As a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute in 2013, I attended the Collaborations Workshop 2013. To be honest, I did so rather reluctantly: I was in a very busy stage of my PhD at the time, and although it was seemed like a reasonable way to spend a few days, I felt that it was unlikely to produce anything of direct benefit to me. I couldn't have been more wrong.
In the first session at that year's workshop I met someone from the IT as a Utility Network+ and showed off a proof of concept instrument that I'd been developing during my PhD (in all honesty, I'd brought it with me so that if the conference was boring I could slip back to my room and test the instrument!). He was fascinated by it, and strongly suggested that we apply for a IT as a Utility Network+ pilot project to get some funding to continue development. We did so, and won £50,000 of funding – which was enough to employ a post-doc for six months and develop a full prototype instrument. The Collaborations Workshop was living up to its name: within an hour of the start of the conference I'd developed a collaboration which led to significant funding!
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