Professor David Wallom, Professor in Informatics, Associate Director - Innovation of the Oxford e-Research Centre
Professor Myles Allen, CBE FRS FInstP, University of Oxford
“Creating a New Reality: A Sustainable Digital Transformation.”
Following the pre-announcement circulated earlier, we are pleased to share further information about the upcoming NetDRIVE* meeting, “Creating a New Reality: A Sustainable Digital Transformation.”
This meeting is part of the NetDRIVE project, which focuses on delivering authoritative advice to UK Research and Innovation on sustainable digital research infrastructure. It will promote discussion on the shape, constraints, and opportunities of the emerging UK power supply, alongside broader questions of community leadership, scientific credibility, and digital transformation in support of net zero.
Keynote speakers will include (additional speakers to be confirmed):
• Professor David Wallom, Professor in Informatics, Associate Director - Innovation of the Oxford e-Research Centre
• Professor Myles Allen, Principal Investigator, Oxford Net Zero
Meeting objectives
• Practical approaches to community leadership and scientific credibility in defining and implementing net zero
• Understanding the shape, constraints, and opportunities of the emerging UK power supply
• Engaging across generations to help guide the digital transformation
Expected outputs
• Recommendations on a framework for defining and implementing net zero, including approaches to balancing unavoidable emissions. The aim is not to re-review technical options, but to summarise available and emerging approaches and how these may inform infrastructure procurement policy.
• Draft recommendations on the use of flexible approaches to siting and operating infrastructure to reduce carbon footprint and costs.
• Recommendations for enhancing opportunities for postdoctoral researchers to engage in the development of sustainable digital research infrastructure. Poster sessions will form part of the programme (details to follow).
The draft agenda is available here.
Registration is free but required, please register here. (Closes on 7 April)
Poster sessions will form part of the programme (call for abstracts to follow)
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the NetDRIVE team at netdrive@eng.ox.ac.uk
The NetDRIVE team
* The Network for Sustainable Digital Research Infrastructure Vision and Expertise (NetDRIVE) will bring together creative thinking from across UKRI to enable change through technological progress, to build a common vision of a sustainable future, and to incite a transition to sustainable working practices in the Digital research infrastructure (DRI) communities. The project will provide leadership in the UK and globally, exploiting the strength-in depth of a centuries long tradition of academic institutions driving change for societal benefit.