On the road
From meetings we are participating in, talks we are giving,
or even events we are throwing ourselves.
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UK Life Science Network UNWIND
Cambridge | Networking | May 16, 2013
Digital Science are sponsoring the first UK Life Science Network UNWIND event in Cambridge on Thursday 16th of May. It's a free life science social networking event from 6.30 p.m in The Basement, Cambridge.
UNWIND provides a rare opportunity for collaboration, partnering, recruitment, vendor selection, and idea sharing in the life science and medical sectors in a really relaxed social environment. The Life Science Network is the destination for life science professionals who wish to network, communicate, share ideas and connect with others. The group is composed of executives, scientists, entrepreneurs, investors and media across biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical technology, diagnostics and research communities.
The event promises to be a great night of informal networking and we will have plenty of Digital Science swag to give away. We'll be in the main networking area so come on over, meet the team and have a demo of our products - which help increase efficiency in research.
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II-SDV Conference
Nice, France | Conference | April 14, 2013 - April 16, 2013
SureChem colleagues Nicko Goncharoff and Babeth Piveteau will be exhibiting at the International Information Conference on Search, Data Mining and Visualization (II-SDV) from 14th to 16th April in Nice, France.
Come by their booth to learn about the newly released SureChemDirect: an API with a Pipeline Pilot collection and a Data Feed product and check out our free SureChemOpen patent chemistry search tool.
Babeth will be giving a short product review on Monday 15th after lunch so you can find out about what's the latest at SureChem.
Click here for details of the program.
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Rigour and Openness in 21st Century Science
Oxford, UK | Conference | April 11, 2013 - April 12, 2013
The Oxford Future of Science Event "Rigour and Openness in 21st Century Science" kicks off this week, with two days of plenaries and talks on topics affecting digital research. Mark Hahnel from figshare will be speaking on Thursday on moving beyond tradition articles, and Kaitlin Thaney from Digital Science will speak on Friday on open innovation in the sciences. For more information about the event, visit the conference web site, or follow the conversation online at #openoxford on Twitter.
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UKSG Annual Meeting
Bournemouth, UK | Conference | April 08, 2013 - April 10, 2013
The 36th Annual UKSG Exhibition and Conference is in Bournemouth this year, featuring a diverse set of speakers, workshop leaders and exhibitioners from publishing, the librarian community, technology industry and academia. Digital Science's Kaitlin Thaney will be speaking on a panel with Palgrave's Carrie Calder on Monday and Tuesday on breaking boundaries and shifting paradigms in scholarly research.
For more on the event, visit the conference web site.
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CNI Spring Membership Meeting
San Antonio, Texas, USA | Conference | April 04, 2013 - April 05, 2013
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)'s Spring Membership Meeting takes place this week in San Antonio, Texas. The event brings together CNI's member organisations and other external tool providers to explore new technologies, content, and applications and discuss broader policy issues.
Digital Science's Kaitlin Thaney will be leading a session on Thursday, April 4th called "Tools for Digital Research" in which she'll speak about Altmetric, figshare and Symplectic Elements - three tools in the Digital Science portfolio. Follow Kaitlin on Twitter at @kaythaney for more from the event, or tune in to the hashtag #cni13s for more. You can also find out more about the event here on the conference website.
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ScholarOne Manuscripts User Conference
Brussels, Belgium | Conference | April 04, 2013 - April 05, 2013
Mark Hahnel from figshare will be keynoting this year's ScholarOne Conference in Brussels, an event organised by Thomson Reuters. He'll be speaking about the changes that have been occurring in the world of scholarly publishing in the last 12 months, with a particular focus on the move to a more author centric model and the advance of open access. For more information, visit the event website, or follow @figshare on Twitter for more live from the event.
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Beyond the PDF 2
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Conference | March 19, 2013 - March 20, 2013
Scholarly communication across all disciplines is changing profoundly under the influence of new technologies. The Beyond the PDF conference brings together scholars, librarians, publishers and tool providers to discuss that transformation, broaden awareness of current efforts across disciplines, and look at what's on the horizon. Beyond the PDF is organized by FORCE11, a group of stakeholders that arose organically from the first Beyond the PDF workshop, held at the University of California, San Diego, in 2011, and a follow on workshop held at Dagstuhl that same year.
