| Date & Time | 3-5 December 2024 |
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| Location | Brisbane, Australia |
Hosted biennially, the International Conference on Research Infrastructures is the major professional forum for the global research infrastructure community. ICRI 2024 will bring together policymakers, research institution leaders, facility operators, users and researchers, to discuss pressing topics of interest, trends and challenges facing research infrastructures around the world.
ICRI 2024 Delivery Partner
ICRI 2024 will be delivered by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation). With a history extending over 100 years, CSIRO is focused on solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. One of the largest multidisciplinary and mission-driven research organisations in the world, CSIRO works with universities, governments, businesses, industries, and communities around the country and world.
CSIRO has sites located in major city and regional centres throughout Australia, including Brisbane. It also hosts research infrastructures and scientific collections on behalf of the nation, including the Australia Telescope National Facility, Australia’s 94-metre ocean research vessel (RV) Investigator, the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, the Atlas of Living Australia and other facilities. The organisation also works with international partners such as the European Space Agency, NASA and the SKA Observatory to operate major science research facilities.
Themes
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.
Learn more and register here.
