Over the next few weeks, public consultation sessions will be held across Canada as the next step towards implementation of the Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) Contribution program. Specifically, the consultations will focus on governance issues, including membership and board composition, of the new not-for-profit organization that will coordinate funding and strategic directions for national activities related to:

• research data management
• advanced research computing
• research software.

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The Visualize This! Challenge is back! Now in its fourth year, this Canada-wide competition celebrates the innovative ways visualization can help researchers explore datasets and answer important scientific questions. Visualize This! is a way to challenge your creativity, experiment with new visualization tools, and contribute to the growth of data visualization in Canada!

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Are you passionate about helping researchers use high performance computing and other digital infrastructure tools? WestGrid is hiring Research Computing Training Assistant is responsible for supporting and delivering research computing training sessions across all WestGrid Member institutions online, in-person, or over multiple days. This includes working with the Training & Visualization Coordinator to identify gaps in...

On September 19, Intel and Simon Fraser University are gathering a panel of solution specialists and experts from the Canadian Artificial Intelligence (AI) for a one-day workshop.

At this one-day session, you will learn about AI methodologies as well as AI optimization tools and techniques, that can be applied to Intel Xeon® processors as well as learn about some of Intel’s upcoming products that can be leveraged for AI.

Live demos will be followed by guided hands-on experience where you will learn how to optimize deep...