 Welcome, everyone. Kia ora. Selamat pagi, namaste, assalamu alaikum, and nei hu, konichiwa, hola. How does that feel for a truly international event? I welcome you all to the first RSC Asia-Australia End Conference. We have prepared a map for you to add a pin during the end conference, and more details about that soon. I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Paul Andrea Martinez. I am the Software Project Coordinator at the Australian Research Data Commons, or ARDC. I'm also the Community Manager of the Research Software Alliance, RISA. I am the Steering Committee Member of the RSC Australia and New Zealand Association, and I'm the Co-Chair of this end conference together with Roland Mossbergen. Among other things, I feel privileged to kick off the ceremony and welcome you all to this first-of-a-kind event. As I am based in Australia, I'd like to first acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land upon which I live and I work, the younger people and the terrible people. I wish to pay respects to the elders, past, present, and emerging leaders, and I also acknowledge the contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community who continue to maintain their identity, their culture, and the Indigenous rights. If you want to acknowledge your land, please type that in the chat. As this is the welcoming and introductory slides, I'd like to start with a vision and a purpose of this meeting. Why are we running this end conference? A group of people decided that it would be a great idea to get together not only with the Australian New Zealand Association, but also with the Emerging RSC Asia Association. We've defined many things or points as goals that we would like to commit during this end conference, and we would like to communicate those to you. In every part of this end conference, you remember these goals and try to proactively act on those goals and not just leave them as a slide deck. The first one is to build a research software engineering community across Asia and Australia. We are emerging. The Australian New Zealand Association has been here for about three to four years, and the Asia Association has just been funded this year. We also want to create awareness in the community of what is happening. This is an open floor. It's an opportunity for you to share what is valuable to you, what you're currently doing, what you would like to be doing in the future. You have this opportunity to discuss with people who are your peers. We are colleagues. We are in the same space. We have the same challenges, and we want to discuss how to solve them together. We also like to discuss the need for more recognition in clear career paths. This conversation is very important because it's an RSC. Our career paths are not defined. It's not the same as having a lawyer degree or just a computer science degree. We don't know what's coming next. We always need to reinvent ourselves and see other things that we can do in the future. That's why we have dedicated the second day to discuss any topics around career progression and career paths. You're welcome to add to those topics, and I'll tell you how to do that in a second. Another point is to demonstrate the value of RSCs throughout the end conference. Also, this is your opportunity to shine. There'll be a lot of people from different backgrounds. We have been investing the time to invite people from students up to managers. There might be a chance to get your next job if you really showcase yourself. Use this opportunity. Try to talk to people. Use the chat. Try to get their contact details, schedule a Zoom meeting later. It's not just here in your university or in your city or in your state. It's across multiple countries, so your opportunities are vast. We also underpin this end conference with diversity, equity and inclusion principles. I am very happy to let you know that it's the first time that I'm organizing an end conference, and I've organized all the conferences before, where we really touched this topic of DEI from the very beginning. We have a very small budget for this end conference, but with that small budget in mind, we actually paid someone to help us with accessibility. We have paid someone to write a report for us to share with our keynotes in the best way that they can make the slides accessible, that they can communicate their message in an accessible way. We also try to invite people from different areas, like I mentioned before, not only career-wise, but also age, different genders, different backgrounds. You have here the hallmarks, and I'm really proud of that. The sixth point is follow on from discussions brought up at the NZRSC conference. Some of you might have heard or might have attended the New Zealand RSC conference. It's been running a few years already. They used to call it the programmers meeting, or the coding programmers meeting, and now it's an RSC conference. They had a lot of presentations. They have a full program. We wanted to work together in a way that the presentations were the first two days, and now it's an open floor for discussion. If there was anything that you learned during that conference, maybe, or you want to extend, please use this space as well to continue that conversation. The last point about why we are running this conference is we are using this as a springboard for building community in 2023. So as you will imagine, all of the organizing committee are volunteers, and we are using our time to bring this to the community, but we won't do it this for our lifetime. We want the new emerging leaders to come up and to say, this is interesting to me. I'd like to be more involved next year, so remember that we have elections every year to join the RSC Australian New Zealand Association as part of the committee, and the RSC Asia will also have a similar venue for interactions and to join that community. Next. So the way that an un-conference waste is to have a very flexible schedule, but we wanted to form the skeleton. So we actually thought that having an un-conference will be much easier until you actually get to do the things that are required to run an un-conference, and you will see there's a lot of planification behind. You won't imagine the kind of things and ideas that one would like to present to you and the things that actually come to the table. So this moment is just the fruit of all the people that have been working around this for the last few months. So what do we have prepared for you? We have scheduled three short keynotes. Two are going to be today, one just after the welcome, and one at the end of this day, so at 4.30 AEST. And then we have a panel discussion about strategy and policy on the Friday at 1.30 PM. The rest