[Noisebridge-discuss] Invitation to Open Science Summit 2011

[Kelly]

Early registration is extended to Sept 10th. I just registered. I
might only do Day 1 though. Day 2 looks all medical and pharma.

-K

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 03:17, Kelly <hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com> wrote:
> MUST REMEMBER TO GO TO THIS THIS YEAR
>
> a couple years running now I just bloody forget. There are a lot of
> conferences that time of year.
>
> -K
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 17:01, Rikke Rasmussen
> <rikke.c.rasmussen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey everyone! Heard of the Open Science Summit 2011? No? Then hurry up and
>> check it out! Early registration discounts until Sept. 1st, and scholarships
>> for students.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> This Fall, Scientists, Hackers, Students, Patients, and Activists,
>> Entrepreneurs, Funders, Citizens - in short, anyone who cares passionately
>> about unleashing the full potential of Open Science to solve the big
>> problems confronting humanity - will be gathering to consider the disruptive
>> changes required to improve the functioning of 21st science, including
>> institutional changes, new infrastructure for data driven science, and new
>> practices.
>>
>> What could be more important than making Science and Technology work more
>> effectively for all humanity? The Open Science Summit is the first and only
>> event examining the full spectrum of the most crucial policy questions
>> affecting the future of science.
>>
>> Topics include: Synthetic Biology, Open Data, Open Access, Microfinance for
>> Science, Citizen science, DIY Biology, Alternative Funding for Research,
>> Open Source Drug Discovery, The Future of Patents, Accelerating Innovation,
>> Open Genomics/Medicine, Open Hardware, Open Education, and More!
>> ---
>> OPEN SCIENCE SUMMIT 2011: OPENING THE DOOR TO INNOVATION.
>> Historic Open Science Alliance to Launch at Summit, Oct 22-23 at Computer
>> History Museum MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA August 23, 2011
>> -- On October 22-23, an expected 450 people will gather at Mountain View’s
>> Computer History Museum, launching an initiative to make science
>> more efficient, collaborative and productive.
>> Whether by sharing research data, publishing work to be freely accessible,
>> providing community access to lab space or collaborating across industry,
>> academia & society, people across the world are improving science by opening
>> up. Given the magnitude of our world’s unmet challenges, founder Joseph
>> Jackson says “we must grasp this opportunity to embrace open science.”
>> The advent of social networking among scientists, increased public scrutiny
>> and a revolution in computing speed have all had a hand in creating this
>> historic moment.
>> “Open science represents a different kind of science.  With the advent of
>> massive computational power, there is a new way to do science and that often
>> goes hand and hand with openness - and if you go with the traditional model,
>> you’re ossified.”
>> - Tomas Goetz, Wired.
>> The Open Science Summit is the first event of its kind, uniting open science
>> advocates of all disciplines: everyone from citizen scientists to academic
>> researchers and multinational corporations. For all their differences, these
>> groups share one ambition: to make scientific research more public, sharable
>> and scalable. Last year’s inaugural event saw over 300 attendees
>> and nationwide media impact. This year, the Open Science Summit proves that
>> Open Science is global and here to stay through the launch of the Open
>> Science Alliance, an official coalition of these many complementary
>> movements. The Alliance will launch a developer’s challenge this
>> Spring, incentivizing students to develop solutions that benefit open
>> science, as well as a number of joint publications and advocacy campaigns.
>> This year, open science has shown promise in crowd-sourcing clinical trials,
>> determining interactions between genome-based and microbe-driven illnesses
>> and even finding lost family members. This year’s Open Science Summit
>> features a medical research track, exploring 2010-11 innovations and a pitch
>> session where startups will present their contributions to open
>> science collaboration. Confirmed speakers include recently-published Misha
>> Angrist from Duke, Rade Drmanac, founder of Complete Genomics and Victoria
>> Stodden, statistics professor at Columbia.
>> “Openness by far and away will win out if we actually measure people by
>> their true contribution,” says Professor Jonathan Eisen. With that in mind,
>> the Summit has a track dedicated toward new ideas on giving researchers due
>> credit - and due reward - in an open science system. Confirmed speakers for
>> this track include James Love of Knowledge Ecology International and
>> David Thomson of UCSF. The summit also provides two more tracks: one
>> dedicated to group problem-
>> solving to address barriers to open science, and the other dedicated to
>> youth education and advocacy around opening up.
>> Visithttp://opensciencesummit.com for more details.
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