South Hub Seed Grant Program | Applications close TODAY!
The South Big Data Innovation Hub Seed Grant program is designed to promote collaboration and support the cross-pollination of tools, data, and ideas across disciplines and sectors including academia, industry, government, and communities. Seed grant awards must support the southern region and the Major Goals and Priority Areas of the South Hub. Applications for small grants (up to $10,000) will be accepted and awarded on a rolling basis until September 1. Applications for mid-size or group activities grants (up to $50,000) and large or multi-institutional grants (up to $100,000) will be accepted until September 1. Awards will be announced soon after. Learn more on our website.

South Hub Social Cybersecurity Working Group
Thursday, September 3 | 11:00 a.m. - Noon ET | Virtual 

Presenter:
Dr. Iain Cruickshank, U.S. Army Artificial Intelligence Task Force | Multi-Clustering Results of Social-Based Data

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Meeting ID: 556 168 986 

South Hub Education & Workforce Working Group
Friday, September 4 | 11:00 a.m. - Noon ET | Virtual 

Presenters:
Dr. Aryya Gangopadhyay, Professor in the Department of Information Systems at UMBC & Dr. Mantravadi, Health Economist with expertise in Data Science Education and Big Data | Quality Matters Based Best Practices for Data Science and Health Informatics Teaching

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All Hub Cyberinfrastructure Working Group
Friday, September 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET | Virtual 

Presenter:
Dr. Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University | Big Data Benchmarking and Surrogates

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Meeting ID: 464 161 845

Facilitating collaboration through the COVID Information Commons
The COVID Information Commons (CIC) is an open website to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration across various COVID research efforts, initiated by the NSF Convergence Accelerator. The initial focus of the CIC website is on NSF-funded COVID Rapid Response Research (RAPID) projects. The CIC serves as a resource for researchers, students and decision-makers from academia, government, not-for-profits and industry to identify collaboration opportunities, to leverage each other's research findings, and to accelerate the most promising research to mitigate the broad societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a collaborative effort led by the Northeast Hub in close collaboration with the Midwest, South and West Hubs. Learn more on their website.

USAID's Intelligent Forecasting Challenge | Proposals Due September 8
The USAID seeks to identify and test more accurate methods of predicting future contraceptive use at health service delivery sites. Their team will award $25K in prizes to innovators who develop an intelligent forecasting model—using the data it provides and methods such as artificial intelligence (AI)—to predict the consumption of contraceptives over three months. The team will also award a Field Implementation Grant of approximately $100K to $200K to customize and test a high-performing intelligent forecasting model in Côte d’Ivoire. Learn more on their website.

2020 ADSA Annual Meeting | October 14-16 | Virtual
The Virtual 2020 ADSA Annual Meeting will bring together data science methodologists and domain researchers from all disciplines and career stages to share breakthroughs and new approaches in data science research and education, with a strong emphasis on responsible data science. Their team is encouraging new, untested ideas to promote brainstorming for innovation and promote collaborative feedback and engaging discussions. Learn more on their website.

Conference on Truth and Trust Online | October 16-17 | Virtual 
The annual Conference for Truth and Trust Online is organized as a unique collaboration between practitioners, technologists, academics and platforms, to share, discuss, and collaborate on useful technical innovations and research in the space. The team invites submissions of both technical papers and talk proposals on technical solutions for addressing current challenges facing social media platforms. Learn more on their website.

2020 SBP-BRiMS conference | October 18-21 | Virtual 
The 2020 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation has moved to a virtual format. Learn more about the conference and how to register at their website.

Discover the Data Science Education and Workforce Working Group
The Data Science Education and Workforce Working Group focuses on: 1) Institutional Outreach, 2) Faculty and Student Development, 3) Resource Development, and 4) Workforce Landscape. This working group is transitioning to a monthly format to align with other working groups. The Data Science Education and Workforce Working Group is a mixed team of industry, academic, and government members actively engaged in securing funding for and developing education and workforce training in data science. The group also works to support faculty and student data science training and curriculum development, as well as connecting training in academia to industry and government needs and workforce development experience. Learn more about participating in the Working Group here.