Program 
Join us for the MDC Summit on September 12-13 in Washington, DC
Please note - All times are in EDT.
All events occur at our conference venue, the University of California, Washington Center (UCDC). More info
Day 1 - Tuesday September 12
12:30pm
Coffee and registration
1:00pm
Welcome by Iratxe Puebla
1:10pm
Defining the Need for Open Data Metrics
Daniella Lowenberg, University of California Office of the President
1:45pm
Open Global Data Citation Corpus
Matt Buys, DataCite and Carly Strasser, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
2:30pm
Discussion session
3:30pm
Coffee break
3:55pm
Policy and Administrative Priorities for Data Metrics in the US
Moderator: Julia Lane, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Speakers: Nancy Potok (NAPx Consulting and New York University), Matthew Soldner (US Department of Education), Lauren Supplee (Administration for Children and Families), Maryam Zaringhalam (White House Office of Science & Technology Policy)
4:50pm
Takeaways from the day and goals for Day 2
Day 2 - Wednesday September 13
8:30am
Coffee
9:00am
Welcome by Iratxe Puebla
9:45am
Making Data Metrics a Funding Priority
Moderator: Carly Strasser, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Speakers: Michele Avissar-Whiting (Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Ishwar Chandramouliswaran (National Institutes of Health), Hannah Hope (Wellcome Trust)
10:20am
Coffee break
10:45am
Supporting Data Metrics Across Scholarly Communications and Academia
Moderator: Damian Pattinson, eLife
Speakers: Rebecca Bryant (OCLC), Scott Edmunds (GigaScience), Varsha Khodiyar (Echobyte)
11:20am
Incorporating Data Metrics in Tenure & Promotion processes
Moderator: Jamie Wittenberg, University of Colorado Boulder
Speakers: Giorgio Ascoli (George Mason University), Jeffrey Blume (University of Virginia), Bernard Mair (Association of Public and Land-grant Universities), Jean-Baptiste Poline (The Neuro, Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital)
11:55am
Meaningful Data Metrics: The State of Evidence from Bibliometrics Studies on Data Reuse
Moderator: Stefanie Haustein, University of Ottawa and ScholCommLab
Speakers: Nicolas Robinson-Garcia (University of Granada), Mike Thelwall (University of Sheffield), Thed van Leeuwen (Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University)
12:30pm
It Can Be Done! Breakout discussion
1:00pm
Closing