| 07:30 – 08:30 | Women+ in HPC & HPC Systems Administrators Joint Breakfast, sponsored by SharonAI This breakfast is free to attend, but space is limited. Register your place when registering for the conference. |
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| 08:00 – 17:30 | Registration Open | Boulevard Auditorium Registration Desk | ||||
| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | ||||
| Session Chair | Luc Betbeder-Matibet & Natasha Simons | ||||
| 08:40 -08:50 | Welcome to Day 3 Conference Chairs |
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| 08:50 – 09:30 | Invited Speaker High-Performance, Quantum and AI-Driven Chemical Discovery Giuseppe Barca, Professor of Quantum Medicinal Chemistry, Monash University |
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| 09:30 – 10:30 | Why Australasian Research Needs Supercomputing Panelists: Hayley Teasdale, Australian Academy of Science Andy Hogg, ACCESS-NRI Tim Rawling, AuScope Georgina Rae, REANNZ Presentation Slides Download |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer | ||||
| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | Boulevard B1 | Boulevard B2 | Boulevard B3 | Boulevard Room |
| Theme | Infrastructure and Identifiers – Strategy Based for Specific Disciplines | Research Data & Research Software and Tools – RDM | Research Software and Workforce – eResearch Capabilities | Industry Updates | Research Software and Tools – Building Tools and Workflows |
| Session Chair | Noel Faux | Ghulam Murtaza | Edoardo Tescari | Andrew Underwood | Maciej Cytowski |
| 11:00 – 11:20 |
Kathy Dallest, Katie Ozdowska |
From Policy to Practice: Building a Research Data Management Ecosystem Sow Boubacar |
Failing Forward: Experiments with AI Tools to Build a Policy Finder Wei Shen |
Research isn’t limited by ideas; it’s limited by infrastructure Ben Svalbe
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SCIGET: Making Scientific Software Accessible – Everywhere for Everyone! Aswin Narayanan, Steffen Bollmann, Mark Endrei, Joshua Scarsbrook |
| 11:20 – 11:40 |
MAVERIC: Enabling the Future of AI-Driven Research in Australia Amr Hassan |
Your Future Self Will Thank You: Encouraging Good Data Management Practice at Project Closure Vanessa Crosby |
From Metrics to Meaning: A Contextual AI Platform for Research Impact Assessment Sebastian Haan |
Next Generation System Integration for Sustaining AI/HPC Growth Joshua Fryman
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Kylie Morrow |
| 11:40 – 12:00 |
Towards a Unified Access Infrastructure for Australia’s Life Sciences Platforms Amanda Zhu, Dr Steven Manos |
Operationalising Trust in Data Spaces Fahamame Emamjome |
BoF Session Different Models, Same Challenges: A Conversation on eResearch Operations Edoardo Tescari, Shaun Grady, Julie Iskander, Jacky Kwun Lun Cho, Anastasios Papaioannou |
BoF Session Unlocking New Research Frontiers with AI-Powered Infrastructure Andrew Underwood, Luka Topic,
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BoF Session Scientific Applications and Workflows Support – Best Practices, Challenges and Approaches Maciej Cytowski, Mike Lynch, Glen Charlton, Rui Yang, Anselm Motha |
| 12:00 – 12:20 |
The future of eResearch in Aotearoa Georgina Rae |
LIGHTNING TALKS Leading the REDCap service across UWA Mathematics Research as eResearch RISE up for Research Data Management Reviewing the effectiveness of the FAIR4RS Principles Streaming Genomics at Scale: Efficient CSV Delivery via GraphQL, Brotli and WASM |
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| 12:20 – 12:40 |
Ryan Sullivan |
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| 12:40 – 13:40 | Lunch, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer | ||||
| Lunch & Learn – HPC Admins Gin Tan, Chris Schlipalius, Chris Hines, John Daniel Maloney |
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| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | Boulevard B1 | Boulevard B2 | Boulevard B3 | Boulevard Room |
| Theme | Research Data & Research Software and Tools – Discipline Implementations | Disciplines and Commons, Research Software and Tools – Translation Activities | Infrastructure and Identifiers – Cyber Security and Risks | Research Compute, Research Data, Research Infrastructure – Data Spaces | Research Data and Workforce – Getting Better at Using AI |
| Session Chair | Liz Stokes | Masoud Rahimi | Lesley Wyborn | Jonathan Smillie | Kyle Hemming |
| 13:40 – 14:00 |
WHACS: A new global Wave Hindcast for the Australian Climate Service, calibrated for extremes Claire Trenham |
Helping deliver Nature-Positive outcomes through a Shared Environmental Analytics Facility (SEAF) Luke Edwards |
Lesley Wyborn |
Evolving Data Landscape: Governance dimensions of Australian Dataspaces Shannon Callaghan |
Federated Learning for eResearch Peter Marendy |
| 14:00 – 14:20 |
Delivering Spatial Ecosystem Data at Scale: TERN’s Cloud Native Approach Gerhard Weis |
Rory Chen |
Cybersecurity for RSEs: design patterns for eResearch web applications Sharon Tickell |
Building Australia’s Dataspace Ecosystem: Cloud-Driven Innovation for Trusted Data Sharing Robert Shen, Muhammad Ali |
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| 14:20 – 14:40 |
Nina Welti, Lian Flick |
BoF Session Lost in Translation: Closing the Gap Between Knowledge and Impact Masoud Rahimi |
BoF Session They Are Amongst Us: Are Dataspaces Are Already Here? Jonathan Smillie, Muhammad Ali |
BoF Session Rewriting the Rules: AI’s Impact on Digital Research Skills Training Kyle Hemming, Angus Fisk, Shaun Grady, Danny Meloncelli, Aidan Wilson |
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| 14:40 – 15:00 |
Helen Glaves |
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| 15:00 – 15:20 |
ClimViewer: A Scalable, Interactive Platform for Climate and Weather Data Exploration Rui Yang |
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| 15:20 – 15:50 | Afternoon Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing | Boulevard Foyer | ||||
| Room | Boulevard Auditorium | ||||
| Session Chair | Luc Betbeder-Matibet & Natasha Simons | ||||
| 15:50 – 16:30 | Invited Speaker Physical AI as the Next Frontier of Research and Industrial Digitization Tomasz Bednarz, Director of Strategic Researcher Engagement at NVIDIA Corporation Presentation Slides Download |
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| 16:30 – 17:10 | An AI step-change for Research Infrastructures: Panel discussion on AI capacity, people and sovereign capability Panellists: Dr Emily Kahl, Dr Kate Michie, Dr Ghulam Murtaza, Andrew Wellington, Gin Tan, Ben Chiu Facilitators: Luc Betbeder-Matibet, Frankie Stevens |
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| 17:10 – 17:15 | Conference Close Natasha Simons, Luc Betbeder-Matibet, Co-Chairs, 2025 eResearch Australasia Conference |
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