Day schedule#

09:00 - 16:00 Monday 5th September 2022#

Location: Room 2.16, The Frederick Douglass Centre, Newcastle University

Room open: 09:00 Day start: 09:30

Code of conduct

Mission#

To have a community space where people can collaborate on and communicate about TRE infrastructure

Schedule#

Time

Session

Speakers

09:00 - 09:30

Arrival (coffee and pastries)

09:30 - 09:50

Introduction

Simon Li & Hari Sood

Community presentations :point_down:

09:50 - 10:30

Organisational overviews

ADR Scotland at EPCC

Mike Jackson

HRA

Alan Smith

SDAP

Martin O’Reilly

Microsoft UK for Precision Medicine

Alessandro Riccombeni

10:30 - 10:35

Break

10:35 - 11:30

TRE implementations

Secure workflows for HPC

Harvey Richardson

The Outbreak Data Analysis Platform

Andrew Brooks

The Alan Turing Institute’s Data Safe Haven

James Robinson

Sensitive Research Data Service

University of Sheffield

Design of a local TRE for process of patient records

Thomas Arildsen

The TREEHOOSE Open Source Cloud TRE

Chris Cole

11:30 - 11:45

Using TREs

Developing and Publishing Code for Trusted Research Environments: Best Practices and Ways of Working

Ed Chalstrey

Understanding researcher needs in TREs

Meag Doherty

11:45 - 12:00

Morning wrap up

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 13:15

Introduction for afternoon

13:15 - 15:00

Unconference style breakouts & discussions

15:15 - 16:00

Washup

Suggested topics for afternoon discussion#

  • Community management & engagement

  • Best practices for publishing research done with TREs

  • Current uses for TREs

  • How to collaborate inside a TRE

  • Data ingress/egress mechanisms/controls/policies

  • Managing software development in a TRE

  • User experience in TREs

  • Open source infrastructure and collaborations

  • Cloud vs on-prem TREs

  • Secure workflows for HPC

  • Standardisation of deployments

  • Standardisation of information governance, certification & regulation

Institutions represented#

  • Aalborg University

  • The Alan Turing Institute

  • HPE

  • HRA

  • Microsoft UK

  • National Institutes of Health / Software Sustainability Institute Fellow

  • University College London / Hospitals Trust

  • University of Sheffield

  • University of Cambridge

  • University of Dundee

  • University of Edinburgh

  • University of Manchester

  • UK Health Security Agency

Breakout discussion notes#

Session 1 - 13:15 - 13:45#

  1. Community management

  2. Standardisation of information governance, certification & regulation

  3. Managing software development in a TRE

  4. General Discussion

Session 2 - 13:50 - 14:20#

  1. Community management

  2. User experience in TREs

  3. Open source infrastructure and collaborations

  4. General Discussion

Session 3 - 14:25 - 14:55#

  1. Community management

  2. Safe data linkage and quality control

  3. Ingress/egress mechanisms/controls/policies

  4. General Discussion

Washup - 15:00 - 15:45#