08:30 – 17:00	Registration \| Atrium Foyer, Level 1
	Pre-Conference Workshops
Room		State Room 3
09:00 – 10:30		Generative AI with Diffusion Models Johan Barthelemy, Wei Fang, Gabriel Noaje
10:30 – 11:00		Morning Tea
Room		State Room 3
11:00 – 12:30		Generative AI with Diffusion Models Continued Johan Barthelemy, Wei Fang, Gabriel Noaje
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch	Lunch
Room	State Room 1	State Room 3
13:30 – 15:00	M astering Research Data Transfer and Automation with Globus Greg D’Arcy, Chris Myers, Alex Ip, Steel Cooke	Generative AI with Diffusion Models Continued Johan Barthelemy, Wei Fang, Gabriel Noaje
15:00 – 15:30	Afternoon Tea	Afternoon Tea
Room	State Room 1	State Room 3
15:30 – 17:00	Mastering Research Data Transfer and Automation with Globus Continued Greg D’Arcy, Chris Myers, Alex Ip, Steel Cooke	Generative AI with Diffusion Models Continued Johan Barthelemy, Wei Fang, Gabriel Noaje
17:30 – 19:30	NCRIS staff celebration event \| Lake Room eResearch Australasia delegates are invited to attend the ‘Celebration for NCRIS staff’ event, taking place alongside the eResearch Australasia conference on Monday evening, 28 October 2024 at The Pullman Melbourne – Albert Park. Join national collaborative research infrastructure (NCRIS program) staff and partners for light drinks, nibbles and networking. The event is free to attend, but registration is essential. More information and registration visit https://ardc.edu.au/event/ncris-staff-celebration/.

08:00 – 17:30	Registration \| Atrium Foyer, Level 1
08:00 – 08:45	Networking Breakfast \| Grand Ballroom Exhibition Area Make the most of your conference experience by attending the breakfast on the first day, an inclusive opportunity for all participants to casually break the ice, share ideas, and build essential professional connections before the start of formal sessions.
Room	Grand Ballroom 1 – 4
Session Chair	Luc Betbeder-Matibet
08:45 – 08:50	Welcome to Country Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation
08:50 – 09:00	Welcome Natasha Simons, Luc Betbeder-Matibet, Co-Chair, 2024 eResearch Australasia Conference
09:00 – 09:10	Official Conference Opening Amanda Caples, Victoria’s Lead Scientist
09:10 – 09:40	Next Steps for National Digital Research Infrastructure Professor Liz Sonenberg, Chair, National Research Infrastructure Advisory Group Emeritus Professor Joe Shapter, Member, National Research Instructure Advisory Group and Chair, the National Digital Research Infrastructure Working Group Download Presentation Slides
09:40 – 10:20	Next-generation radio astronomy: how the SKA telescopes will revolutionise our understanding of the Universe Sarah Pearce, SKA-Low Telescope Director Download Presentation Slides
10:20 – 11:00	The Billion $$$ Samples: Managing Data from Astromaterials Returned from Space Dr Kerstin Lehnert, Doherty Senior Research Scientist, Marine and Polar Geophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Download Presentation Slides
11:00 – 11:30	Morning Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing \| Grand Ballroom Exhibition Area
Room	Grand Ballroom 1 – 2	Grand Ballroom 3 – 4	Element Room	Lake Room 1 – 2	Lake Room 3 – 4
Theme	Workforce support in RDI	Keeping it FAIR	ReUsable Data and Code	Reproducible science, Hackathons Containers	Keeping it Secure
Session Chair	Frankie Stevens	Tim Rawling	Gnana Bharathy	Aleem Uddin	Ryan Fraser
11:30 – 11:50	The real infrastructure is the friends we make along the way Evelyn Ansell Download Presentation Slides	FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) and FAIR Enabling Resources (FERs) as accelerators of Interoperability and Reusability of Datasets across Multiple Communities Lesley Wyborn Download Presentation Slides	DeRP – Cooking up new solutions from leftovers Chris Hines, Angelika Dibjio, Mitchell Hargreaves	A Trusted Digital Repository for Australian Geoscience Research Communities Stuart Woodman Download Presentation Slides	Ten Simple Rules for Researchers: Upskilling for a Rapidly Evolving Workforce Amany Gouda-Vossos, Meirian Lovelace-Tozer Download Presentation Slides
