# TTW Practitioners Hub 2024 - BridgeAI

## TTW Practitioners Hub 2024

Goals for 2024 :
- Showcase activities, webinars and other type of public events to create interest and engage with BridgeAI sectors
- Launch the 2nd Cohort of Experts in Residence representing different sectors
- Expand the Practitioners Hub network to highlight, connect and elevate their work

Potential activities per month:

| Month | Activity | Objective(s) | Comments|
| -------- | -------- | -------- |------|
| January | External virtual promotion of case studies. Promote the EiR participation, TTWPH and their work | Provide evidence of their work and inspire other sectors with their practices | 1-pager case studies are being developed and [Comms plan](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yV2Gth7ANRq5MiLB-dFPDKIwqD5ZC2U7/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs) will be agreed
February | Create interest about BridgeAI and TTWPH | The meta case study draft will be ready on 18 Jan. Once we passed it, we will invite speakers to be part of this webinar
March | TTW PH [Showcase event 6 March](https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/co-adoption-ai-and-open-practices-innovation-turing-way-practitioners-hub) / AIUK Present and promote the case studies, promote the programme. **Open the applications to apply to the 2nd cohort** (Expression of interest)| Create interest for the next cohort and connect with potential applicants | Expression of interest available from 6 March
April | TTW PH Webinar (2). Support applications and connect with BridgeAI to promote the programme | Create interest for the second cohort and empower EiR from the 1st cohort (throught the webinar) | Webinar: Energy and Transport sector (collaboration from DC)
May | TTW PH Webinar (3). Close the applications for the 2nd cohort | Create interest for the second cohort and empower EiR from the 1st cohort (throught the webinar) | Webinar: topic to be defined
June - August | Meet and select participants of the 2nd cohort. Prepare contracts | Find the right fit for EiR
Sept - Feb | **Launch of second cohort of EiR** | Activities available in the next section

## EiR Cohort 2 Type of Activities

The Turing Way Practitioners Hub will launch a second cohort in 2024. Within the 6 months of the cohort, we would like to propose to offer mandatory activities optional activities.
* Mandatory activities: The Experts in Residence are expected to come to this activities
* Optional: The Turing Way Practitioners Hub will organise training and networking sessions that aim to empower the Experts with tools and practices that will benefit them and their teams

| Activity | Description | Objective(s) | Mandatory (M) or Optional (O)|
| -------- | -------- | -------- |------|
|In-person events (2-3) | Cohort inauguration, non-structure day/practices demonstration day and celebration | Connect with other Open Source Experts in Residence, Turing and BridgeAI folks (ISA's) | M
Collaborations Cafe (12 sessions) | Virtual co-working spaces held fortnightly on the first and third Wednesdays of each month for 2 hours | Share expertise and gain knowledge from TTW to increase and empower a forum to highlight, connect of 'open science and AI' practitioners | M: 50%
Case study writing | Co-creating case studies capturing ‘open science and AI practices’ in their org/sector | Recognise and promote their use of open science and AI to a broader forum of practitioners | M
Trainings | Available for current and past EiR, BridgeAI and TTW community members. Up to 10 people per training session. Training sessions will not be scheduled on Collab Cafes days | Provide training opportunities to empower the EiR, BridgeAI and TTW with tools and practices that will benefit them and their teams | O (EiR will have the priority to join but they should confirm max 2 weeks in advance) |

We hosted the following trainings during the 1st cohort, should the order change? Should other trainings be included / removed?

| Month (cohort 1) | Activity | Materials | Comments/Changes: Future cohorts |
| -------- | -------- | -------- | ---- |
|Month 1 (July) | **Stakeholder mapping and engagement** | [Slide-deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BO-_VtRL-WrcpoEzSv_4ZCcEEg8QaZepeRGx6rB9grQ/edit#slide=id.g25a61fe364e_0_57) / [Worksheet with guidance on how to get started](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r08Yu2tG8DcOiMpF6bbHrlgMRdePNxlWSRd3tvK7fcQ/edit#heading=h.xhqdovkwrb1u) / [Miro template](https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVMWzhGGc=/) |
| | **Inauguration** Full Day hybrid Workshop about **Adapting Data Science Best Practices** | [Practitioners Hub Panel - Neil Chue Hong, Lauren Wool, Simon Reeve, Kirstie Whitaker, Jennifer Ding - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTH6-BA9ouE&t=5s) | For the second cohort, we should include the EiR of the 1st cohort
Month 2 (August) | **User Journey Mapping** + individual coaching sessions by Fruto with each EiR | 8-hour workshop and 1 hour of individual coaching session facilitated by [Fruto](https://frutostudio.co.uk/) | This training should happen before the EiR start co-writing the case studies
Month 3 (September) | **Discussion on open leadership** | [The Turing Way Open Leadership in Data Science](https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/collaboration/leadership.html) / [Managing open and reproducible data science projects](https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/managing-computational-projects/)
| | **Pedagogy of technical teaching** and how that transfers to your own contexts | [The Carpentries instructor training](https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/01-welcome.html) and [Teaching Tech Together](https://teachtogether.tech/) |
| | **Skills/Knowledge Gap Mapping** - delivered by the Turing Skills Team | [Slide-deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sl7dLQMjGF8q7FmZi-CqFEpIcDLsy1yc/edit#slide=id.p1) / [TTW-PH-Skills Gaps Workshop notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xGeUuDYHRSkozstzZbjEXrxmLsEChmFWKXnU4EFZIWQ/edit) | The EiR were very interested and we got very useful feedback
Month 4 (October) | **Systems Thinking Workshop** led by [Digital Catapult](https://www.digicatapult.org.uk/) | [Introduction to Systems Thinking Slide-deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10pTmynOgXVVGanR9pKtCZC4J4Nj2EgdZ/edit#slide=id.g19b5cc77afc_0_329) / [Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System](https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/)|
Month 5 (November) | **Product Strategy and Road mapping** led by [Superbloom](https://superbloom.design/) | Notes to be added | BridgeAI doesn't consider international expenses
Month 6 (December) | **Celebration Day: Fireside Chat / Webinars** |

* Training that should be included (following the feedback of the first cohort):
* Licenses
* Metrics

* Should EiR be offered a 0.20 fte payment?

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