Working Lunch / Group Breakouts  

12:15 – 1:30 pm  Working Lunch – provided by Lenovo 
Room: S020Research Facilitation/Consultation 
Room: S003Research Software Engineering/Development 
Room: S040 Storage & Data Management 
Room: S050 Systems Engineering/Administration 
North Concourse Project Management 
South Concourse Strategy & Policy 

Session III – Tsai Auditorium 

1:30 – 2:00 pm Data Conservation Efforts – Emre Keskin, OVPR/HUIT 
2:00 – 2:30 pm Teaching Digital Literacy to Humanities Scholars in the Age of Generative AI – Kwok-leong Tang, FAS 
2:30 – 3:00 pm State-of-the-art re: AlphaFold – Ed Huttlin, HMS 
3:00 – 3:30 pm Coffee Break provided by Cambridge Computer / Starfish + Dell Technologies
3:30 – 4:00 pm Panel – Creating a Data Management Culture with panelists: Jessica Pierce (HMS); Julie Goldman (Library); Melissa Korf (HMS); Sarah Marchese (FAS) 
4:00 – 4:30 pm Panel – Functional Breakouts moderated by Scott Yockel with various scribes from the lunch breakout sessions. 
4:30 – 6:00 pm  Networking Social provided by AWS & Weka

A feedback form will be sent after the summit

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