The "IT for Research Day” is an annual event organized by SWITCH, that will take place this year at the University of Fribourg. This year’s edition is placed under the motto: “Scientific IT and scalable services for sustainable research.”
Together with more than 15 experts from Swiss universities and research institutions, the following topics will be presented and discussed:
• New approaches to scientific IT and its enabling role for research
• Research data management in the social sciences and beyond
• Data Science and its promising projects
• Jupyter Notebooks and Laboratory Information Management
• Backup Scenarios for Research
• Research in the Cloud
• Data Lifecycle Management – what’s next?
• Teaching (and research) in a BYOD environment
• Insights on the SWITCHhub platform for academic services
• GPUs, containers and further research requirements
• Long-term storage as foundation for sustainable research data