ECR Online Event: Data in Energy Networks

On September 17^th, the EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub Early Career Researcher Committee hosted an online networking event centred on the topic of “Data in Energy Networks”. The event was run through Gather to make it a bit different to standard online webinars and to enable a bit more freedom and flexibility for participants to strike up conversations with new contacts.

Things kicked off with an excellent opening talk from Dr Stephen Haben from the Energy Systems Catapult, summarising some of the projects that he and The Catapult are working on and ways for researchers to feed into them. Following this, the main topics of conversation in the themed rooms were Strategies and platforms for data sharing and academic-industrial collaboration – the latter being supported and facilitated by some attendees from Arenko.group.

Following the online event, there was even a small gathering for ECRs based in London – for most this was the first face-to-face networking event in well over a year!