of the un-conference, so you'll see all this session and times allocated, it's up to you. And I'll let you know how you can fill on those sessions in just a minute. We have an un-conference board. An un-conference board is physically a place where people can put sticky notes and add their thoughts and their topics they want to discuss or present or learn more about. And then people will have other kind of stickers and will go and add a little dot as a voting and voting for this topic. And then we get together and we separate into different groups of discussions. Also what we have prepared, we have prepared an amazing group of volunteers that are here ready to greet you and answer any questions you have. So that's why we have selected the first 30 minutes of each day. Just to answer your questions, just to be here with a smile, say whatever you need, we are here to help you. And you can recognize us because we'll have this background. And I'll let you know the names in just a second. And then also I'd like to thank our sponsors. They're also happy to chat with you. They have selected the times when you can reach out to them to learn more about them. And those times are also from 12.30 to 1 every day and also during the breaks. So please go to the expo and find the booth and find the representative you want to speak with. Next, Unconference. So this is the new world I think for many of us. If you've joined an Unconference before, try to erase what you've seen. This is a new thing. And Unconference is always a new thing. It doesn't matter if you've done this many times, it's going to be a different feeling every time you run an Unconference or you're participating from an Unconference. So I'm going to read a bit of a definition first so we all know what to expect. An Unconference is an event trend that has become rather common in the last decade. It's meeting of peers to facilitate learning. That's why we want to do it. It's run by the attendees and it's for their benefits. So whenever you feel that you're gaining something, that's what we wanted to have. If you feel this session is not for me, feel free to move to another session. It's up to you. We want the best out of you and really do what is interesting to you. While we can guide you, everything is pretty much in your interest. It uses small discussion groups where all attendees are giving an opportunity to choose the topics they want to discuss. The idea here is that the sum of the expertise of the people in the audience is greater than the sum of the expertise of the people on stage. So it's not a place where we're just going to talk to you. So the first 30 minutes, yes, because I need to give you some instructions. But after that, raise your hand, facilitate sessions, say, hey, I have a cool idea who wants to join me here and go and do your own thing. How are we going to facilitate this? So we have an itinerary. So it's in a schedule. You'll see in the sum event platform that you'll see in the session staff, there are different sessions and they are not too long. So it's a maximum of one hour per session. And you'll have the time to arrange that hour as you wish. We have an conference board for people to propose topics. I mentioned this before and we have created this board in a virtual world and we're using Padlet for that. The Padlet link will be shared later on, so you don't have to worry about that now. But if you work careers and you read all the instructions, they will also send via email. Then we have four un-conference sessions and we have one today, two tomorrow and one on Friday. Those un-conference sessions are not labelled. They're just called session one, session two, session three and actionable items for the last session. What's going to happen in those sessions is that we will go to the Padlet, we will put our thumbs up in points that we want to discuss and then the topics that have more votes will go into a different breakout drone. So we'll all be on the same meeting like we are now and they will separate into breakout drones once we decide which topics are most voted. Remember that for each of the group sessions that we will have, please try to collect three takeaways of each of the topics. We would like to share that with everyone else. There are some topics that are very interesting and we would like to split ourselves and be part of two different groups but we can't do it. So it's important that you write the takeaways so other people who are not able to join your session can see that after. Feel free to add your name if you want so people can connect with you and continue the conversation if they feel like they can. Okay, tips how to make this. So the previous point was just talking to you about the virtual board. This is going to be reiterated again because I know not everyone is here at the moment and people will be joining in and out of the sessions so we'll have to explain this again. There's a few things that I'd like to let you know. When you suggest a topic, don't be vague as in I want to talk about career progression. This is nothing really for people to vote on but if you say I've been sending 10 different emails and I haven't got one interview or I have been sending a hundred applications and I haven't got one interview, that will give you a lot more interest in discussing for example. So give a little bit of description around the topic, have some feelings around the topic so people are feeling that yes they want to discuss this. Don't be scared to pick tough topics. There might be topics that you don't know nothing about but the idea is that you want to learn more and because we have invited a lot of people who have different expertise, there'll be someone who might be able to help you so ask away and take the time to really find what you want to learn. Number three, take advantage of this unique opportunity because some people might have a lot of expertise in things they never talk about because they might think or nobody really want to know about the technical stuff but I work on that 20 hours a day but here is the right crowd. Here's people who really want to talk about technical stuff, here's the people who really want to talk about how to deal with your manager, how to change your job, how to change your career. Maybe there's people who've been doing bioinformatics for five years and then they decided that's not for them so it can happen. Then number four, most important, realize and have fun. Again, this is an open space, do what you like to do if you have an idea, raise it up, be friendly with each other and I'll talk a bit more about that and remember we are setting the tone so if you have the interest in being a facilitator let people know they can reach to you