--- tags: unconference-2022 --- * We want to focus on * career paths in academy that are technically oriented * building a community of RSEs # Suggestions for invited topics * Something about RSE or HPC for digital humanities? - e.g. empowering people from humanities backgrounds to use HPC * Developer productivity on HPC as discussed here https://twitter.com/vsoch/status/1461908217223528448?s=21 and in a bunch of replies and spin off threads * How did we get data stewards? How do we convince management that technical personnel are useful? * How do skills learned during a PhD translate to industrial and professional work? * Existing research positions that could be part of our network? * What support roles exist and should exist for open research * Hiring manager from NVidia or Talenom (or another private company): what skills academics have that you are looking for? # Suggestions for invited speakers (can cross reference with topics above) * Vanessa Sochat https://vsoch.github.io/ * Developer productivity on HPC, or any of their projects * Sanna Isabel Ulfsparre https://www.umu.se/en/staff/sanna-isabel-ulfsparre/ * Abstract: "As Europe transitions into open science and FAIR research data management, new platforms and possibilities for professional development emerge. Sanna Isabel Ulfsparre, librarian at Umeå university library, will talk about policy, trends and tendencies relevant to research software developers who want to further specialise in RSE." * Atte Sillanpää * For the "How do skills learned during a PhD translate to industrial and professional work?" section, @Atte Sillanpää from CSC kindly agreed to give a 15 min talk talk titled: "Stochastic careers: a chemist's brownian motion trajectory and claims on useful skills" ; I hope that fits with what @Radovan Bast had in mind when asking? :)