Name: ZA·REN Week '23
Start: 2023-09-18T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-21T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Protea Hotel Breakwater Lodge, Cape Town

Monday 18 September 2023

08:00

08:00 - 08:45
09:00
09:00 - 16:05
Contributions

09:00 Welcome

09:05 ORCID and SA Consortium news update

09:30 ORCID record 101

10:00 Ice Breaker

11:00 Practical Session - Identifying institutional ORCID Issues

13:00 ORCID Membership - Austrailian ORCID Success Stories

13:30 PID-power: improving discoverability, recognition and trust in research

14:00 Practical exercise ( how can you benefit from ORCID membership)

15:00 PID Cost analysis - Australia

15:15 Intembeko ORCID Hub

15:35 Wrap up and Questions
TRANSIT Training
TRANSIT Training
09:00 - 16:00

Introductory DNS Course
Introductory DNS Course
09:00 - 16:00

10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00

11:00 - 14:00

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00

14:30 Break
Break
14:30 - 15:00

18:30 Cocktail Meet and Greet
Cocktail Meet and Greet
18:30 - 21:30
Tuesday 19 September 2023

08:00

08:00 - 08:45

09:00 Dr Happy Sithole and Dr Molapo Qhobela
Dr Happy Sithole and Dr Molapo Qhobela
09:00 - 10:00
10:00 Professor Jess Auerbach
Professor Jess Auerbach
10:00 - 11:00
Contributions

10:00 Capricious connections and the politics of the African Internet - Jess Auerbach
11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 11:30

11:30 Dr Lindsay Magnus
Dr Lindsay Magnus
11:30 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 In the dark
In the dark
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 The state of the system and the implications of load shedding for universities - Garth Greubel

13:45 CSIR: Overview of energy options - Lawrence Pratt

14:00 South Africa's infrastructure investment Boom - Andrew Owens (Teraco & NAPAfrica)

14:15 Panel Discussion - Andrew Owens Garth Greubel Lawrence Pratt Mike Silber
15:00 Break
Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 New NREN Services
New NREN Services
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 New NREN Services - Duncan Greaves Guy Halse Lynette Wood
16:00 (-10Gb-) 100Gb will change everything
(-10Gb-) 100Gb will change everything
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 Paving the way to 100Gb, expect the unexpected - FLIP VAN SCHALKWYK (North-West University)

16:20 UCT's 100G Network Upgrade Experience - Edgar Chikwete

16:40 The National Research Data Infrastructure – DIRISA Services Overview - Sthembiso Mkhwanazi (NICIS-DIRISA)
Trust, identity, and other buzzwords
Trust, identity, and other buzzwords
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 Seamless access to resources at Nelson Mandela University Library - Shiela Seanego (Nelson Mandela University)

16:20 Australian Access Federation Update - Melroy Almeida

16:40 So you have Azure AD, now what? - Guy Halse (TENET South Africa)
18:30 Dinners
Dinners
18:30 - 21:30
Wednesday 20 September 2023

08:00

08:00 - 08:45
09:00 Cloudy with a chance of research
Cloudy with a chance of research
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Unleashing the Cloud-Native Potential: Rethinking Research Cyber-Infrastructures with Kubernetes and Cloud APIs - Eugene De Beste (CSIR)

09:20 Growing awareness of the importance of research software and the people who develop it - Anelda Van der Walt (Talarify)

09:40 Towards a South African Open Science Cloud: a sustainable and federated infrastructure model - Dale Peters (Independent)

10:00 The IDIA Science Gateway - Mattia Vaccari (University of Cape Town)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Cloudy with a chance of research
Cloudy with a chance of research
11:00 - 11:40
Contributions

11:00 Transforming scientific knowledge production capabilities and practices by digitally enabling research communities and communication: Virtualisation, visibility, visualisation and valorisation (4V’s) - Lucienne Abrahams (Wits University)

11:20 UNISA's experience with Cloud - Peter Bronkhorst
11:40 Empowering students in an information age
Empowering students in an information age
11:40 - 12:40
Contributions

11:40 Turing revisited: some reflections on artificial intelligence - Duncan Greaves (TENET South Africa)

12:00 Technology and academic libraries: opportunities for academic libraries to partner with the academic project through technology - Jeremiah Pietersen (Stellenbosch University)

12:20 Zero-rating during COVD: A postmortem - Ant Brooks (TENET)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 13:40
13:40 [how] UCT libraries is managing the Restoration of the Jagger Library
[how] UCT libraries is managing the Restoration of the Jagger Library
13:40 - 14:10
Contributions

13:40 [how] UCT libraries is managing the Restoration of the Jagger Library - Nikki Crowster (UCT Library)
14:10 Leïla Dekkar
Leïla Dekkar
14:10 - 14:30
14:30 Nicholas Mbonimpa
Nicholas Mbonimpa
14:30 - 15:00
Contributions

14:30 Change Before You Have To - RENU's Journey of Collaboration and Innovation - Nicholas Mbonimpa Mbonimpa
15:00 Break
Break
15:00 - 15:30

15:30 Duncan Greaves
Duncan Greaves
15:30 - 16:00
Thursday 21 September 2023

08:00 & refreshments
& refreshments
08:00 - 08:45

09:00

09:00 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00

13:00

13:00 - 15:00