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

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