Program

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Monday, 26 October 2026

To access the pre-conference workshops please enter Gate 6A, in the Shane Warne Stand, and take lifts 12 and 13 to level 2. Registration for the workshops is located in the Jack Ryder Foyer.

08:30 – 17:00	Registration \| Jack Ryder Foyer
	Pre-Conference Workshops
9:00		Room: Jack Ryder A Turn Agent Into Research Assistant Dr Johan Barthelemy, Dr Wei Fang, Bharatkumar Sharma Sponsored by Nvidia & Xenon	Room: Jack Ryder B/C High-Performance Computing, Data and AI for Australia Dr Hanah Rodriguez Colombo
10:00	Room: Lindsay Hassett Indigenous Data Foundations: A Learning Partnership for National Earth and Environmental Science Facilities Forum Workshop Dr Cassandra Sedran Invitation Only
10:30		Morning Tea	Morning Tea
11:00	Morning Tea	Room: Jack Ryder A Turn Agent Into Research Assistant Dr Johan Barthelemy, Dr Wei Fang, Bharatkumar Sharma Sponsored by Nvidia & Xenon	Room: Jack Ryder B/C High-Performance Computing, Data and AI for Australia Dr Hanah Rodriguez Colombo
11:30	Room: Lindsay Hassett Indigenous Data Foundations: A Learning Partnership for National Earth and Environmental Science Facilities Forum Workshop Dr Cassandra Sedran Invitation Only
12:30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13:30	Room: Lindsay Hassett Indigenous Data Foundations: A Learning Partnership for National Earth and Environmental Science Facilities Forum Workshop Dr Cassandra Sedran Invitation Only	Room: Jack Ryder Turn Agent Into Research Assistant Dr Johan Barthelemy, Dr Wei Fang, Bharatkumar Sharma Sponsored by Nvidia & Xenon	Room: Jack Ryder B/C High-Performance Computing, Data and AI for Australia Dr Hanah Rodriguez Colombo	Room: Players Changeroom Sharing the GPU: Can Research and Institutional IT Build AI Capacity Together?
15:00	Afternoon Tea	Afternoon Tea	Afternoon Tea	Afternoon Tea
15:30	Room: Lindsay Hassett Indigenous Data Foundations: A Learning Partnership for National Earth and Environmental Science Facilities Forum Workshop Dr Cassandra Sedran Invitation Only	Room: Jack Ryder A Turn Agent Into Research Assistant Dr Johan Barthelemy, Dr Wei Fang, Bharatkumar Sharma Sponsored by Nvidia & Xenon	Room: Jack Ryder B/C High-Performance Computing, Data and AI for Australia Dr Hanah Rodriguez Colombo	Room: Players Changeroom Sharing the GPU: Can Research and Institutional IT Build AI Capacity Together?
17:00	Workshops End	Workshops End	Workshops End	Workshops End

Tuesday, 27 October 2026

To access conference session rooms please enter Gate 3, in the Olympic Stand. Take the escalators or lifts 9, 10 & 11 to level 2. Conference Registration is in the Betty Cuthbert Bar.