11:50 – 12:10	Melbourne Data Analytics Platform: a team of academics enabling data-intensive and collaborative research across the University of Melbourne Edoardo Tescari Download Presentation Slides	AuScope Geochemistry Network: Providing a FAIR research vocabulary for geochemical data for the Australian and international geochemical community Angus Nixon Download Presentation Slides	Neither Fish Nor Fowl: Developing a Reusable Research Data + Copyright Training Module at Curtin University John Brown Download Presentation Slides	Modernising Hackathons: Urban Innovation Data Hack 2024 – Hackathon as a service Emma Joughin, Quinten van der Leest Download Presentation Slides	Secure and seamless access to national research infrastructure Nick Rossow, Peter Bugeia Download Presentation Slides
12:10 – 12:30	Getting the right advice: Forming a Research Data Advisory Group for effective stakeholder consultation Adele Haythornthwaite Download Presentation Slides	The Long Tale of Making Long Tail Geochemical Data FAIR, CARE and TRUST Compliant – Are We There Yet? Lesley Wyborn Download Presentation Slides	The ARDC’s Food Security Data Challenges program: Creating innovative solutions to support Australia’s Food Security Stefanie Kethers Download Presentation Slides	BoF Session Containers and Kubernetes in Australian Research: Building a Community for the Future Aleem Uddin Download Presentation Slides	BoF Session Addressing the growing Cyber-Security concerns with Digital Research Infrastructure Ryan Fraser, Nadia Taggart, Ben Chiu
12:30 – 12:50	Responding to workforce development needs in a changing environment: Digital research skills at the University of Auckland Thomas Saunders, Ben Collings Download Presentation Slides	Capturing and recording provenance information from distributed workflows Cornelis Drost Download Presentation Slides	Node Graph CMS – A Researcher Workbench and Content Management System for Humanities Research Ian McCrabb, Mike Lynch Download Presentation Slides
12:50 – 13:10	The evolution of an eResearch Community Program Beatta Zarrabi Download Presentation Slides	Modernising Datasets: Revitalising the South Australia Magnetotellurics Collection for current and future data-intensive analysis Hannes Hollmann, Lesley Wyborn Download Presentation Slides	What is the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA), and can it offer value for those interested in Data Spaces? Tomas Remenyi Download Presentation Slides
13:10 – 14:15	Lunch, Exhibition, Poster Viewing \| Grand Ballroom Exhibition Area
Room	Grand Ballroom 1 – 2	Grand Ballroom 3 – 4	Element Room	Lake Room 1 – 2	Lake Room 3 – 4
Theme	Training the RDI workforce	Research Software Engineers Unite	Australian Climate Research Infrastructure	Carpentries	HPC and WHPC Community
Session Chair	Aidan Wilson	Rowland Mosbergen	Harshula Jayasuriya	Sara King	Jana Makar
14:15 – 14:35	A decade of stable, sustainable and scalable training: Keys to success, lessons learned, and plans for the future Aidan Wilson	BoF Session Charting a path towards a sustainable community of people who work on Research Software Rowland Mosbergen Download Presentation Slides	Building the software, data and training foundations to support Australia’s climate simulator (ACCESS-NRI) Kelsey Druken Download Presentation Slides	Research Link Australia: Connecting Research, Industry and Government Through Information Lyle Winton Download Presentation Slides	Fast-tracking biosensor design using high-throughput computational workflows Helen Power, Andrew Warden Download Presentation Slides
