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 and the energy transition; Feeding the planet; Healthy communities: The role of RIs in addressing and collaborating on these challenges and showcasing best practice examples.
Conference program
This is the draft program, as of 23 July 2024, and is subject to change.
| Monday, 2 December |
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| Side event: Global Science Forum (GSF) workshop on research security and consequences for RIs, 9am-5.30pm. Invitation only. |
| Tuesday, 3 December |
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| Welcome to Country and Opening Ceremony |
| Keynote: Where Indigenous knowledge and methodologies intersect with research infrastructures |
| Morning Tea |
| Panel discussion: How research infrastructures are supporting the energy transition |
| Keynote: AI & imaging – innovative insights into next generation therapeutics and diagnostics |
| Lunch |
| Breakout sessions: – Improving critical ocean and earth observations – Developing research infrastructure partnerships with local and indigenous communities – Creating a trusted and secure research environment |
| Breakout sessions: – Research infrastructure business models that enable translation – Building networks and scaling up: data sharing on a global scale – How research infrastructure is supporting sustainable agriculture, nutrition and development |
| Afternoon Tea |
| Breakout overviews |
| Panel discussion: Looking to space for answers on earth |
| Conference Dinner |
| Wednesday, 4 December |
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| Welcome and reflections on yesterday |
| Keynote & panel discussion: How will RI contribute to solving global climate challenges in the next 30 years? |
| Panel discussion: Global collaboration in biosecurity and pandemic preparedness |
| Morning Tea |
| Networking Session – Brella App |
| Panel discussion: The skillsets needed today and for the future; developing our next gen leaders |
| Lunch |
| 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 |
| Breakout sessions: – Digital research infrastructure for healthy communities – Institutional and policy frameworks for inclusive research infrastructure collaborations – Early Career Scientists: Pitch Session |
| Afternoon Tea |
| Breakout overviews |
| Panel discussion: Inside the atom: how large research infrastructures are harnessing the power of the smallest elements |
| Networking Drinks |
| Thursday, 5 December |
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| Welcome and reflections on yesterday |
| Panel discussion: Showcasing successful global research infrastructure collaborations |
| Panel discussion: Research infrastructure successes in supporting research translation |
| Morning Tea |
| Keynote: Research infrastructures beyond 2050 |
| Closing Ceremony and Lunch |
| Side event: 16th Meeting of the Group of Senior Officials (GSO) on Global Research Infrastructures. Invitation only. |
| Friday, 6 December |
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| Side event: 16th Meeting of the Group of Senior Officials (GSO) on Global Research Infrastructures. Invitation only. |
| Monday, 9 December |
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| Side event: 16th Meeting of the Group of Senior Officials (GSO) on Global Research Infrastructures. Invitation only. |
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters throughout Australia, and pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging. We recognise the importance of connection to culture, land, kinship and community to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander families. We acknowledge the cultural practices and traditions still carried out today and being passed down to future generations.