Tech Tasting Morning – How JTS Workshops can improve your results

Join us for a Tech Tasting Morning, a buffet of short, hands-on workshops designed to give you a taste of what’s possible when you combine technology with research creativity. Explore innovative digital tools, learn from experts, and find out how JTS workshops can help you enhance your research impact.

Participants can sample multiple sessions and then sign up for a full-day workshop programme on 2 February 2026, the “main course” following this tasting event.

Whether you’re a digital novice or a tech-savvy researcher, this morning is designed to inspire, connect, and empower you to take the next step in your research journey.

Programme:

Options workshop Round 1

Choose one of the parallel sessions:

Storymapping for Science – Enhance Your Impact
By Peter Merx, Geodienst
Do you want to learn how to use mapping to present your research in a proper and creative way? With Storymapping you learn how to visualise your research to create a stronger narrative or simply clarify your research. You can use this function of ESRI to reach a wider audience for your research using interactive maps and other multi-media. Storymapping is an easy starting point to incorporating maps in your research, learning how to visualise and crafting engaging stories. So do you want to showcase your research in a new engaging way? Explore it using this workshop!

Printed Registries – Structuring Historical Data with AI
By Herbert Kruitbosch
Historic texts can reveal a plethora of insights like trade behaviour, collaborators during war and marriages - but who has the time to read it all? Do you have an historic corpus with a particular structure, like a registry or a repeated type of relation between people, companies or other things? Not looking forward to reading everything? Or are you a STEM interested*  How can historians work quantitatively on chaotic data sets? The university provides a new platform to structure old prints into spreadsheets using prompted AIs. In this workshop you may bring your own corpus or use something we provide and use the printed registries to get everything structured in spreadsheets. Think about stock documents, marriage registries, tax records, the list is infinite (sort of). The platform is young, and still under development, so we're happy with your feedback too and also kindly ask you to bear with us during imperfections.

Applying science - creating a business with science at its core
By Hilco Boerlage
This workshop centers on the journey from academic research to entrepreneurship. Starting with the example of MemoryLab, participants gain an inside view of how a scientific idea was transformed into an independent company, navigating the challenges, pivotal decisions, and successes that marked its development. Building on these insights, participants will work with a structured framework to reflect on their own research and identify possible routes to bring their ideas to market. The session concludes with practical information on how to take the first steps, giving an overview of useful resources available from the University of Groningen and the broader Northern Netherlands entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Intel Geti Special – Build Computer Vision Models in Record Time
Meet Geti™, Intel’s open-source computer vision platform that lets you train pattern recognition models using your own visual data. With its intuitive interface and human-in-the-loop design, Geti empowers experts from any field to teach AI what to look for, no programming background required. Speed up repetitive visual tasks, explore new insights, and discover how accessible AI can be. Join this workshop to explore Geti™ in action!

Options workshop Round 2

Choose one of the parallel masterclasses:

Responsible use of AI Tools for Research
By Theo van Mourik
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming research by streamlining workflows and boosting productivity. This session explores how AI can enhance all stages of research, from discovery and analysis to writing and publication, helping researchers save time, improve quality, and increase impact.

HPC for Everyone – How to run massive computations from your web browser
By Cristian Marocico, HPC team
Learn how to run large-scale computations directly from your web browser. Many scientific workflows require heavy computing power that can be greatly accelerated using a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster such as Habrok. In the past, using HPC systems required command-line expertise, but new web-based platforms like OpenOnDemand make it easy for anyone to set up and run workflows visually. You can even launch interactive applications such as JupyterLab, MATLAB, and RStudio on Habrok. No advanced technical skills required.

Where the h#ck can I find that data?!!
By Peter Merx, Geodienst
Do you want to use socio-economic or geodata in your research but don’t know where to start? Learn the basics of data gathering in our workshop. In this workshop we teach you where to start in finding data sources with even an opportunity to request the data you need beforehand! Where to find up-to-date data and how to make sure your data is reliable and safe.

Intel Geti Special – Build Computer Vision Models in Record Time
Meet Geti™, Intel’s open-source computer vision platform that lets you train pattern recognition models using your own visual data. With its intuitive interface and human-in-the-loop design, Geti empowers experts from any field to teach AI what to look for, no programming background required. Speed up repetitive visual tasks, explore new insights, and discover how accessible AI can be. Join this workshop to explore Geti™ in action!