Dear MEM Student,
Professor Mattia Vaccari, Director of the UCT eResearch Centre, invites you to participate in a free inaugural Research Software Symposium hosted by the UCT eResearch Centre in collaboration with IDIA, CBIO, UCT ICTS and UWC.
🔗 Register before 20 October: dub.sh/rse-symp2025.
Research code, workflows, and software power discovery across every discipline, from astronomy and engineering to health sciences and the humanities. Building a strong and sustainable research software ecosystem is essential for South Africa’s research and innovation future and its global contributions. These elements of the digital research infrastructure are also a cornerstone of open science, enabling transparency, reproducibility, and collaboration across borders and disciplines.
The half-day symposium brings together researchers, research software developers, funders, policymakers, and research managers to share insights, tackle challenges, and shape the future of research software.
🎯 Theme: Research Code, Workflows & Software – Critical Pillars of the South African Digital & Open Research Infrastructure
📅 Date: 4 November 2025 @ 10:00 – 13:00 (Light lunch & networking 13:00 – 14:00)
📍 Venue: In person only
Neville Alexander Building Lecture Theatre 1
University of Cape Town Middle Campus
Mowbray
City of Cape Town
🗨️ Keynote: Prof Simon Hettrick
Director of Strategy, Software Sustainability Institute, UK
Co-director, Southampton Research Software Engineering Group
Email any queries to eresearch@uct.ac.za.
RSE Symposium 2025 flyer – final
Kind Regards,
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