Our EMEA User Meeting will be held virtually on 13th – 15th July. This year we’ll be coming live to you in your front rooms, office spaces, and kitchen tables with a mixture of sessions from product specialists and research institutions.
Sessions are scheduled three hour blocks, from 3PM – 5PM BST. Please register for each block that you are interested in attending, but feel free to join at the session times that interest you. Don’t worry if you can’t make a session on the day: we’ll email you a recording of sessions you’ve signed up for following the event.
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Agenda
*All times are in British Summer Time (London, GMT+1)
Day 1: Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Theme: Getting the Most Out of Elements
| Recommended for: Elements System Admins, Research administrators, Library staff, Marketing staff
2:00 – 2:30 PM Symplectic Update (Jonathan Breeze, CEO) 2:30 – 3:00 PM Version 6 Updates (Kate Byrne, VP Product Development) 3:00 – 3:15 PM Break 3:15 – 3:45 PM Discovery and Public Profiles Update (Nick Anderson, Senior Client Success Manager) 3:45 – 4:00 PM Client showcase (University of Sussex) 4:00 – 4:30 PM Introduction to the Reporting Hub, Sam Gibbons-Frendo, Product Manager |
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Day 2: Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Theme: The Future of Symplectic: From Research Information to Research Management
| Recommended for: Elements System Admins, Research administrators, Library staff
2:00 – 2:45 PM Elements Roadmap and Functionality 2021-2022 (Kate Byrne, VP Product Development) Kate discusses our strategic development themes and plans to expand the range of data captured within Elements including the introduction of our new Technologies Module. She also outlines our plans for further development on a number of key modules including Assessment, Impact and Discovery. 2:45 – 3:00 PM Building on Public Profiles: Introducing the Equipment Module (Nick Anderson, Senior Client Success Manager) 3:00 – 3:30 PM Our plans for the Impact Module (Kate Byrne, VP Product Development) 3:30 – 3:45 PM Break 3:45 – 4:30 PM Introduction to Research Funding Solution (Manya Buchan, Senior Product Manager) Recommended for: Elements System Admins, Research administrators, Grants Management staff Manya gives an overview and demonstration of the new Solution. Many of our clients have asked about getting a first look at this exciting new suite of functionality to explore how further reduce the administrative burden on researchers, facilitate and track collaborative proposal development, and increase visibility of project statuses. 4:30 – 4:45 PM Client Showcase: Research Funding Solution Early Adopters (University College Dublin) |
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Day 3: Thursday, July 15th, 2021
Theme: REF and Beyond
| Recommended for: Research administrators, Elements systems operators, REF project managers, CTOs
2:30 – 3:00 PM Why make the move to hosting? (Geirmund Knutsen, VP Client Services) 3:00 – 3:15 PM Migrating from Repository Tools 1 to Repository Tools 2 (Ben Heartland, Client Integration Lead) 3:15 – 4:00 PM Symplectic Community Discussion: Reflecting on the REF (Manya Buchan with Phineas Wenlock, Research Systems Manager at University of Essex, and Tim Brooks, Head of Research Excellence & Enhancement at Anglia Ruskin University) 4:00 – 5:00 PM End of Day Networking and Meet the Symplectic Team: Your Chance to Ask Questions (Jonathan Breeze, Kate Byrne, Tom Letcher) at the Symplectic Virtual Coffee Shop on gather.town (invite will be sent separately). |
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