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About CNI Membership Meetings:
Representatives of CNI’s member organizations gather twice annually for membership meetings,* which were founded to serve as a venue for collaboration on networked information technologies and resources with a focus on the higher education and research enterprise. Meeting attendees include senior IT, computing, research, and library administrators; publishing executives, government officials; funders; faculty; researchers; and others with a high level of interest in and understanding of digital information issues.
Meetings cover an array of topics that align with CNI’s interests as reflected in the Topics pages and recent meeting programs. The events are designed to explore new technologies, content, and applications; to further collaboration; to analyze technology policy issues; and to catalyze the development and deployment of new projects. Each meeting includes:
- Project Briefings: Typically 30-minute to one-hour breakout sessions that include general discussion and address issues of interest to the membership, a timely topic, or a specific project related to networked information content and technologies, particularly those that are cross-institutional or of broad interest to the community.
- Plenary Sessions: Presentations of CNI’s latest initiatives, as well as insights from national and international leaders in the networked information community; the lightning round includes succinct, back-to-back updates from multiple presenters.
- Discussion Tables: Opportunities, mostly moderated, for attendees to engage with each other on issues for which there is strong community interest and/or to learn more about initiatives we believe to be of value.
*Prior to 2009, CNI membership meetings were called CNI Task Force meetings.