14:35 – 14:55	BoF Session Strategies and Solutions for Effective Researcher Upskilling Aidan Wilson, Jacky Kwun Lun Cho, Heela Popal, Shaun Grady, Maria del Mar Quiroga, Pat Loria		BoF Session Streamlining continuous integration/deployment of bespoke software environments and adhering to the FAIR principles and workflows Harshula Jayasuriya, Aidan Heerdegen, Paul Leopardi, Tommy Gatti, Scott Wales, Rui Yang Download Presentation Slides	BoF Session The Carpentries Unconference and Networking session Sara King, Nisha Ghatak	BoF Session Shining a Light: Celebrating Success with Women in High Performance Computing Jana Makar, Aditi Subramanya, Emily Barker
14:55 – 15:15
15:15 – 15:35		Charting a path towards a sustainable community of people who work on Research Software – results of the BoF Rowland Mosbergen Download Presentation Slides
15:35 – 16:05	Afternoon Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing \| Grand Ballroom Exhibition Area
Room	Grand Ballroom 1 – 2	Grand Ballroom 3 – 4	Element Room	Lake Room 1 – 2	Lake Room 3 – 4
Theme	RezBaz Unite	DRI in Practice	Impact of National Research Infrastructures	HASS and Indigenous DRI	Citations, Publishers and CARE
Session Chair	Thomas Saunders	Robert Shen	Natalia Bateman	Luc Betbeder	Rebecca Farrington
16:05 – 16:25	Building a cross-institution and cross-discipline digital research community: A 10-year ResBaz Journey Cho Jacky Kwun Lun, Thomas E. Saunders, Liz Stokes, Damien Irving, Amanda Miotto Download Presentation Slides	Taking stock of biological data resources Keeva Connolly Download Presentation Slides	ACCESS-NRI: Supporting Climate Science through Robust Model Evaluation and Community-Driven Strategies Felicity Chun Download Presentation Slides	Decadal Plan for Social Science Research Infrastructure 2024-33: Vision and Priority Actions Isabel Ceron Download Presentation Slides	Suggested Practices for Recording the CARE Principles for Place-based Research Samples and Data: for the Future and for the Past Lesley Wyborn Download Presentation Slides
16:25 – 16:45	BoF Session Research Bazaar: Delivering value and impact for local research communities Thomas Saunders, Ben Collings, Liz Stokes, Jacky Kwun Lun Cho, Juliana Ortiz-Villa, Macarena Rojas Download Presentation Slides	ARGA’s UI: giving genomic data repositories a glow-up Caitlin Ramsay, Winnie Mok Download Presentation Slides	BoF Session Revealing the invisible: the challenge of measuring and communicating the impact of research infrastructures Natalia Bateman, Jo Condon, Kelsey Druken, Christina Hall, Emma Joughin, Kerry Mora Download Presentation Slides	Unlocking trust and identity through co-design and change management Fahame Emamjome Download Presentation Slides	eResearch skills for HASS and Indigenous data: what the ARDC learned from co-design workshops Kit Greenhill Download Presentation Slides
16:45 – 17:05		Building AusTrakka – a platform to support collaborative national surveillance, data sharing, and research in pathogen genomics Clare Sloggett Download Presentation Slides		Cementing Cultures: Establishing an Indigenous Data Governance Framework for the ARDC HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Jenny Fewster, Levi Murray, Robert McLellan Download Presentation Slides	Academic Data Citation and Reuse Mark Hahnel Download Presentation Slides
17:05 – 17:25		Case studies in scaling or modernising research: The AusCalVal and Reef Adapt projects Quinten van der Leest Download Presentation Slides		Co-designing Infrastructure for the ARDC HASS and Indigenous RDC – Lessons Learned Tom Honeyman, Nichola Burton Download Presentation Slides	Fostering the Publisher – Domain Repository Connection to Optimize the Long-term Value of Data Kerstin Lehnert Download Presentation Slides
17:30 – 19:00	Welcome Reception\| Grand Ballroom Exhibition Area The Welcome Reception offers a prime opportunity for attendees to unwind, connect, and build relationships in a casual setting, creating a positive and collaborative atmosphere that extends beyond formal sessions; additionally, mingling with exhibitors provides a valuable chance to explore innovations, partnerships, and industry insights.