08:00 – 17:30	Registration \| Betty Cuthbert Bar Area
	Plenary Session One
Room	Olympic Room
Session Chair	Luc Betbeder-Matibet
08:30 – 08:45	Welcome Rebecca Farrington and Luc Betbeder-Matibet, 2026 Conference Co-Chairs
08:45 – 09:00	Welcome to Country Wurundjeri Elder Tony Garvey, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation
09:00 – 09:10	Conference Opening Professor Jacek Jasieniak, PVCRI, Monash University
09:10 – 09:50	Keynote Presentation The Automation of Science Professor Ross D. King, Professor of Machine Intelligence, Chalmers Institute of Technology
09:50 – 10:30	Keynote Presentation Building Pathways for Indigenous Data Governance Dr Stephanie Russo Carroll, Associate Professor, University of Arizona
10:30 – 11:00	Morning Tea, Exhibition \| Betty Cuthbert Bar, Betty Cuthbert Lounge and Jim Stynes Grill
	Concurrent Session One
Room	Olympic 1	Olympic 2	Dillbabiik	Lindsay Hasset	Keith Miller
Theme	Indigenous Data, Country and Sovereignty	Building Research Capability	Operationalising AI	Research Software in Action	Upskilling Across Our Institutions
Session Chair	Rose Barrowcliffe & Sam Provost	Aditi Subramanya	Gin Tan	Juliana Villa-Ortiz	Liz Stokes
11:00 – 11:20	ORAL Indigenous Data Foundations: A Learning Partnership for National Earth and Environmental Science Infrastructure Facilities Cassandra Sedran	ORAL Building the Australian Dataspace Hub: Towards a National Coordination Function for Trusted Data Sharing Fahame Emamjome	ORAL From experimentation to value: How UTS is operationalising AI in Research Anastasios Papaioannou	ORAL One agent workflow built four ways: making it easier to cite from your reference library Eric Lawrey	ORAL Developing Core HPC Capabilities for Researchers: Outcomes from the NCI-QCIF Training Partnership Danny Meloncelli
11:20 – 11:40	Keolu Fox	ORAL From Testbed to National Capability: Delivering Dataspace-as-a-Service for Australian Research Robert Shen	ORAL Beyond the Chatbot: Teaching Researchers to use LLMs Programmatically Toby Johnson	ORAL The deployment of ASKAPsoft, a radio astronomy software, in Pawsey’s HPC Paulus Lahur	ORAL InCredible: Persistent, Verified Skills Passports for the Research Workforce Aidan Wilson
11:40 – 12:00	ORAL Whose Country do they come from? Using placenames and geolocations to reconnect data to Country Rose Barrowcliffe & Alex Ip	ORAL Building Bespoke Artificial Intelligence Educators, from Data Curation to Learning Management System Prototypes Robert Clemens	BoF AI Services for Research: Building the Plane While Researchers Are Already Boarding Sarah Walters	BoF RSE-AUNZ Update, Community Survey and Ask Us Anything Rowland Mosbergen	BoF Bridging the Gap: Working Effectively with Central IT in Research Environments Anastasios Papaioannou
12:00 – 12:20	ORAL Using Place to Ensure CARE is Embedded in All Downstream Outputs in Research Data Workflows Lesley Wyborn	ORAL Building Best Practice Standards for the Future of Australasia’s Research Infrastructure Aidan Wilson
12:20 – 12:40	ORAL Rethinking Long-term Repository Resilience for Sustainability of Global Earth and Environmental Science Data Supply Chains Tim Rawling	ORAL Building Domain Informed Automated Research for Hydrology Benjamin Leighton
12:40 – 13:20	Lunch, Exhibition \| Betty Cuthbert Bar, Betty Cuthbert Lounge and Jim Stynes Grill Poster Session 1: Visit the posters in Jim Stynes Grill to meet the authors
	Concurrent Session Two
Room	Olympic 1	Olympic 2	Dillbabiik	Lindsay Hasset	Keith Miller
Theme	Indigenous Data: Governance, Sensitivities and Context	HPC/AI Operations	PIDS For Instruments	From Infrastructure to Impact	Upskilling Our Researchers
Session Chair	Casandra Price	Luc Betbeder-Matibet	Rebecca Farrington	Jana Makar	Anubhav Kaphle
13:20 – 13:40	ORAL CARE principles in TERN: updates in research data infrastructure Javier Sanchez Gonzalez	ORAL Levelling the Playing Field: Using AI to Manage On-Campus HPC and Compete with Cloud Taariq GH Surtee	ORAL Registering AuScope Instruments with persistent identifiers using PIDINST Benyamin Motevalli	ORAL Building an Open Community Blueprint for Agentic AI in Research Trish Radotic	ORAL Prototype to production: key considerations and a case study for research software engineers Genevieve Buckley
13:40 – 14:00	ORAL Context Matters: Semantic Modelling for Indigenous Data Sovereignty Les Kneebone	ORAL Sixteen Years of eResearch Trends: The Demise of Data Mining and Rise of Artificial Intelligence Nathaniel Butterworth	ORAL Integrating ACLS Research Infrastructure Management System and Pure: Enabling Discoverability and Impact of Research Equipment Kate Croker	ORAL How do we prioritise use cases to maximise national impact? Dataspaces as a test case Thomas Shafee	ORAL GenAI for research – a report from the coalface Darya Vanichkina
14:00-14:20	ORAL ARDC’s Research with Sensitive and Indigenous Data Guide: Indigenous Leadership and Collaboration Kylie Black	ORAL Booting 1000 Nodes Like Two: Scalable HPC Operations with XCS Jakub Szarlat	BoF Persistent Identifiers for Instruments – Best Practices and Implementations Jens Klump	BoF From Signals to Story: Defining Scalable Impact Tracking for National Research Infrastructure Keith Brophy, Kelsey Druken, Rubbiya Ali, Ryan Pates	BoF Empowering Researcher Support: Co-designing HASS&I Research Infrastructure with the ARDC Community Data Lab Jamie Archer
14:20 – 14:40	ORAL Building a RSE Pattern Language for HASS and Indigenous Research: Co-Design, Workflow, and Early Findings Wolfgang Barth	ORAL Bridging Data, Models, and Supercomputing: An HPC–AI Ecosystem for Scientific Research Rui Yang
14:40 – 15:00	Presentation Discussion Time	ORAL From HPC to Agentic AI: Benchmarking the New Research Workload Christopher Jenkins
15:00 – 15:30	Afternoon Tea, Exhibition \| Betty Cuthbert Bar, Betty Cuthbert Lounge and Jim Stynes Grill
	Concurrent Session Three
Room	Olympic 1	Olympic 2	Dillbabiik	Lindsay Hasset	Keith Miller
Theme	Research Applications	Actionable Research Data Management	Digital Research Infrastructures for HASS	Navigating our Institutions	Practical Implementations of Identifiers
Session Chair	Ben Couldrey	Nick May	Rowland Mosbergen	Jacky Cho	Rebecca Farrington
15:30 – 15:50	ORAL Metro Quantum Key Distribution Proof of Concept Chris Myers	ORAL Data Governance for Responsible Research – What we find in the nooks and crannies… Dianne Brown	ORAL Introducing the Australian Internet Observatory data donation platform for digital platform research Bogdan Mamaev	ORAL Computing as a Means to an End: Bridging the Gap Between University Researchers and National HPCs Georgie Samaha	ORAL When AI Agents Outnumber Users: The Future of Trust for Researcher Identity John Scullen
15:50 – 16:10	ORAL AI in Australian molecular life science: findings from a national consultation Benjamin Goudey	ORAL Retain-by-Default to Disposal at Scale: UNSW’s Journey Towards Operational Research Data Disposal Tom Honeyman	ORAL HASS Research and the Rapidly Evolving Landscape of AI: a Research Infrastructure Perspective Geordie Z. Zhang	ORAL ResearchMate: An Agentic, Source-Cited AI Assistant for Navigating Institutional Research Knowledge Patrick Taylor	ORAL Encoding Persistent Identifiers in ISO 19115-3: Community Conventions and an Automated Checker Eric Lawrey
16:10 – 16:30	ORAL Making Biodiversity Data and Infrastructure Ready for Artificial Intelligence at the Atlas of Living Australia Hamza Javed	ORAL From “I Don’t Have Data” to actionable guidance: Developing RDM Resources for Law Researchers Ria Hamblett	BoF Social Science Research Infrastructure Network: Building Future Data Capability for Social Science (e)Research in Australia Mahnoosh Hassankhani	BoF Sustaining Research Applications: The delicate dance between research and enterprise Kwun Lun Cho	BoF Using IGSNs to Identify Physical Samples Within the Research Data Ecosystem and Global PID Graph Jens Klump
16:30 – 16:50	ORAL Prompting for Better Metadata: GenAI Prompt Design for Clear Open Dataset Titles and Descriptions Melanie Dixon	ORAL Launching Melbourne Data Planner: Reframing Data Management Planning for FAIR and Machine-Actionable Outcomes Peter Neish
16:50 – 17:10	ORAL Expanding the capability of molecular simulations: algorithmic coupling and resource implications Alfred Uhlherr	ORAL REDCap – our “Little Red Caboose”. Dianne Brown
17:10 – 19:00	Celebrating 20 Years of eResearch Welcome Reception\| Exhibition Precinct Sponsored by AWS

Wednesday, 28 October 2026

To access conference session rooms please enter Gate 3, in the Olympic Stand. Take the escalators or lifts 9, 10 & 11 to level 2. Conference Registration is in the Betty Cuthbert Bar.

07:30 – 08:30	Networking Breakfast: Getting Your IT Ready for the AI Era: How Specialist IT Infrastructure Solutions Enable AI Adoption Sponsored by Park Place Technologies – Make the most of your conference experience by attending the networking breakfast, an inclusive opportunity for all participants to casually break the ice, share ideas, and build essential professional connections before the start of formal sessions.
08:30 – 17:30	Registration \| Betty Cuthbert Bar Area
	Plenary Session Two
Room	Olympic Room
Chair	Luc Betbeder-Matibet & Rebecca Farrington
08:30 – 08:50	Welcome to Day Two & Committee Award Presentation Rebecca Farrington and Luc Betbeder-Matibet, 2026 Conference Co-Chairs
08:50 – 09:20	Keynote Presentation Beyond the Lab: How CSIRO Is Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure for Real-World Robots Speakers Andrew Underwood, Dell Technologies Mr Angus Macoustra, Chief Technology Officer, and Scientific Computing Program Leader, CSIRO Dr Peyman Moghadam – Head of CSIRO’s Embodied AI Research Cluster, and Adjunct Professor, CSIRO Gabriel Noaje, PhD – HPC Business Development, Asia Pacific, NVIDIA
09:20 – 10:00	Keynote Presentation On the edge of a leap: climate science, supercomputing and the AI era Associate Professor Negin Nazarian, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century
10:00 – 10:30	Keynote Presentation Building the Digital Foundations of Research: 20 years of eResearch and the Road Ahead Professor Paul Bonnington, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure), University of Queensland
10:30 – 11:00	Morning Tea, Exhibition \| Betty Cuthbert Bar, Betty Cuthbert Lounge and Jim Stynes Grill
	Concurrent Session Four
Room	Olympic 1	Olympic 2	Dillbabiik	Lindsay Hasset	Keith Miller
Theme	HPC for Climate Systems	Language Research Platforms	HPC/Cloud System Administration	Sponsored	Workforce Readiness
Chair	Lesley Wyborn	Mat Ishac	Lyall Weir	Ai-Lin Soo	Anastasios Papaioannou
11:00 – 11:20	ORAL Reusable Workflows for Profiling and Optimisation of the ACCESS Climate Models Micael Oliveira	ORAL A new approach to Machine Actionable Schemas for linked-data, simplifying schema and profile development for metadata systems Peter (pt) Sefton	ORAL Building Elastic HPC Environments with Cloud Bursting Evgeniia Golovina	ORAL Punch ratios: measuring the policy reach of Australian and New Zealand research on critical and emerging technologies Dr Anthony Dona	ORAL MDAP-ADACS personnel exchange program Edoardo Tescari
11:20 – 11:40	ORAL GPU porting, portably: Making MOM6 perform on any hardware with OpenMP offload and Fortran intrinsics Edward Yang	ORAL Repurposing the ARDC BinderHub: on-demand web hosting on national research infrastructure Chao Sun	ORAL Modernizing Legacy Scientific Codebases: An Agentic Approach to GPU Readiness and Technical Debt Jorge Galvez	ORAL What’s New at AARNet? Research Infrastructure, Innovation and Opportunities for Collaboration Ryan Fraser, Ai-Lin Soo	ORAL Quantum Workforce Readiness: Designing Vocational Pathways into Research-Focused Infrastructure Danny Meloncelli
11:40 – 12:00	ORAL Supporting FAIR Climate Data at Scale: Lessons from Australia’s National Research Infrastructure Kelsey Druken	ORAL When notebooks aren’t enough: rebuilding a tool collection as a research platform Senhui Guo	BoF Modern Fortran in 2026: Language Evolution, Community, and New Frontiers Jorge Galvez	BoF Designing On-Premises HPC: Navigating the Choices That Define Your System Mahesh Krishnan	BoF National career initiatives and what they mean for eResearch staff Darya Vanichkina
12:00 -12:20	ORAL Payu: the Guardian of Climate Model Runs on HPC System Qian-Hui Chen	ORAL Caring for language materials: describing, reusing and safe-keeping data with oral histories and Indigenous language communities using RO-Crate Moises Sacal Bonequi
12:20 – 12:40	ORAL Reflections on challenging the status quo: Climate model development and deployment using FAIR principles and workflows Harshula Jayasuriya	ORAL From twenty-dollar guesses to verifiable data: AI-assisted qualitative analysis done properly Chao Sun
12:40 – 13:40	Lunch, Exhibition \| Betty Cuthbert Bar, Betty Cuthbert Lounge and Jim Stynes Grill Poster Session 2: Visit the posters in Jim Stynes Grill to meet the authors
12:50 – 13:40	AeRO AGM \| Dillbabiik
	Concurrent Session Five
Room	Olympic 1	Olympic 2	Dillbabiik	Lindsay Hasset	Keith Miller
Theme	Communities Climate and Urban	Sensitive Data on HPC + Lightning Talks	Workflow Orchestration in Remotely Sensed Geospatial Data	TBC	Engaging With Our Communities
Chair	Nick May	Jacky Cho	Luc Betbeder-Matibet		Aditi Subramanya
13:40 – 14:00	ORAL AURIN Turns 16: A Coming-of-Age Story Loren Bruns Jr	ORAL L.A.I.S.: Local AI Service at University of Auckland: Leveraging the Power of Tiny Inference Devices for Research Sean Matheny	ORAL Registering Video Frames for Satellite-Based River Flow Monitoring Magda Guglielmo	ORAL Building Sovereign Foundations for Agentic AI in eResearch Andrew Beattie	ORAL Researcher and HDR Lifecycle project at University of Canberra Anesh Nair
14:00 – 14:20	ORAL Show and Tell: Data Storytelling as a Research Infrastructure Enablement Strategy Masoud Rahimi	ORAL MAVERIC: Lessons from Building a Trusted Research Environment on Sovereign Supercomputing Infrastructure Joseph Alfred Pineda	ORAL Responsible and FAIR UAV data management along the full data life cycle Jens Klump	ORAL From HPC to AI: UQ’s Journey Building an Open, Efficient Research Computing Platform with AMD Instinct and ROC Jake Carroll	ORAL Conversations and champions: A best practice recommendation for engagement Eve Ansell
14:20 – 14:40	ORAL Identity Crisis: Who’s Who in the Messy Real World of eResearch Aidan Heerdegen	ORAL AI Factories for security, sovereignty, control: architecture, requirements, benefits Dhruv Joshi	ORAL Treating Protocols Like Code: Version-Controlled Standards and Automated Quality Control for Aerial Plant Phenotyping Arden Burrell	BoF Beyond HPC: Expanding New Horizons and Unlocking new Opportunities in Cloud Enabled Research Kurt Sterzl, Robert Shen, Sam Doherty, Jaden Dzubiel, Justin Middler	BoF But What Actually Works? Evaluating Capacity in User Communities Beatta Zarrabi
14:40 – 15:00	ORAL Building a Reporting Platform for ACCESS-NRI with Django and Nectar Johanna Basevi	LIGHTNING TALK Targeted Outreach as a Driver of Research Data Engagement and Impact at Western Sydney University Karen Sheehy	ORAL From Patchwork to Pipeline: AI-Powered Impact Intelligence for National Research Infrastructure Masoud Rahimi
		LIGHTNING TALK Managing fit-for-purpose external access to UNSW REDCap with Entra B2B Juan Carlo San Jose
