[Noisebridge-discuss] Invitation to Open Science Summit 2011

[Rikke Rasmussen]

-- UPDATE --

The Open Science Summit early bird special is extended until 30/9!

Student tickets and scholarship application form are available at
http://opensciencesummit.com/attend.

Also check out the updated program and speaker list.



On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:01 AM, 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. Visit
> http://opensciencesummit.com for more details.
>
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