08:30 – 17:30	Registration \| Atrium Foyer, Level 1
Room	Grand Ballroom 1 – 4
Session Chair	Natasha Simons
09:00 – 09:05	Welcome to Day 2, Conference Chairs
09:05 – 09:45	Enhancing Scholarly Rigor: Leveraging Open Metadata, Persistent Identifiers, and Interoperability for Knowledge Advancement Matt Buys, Executive Director, DataCite
09:45 – 10:15	The Australian Epilepsy Project’s Transformative Platform for Personalised Neurological Care Anton de Weger, Digital and Technology Lead, Australian Epilepsy Project Heath Pardoe, Science Operations Lead, Australian Epilepsy Project Simon Elisha, Chief Technologist, AWS
10:15 – 10:45	Morning Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing \| Grand Ballroom Exhibition Area
Room	Grand Ballroom 1 – 2	Grand Ballroom 3 – 4	Element Room	Lake Room 1 – 2	Lake Room 3 – 4
Theme	Machine Learnings	Taxonomies and PID	Research Data Managed	Research Data Governed	Analytics, Software & Tools \| Lightning
Session Chair	Steve Quenette	Jens Klump	Yvette Wharton	Jacky Cho	Lyle Winton
10:45 – 11:05	M achine Learning eResearch Platform (MLeRP) – How serving a subcommunity creates different design decisions Mitchell Hargreaves Download Presentation Slides	Through the looking glass: visualising taxonomic histories on the ARGA user interface for richer provenance Kathryn Hall Download Presentation Slides	First stop: storage. Next stop: the world… of research data Andrew Kneynsberg Download Presentation Slides	Decoding Research Data Governance in University – The journey of operationalising the DATA scheme Komathy Padmanabhan, Angeletta Leggio, Kristol Pyke Download Presentation Slides	AARNet’s FileSender: Evolution, Capabilities and Future Innovations Michael D’Silva Download Presentation Slides
11:05 – 11:25	Rise of the (learning) machines: is your eResearch data capability ready for the next generation of AI-augmented research demands? Benjamin Wu, Patrick Ngo	The AuScope Sample Repository — supporting the curation of physical sample collections Pavel Golodoniuc	The next evolution of the University of Queensland’s Research Data Manager Jan Wisgerhof Download Presentation Slides	Design of Research Data Governance Functions Using Data Management Plans and Records Toshiyuki Hiraki Download Presentation Slides	Counting on ‘COUNTER RD’: Investigating Standardised Usage Metrics for Data at NCI Jo Croucher Download Presentation Slides
11:25 – 11:45	BoF Session Learnings from a landscape analysis of AI/ML infrastructure opportunities and challenges Steve Quenette, Andrew Gilbert	BoF Session Physical Samples in the PID Ecosystem Jens Klump, Kerstin Lehnert, Rorie Edmunds, Lesley Wyborn	BoF Session Data management planning: tools, connections and machine-actionability Yvette Wharton, Anesh Nair, Katina Toufexis, Karen Sheehy, Sarah Hopkins	BoF Session So, you’re leaving’: Navigating Research Data Offboarding Jacky K. L. Cho, Cameron K. Fong, Penny L. Cross, Andreas Mertin, Piyachat Ratana	Using Globus as the high-performance data transport mechanism at Monash University Mitchell Hargreaves, Geoff Duniam Download Presentation Slides
11:45 – 12:05					Lightning Talks The Data Dictionary as a Research Data Governance Tool – Custom Implementation in REDCap Dianne Brown, John Liman Galaxy Australia – making use of national and commercial GPGPU resources Keeva Connolly The Spartan HPC Story: From Small Scale Experimental to Top500 and Beyond Lev Lafayette Download Presentation Slides Exploring ‘RAiD like’ workflows with figshare and Overleaf Simon Porter Model Atlas of the Earth (M@TE): advancing the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of digital twins Dan Sandiford
12:05 – 12:25
12:25 – 13:25	Lunch, Exhibition, Poster Viewing \| Grand Ballroom Exhibition Area
	AeRO AGM \| Grand Ballroom 1 & 2
Room	Grand Ballroom 1 – 2	Grand Ballroom 3 – 4	Element Room	Lake Room 1 – 2	Lake Room 3 – 4
Theme	Research Data Stored	PID Strategy and BOF	DRI In Practice	Research Data Managed and published	Containers
