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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#666666;background:#F9F9F9">Register today for RDA Plenary 13 (P13), to be held from 2-4 April 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Loews Hotel. With the theme, “</span><em><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-thirteenth-plenary-theme-data-comes-responsibility" target="_blank"><span style="color:#538C39">With
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 for global partnerships and addressing responsibility throughout the data-lifecycle and across all domains.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 April 6. Rooms are limited (especially the days before and after the meeting) and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">only available
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 call their dedicated reservations team at 888-575-6397. Be sure to identify yourself as part of the RDA Plenary group block.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#666666">We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#666666">Yolanda Meleco, on behalf of the P13 Organizing Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Yolanda Meleco<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Research Data Alliance – United States<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Phone: (518) 276-4912<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-thirteenth-plenary-meeting-philadelphia-us"><span style="color:#0563C1">RDA 13th Plenary Meeting, 2-4 April 2019, Philadelphia, PA, US</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/user/login?destination=node/61109"><span style="color:#0563C1">RDA 14th Plenary Meeting, 23-25 October 2019, Helsinki, Finland</span></a>
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