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Speaker: Chris Dwan
Chris Dwan leads Research Computing at the Broad Institute. In that role he is responsible for a team that provides data and computational services, as well as high throughput genomic analysis, to more than 3,000 researchers at one of the top genomic science institutions in the world.

From 2011 through 2014, Dwan helped to build the New York Genome Center. NYGC was founded by a unique collaboration of 13 biomedical research institutions in and around Manhattan. Chris was responsible for all of the computing, data storage, and network infrastructure for the first two years of NYGC's operations.

Previously, Chris served as the leader of the consulting organization within Bioteam. In that role he interfaced with hundreds of organizations at all stages of adopting and leveraging technology for genomic science.

Chris's academic background is in computer science, with a specialization in artificial intelligence.

Speaker: Mark Hahnel
Mark is the founder of figshare. A former academic having completed his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionise the research community.

Speaker: Stephen Litster
Steve manages the Scientific Computing group at NIBR specializing in the application of High Performance and Cloud Computing to advance drug discovery.

After obtaining his PhD in Chemical Crystallography in 1992, he continued his research career at the University of Calgary. During this time he was exposed to his first “super computer”-the Fujitsu VPX240, and realized the impact HPCC could have on scientific discovery. This was followed by a move to Harvard University in 1998 working under the supervision of Professors Don Wiley and Steve Harrison in the area of macromolecular and computational crystallography. Following a brief adventure into telecom startups, he came back into the scientific computing world as HPC lead at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. In 2004 he joined Novartis where he remains today as Global Lead for Scientific Computing

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