Seminars/Webinars

Highlights from the UC Open Summit 2026

June 16, 2026
Lilli Wessling Hart

The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and UC OSPO Network members hosted the second annual UC Open Summit in Berkeley, April 22-23, 2026. Guided by the principles of being genuinely enjoyable, small but mighty, and warmly collaborative, the tone was set for this gathering of 150 open source enthusiasts, researchers, and educators from across the University of California system. The future of open science, scholarship, and sustainability was top of mind for all...

BIDS-Upwardly Global Data Science Webinars

BIDS and Upwardly Global (UpGlo) partnered in fall 2020 to launch this series of webinars to support job seekers in the field of data science, and the series is created especially for US immigrants and refugees who have college degrees from their home countries (but are as yet unemployed or working in survival jobs far below their skill level) who are new to the US job market. BIDS researchers and Upwardly Global (UpGlo) leaders and job coaches create this series with support from Accenture Applied Intelligence (AAI), with which both organizations engage in strategic relationships. ...