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Dr Michelle Barker has extensive expertise in open science, research software, digital workforce capability and digital research infrastructure. As a sociologist, Michelle is passionate about building collaborative partnerships to achieve system change.

She recently chaired the OECD Expert Group on digital skills for the research sector, was a member of the OECD Expert Group on Socioeconomic Impact of Research Infrastructures, is an Advisory Committee Member of the US Software Sustainability Institute (URSSI), and has co-convened conferences including the IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE), and the International Workshop on Science Gateways.

Michelle is a former Director of the Australian Research Data Commons, where she led the strategic planning for the Australian government’s $180 million, five-year investment in ARDC, the national research software infrastructure investment program, and developed a national strategy to enhance digital workforce capacity in the research sector.

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Daniel S. Katz, Assistant Director for Scientific Software and Applications, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois, USA

Neil Chue Hong, Director - Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK

Catherine Jones, Energy Data Centre Lead, Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK

Andrew Treloar, Director, Platforms and Software, Australian Research Data Commons, Australia

Karthik Ram, US Research Software Sustainability Institute (URSSI) lead, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Chris Mentzel, Executive Director, Data Sciences, Stanford Data Science Initiative, Stanford University, USA