November 5 – Co-located Events

Event
MBDH Steering Committee meeting 4 PM - 6 PM
Workshop on Data Science Education at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions 9 AM - 3 PM (by invitation only)
MBDH Advanced Manufacturing Working Group (by invitation only)

November 6 – Day 1 – Thwing Center Ballroom

TimeSession Title
8:00 - 8:45 amBreakfast and Registration
8:45 - 9:00 amWelcomes
Roger French, Director of the Solar Durability and Lifetime Extension (SDLE) Center, Case Western Reserve University | Slides | Video
9:00 - 9:30 amState of the MBDH - Melissa Cragin, Executive Director of the MBDH | Slides | Video
9:30 - 10:15 amSpoke Projects Updates | Video
Moderator: Inna Kouper, Indiana University
Aaron Bergstrom - Digital Agriculture: Unmanned Aerial Systems, Plant Sciences and Education (UASPSE) | Slides
Rich Gonzalez, Satya Sahoo - Advanced Computational Neuroscience Network (ACNN) | Slides
10:15 - 10:45 amBreak and networking
10:45 - NoonMBDH Initiatives in Progress | Video
Moderator: Melissa Cragin, MBDH
Lior Shamir (Lawrence Technological University) - Data Science Education at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions | Slides
Valentin Pentchev - CADRE and IUNI resources | Slides
Jim Barkley (Ekta) - Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Working Group | Slides
Santiago Nunez-Corrales (UIUC and NCSA) - Open Storage Network | Slides
Noon - 1:30 pmLunch and Keynote speaker - Sally Rockey, Executive Director, Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) | Slides | Video
Introduced by Sarah Nusser, Iowa State University
1:30 - 2:30 pmRound table : AI, Data, & Ethics | Video
Moderator: Bill Gropp (UIUC NCSA)
- Jana Diesner (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Hamid Ekbia (Indiana University)
- Julia Stoyanovich (New York University)
2:30 - 3:00 pmBreak and Networking
3:00 - 4:00 pmBreakout groups
4:00 - 4:45 pmPlenary Talk - Carolina Cruz-Neira, Director, Emerging Analytics Center, University of Arkansas at Little-Rock | Video
Introduced by Bill Gropp, NCSA/UIUC
5:00 - 7:00 pmPoster & Networking session - Thwing Center Atrium
Co-chairs: Arya Farahi, Carnegie Mellon University and Valentin Pentchev, Indiana University

November 7 – Day 2 – Thwing Center Ballroom

TimeSession Title
8:00 - 8:45 amBreakfast and Registration
8:45 - 9:15 amPlenary Talk - NSF Program Update
Alejandro Suarez (National Science Foundation) | Slides | Video
9:15 - 10:30 amPanel - Federal Agencies: Extramural research programs and funding opportunities | Video
Moderator: Brian Athey (University of Michigan, MIDAS co-Director, MBDH co-PI)
- Valerie Florance (National Library of Medicine) | Slides
- Charlotte Baer (National Institute for Food and Agriculture) | Slides
- Bruce Kramer (National Science Foundation, ENG) | Slides
- Alejandro Suarez (National Science Foundation, CISE/OAC) | Slides
10:30 - 11:00 amBreak and networking
11:00 - noonPanel - Organizations and Community: Data partnerships in Cleveland | Video
This forum will convene diverse local perspectives to explore the application of Big Data tools and concepts to Cleveland's most pressing challenges. In a facilitated discussion, the panelists will examine specific case studies and projects that capture the exciting activity across the Cleveland data ecosystem and begin to define a vision for the future of Data-Enabled Cleveland.
Moderator: Glenn Ricart, US Ignite
- Adam Perzynski, Metrohealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University
- Dorothy Baunach, DigitalC
- Seth Pinckney, Wellstone Action, Cuyahoga Community College, Hack Cleveland
- Will Skora, Open Cleveland, Cleveland Public Library
noon - 12:15 pmClosing Remarks
12:15 - 1:00 pmBox Lunch (stay or go)
1:00 - 3:00 pmVIP Interactive Commons Tour (by invitation)