About the organizers
The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) is an international community of professionals whose mission is to “bring research software communities together to collaborate on the advancement of the research software ecosystem.” Together, they ensure that “research software and those who develop and maintain it are recognized and valued as fundamental and vital to researchers worldwide.”
The Netherlands eScience Center is a research organization that since 2012 has been uniquely positioned as an independent foundation, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the Dutch organization for IT in education and research (SURF). It is the national centre with the digital skills to create innovative software solutions in academic software. The core activities of the eScience Center are carried out by Research Software Engineers (RSEs) who are high-end, university-level specialists who do two things: they do research using digital technologies and methodologies, and they engineer software.
Advisory committee

MICHELLE BARKER
Director, Research Software Alliance (ReSA)

NEIL CHUE HONG
Director and Principal Investigator, Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK

MARIA CRUZ
Senior Policy Advisor, Open Science, Dutch Research Council (NWO)

Joris van Eijnatten
General Director, The Netherlands eScience Center

DANIEL S. KATZ
Chief Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois, USA
Organizing committee (Netherlands eScience Center)

Valentina Azzarà
Section Head, Social Sciences & Humanities

Tom Bakker
Policy Advisor

Sacha van Breugel
Event Manager

Joris van Eijnatten
General Director, The Netherlands eScience Center

Carlos Martinez Ortiz
Scientific Community Manager, Natural Sciences & Engineering

Veronica Pang
Communications Advisor