Kaitlin Thaney from Digital Science, Mark Hahnel from figshare and Euan Adie from Altmetric will be in attendance. Tune in to the livestream or follow the conversation online under the hashtag #btpdf2. For more on the event, visit the conference website.
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Strata Conference
Santa Clara, CA, USA | Conference | February 25, 2013 - February 28, 2013
This week kicks off the third Strata Conference in Santa Clara, an O'Reilly Media conference series on all things data. Kaitlin Thaney will be co-hosting Ignite Strata on 25 February along with Brady Forrest of Khosla Ventures, jumpstarting the event. The three day event will feature talks and workshops on topics ranging from new technologies and applications to governance and opportunity in the era of open data. For the full schedule, visit their website where you can also tune in to the livestream. You can also follow the conversation on Twitter at #strataconf.
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Science Online 2013
Raleigh, NC, USA | Conference | January 31, 2013 - February 02, 2013
Science Online 2013, the seventh annual conference on science and the Web, will be held January 31 - February 2 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Mark Hahnel, founder of figshare, Aldo de Pape and Kaitlin Thaney will be manning 'figshare cafe' for the course of the event. For more on the event, visit their website, tune in to the livestream, or follow the conversation online at #scio13.
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8th Annual International Digital Curation Conference
Amsterdam, Netherlands | Conference | January 14, 2013 - January 16, 2013
The 8th International Digital Curation Conference ("IDCC") brings together those who create and manage data and information, those who use it and those who research and teach about curation processes. This year's event is themed ""Infrastructure, Intelligence, Innovation: driving the Data Science agenda"and will feature a series of talk, keynotes and workshops around these topics. Kaitlin Thaney, Digital Science's Manager of External Partnerships, will be speaking on Tuesday in the Innovation/Applications track on "making research more efficient". You can check out a preview done by IDCC with Thaney here, or see the full programme here. Mark Hahnel from figshare will also be attendance. Follow online at #idcc13.
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Online Information
London, UK | Conference | November 20, 2012 - November 21, 2012
Digital Science are Gold sponsors of this year's Online Information conference, to be held in London on the 20-21November. The event is the largest gathering on information professionals in Europe and focuses on 5 key topics:
• Adapting to a multi-platform, multi device world
• The power of social: creating value through collaboration
• Making sense of big data and working in the cloud
• Search, research and discovery
• New frontiers in information managementMark Hahnel of figshare will be on the "Working In The Cloud" panel Tuesday at 12pm. Euan Adie of Altmetric will be on the "Metrics and Measurement" panel on Wednesday at 12pm. You can also come visit us at the Digital Science stand to find out more about what we do and pick up some great Digital Science swag.
As a teaser, here's a video of our Managing Director Timo Hannay talking to Online Information about the challenges facing researchers and information scientists.
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SpotOn London
London, UK | Hackday | November 10, 2012 - November 12, 2012
This weekend marks the beginning of SpotOn London (formerly Science Online London) and Digital Science is involved in a number of activities n the lead up to the conference and at the event itself.
This Saturday, our own Euan Adie from Altmetric will be hosting a hackday here at the Digital Science office as a fringe event before the conference. The event is co-organised with Martin Fenner of PLoS, and projects from the weekend will be featured at the conference on Sunday. For more information, visit the event web page.
A number of us will be leading sessions at the 2-day event, which properly kicks off on Sunday at the Wellcome Trust, including Mark Hahnel from figshare, Euan Adie from Altmetric, Steve Scott and Kaitlin Thaney. Do come say hello. For the full agenda, click here.
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MozFest
London, UK | Conference | November 09, 2012 - November 11, 2012
Mozilla Festival comes to London this weekend, an event centered around the future of the web and of digital. The festival - referred to as "MozFest" - features an array of workshops, sessions, fireside chats and hands-on fun, bringing together makers, technologists, and creative types alike. Kaitlin Thaney will be there from Digital Science - do say hello. For more information on the weekend's activities, check out their schedule. You can also follow the conversation online at #mozfest.
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Charleston Conference
Charleston, SC, USA | Conference | November 07, 2012 - November 10, 2012
Join our a number of our colleagues at this year's Charleston Conference - an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, technologists, and vendors of library materials. This year's event will feature Timo Hannay (managing director, Digital Science) and Annette Thomas (CEO, Macmillan Publishers Ltd) as plenary speakers, with representatives from two of our portfolio businesses Labtiva and Symplectic, as well. For more information on the event, visit the conference website.
