Here's information on the upcoming ERN annual meeting. I was able to attend this in 2024 and thought it was outstanding

From: Maureen Dougherty info@ern.ci Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 12:03:28 -0400 To: ERN Announcements ern-announcements@ernrp.org Subject: [ern-announcements] ERN Virtual Summit 2025 Registration Open

Registration is now open for the Virtual ERN Summit being held April 23, 2025, 12PM - 5PM ET.

REGISTER HERE https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfK9U0vi7IuUETzW3EsRpsC7GfwKdNlkNoa1XuK6Q5NhtbQaA/viewform

The virtual Ecosystem for Research Networking (ERN) Summit 2025 will be held on April 23rd from noon until 5PM ET. Our theme this year is Addressing Advanced Technologies, Quantum, AI and Workforce Development. This free conference is open to both researchers and educators at R1 and non-R1 institutions, industry, and government leaders.

Our keynote speaker will be Dan Stanzione , Ph.D., Associate Vice President For Research, Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC).  This will be followed up by three panels discussing the impact of AI and Quantum on regional economic and workforce initiatives, industry academic partnerships for preparing the workforce, and perspectives from non-R1 institutions. We welcome you to hear from industry, domain researchers, and CI professionals, and join the discussions on the impacts  these advanced technologies are having in the research community.

Feel free to extend this invitation to your colleagues in academia, industry, government and not-for-profit organizations who may benefit from the sessions.

We will be sending Zoom information to only those who register. Please make sure to register by Friday, April 18th.

Summit 2025 Agenda

Wednesday, April 23 - Advanced Technologies - Quantum and AI 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET 12:00 - 12:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks Barr von Oehsen, Ph.D., Director Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 12:15 - 1:15 Keynote Speaker Dan Stanzione, Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Research, Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC)

1:15 - 2:15 Panel 1: Regional  Economic and Workforce Initiatives for AI and Quantum Explore the interplay between advanced technologies and regional innovation ecosystems.

2:15 -3:15 Panel 2: Industry-Academic Partnerships for Preparing the Workforce for Quantum Explore curricular innovations and partnerships that prepare the future quantum workforce.

3:15 - 4:15 Panel 3:  Perspectives from Non-R1 Smaller institutions Highlight innovations, constraints, and opportunities unique to non-R1 institutions.

More details will be posted on the ERN website, https://ern.ci, once the schedule is finalized.

Any questions, let us know via email at info@ern.ci.

Thank you, The ERN Steering Committee

John Barden, Yale University Maureen Dougherty, Consultant Florence Hudson, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub (change?) Forough Ghahramani, Edge John Goodhue, MGHPCC Jim Griffioen, University of Kentucky Vasant Honavar, Pennsylvania State University Jim Kyriannis, NYSERNet David Marble, OSHEAN Carrie Rampp, Franklin & Marshall College Bruce Segee, University of Maine-Orono Barr von Oehsen, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine

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