All Hands 2017

Overview
Agenda
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Livestream
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Overview

Join colleagues from industry, academia, nonprofits, and government June 5-6 in Boulder, CO!

Early Career? Use Code WestHubEarlyCareer for 25% off the registration fee.

Are you a Speaker? Travel Support Grantee? Potential participant with questions? Please contact info@westbigdatahub.org with special requests.

Workspace

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Logistics

Venue: University of Colorado Boulder new student center (Village Center Meeting Rooms) 3275 Apache Road, Boulder, CO 80303.

Parking on-site: We recommend metered parking in Lot 618 A.

Closest Airport: Denver International (DEN)

Denver Airport Train: http://www.rtd-denver.com/airport.shtml

Closest Hotel: Boulder Marriott | 2660 Canyon Boulevard | Boulder, Colorado 80302

Direct: 303.448.6605

We recommend Ride Sharing apps such as Lyft or taxi/cab to and from the Meeting Venue.

Livestream

Agenda

All times are local Boulder, CO Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)

MONDAY JUNE 5, 2017

TIME

SESSION

8:00 am

Light Breakfast + Registration + Community Warm-Up

Open time to meet with the West Hub Leadership Team, the National Science Foundation, and other participants.

9:00 am

Welcome from CU Boulder + the Program Committee (start of Livestream) State of the Hub

Meredith Lee, West Hub Executive Director

Panel: Flagship Initiatives and Strategic Opportunities for the West

Panelists:

Fen Zhao (BD Hubs & Spokes, National Science Foundation)
Michael Franklin (UC Berkeley and University of Chicago)
Ed Lazowska (University of Washington)
Michael Norman (San Diego Supercomputer Center)

10:00 am

Graphic Facilitation with ConverSketch: Karina Branson Coffee & Networking Break

10:30 am

Spotlight on: Metro Data Science

Session Chair: Sarah Stone, West Hub Deputy Director

What are our lessons learned and best practices for regional-scale efforts in Metro Data Science, smart cities, and connected communities?

Hear lightning talks from industry, government, academia, and nonprofit organizations + highlights from the recently-launched National Transportation Data Challenge and NSF Big Data Spoke Projects:

Jesse Sweeten, Utah Department of Transportation
Kimberly Gardner, NSF Spoke Project (Idaho, Arizona, Washington)
Dave Goodsmith, Director of Strategic Partnerships, DataScience Inc (California)
Venu Garikapati, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
D Patrick Johnson, Solutions Studio / Futures, Booz Allen Hamilton

11:30 am

Spotlight on: Data-Driven Decision Making for Water Resources

Session Chair: Christine Kirkpatrick, West Hub Deputy Director

How might we improve the strategic tech + policy road map for our nation’s water data systems? How can we empower data-driven decision making about water?

Hear perspectives from our Water Task Force, including Western Water experts from municipalities, academia, government agencies, and leadership from the National Institutes for Water Resources

Julie Meier Wright, Former 1st Secretary of Trade and Commerce for the State of California
Sam Fernald, President-Elect for the National Institutes for Water Resources (NIWR) and Director, New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute
Ben Ruddell, Northern Arizona University / NSF INFEWS
Jonathan Yoder, Director, State of Washington Water Research Center and Professor, School of Economic Sciences

12:30 pm

Welcome from CU Boulder

Phil Larson, Assistant Dean, College of Engineering and Applied Science

Group Photo + Lunch (end of Livestream)

1:30 pm

Community-Led Deep Dive Sessions

Roundtable discussions and activities in thematic areas:

“Big Data for Public Policy, or Public Policy for Big Data?” Perspectives from Both Sides of the Coin
This session will be led by our West Hub Spoke Project, Big Data and Criminal Justice in the Western United States, and includes
- Casey Fiesler, Assistant Professor of Information Science, CU Boulder
- Janni Little, Director, Rocky Mountain Research Data Center
- Julie Meier Wright, Former 1st Secretary of Trade and Commerce for the State of California

