Organizations attending the regional charrettes have initiated a collaborative process for writing a single proposal to the NSF for their respective regions, with the hope of incorporating participation from a diversity of stakeholders within their area. If your organization is interested in participating in this proposal, please reach out to the coordinators at the points of contact below:

• Midwest Region: bdhub-info@ncsa.illinois.edu.
• Northeast Region: NortheastBDHub@columbia.edu.
• South Region: Srinivas Aluru (aluru@cc.gatech.edu) and Ashok Krishnamurthy (ashok@renci.org)
• West Region: Mike Norman (WesternBDHub@SDSC.edu)
  

The Charrettes for Accelerating the Big Data Innovation Ecosystem are meant to convene stakeholders across sectors to discuss the creation of “Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs”. The hubs should aim to support the breadth of interested local stakeholders within their respective regions, while members of a hub should strive to achieve common Big Data goals that would not be possible for the independent members to achieve alone.

Interested parties may leverage this portal to communicate with members within their region or other stakeholders nationwide. Each hub should focus on key challenges and opportunities in its region of service. Opportunities could include:

• facilitating partnerships on overarching themes (e.g., privacy, data sharing, data stewardship, etc.),
• providing shared resources to the community (e.g., tools, infrastructure, testbeds, etc.) and/or
• coalescing around key topical themes (e.g., energy, transportation, healthcare).

This portal may be utilized before and after the Charrettes take place.