The 2024 eResearch Australasia Conference will be held from 28 October – 1 November at the Pullman Melbourne, Albert Park, in Victoria, Australia.
Hosted by Australasian eResearch Organisations (AeRO) Inc., the conference is the premiere event for those interested in eResearch and actively transforming research via information technology.
This year we will have about 200 sessions covering the latest developments in research computing, research data management and other aspects of research infrastructure support. We are on track to exceed our forecast of 450 attendees with our return to Melbourne. The exhibition floor will be full this year and we thank our sponsors and national infrastructure partners.
Join us for deep technical workshops, a wide range of presentations and the incredibly popular Birds of a Feather sessions where different communities catch up with each other each year. Lastly, there are 3 social events scheduled in the program with plenty of time to engage in discussion and grow your network of specialist contacts.
I am pleased to confirm that our conference opening (on Tuesday 29th October) will include an opening address from Amanda Caples, Victoria’s Lead Scientist followed by a keynote on the “Next Steps for National Digital Research Infrastructure” from Professor Liz Sonenberg, Chair, National Research Infrastructure Advisory Group and Emeritus Professor Joe Shapter, Member, National Research Instructure Advisory Group and Chair, the National Digital Research Infrastructure Working Group.
Our keynote speakers include:
- Dr Sarah Pearce, Director of the SKA-Low Telescope who leads operations of the world's largest low frequency telescope to be built at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia, on Wajarri Yamaji country.
- Prof Franciska de Jong who will speak on the sustainability of the European Open Science Cloud and will bring a humanities angle to our conversations.
- Dr. Kerstin Lehnert from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University who will cover data infrastructures for Earth and space sciences to improve access and sharing of data generated by the study of physical samples.
- Dr Kate Michie from our Structural Biology Facility at UNSW who is pushing our cores and data systems by using ML techniques for protein folding and shows us what our cutting edge researchers need right now to do big things.
- Matt Buys, the Executive Director of DataCite who was instrumental in establishing ORCID and DataCite as widely adopted scholarly infrastructures.
If you can only come for one day, consider the Tuesday, but send someone from your team for the whole week.
On behalf of AeRO, our organising and program committees I am looking forward to seeing you or your representatives there.
