We are holding a DAFNI ‘Roadshow’ event on 16th and 17th September at Swansea University, with the main goal to explore opportunities with Welsh universities & industry and see how we can collaborate.
The first day will involve presentations and lightning talks from ourselves and academics & industry from across Wales to understand the research we are all involved in.
The second day will be focused on a workshop regarding the ‘Challenges and Barriers of Data Sharing’. This is in relation to funding we have received from the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). DSIT are undertaking a pilot initiative to address the barriers and opportunities to data sharing. The overall objective of this activity is to test and understand the need for a national research cloud through a series of pilot studies, including ours. The results of these pilots will inform a future funding case for further investment by government. We are looking to collect evidence within this workshop and would love for Welsh universities to be involved.
The main language of the roadshow will be English.
DAFNI (www.dafni.ac.uk) is a computing platform which aims to support advanced research into national infrastructure, including transport, water, and energy and city scale modelling. DAFNI aims to improve the efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of infrastructure through better sharing and use of data, exploitation of simulation and optimization techniques, and engagement with stakeholders through visualisation. DAFNI allows researchers to scale and integrate their computational models to explore the social and environmental impacts of changes in infrastructure with much greater coverage and detail, and to deposit, share and use data collected in research projects and generated in models.