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Workshop Schedule

  • Session I (August 19)

    • Welcome, Introductions, Orientation
    • Keynote Presentations

      The purpose of the keynotes is to help us understand the various challenges associated with fostering a robust workforce pipeline for the cyberinfrastructure that modern research depends upon.

      Participants instructed to note challenges (phrased as questions), on virtual post-it notes on the KnowInnovation KiStorm site.

    • Q&A with speakers

      Participants post questions for the speakers on each of their dedicated Q&A Pages, and they'll respond there with their answers.

    • Voting On Critical Questions

      Have a look at the Challenge Landscape Page with all the challenge questions we captured as a group. Browse, and place your 8 votes on the challenges you feel are most critical.

    • Capturing Thematic Challenges In Breakout Groups

      Participants are placed in a breakout group with 5 peers.

      By discussing the keynotes and looking through the challenges questions with the most votes, participants try to capture one high level question that seemed to come up again and again; a thematic challenge that is critical to fostering the cyberinfrastructure workforce pipeline.

      Post your question on the Critical Thematic Challenges page, but only if it's not already there! Other groups have the same task remember.

    • Affinity Groups - Defining Challenges, Defining Success

      (1) Discuss the thematic challenges, and for each one that is determined by your affinity group to be significant, describe the characteristics, impacts, and underlying root causes of each from the perspective of your affinity group.

      (2) For each thematic challenge you determined to be significant, please discuss and write a statement that answers the question: “What does success look like?” to help articulate some criteria for us as we start brainstorming (our next activity) potential solutions to these thematic challenges.

      The idea is hold off just a little longer on how to solve this. Let's define our problem well, and articulate the goals, and we'll come up with solutions next.

    • Idea Generation Charettes

      Participants have been assigned to two rounds of generating ideas for potential solutions to the thematic challenges. The first is with a subset of participant's affinity group. The second is with a mixed group.

      In each of these rounds participants work with their group to generate ideas for solutions in the Thematic Challenge docs, or in the Cross Cutting Ideas doc.

      Best case practices and known workable solutions are welcome. Innovative ideas and novel approaches are welcome as well.

  • Homework for co-chairs, steering committee, breakout group leads and co-leads: gather and collate proposed solutions into a unified document.

  • Session II (August 25)

    • Welcome and Orientation
    • Synthesizing Recommendations in Groups
      Participants have new mixed groups today. Please visit the Session 2 Breakouts page and follow the instructions there to synthesize multiple ideas into more concrete and throrough recommendations with your group.
    • Report Outs From the Breakouts
      Breakout ggroups present their recommendation(s), and receive feedback. Visit each group's page and make comments in their Google Document. Each group has 2 minutes per recommendation.
    • Tagging Recommendations
      Tag each of the recommendations with the following tags:
      • Low-Hanging Fruit (Highly Feasible)
      • Boxing Glove (Potential for High impact)
      • Hatchling (Needs to Grow, Might Be Great)
      • Alarm Clock (Urgent Matter)
      • Prioritizing Recommendations
        If you could only do five of the recommendations, which five would you do?
    • Homework for co-chairs, steering committee, breakout group leads and co-leads: process prioritized solutions and generate draft of final workshop report, and generate interim list of recommendations for NSF.

    • Session III (September 9)

      • Recommendations Summary

        Presentation of the summary of recommendations we developed together.

        Please listen for two things: Material objections (capture those in the minority report page on the left hand menu), and actions that you might like to take, or contribute to, to help move one of these recommendations forward.

      • Teaming Up (Slack Session & Breakouts)

        An exercise in leaership emergence: Identify an action for one of the recommendations that you would be willing to take the lead on, if only you had some help. Add that action in a new post-it to the Actions page. Include a list of bullets on the type of support you would need. Discuss potential future work within self-organized groups.

      • Report Out
      • Material Objections?
      • Closing Remarks

    Workshop Expectations

    • Difficulties inherent in participating remotely
      • Isolated from other participants, difficult to keep attention focused, talking to a screen
      • Please try to stay engaged, avoid distractions, take a break when you need to
    • Use the collaboration technology to stay engaged and communicate
      • Write and contribute to shared documents
      • Stay focused on producing the product needed from your session
      • Be respectful of others’ opinions and be aware of the limitations of remote participation
    • Have fun!!

    The workshop is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2036534. Any opinions, recommendations, findings, or conclusions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.