Disaster Response: Roundtable co-hosted with the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) — please also note Natural Resources/Hazards relevant concurrent session dedicated to Water, in collaboration with NSF INFEWS)
Data-Driven Decision Making: Use Cases in Water Resource Management, led by the West Hub Water Task Force including NSF INFEWS (John Sabo, Director, Future H20, Arizona State University)
This session will gather participants from academia, government, industry, and nonprofits to discuss how we can empower our water community towards data-driven decision making. With the help of facilitators, the group will chart a path for collaborative activities and proposals. The framework “Who needs what data to make what decision” will unite case studies including but not limited to commercial, industrial, and institutional water data in cities and “the water utility of the future”. A goal is to sketch a high-level vision for federal water data and policies to support water data collection.
Data Science Education / Workforce Development: including “Live from Berkeley” remarks from David Culler, Interim Dean of the Division of Data Sciences at UC Berkeley, and Vanessa Raymond, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Big Data Licensing & Data Sharing: led by Soody Tronson, J.D., Founder of STLGip, with health/medicine examples by Rene Baston, Executive Director of the Northeast Hub
Metro Data Science: Smart Cities + more
This session will be led by co-hosts from the National Renewable
Energy Laboratory (NREL) / U.S. Department of Energy
Cloud Computing Task Force: Opportunities for Scaling Tech + Policy Wins, led by Christine Kirkpatrick, West Hub Deputy Director
Suggestions for leaders for community roundtables are welcome to info@westbigdatahub.org

3:00 pm

Networking Break

Steering Committee Meeting

3:30 pm

Spotlight on Current and Emerging Projects

Hear from existing and emerging potential spoke projects and other initiatives: find collaborators, and discuss how efforts can be complementary

Participants looking to collaborate in this session include:

Tammi Marcoullier, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Open Innovation: Public Safety and Data Analytics
Eric Deutsch, Director, Institute for Systems Biology and Protein Data Bank
Kimberly Gardner, Project with Boise State University Public Policy, Tempe Police Department, and Seattle Police Department
Shade Shutters, CoPI, MetroInsight: San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCLA, Arizona State University and partners
Nina Hadley, Project Development Director, Adventure Scientists, a 501(c)3 from Montana
Martha Crosby, Professor, University of Hawaii
Satori Live Data: Transporation Data Challenge Update
More added soon – email info@westbigdatahub.org to be included

Water Breakout Part II: This session will focus on design and implementation of federal data standards and enabling technologies for improving the usability of water data from the urban, commercial, industrial and institutional sectors. Issues of data privacy and differential privacy, resolution, federation, ontology, and standards may be addressed. A goal is to identify the policies and technologies required to enable the vision cast in the 1:30-3pm session.

5:30 pm

Welcome from Julia Richman (Chief Innovation and Analytics Officer, City of Boulder), followed by a Networking Reception on-site

TUESDAY JUNE 6, 2017

8:00 am

Light Breakfast and Networking

9:00 am

Federal Data Initiatives and Funding Opportunities: NSF, DOE, DHS

Session Chairs: Steve Cutchin, Boise State University and Kerry Dew, Big Data Utah

Debbie Brodt-Giles, NREL
Steve Dennis, Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency
Fen Zhao, National Science Foundation

10:00 am

Community Asks/Offers and Next Steps

Session Chairs: Thomas Hauser, CU Boulder and Erin Robinson, West Hub Co-PI

11:00 am

Breakout Sessions

National Transportation Data Challenge
(Session Chair: Nick Baguley, West Hub Steering Committee)

Join by Zoom videoconferencing / Dial: +1 408 638 0968 with Meeting ID: 533 456 4408

Building upon the Challenge Launch in Seattle May 2017, join us as we continue to form teams and provide feedback to initial Hackathon Team project concepts! Special thanks to mentors from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA), Google, Waze, Amazon, Microsoft, DataScience Inc, and other partners. This session will also incorporate remote participants via video.

Category Chairs and Mentors participating:

Jane Zanzig, Data Science for Social Good (Education/Curriculum Category)
Eddie Fuller, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Distracted Driving Category)
Amy Unruh, GoogleCloud (Weather / Emergency Response Category)
Robert Hoffer and Joyce Morrell, MZ (Bike and Pedestrian Safety Category)
Dan Langford, Innovation Director, Nevada Center for Advanced Mobility and Industry Commercialization Manager from the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development (Connected Vehicles Category)
Amazon Web Services

Build Your Own: Our event space will be open for the rest of the day for all participants to self-organize and work collaboratively on proposals and other hub-related activities.