Session Chair	Ai-Lin Soo	Katie Hannan	Stefanie Kethers	James Wilmot	Werner Scholz
13:25 – 13:45	“Cold” Research Data Storage at The University of Sydney Stephen Kolmann Download Presentation Slides	Federated analytics – A New Paradigm for Data Processing and Machine Learning – Insights from the NINA Project Dom Gorse	ARDC Community Data Lab: Digital tools and guides for researchers accessing and using data from libraries, archives, museums and other collections Shubhra Junnarkar, Mary Filsell	Protocols for Implementing Long-term Archival Repositories Services (PILARS) Moises Sacal Bonequi, Peter Sefton	Blue-sky and the cloud: Container Orchestration for eResearch Nishanthi Dasanayaka, Mark Endrei Download Presentation Slides
13:45 – 14:05	An analysis of Research Data Storage Implementations using a Reference Architecture Jake Carroll, David Abramson	Australian National PID Strategy and Roadmap update Natasha Simons, Linda O’Brien, Amberyn Thomas	DataHarvest – building expertise to advance the management of grains research, development and extension data for Australian grain growers John Brown Download Presentation Slides	Are RDMPs on life-support? The need for a “health check” for researchers’ data practices Cameron K. Fong Download Presentation Slides	Hybrid HPC: can we finally manage our data easily and consistently between on-prem and out in the cloud? Jakub Szarlat
14:05 – 14:25	BoF Session Data or Debris? Ai-lin Soo, Rhys Francis, Claire Rye, Isabel Ceron, Frankie Stevens	BoF Session Linking instruments, methods, calibrations and data through PIDs: possibilities and benefits Yvette Wharton, Siobhann McCafferty, Katie Hannan, Jens Klump	RMIT’s Digital Research Infrastructure Roadmap: Towards A Strategic Approach in Research Excellence Robert Shen, Mark Easton Download Presentation Slides	BoF Session Data and metadata standards for web publication of research data Varvara Efremova, James Wilmot	BoF Session Building, securing, sharing containers: Paths towards a sustainable ecosystem for admins, users, applications Werner Scholz
14:25 – 14:45			Developing a cloud based near real time system for large scale water quantity and quality models Michael Pegios Download Presentation Slides
14:45 – 15:05			Taking Research to the Nextflow Level Michael Milton
15:05 – 15:35	Afternoon Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing \| Grand Ballroom Exhibition Area
Room	Grand Ballroom 1 – 2	Grand Ballroom 3 – 4	Element Room	Lake Room 1 – 2	Lake Room 3 – 4
Theme	Machine Learnings	Medical, Genomics and Imaging in practice	Research Data Managed	Data Tools (RedBox, Notebooks, Jupyter)	Vocabularies and Metadata
Session Chair	Anastasios Papaioannou	Aditi Subramanya	Jude Channon	Juan Carlo San Jose	Dougie Boyle
15:35 – 15:55	Supporting Deep Learning Solutions for Diverse Application Domains Richard Sinnott	Assessing copy number changes in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer with a shallow whole genome workflow Merridee Woutersm Download Presentation Slides	Unravelling research data management challenges: A new RDM Review service Katherine Howard	UWA’s new integrated RDMP tool – Research Data Hub (ReDBox) Katina Toufexis Download Presentation Slides	VocPub Editor: A Free and Intuitive Browser Vocabulary Management Tool Edmond Chuc, Nicholas Car
15:55 – 16:15	The Challenges and Opportunities in Delivering Large Language Models to Australian Researchers Luca Morandini	Being Pydantic about Medical Research Software Michael Milton	Insights from Macquarie University’s Research Data Management outreach 2024 Laura Hurley	XNAT + Neurodesk + JupyterHub: A Powerful Platform for Neuroimaging Analysis An Zhao Download Presentation Slides	Tools and workflows for metadata enrichment Simon Musgrave