so you can even talk during the breaks. I want to vote for this topic, let's go and make this topic work and a lot of people will vote for that and also don't get bumped if only two people show up, maybe there's only two but there are the interested ones so if there's a hundred people in your breakout room maybe not everyone will have the time to discuss but if you are only two maybe you can get into a deeper conversation so that's also good. A minimum of two people, a maximum of as many people as you can handle. Next, some basic patterns so the main one is a group discussion when there's a facilitator and then someone who's leading the conversation. Please if you are a facilitator make sure that everyone has the time and space to talk. Some people will not want to speak aloud like I'm doing now some people would like to interact via the chat so please allow for those interactions to happen make sure that everyone is saying what they think even if it's a yes I being in in that position or I don't know anything about this topic and I'm happy to listen so I tend to those people as well ask them questions. Show and tell is another type of session patterns where someone has hey I have this cool demo I'd like to share with you it's about blah blah blah I'll take five minutes and then somebody else can jump with another demo for example or or I have this bag in my code that I've been trying to solve for the last 15 hours can someone please look at my code that's also good and then the other type of session is learn how to do X like I've been trying to configure my GitHub actions can someone help me with that then you can make a group out of that if there's something new to share idea so I've just been thinking that my institution should have an RC chapter for example and do you want to talk about that please do that and then the session button that as organizers we have used as the keynote so we have invited specific people to do presentations that will fuel the session conversation so these two keynotes for today are early career and they will talk about what they plan what they want to know and tomorrow it's more about career progression and on Friday it's more about strategy and policy so we have invited different people with different overviews and and you can also take that and continue the conversation after that okay I'm good on time so let's go a bit slower here the code of conduct designating a code of conduct is a step farther establishing a more welcoming space for our community members and I noticed that code of conduct gets mentioned in a lot of events but then we don't really touch upon them I recently had a code of conduct incident so I am spending a bit more time in the code of conduct and explaining you why is this our core of conduct it's a reflection of our core values one of our values is that all contributions are valued contributions by individuals and by entities as long as they the contributions are here to the code of conduct and the second core value is that we want to be inclusive with all this is the first event that we are running across different nations so be mindful of that people have different perspectives people have different tones of talking to each other so be it really really mindful we advocate for inclusivity we welcome and and extend empathy and kindness to everyone so it doesn't matter if you speak another language it doesn't matter if your tone is higher than my tone be kind with each other and this will leverage contributions from all community members regardless of their identity or their expression I'd like to point to you that we have two contacts so my name is Paula and we also have Roland our emails on on the screen we are the code of conduct facilitators this is to empower attendees by creating an accessible reporting mechanism for this community event so we don't expect anything bad to happen but we want you to be very open to raise any incidents to us in private and we will attend to those as soon as possible um speaking a lot about who the contacts are is a trusted mechanism because we are creating a secure space for our members if you know who to reach then you are more likely to reach out to them I want you all to be aware of occurrences of even microaggressions so we don't know each other we're just getting to know each other for some people some things are um more aggressive than other things please be mindful with your comments they they still can count as misconduct and I move my slides as misconduct or be offensive behaviors we don't want them to occur but if they are called please let us know and we will support you everyone has the link to the code of conduct it's been sent via the instruction emails and also on our website there is a link to the code of conduct so go to the rseunset.org and find the code of conduct next we are on social media and we are trying to use twitter as much as possible it would be great if you can tweet for us as well during the end conference the hashtag is rse AA so tweet now tweet later tweet anytime and share anything that you like to share with others going to my latest slides we have special thanks to give to our key partners for supporting this conference our key partner is ARDC the Australian Research Data Commons and QCIV the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation and also we have some we have an accessibility partner it's the Society for Research Software Engineering in the UK if you are a recipient of our accessibility grants it's thanks to them and they'll also like you to let them know how this accessibility grant has helped your involvement in the end conference we also like to thank our ally partners the NCI Australia and also Google Cloud feel free to connect with them you'll find their details in the sponsor staff and last but not least I invite each panel each committee member to wave so people can recognize you and I want to truly recognize the great efforts that all of us have made in the last few months to bring this end conference to you and and we are Serangit Kahur Michael Ling my name is Paula I'm the co-chair with Roland and Pradeep and Simon so you see it's a very small group to host a really big event a special thanks also to Mark Crow for all the support that he has shown us as a sponsor he is not part of the organizing committee but I feel that he's answered as many emails as we have as well and he's the only one who you might not be aware of all codes rcaa 000 rcaa 037 that all the committee members know what they mean but he's still been uh all supportive and we are very grateful for his support okay that's all for me and I'd like to thank everyone again for being here you can stop recording now and I can stop changing my screen