Creating a New Reality: A Sustainable Digital Transformation

Schedule

Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 10:00 am to Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Beecroft Building | Oxford, EN

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22-23 April 2026, University of Oxford(Hybrid Event)
About this Event

Creating a New Reality: A Sustainable Digital Transformation

This meeting is part of the project, which focuses on delivering authoritative advice to UK Research and Innovation on sustainable digital research infrastructure. It will promote discussion on the shape, constraints, and opportunities of the emerging UK power supply, alongside broader questions of community leadership, scientific credibility, and digital transformation in support of net zero.

Keynote speakers will include (additional speakers to be confirmed):

  • Professor David Wallom, Professor in Informatics, Associate Director - Innovation of the Oxford e-Research Centre
  • Professor Myles Allen, Principal Investigator, Oxford Net Zero

Meeting Objectives

  • Practical approaches towards community leadership and scientific credibility in defining and implementing net zero.
  • Understanding the shape, constraints and opportunities of the emerging UK power supply.
  • Engaging across generations to guide the digital transformation.

Expected Outputs

  • Recommendations on a framework for defining and implementing net zero, including approaches to balancing unavoidable emissions. The aim is not to re-review technical options, but to summarise available and emerging approaches and how these may inform infrastructure procurement policy.
  • Draft recommendations on the use of flexible approaches to siting and operating infrastructure to reduce carbon footprint and costs.
  • Recommendations for enhancing opportunities for postdoctoral researchers to engage in the development of sustainable digital research infrastructure. Poster sessions will form part of the programme (details to follow).

Draft agenda

The draft agenda can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/128JkLqiWwHmEh3NtW7D1O-iN26CqCe-86Htfd-cMAuM/edit?tab=t.0

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Poster sessions will form part of the programme (call for abstracts to follow)

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the NetDRIVE team at [email protected]


Agenda

πŸ•‘: 10:30 AM - 04:00 PM
Day 1: Wednesday 22 April 2026.

Info: Day 1 includes registration, keynote talks, a poster session , pesentations from NetDRIVE Community Projects, Panel Discussion & Breakout Sessions


πŸ•‘: 06:00 PM
Event Dinner: Wednesday 22 April

Info: Group dinner at a venue in Oxford


πŸ•‘: 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Day 2: Thursday 23 April 2026.

Info: Day 2 includes a review of NetDRIVE project deliveries, Priorities in delivery , meeting wrap-up


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Beecroft Building, Parks Road, Oxford, United Kingdom

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