This week on the FAIR Data Podcast, Rory is joined by Donny Winston, founder and principal consultant at Polyneme, a software and data consultancy, and host of the Machine-Centric Science podcast!

To kick things off Rory and Donny discuss the academic interests that led to Donny's current interest and expertise in data sharing and management. Donny shares his journey from encountering a fork in the road between nanotechnology and computer science in high school to pursuing a postdoc position at Hewlett-Packard Labs, and beyond!

With a strong entrepreneurial spirit evident in his achievements, Donny briefly shares some projects he took on and developed in the interim as he found his way to a position he truly enjoyed at Berkeley Lab. This journey of academic passion and technical expertise development eventually led to Donny applying his skills and expertise in the founding of Polyneme, a data and software consulting firm based in New York. Donny goes on to share some of the work that goes on behind the scenes at Polyneme, as well as providing some background on his decision to start the Machine-Centric Science podcast.

In addition, Donny provides insight into his engagement with the community through his role at FAIRpoints in collaboration with previous guests, Dr. Sara El-Gebali and Chris Erdmann, and highlights their upcoming event (Friday, September 30th: FAIRifying Participant Activity) and the conference on fair digital objects in Leiden towards the end of October, where they will be presenting an abstract on publishing fair points, i.e. Training material developed during their events as fair digital objects. To conclude, Rory and Donny also dive into some of the key current and upcoming issues in the fields of FAIR and Open Science.

Join us for the full conversation!