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, September 18, 2023

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 4:05 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome

9:05 AM ORCID and SA Consortium news update

9:30 AM ORCID record 101

10:00 AM Ice Breaker

11:00 AM Practical Session - Identifying institutional ORCID Issues

1:00 PM ORCID Membership - Austrailian ORCID Success Stories

1:30 PM PID-power: improving discoverability, recognition and trust in research

2:00 PM Practical exercise ( how can you benefit from ORCID membership)

3:00 PM PID Cost analysis - Australia

3:15 PM Intembeko ORCID Hub

3:35 PM Wrap up and Questions
TRANSIT Training
TRANSIT Training
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Introductory DNS Course
Introductory DNS Course
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

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

11:00 AM

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

2:30 PM Break
Break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

6:30 PM Cocktail Meet and Greet
Cocktail Meet and Greet
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

9:00 AM Dr Happy Sithole and Dr Molapo Qhobela
Dr Happy Sithole and Dr Molapo Qhobela
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM Professor Jess Auerbach
Professor Jess Auerbach
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

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

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

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM In the dark
In the dark
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM The state of the system and the implications of load shedding for universities - Garth Greubel

1:45 PM CSIR: Overview of energy options - Lawrence Pratt

2:00 PM South Africa's infrastructure investment Boom - Andrew Owens (Teraco & NAPAfrica)

2:15 PM Panel Discussion - Andrew Owens Garth Greubel Lawrence Pratt Mike Silber
3:00 PM Break
Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM New NREN Services
New NREN Services
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM New NREN Services - Duncan Greaves Guy Halse Lynette Wood
4:00 PM (-10Gb-) 100Gb will change everything
(-10Gb-) 100Gb will change everything
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Paving the way to 100Gb, expect the unexpected - FLIP VAN SCHALKWYK (North-West University)

4:20 PM UCT's 100G Network Upgrade Experience - Edgar Chikwete

4:40 PM The National Research Data Infrastructure – DIRISA Services Overview - Sthembiso Mkhwanazi (NICIS-DIRISA)
Trust, identity, and other buzzwords
Trust, identity, and other buzzwords
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Seamless access to resources at Nelson Mandela University Library - Shiela Seanego (Nelson Mandela University)

4:20 PM Australian Access Federation Update - Melroy Almeida

4:40 PM So you have Azure AD, now what? - Guy Halse (TENET South Africa)
6:30 PM Dinners
Dinners
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
9:00 AM Cloudy with a chance of research
Cloudy with a chance of research
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Unleashing the Cloud-Native Potential: Rethinking Research Cyber-Infrastructures with Kubernetes and Cloud APIs - Eugene De Beste (CSIR)

9:20 AM Growing awareness of the importance of research software and the people who develop it - Anelda Van der Walt (Talarify)

9:40 AM Towards a South African Open Science Cloud: a sustainable and federated infrastructure model - Dale Peters (Independent)

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

11:00 AM 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 AM UNISA's experience with Cloud - Peter Bronkhorst
11:40 AM Empowering students in an information age
Empowering students in an information age
11:40 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:20 PM Zero-rating during COVD: A postmortem - Ant Brooks (TENET)
12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 1:40 PM
1:40 PM [how] UCT libraries is managing the Restoration of the Jagger Library
[how] UCT libraries is managing the Restoration of the Jagger Library
1:40 PM - 2:10 PM
Contributions

1:40 PM [how] UCT libraries is managing the Restoration of the Jagger Library - Nikki Crowster (UCT Library)
2:10 PM Leïla Dekkar
Leïla Dekkar
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Nicholas Mbonimpa
Nicholas Mbonimpa
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Change Before You Have To - RENU's Journey of Collaboration and Innovation - Nicholas Mbonimpa Mbonimpa
3:00 PM Break
Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM Duncan Greaves
Duncan Greaves
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Thursday, September 21, 2023

8:00 AM & refreshments
& refreshments
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM