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Event Fund supports more inclusive and accessible events in data science in order to lower barriers to participation in science and facilitate new collaborative relationships. Part of supporting emerging data science leaders to run good data science events includes developing a knowledge base for what it takes to run outstanding and creative events. In this post–part of an ongoing series that focuses on the organizing processes, tools, and practices used to run successful Event Fund-sponsored Open Science events–we learn about LA-CoNGA Physics and how they used a hackathon format to engage with students to enlarge their networks. Through this blog series, Event Fund seeks to highlight the processes and practices that undergird more inclusive and accessible data science event programming.

Our 2022 Annual Report highlights the impact of our programs and collaborations

On March 6th, 2023, the Digital Infrastructure Incubator (DII) practice tank and program launched its second cohort. The program aims to explore “divergent tech” and I, Miliaku Nwabueze, have been recently hired as a Senior Program Manager at Code for Science & Society to lead the DII program with support from Dr. Angela Okune and Dr. Rayya El Zein.

In this post, we learn about Event Fund grantee ESMARConf and how they have used automation to try to streamline a lot of the behind-the-scenes work.