Program

ICRI 2024 will explore trends, challenges, and opportunities in research infrastructures globally.  Key themes include:​

Digital research infrastructure: Integrating Quantum, AI, High-Performance Computing (HPC) and other new technologies into RIs. Managing research data, and building digital skills to support RIs.  ​

Research infrastructure for translation: Ensuring RIs deliver societal impact, with a focus on international best practices and examples of RI-enabled translation into policy, community, and industry applications.  ​

Global collaboration: Opportunities to expand global collaboration, partnership and access to RI.

Indigenous knowledge: Engaging with Indigenous communities and knowledge systems in developing and using RIs.​

Hope and wonder (enabling future science): What are the future RI needs, how will they enable future science and technologies? Skilling the future workforce, and imagining RIs beyond 2050. ​

Challenges: Climate change; feeding the planet; healthy communities: The role of RIs in addressing and collaborating on these challenges and showcasing best practice examples. ​

Conference program

3 December
4 December
5 December

For information on ICRI’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