Data Champions Lunch Talks "Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability"

The event is open to everyone interested, free upon registration. Sandwiches and drinks are offered for each participant by the EPFL Library.

First part | Talks by data experts (1 hour)

Short talks:

• “Data and sustainability at a server level” by Dr. Miguel Peon Quiros, Computer Scientist and administrator of the EPFL EcoCloud
• “Computational work as part of a solution: extracting electricity from heat” by Enrico Di Lucente, EPFL PhD Student in Materials Science and Engineering
• “GREENER principles for environmentally sustainable computational science” by Dr. Loïc Lannelongue, Specialist in Biomedical data science and research sustainability at Univ. of Cambridge
• “Situation at EPFL and experiences in minimizing our data footprint” by Dr. Manuel Cubero-Castan, Manager for Sustainable IT Systems Project at EPFL Sustainability
• Q&A with panel of speakers

Second part | Workshop (30 minutes)

The EPFL RDM Team will moderate a short workshop associated to a national project to develop Open Educational Resources about Research Data Management for researchers.