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Strata Conference New York
New York, New York, USA | Conference | October 23, 2012 - October 25, 2012
Strata Conference heads to New York City this week, an event on making data work. The event, running alongside Hadoop World, will include three full days of inspiring keynotes, nuts-and-bolts sessions for practicioners, and plenty of networking events to the East Coast, exploring big data issues that are shaping the business, finance, media, and government worlds. For more information or to tune into the livestream, visit the event site.
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Wired for Change
New York, NY, USA | Conference | October 23, 2012
Kaitlin Thaney will be joining other visionaries like Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Jaron Lanier, Esther Dyson and Ethan Zuckerman on the opening panel of "Wired for Change: The Powers and Pitfalls of Big Data". The event, now in its second year, is hosted by the Ford Foundation, and seeks to bring together social innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, government leaders and philanthropists to discuss critical issues facing our digital society.
For more on the event, visit Ford's website or follow the conversation online at #wired4c. You'll also be able to find information on the livestream there.
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Open Science Summit 2012
Mountain View, CA, USA | Conference | October 19, 2012 - October 20, 2012
The Open Science Summit is back for its third year, a two-day event focused on bringing together the brightest minds in colloborative research and open science. This year's event will include sessions on a wide variety of topics, ranging from new models for drug discovery and clinical trials, personal genomics, the patent system, the future of scientific publications, and more. Mark Hahnel, founder of figshare, will be joining the program on Saturday. For the full program, visit the event website.
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Microsoft e-Science Workshop 2012
Chicago, IL, USA | Conference | October 08, 2012 - October 09, 2012
The ninth annual Microsoft eScience Workshop will be held October 8 and 9 in Chicago in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on eScience. Kaitlin Thaney from our team will be in attendance. Each year, the event brings together scientists and researchers to share their experiences and expertise with the academic and research communities. For more on the event, visit the workshop website.
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Strata Conference in London
London, UK | Conference | October 01, 2012 - October 02, 2012
Join our team at the first ever Strata Conference in London, O'Reilly's main event on all things data. Our Kaitlin Thaney is co-chairing the event alongside O'Reilly's Edd Dumbill, an event dedicated to exploring the opportunities made possible by the latest technologies to better understand the world we live in. The program includes a mix of nuts-and-bolts sessions for building a data-driven business, case studies from various industries and sectors, and technical sessions led by practitioners pushing the envelope.
Digital Science is also a sponsor for the event. Do come by the Expo Hall and meet our team. For more on the event, visit the Strata site. You can also follow along on Twitter by following #strataconf .
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Surge 2012
Baltimore, MD, USA | Conference | September 27, 2012 - September 28, 2012
Surge is a scalability and performance conference, presented by OmniTI. Gavin Sandie and Steve Mohapi-Banks will be in attendance this year, hearing about the latest advancements, tools and war-stories from the world of web scalability.
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Digital Research 2012
Oxford, UK | Conference | September 10, 2012 - September 12, 2012
Digital Research 2012 starts this week, a 3-day event that aims to bring together digital researchers and developers from all disciplines to showcase and share their latest work and visions. The event will cover topics such as data analytics, e-Infrastructure, citizen science initiatives, and software sustainability. For more information, visit the conference web site.
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Wolfram Data Summit
Washington, DC | Conference | September 06, 2012 - September 07, 2012
The third annual Wolfram Data Summit starts today, an invite-only event highlighting the work of data practicioners, policy makers and scientists. Digital Science's Kaitlin Thaney joins the program, speaking on some of the issues surrounding efficient use and understanding of data in scientific research. Her talk, "Rethinking Digital Research" happens this Thursday, 6 September.
Also in attendance at the meeting are Daniel Hook from Symplectic, Mark Hahnel from figshare and Sebastian Peck, Digital Science's finance director.
For more on the event or to check out the program, visit their web site.
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ACS Fall Meeting
Philadelpia, PA | Conference | August 19, 2012 - August 23, 2012
Members of our text mining team will be exhibiting and presenting at the American Chemistry Society (ACS) Fall Meeting 2012, taking place 19-23 August in Philadelphia, PA. Come by booth 1703 to learn about the newly released SureChemDirect, check out the free SureChemOpen search tool and find out about what's coming next.
