Research Technology Professionals community

Research Technology Professionals community


Welcome to Microsoft’s Research Technology Professionals community. The place to collaborate with peers and Microsoft professionals. To benefit from opportunities to grow your cloud and technology skills, gain certification and benefit from expertise whilst planning your deployments, pipelines and solutions in research. Community members tend to work in universities or research institutions as technology experts enabling researchers to achieve their aims through software, technology, and infrastructure.

Who is it for?
The Research Technology Professionals community is dedicated to all technology professionals that work with research and researchers. Depending on where you work, you might have different role titles and we want to be inclusive of all technology roles working in research. These will include Research Software Engineers (RSEs), Data Scientists, Data Stewards and System Administrators.

Our goal
Our aim is to create a community that will act as a catalyst for peer-to-peer collaboration, accelerated growth and the exploration of new ideas, all designed to accelerate time-to-insights and discovery.
By joining the community, you will gain the support you need to develop new skills, unlock new opportunities, discover more efficient methods for achieving your professional goals and ultimately gain a more rewarding career.

What you can expect
In addition to being part of a vibrant group, as a member of the Research Technology Professionals Community you will enjoy a number of benefits, including:

Community
Join a Teams community of Research Technology Professionals from across the globe as well as Microsoft Professionals, Researchers and experts.

Events
Our events help Research Technology Professionals learn new skills with cloud computing. Members are invited to hackathons, webinars, architect solutioning and more.

Certifications
Earn certifications that show you are keeping pace with today’s technical roles and requirements. Members will benefit from Microsoft funded certification training and bootcamps, as well as certification vouchers for Microsoft exams.

Skilling
Members have opportunities to grow their skills across Research-focused cloud technologies. The community will be providing skilling opportunities across Microsoft Azure with capabilities across clusters & High-Performance Computing, scientific workstations and notebooks, Machine Learning & AI, and much, much more!

Resources
Microsoft Professionals are creating many resources and assets that will help Research Technology Professionals harness the power of the cloud, with guidance documents, solution architecture, best practices. Members can even suggest nominations for new resources.

Expertise
The community will create the opportunity for members to connect and collaborate directly with Microsoft Solution Architects that can provide guidance, mentorship and solution surgeries.

Join the community. Get involved and reap the benefits.


Register for the upcoming events

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Cloud-powered academic research

December 9th | 09:00 AM – 10:45 AM (GMT) London, UK

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Research Reactor Hackathon

March 17th | 2021 - 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM GMT

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