PEARC26: BOF-5: Facilitating AI Use Cases on RCD Resources: Community-Informed Professional Development Materials

After RCD professionals articulated significant and growing desires for peer engagement and professional development materials around AI Facilitation during the PEARC24-colocated RCD Nexus Day, an AI Facilitation Materials Working Group has been producing such materials in response to those desires. These include a PEARC25-published set of RCD-varying AI use cases across the AI research project lifecycle, a re-usable webinar materials on requesting via the resources via the National AI Research Resource Pilot, and a dynamic online resource that encourages ongoing community contributions to planned phases of content on RCD-specific considerations across AI use cases in the published life cycle. This BOF will briefly review progress to-date and engage PEARC26 attendees in breakout discussion to ensure that in-progress and future materials continue to reflect the evolving professional development desires of the RCD professional community, from student and early-career perspectives to experienced RCD professionals and leaders.

Authors: Lauren Michael, Timothy Middelkoop, Manasvita Joshi, SemirSarajlic, Jeffrey Valdez and Ying Zhang

Room: Room 101I