Scheduled Events
Register for the Data Summit & Pre-SummitThree Key Themes
Discovery & Access
How can we best move forward in Wyoming to make research data more findable and accessible?
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How can Wyoming law, policy, and decisionmakers support the need to make research data more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable?
Methods & Applications
Explore how we can transform the research landscape in the state to encourage interoperable and reusable research data, and how others are currently applying it in their work.
An Overview: Explore Discovery & Access, Policy & Governance, and Methods & Applications to advance FAIR and AI-ready data across Wyoming.
January 12–14, 2026 | University of Wyoming Conference Center | Laramie, WY
The Wyoming Open Science Data Summit convenes researchers, educators, data professionals, and policymakers to advance an open, collaborative, and AI-ready future for Wyoming’s research data ecosystem. The summit seeks to build a sustained community of practice—and a center of influence—for open science standards, governance, and capacity across the state.
Organized around three key themes—Discovery & Access | Policy & Governance | Methods & Applications—the event will explore how Wyoming can make research data more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). As artificial intelligence and data-driven methods transform the research landscape, the summit will focus on enabling high-quality, well-curated, and ethically managed data to serve as the foundation for innovation, policy, and decision-making.
Through panels, workshops, and facilitated discussions, participants will examine strategies for breaking down data silos, improving data stewardship, and safely sharing public data for greater transparency and impact. By bringing together faculty, students, government agencies, and industry leaders, the Summit aims to align Wyoming’s open science efforts with national and global best practices—fostering collaboration, accessibility, and AI-ready research across disciplines.
A Pre-Summit Event on January 12, the Wyoming Geospatial Community Forum, hosted by WyGISC and WYGEO, will spotlight geospatial data, applications, and policy issues relevant to Wyoming’s geospatial professionals and decision makers.
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The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.