Introduction: The SciCodes Consortium is hosting a half-day symposium "Building the Future of Research Software" on the morning of April 9, 2025 for the research software engineering (RSEng), funder, and science communities to consider challenges and long-term aspirations for research software and computational science. We are particularly interested in how to better support computational reproducibility, research software quality, “frictionless reuse”, and advancing how we publish, share, discover, cite, curate, and (main|sus)tain research software.

The symposium will be a hybrid event held in Washington DC (limited to 50 in-person attendees) with remote participation available via Zoom. This symposium will help guide the development priorities for our science gateways, research software registries and repositories in an immediately following workshop.

The agenda includes a keynote address by Katherine Skinner from Invest in Open Infrastructure, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Daniel S. Katz (NCSA, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign) with the following panelists:

• Ana Trišović (JOSS, MIT)
• Maxence Azzouz-Thuderoz (Software Heritage, swMATH)
• Sandra Gesing (US-RSE, SDSC)
• Tom Morrell (Caltech Library, SciCodes)

Each panelist will give a brief 5-minute presentation; after all panelists have delivered their presentations we will have facilitated open discussion with all attendees, both in-person and remote.

Agenda (Tentative)

0800 Networking / Breakfast

0845 Introduction and Opening Remarks

0900 Keynote: Dr. Katherine Skinner, Invest in Open Infrastructure

1000 Coffee / Tea Break

1020 Panel Discussion: “Building the Future of Research Software”

• Moderator: Daniel S. Katz (NCSA, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
• Ana Trišović (JOSS, MIT)
• Maxence Azzouz-Thuderoz (Software Heritage, SciCodes)
• Sandra Gesing (US-RSE, SDSC)
• Tom Morrell (Caltech Library, SciCodes)

1100 Facilitated Open Discussion

1200 Summary and Closing Remarks

This half-day hybrid pre-workshop symposium is an open event. We want to hear from you! We would like input from a wide range of voices from the research software engineering (RSEng), funder, publisher, library, and science communities we serve. You can help inform subsequent workshop activities and provide concrete guidance on development priorities for our individual science gateways, registries, and repositories. The symposium can accommodate up to 50 in-person participants and will also offer remote attendance. It will include a keynote, panel discussion, and facilitated open discussion with all attendees, both in-person and remote.

Please complete the form below to register for the symposium and lend your voice to the conversation. You will also have the opportunity to provide ideas for symposium topics and tell us what you hope to get out of attending.

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