If you happen to be attending ACS on the opening day, check out their presentation “SureChem: Integrating patent chemistry with public and private nonpatent research resources”. This talk will take a first look what novel patent chemistry SureChem is adding alongside other freely available resources. It will be taking place from 16:25-16:30 EST in room 306. The presentation is being given as part of the seminar "Hunting for Hidden Treasures: Chemical Information in Patents and Other Documents" being run by the Chemical Information Division.
For more information, visit SureChem's event page or to look at the full conference schedule, click here.
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Science Foo Camp
Mountain View, CA | Unconference | August 03, 2012 - August 05, 2012
Digital Science is delighted to collaborate again with Google, O'Reilly Media and Nature to organise the seventh annual Science Foo Camp ("Sci Foo" for short). Over 200 leading scientists, technologists, writers and other thought-leaders will gather once more at the Googleplex for a weekend of unbridled discussion, demonstration and debate.
Foo Camp is an informal conference format pioneered by O'Reilly Media, a leading book publisher and event organiser in the field of information technology. There is no predefined agenda, instead attendees collaboratively create one from start to finish the first evening, with little if any boundaries to what can be discussed. Since the first O'Reilly Foo Camp in 2003, these events have become legendary and much imitated, leading to the first Science Foo Camp in the summer of 2006. For a glimpse of what Sci Foo is like, check out this video from our 2009 event. Stay tuned for more coverage.
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"Data in Motion" - Strata Online Conference
Online | Online conference | July 24, 2012
Join Kaitlin Thaney and Alistair Croll for this special online event, "Data in Motion", part of the Strata Conference series run by O'Reilly Media. Kaitlin and Alistair will be joined by colleagues who will give their take on the month's topic, as well as, in some cases, a sneak peak as to what's in store for this October's Strata Conference in London, which Kaitlin is co-chairing. Guests include representatives from Twitter, the University of Cambridge, those speaking on the history of railroads, the science of airline information, and even Formula 1 data. Trust us, you won't want to miss this.
The event is free to join and starts at 2 pm BST. Keep an eye out for news of future OLCs in the coming months. For more on Strata Conference in London, taking place this October, visit the event website or contact Kaitlin. You can also follow the coverage on Twitter at #strataconf or from Alistair (@acroll) and Kaitlin (@kaythaney).
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OSCON
Portland, Oregon | Conference | July 17, 2012 - July 20, 2012
Digital Science's Kaitlin Thaney will be keynoting this year's OSCON - one of the largest and longest running conferences for the open source community. She joins the stage with other open source and tech greats including Danny Hillis (Applied Minds), Mark Shuttleworth (Canonical) and Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media). Her talk, "The Mudslide Hypothesis of Science" will look at some of the challenges currently facing the research enterprise and posit a culture shift towards openness as a way forward. For more on her keynote, taking place Wednesday morning (Pacific time), click here. For more information on the event, visit the conference webpage.
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"How Data Saves Lives" Parliamentary Reception
London, UK | Poster Session | July 11, 2012
figshare 's Mark Hahnel and Digital Science's Kaitlin Thaney were one of 17 accepted posters for the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Medical Research's summer reception, entitled "How data saves lives: unlocking the potential of research information". The event was held at the House of Commons in Westminster, and was co-sponsored by the Association of Medical Research Charities, the Academy of Medical Sciences, Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. The APGG on Medical Research are one of many special groups that exist of MPs and peers around specific issues. The full program, including information on all of the posters, can be found here.
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Scottish Ruby Conference
Edinburgh, Scotland | Conference | June 29, 2012 - June 30, 2012
Steve, John and Carlos are attending Scottish Ruby Conference at the end of June. The Scottish Ruby Conference started life as Scotland on Rails in 2008 and has grown to become Europe's premier multi-track Ruby conference.
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Altmetrics 2012
Evanston, IL | Workshop | June 21, 2012
Caitlin Trasande (Head of Science Metrics) and Euan Adie (Product Manager; founder of Altmetric) are among the participants giving demos at the Altmetrics 2012 workshop, part of the ACM Web Science Conference in Evanston, Illinois. The event will explore alternate sources, paradigms and tools for measuring scholarly communication and impact online. This workshop is a follow-up to the last year's "altmetrics11", and will encourage collaboration and cross-pollination between research and practice, combining academic paper presentations with demos of tools (including Altmetric) and discussion. For more on the workshop, visit the event's website.
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American Society for Microbiology Meeting
San Francisco, CA | Conference | June 16, 2012 - June 19, 2012
The American Society for Microbiology holds asm2012 - its 112th General Meeting - June 16-19 in San Francisco. The event will bring together over 8,000 microbiologists in San Francisco. Our portfolio company BioData, developers of Labguru - a lightweight laboratory management tool, will be there exhibiting at Booth #1625.
For more information on the event, visit their website.
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ChemAxon European User Group Meeting
Budapest, Hungary | User Group Meeting | May 21, 2012 - May 23, 2012
Members of our SureChem team will be presenting at the upcoming ChemAxon European User Group Meeting. ChemAxon is a leading developer of chemical software development programs, and will be assembling a number of community members, users and partners in Budapest. Nicko Goncharoff, our head of text mining, Andrew Hinton, our cheminformatics developer, and Babeth Piveteau, our European Sales Manager will be on hand, speaking and exhibiting at the meeting. For more, visit the event's website.
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ChefConf 2012
San Francisco, CA | Conference | May 15, 2012 - May 17, 2012
Thom May, Digital Science's Infrastructure Manager, will be speaking Thursday at ChefConf on using databags to do update and synchronisation. ChefConf is put on by Opscode, a three-day event focussed on the power of cloud infrastructure automation in business. Check out their program for more, or tune into the livestream.
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Charite Entrepreneurship Summit
Berlin, Germany | Conference | April 23, 2012 - April 24, 2012
Our Kaitlin Thaney will be chairing a panel on the future of digital health at this year'sCharite Entrepreneurship Summit in Berlin, Germany. The event is in it's 5th year and is put on thanks to the support of Stiftung Charité, the Kauffman Foundation, and Charité Medical School. The two-day event serves as an international forum for participants and speakers from medicine, the life sciences, entrepreneurship, venture capital, tech transfer, and related fields. For more information, visit the event web site.
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Sage Congress
San Francisco, CA, US | Conference | April 20, 2012 - April 21, 2012
The 3rd Sage Commons Congress will feature short keynote presentations by leaders in patient advocacy, network systems and collective discovery. The platform sessions will combine presentations, commentator discussions and participant breakout group activities. The agenda is available here. Our Kaitlin Thaney will be there to particpate. You can tune in to the webcast here.
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Inventing the Future
London, UK | Event | March 27, 2012
Scientific, technological and commercial innovation have together created the modern world. They are also highly dependent on each other: scientific discoveries beget new technologies, which create new commercial opportunities, and many of the resulting products and services then are employed in the further pursuit of science. This event will look at that intersection, featuring talks by Ben Hammersley, JP Rangaswami, Stian Westlake and Nigel Shadbolt. For more information visit http://inventingthefuture.eventbrite.com.
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Strata Conference
Santa Clara, CA, US | Conference | February 28, 2012 - March 01, 2012
Kaitlin Thaney and Mark Hahnel from figshare will be joining the ranks of other data-elite speaking at the third ever Strata Conference, an O’Reilly event on all things data. The three-day event will include a mix of developers, data scientists, analysts, and data professionals, and feature an array of keynotes, panel discussions and workshops.
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ALPSP Digital Strategy Seminar
London, UK | Seminar | February 09, 2012
Kaitlin Thaney will be joining other technologists and members of the publishing community this Thursday at the ALPSP Digital Strategy Seminar in London. She’ll be speaking on emerging trends in the way we interact with, create and add value to scholarly content in the sciences. For more information, visit ALPSP’s website.
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Science Online
Raleigh, NC, US | Conference | January 19, 2012 - January 21, 2012
Science Online 2012, the sixth annual conference on science and the Web, will be held January 19-21 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Digital Science’s own Kaitlin Thaney and figshare‘s Mark Hahnel will be leading a session called “Dealing with Data” Thursday at 11:30 EST, with Euan Adie speaking on Friday at 930 am EST about his project Altmetric.