Join ‘Connecting Steps’ and take a walk outside!
Step outside, meet someone new or join with a person you know, and explore fresh perspectives during this 2 km walk filled with thought provoking questions along the way. You will head out in small groups or pairs, connect your ideas, and who knows, you might even win a prize.
Sign up at the SURF info desk during the morning until 12:15. At 12:15, pick up your lunch to go and head outside.

In the catering area you can find the following booths.

• RDNL: National platform for data professionals
• 4TU.ResearchData
• TDCC’s
• Publinova: Make practical based research. more visuable and findable
• DCC-PO
• LCRDM Linked Data Working Group
• Dutch Interoperability Network
• Meet the SPII (Open Science infrastructure) - UNL

In the Showroom, you can find inspiration from several poster presentations and a VR demo of the SURF HPC Visualisation team.

• Ldot for Participant Management and Research Workflow - MEMIC, Maastricht University

• FAIR Research Data Management - Training Materials Ready for Reuse - DANS

• Social sciences data? ODISSEI Portal - DANS

• Discover the Research Data Alliance (RDA)'s hidden RDM gems - DANS

• From Community Projects to Sustainable Practices - TDCC-NES

• Synthetic Data: What are we waiting for? - TDCC-SSH

• Connecting Dutch Caribbean Minds - Dutch Caribbean Digital Competence Network

• To sign or not to sign (consent forms) - Geosciences Faculty at Utrecht University

• From code to community: building sustainable research software together - eScience Center

• Landelijke Docs: Contribution Carnival - UBVU Amsterdam

• Measuring Open Science with Large Language Models: A New Toolkit - University of Amsterdam