Talk Title: Fostering Cloud Adoption Using a Community-Driven Approach

Talk Abstract: In this talk, we will summarize our current user outreach strategy and propose several community-driven activities to aid with the adoption of MOC and NERC resources. We will examine the current landscape of user engagement and propose strategies for expanding outreach to a wider audience. By emphasizing community-driven solutions, we aim to not only increase short-term adoption of cloud-centric workflows, but also scale to provide a self-sustaining community of trained experts.

Bios: Dr. Christopher S. Simmons is the Deputy Director of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center. He serves as the Engagement Coordinator for the Northeast Research Cloud and on the leadership team for the Open Storage Network. He is a developer and maintainer of several open-source projects including OpenHPC, where he also serves as the Project Lead. Simmons holds a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from the University of Texas.