16:15 – 16:35	Are Large Language Models Ready for Materials Science? Tong Xie	Establishing a National Framework for Advanced Health Analytics Infrastructure Gnana Bharathy	BoF Session Shifting the Dial: Driving Culture Change in Research Data Management Jude Channon, Nathan Robinson, David Medyckyj-Scott, Francis Gacenga, Patrick Splawa-Neyman Download Presentation Slides	BoF Session E-notebooks and digital note taking for research – approaches and best practices Juan Carlo San Jose, Jake Surman, Alexis Tindall, Shannon Taylor, Jackie How Download Presentation Slides	BoF Session The Research Vocabularies Ecosystem in Australia: Continuing the Conversation Dougie Boyle
16:35 – 16:55	ByteScience: A Cloud-Based Platform for Accelerating Scientific Research and Informatics Shaozhou Wang, Imran Razzak, Wenjie Zhang, Bram Hoex, Tong Xie	Pitschi: Rolling Out an Imaging Big Dataset Management Framework for Advanced Microscopy Mark Endrei, Nishanthi Dasanayaka Download Presentation Slides
16:55 – 17:15	Full Text Seeker: Using Microsoft Copilot to create a tool to assist with systematic reviews Tracy Bruce Download Presentation Slides	Tailoring HPC for medical research: lessons from the Melbourne Parkville Precinct Edward Yang, Daniel Tosello
17:15 – 19:00	Poster Reception \| Grand Ballroom Exhibition Area Cap off the second day of the conference by attending the Poster Reception, providing an informal space for presenters to engage directly with attendees, encouraging interactive discussions and in-depth exploration of their work, making it a must-attend event for valuable insights and networking.

08:30 – 13:00	Registration \| Lake Lobby, Level 1
	Post-Conference Workshops
Room	Park Room	Lake Room 1 – 2	Lake Room 3 – 4
09:00 – 10:30	AWS and the RMIT RACE Hub The first 40 people to register for the AWS and RMIT RACE Hub workshop will receive complimentary access. Don’t miss this opportunity—register early as spaces are limited. To register click here.	IBM Storage Scale User Group Meeting eResearch Australasia delegates are invited to attend IBM’s 2nd User Group in Melbourne on 1 November 2024, in conjunction with the eResearch Australasia Conference. Join us to hear from IBM Developers from the IBM India Development Labs – Storage Scale and Storage Fusion Development Teams, who will showcase new features and functionality, as well as share insights from several clients who are achieving business outcomes using IBM’s Storage Data Management Platforms. Don’t miss out on your opportunity to network with your peers and interact with IBM’s technical leadership on the latest in IBM Storage for Data and AI platforms. Register today: ibm.biz/storage_scale	ARDC Nectar Cloud User Forum 2024 The ARDC invites you to a Nectar User Forum after the eResearch Australasia conference on the 1st November 2024. It is not an official conference workshop, but will be held at the same location. This is an opportunity to share your experiences in using the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud, learn about how others are using Nectar and upcoming services on the horizon. Users will have the chance to also network with other researchers and ARDC Nectar operations staff. The event is free to attend but registration is required. Morning tea and lunch will be provided. Register here: https://nectaruserforum.eventbrite.com.au/
10:30 – 11:00	Morning Tea	Morning Tea	Morning Tea
Room	Park Room	Lake Room 1 – 2	Lake Room 3 – 4
11:00 – 12:30	AWS and the RMIT RACE Hub Continued To register click here.	IBM Storage Scale User Group Meeting Continued Register today: ibm.biz/storage_scale	ARDC Nectar Cloud User Forum 2024 Continued Register here: https://nectaruserforum.eventbrite.com.au/
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch	Lunch	12:30 – 14:30, Lunch and networking / hacky hour
Room		Lake Room 1 – 2
13:30 – 15:00		IBM Storage Scale User Group Meeting Continued Register today: ibm.biz/storage_scale
15:00 – 15:30		Afternoon Tea
Room		Lake Room 1 – 2
15:30 – 17:00		IBM Storage Scale User Group Meeting Continued Register today: ibm.biz/storage_scale

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WEDNESDAY 30 October 2024

THURSDAY 31 October 2024

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