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figshare Webinar – Science in the Cloud

Registration is now open for the figshare Digital Science webinar Science in the Cloud which will take place on Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 11 am Eastern. Topics to be discussed in this webinar include:

  • Trends in cloud-based computing
  • The importance of failure in innovation and how this can lead to improvements in science
  • The benefits of investing in cloud-based applications and infrastructure to the research workflow
  • Implementing an open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud

The webinar will feature these speakers:

  • Brendan Bouffler (“boof”), Global Manager, Amazon Web Services Research Cloud Program
  • Tim Bell, Group Leader of the Computer and Monitoring Group within the IT Dept, CERN
  • Dan Valen, Product Manager, Figshare
  • Steve Scott, Director of Portfolio. Development, Digital Science
  • Laura Wheeler, Head of Digital Communications, Digital Science

This is a one-hour long webinar, which will include time for live questions. You can follow #DSwebinar for the online discussion. If you’re unable to tune in live, you can still register and a recording of the webinar will be sent to you. Register here.