Program

Conference program

View every session on the ICRI 2024 YouTube channel

For information on ICRI 2024’s many side events please visit the side events page.

Monday, 2 December
6.00pm – 8.00pm ICRI Welcome Reception – QUT Campus, The Cube

Tuesday, 3 December
8.00am Arrival and check in
9.00am Welcome to Country and Opening Ceremony
10.00am Keynote: Where Indigenous knowledge and methodologies intersect with research infrastructures
10.45am Morning Tea
11.15am Keynote: Global trends and environmental considerations for research infrastructures
12.15pm Keynote: AI & imaging: Innovative insights into next generation therapeutics and diagnostics
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Breakout sessions: – Improving critical ocean and Earth observations – Developing research infrastructure partnerships with local and Indigenous communities – Creating a trusted and secure research environment
3.00pm Breakout sessions: – Research infrastructure business models that enable translation – Building infrastructures and scaling up: data sharing on a global scale – How research infrastructure is supporting sustainable agriculture, nutrition and development
4.00pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm Panel discussion: Looking to space for answers on Earth
5.15pm Close
6.30pm Conference Cocktail Event

Wednesday, 4 December
9.00am Welcome and reflections on yesterday
9.15am Panel discussion: Exploring global strategies: How research infrastructure will address climate challenges over the next 30 years
10.00am Panel discussion: Atomic-scale insight with global-scale research infrastructure for exploration and discovery
10.45am Morning Tea
11.15am Networking Session – Brella App
12.00pm Panel discussion: The skillsets needed today and for the future: Developing the next generation of research infrastructure leaders
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Breakout sessions: – The role of research infrastructures in training the digital workforce – Using research infrastructures to investigate and document the impacts of the environment on human health – Greening research infrastructures
3.00pm Breakout sessions: – Digital research infrastructure for healthy communities – Institutional and policy frameworks for inclusive research infrastructure collaborations – Global collaboration in biosecurity and pandemic preparedness
4.00pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm Panel discussion: Early Career Scientists Pitch Session
5.15pm Close

Thursday, 5 December
9.00am Welcome and reflections on yesterday
9.15am Panel discussion: Showcasing successful global research infrastructure collaborations
10.00am Panel discussion: Research infrastructure success stories in supporting research translation
10.45am Morning Tea
11.15am Keynote: Professor Alan Duffy – Research infrastructures beyond 2050
12.00pm Closing Ceremony
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm End of Conference