About Virtual World Cafés

One virtual platform: Virtual World Cafés supported by Mural

A Virtual World Café (VWC) is an online event that fosters knowledge sharing and creates opportunities for actions. VWC participants are distributed across several breakout sessions, with participants switching sessions periodically and getting introduced to the previous discussion at their new session by a session lead.

Mural is a browser-based interface supporting virtual discussions.

Our Virtual World Cafés will engage both the science and engineering communities to share knowledge and define new collaboration opportunities through structured discussions hosted on Mural.

Three Virtual World Cafés for three Cohorts

• Virtual World Café 1: Users and scientists working with high-throughput scientific applications
• Virtual World Café 2: Developers and testers working on hardware and software systems
• Virtual World Café 3: Trainers and educators working with workforce development

Each Virtual World Café discusses current state of the practice and future roadmaps with the targeted cohort.

Feedback Opportunities

This project needs your feedback and there are 3 ways that you can contribute:

1. Before the VWC: On the website there is a form available, per cafe, where you can provide use cases for the session in relation to the topic question.
2. At the VWC: Contribute to the MURAL design-thinking application tool during and after the session.
3. After the VWC: Complete the post-workshop survey designed by the Assessment Team.