		LIGHTNING TALK Data Management Plans for All! Addressing access and equity DMP issues for “apprentice researchers” Ainsley Painter
15:00 -15:20	ORAL Communicating climate eResearch through data visualisation and video: A collaborative approach Corey Hanrahan	LIGHTNING TALK Perplexed to Purposeful: Translating Forensic Insight into Sustainable eResearch Data Practice Benjamin Wu	ORAL Expanding Access to Computational Modelling through AI-Assisted, Provenance-Aware Workflows Jonathan Yu
		LIGHTNING TALK The Case for Doing Less: Building a Sustainable Research Support Service Shaun Grady
		Lightning Talk Discussion Time
15:20 – 15:50	Afternoon Tea, Exhibition \| Betty Cuthbert Bar, Betty Cuthbert Lounge and Jim Stynes Grill
	Concurrent Session Six
Room	Olympic 1	Olympic 2	Dillbabiik	Lindsay Hasset	Keith Miller
Theme	Data Infrastructures in Earth and Environment	Supporting Health Data Collaboration	HPC Software Evolution	Trust in HASS	Research Collaborations
Chair	Hannes Hollman	Dianne Brown	Sarah Walters	Liz Stokes	Rowland Mosbergen
15:50 – 16:10	ORAL STAC in Practice: Improving Discovery and Access to Australia’s Environmental Spatial Data Gerhard Weis	ORAL Australian Stem Cell Registry (ASCR): Enabling Discovery, Provenance, and Dynamic Consent for Stem Cell Research Noel Faux	ORAL Federated HPC: A Reference Pattern for Unified On-Premises and Cloud Research Computing Kurt Sterzl	ORAL Remaining the Author: Safe and Responsible AI Use in HASS Research Workflows Heela Popal	ORAL Introducing the Framework for the Governance of Indigenous Data within the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Indigenous Research Data Commons Professor Marcia Langton
16:10 – 16:30	ORAL Preparing the Atlas of Living Australia for the Next Generation of Biodiversity Data Standards Peggy Newman	ORAL Towards Phenomics National Data Assets to Accelerate Discovery into Disease Sarah Nisbet	ORAL Reproducible HPC Software Environments at Scale: A CI/CD-Driven Containerised Environment Deployment Framework Davide Marchegiani	ORAL Moving from Policy-Based Trust to Code-Based Trust in Archival Workflows Ryan Perry	ORAL The end of Zoom fatigue – Making international conferences more accessible through regional hubs Jens Klump
16:30 – 16:50	ORAL Cloud-based Plant Phenomics Data Lakehouse Thilina Ranaweera	ORAL BioGrid Australia: A sovereign, certified and self-service research infrastructure for sensitive Australian health data Maureen Turner Kim Carter	BoF Connecting the Core: An Australasian HPC Sysadmin BoF Gin Tan	BoF Authentication and Authorisation patterns in the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Fahame Emamjome	BoF Collaborative session with Women Coders Aditi Subramanya
16:50 – 17:10	ORAL Evolving National Environmental Platforms for Impact and Sustainability Jenna Wraith	ORAL Scaling Secure Data Curation with an AI-Enabled Assistant for the Secure Unified Research Environment (SURE) Glen Charlton
17:10 -17:30	ORAL Building Scalable Research Infrastructure for Camera-Trap Data Muhammad Yasir	Presentation Discussion Time
17:30 – 19:00	Networking nights Invitation Only Events. Details below.
	Fujitsu Networking Night Robert Flower TerraceINVITATION ONLY	Sovereign Ground: AMD Networking Drinks at the MCG Founders BarINVITATION ONLY	Intel Networking Night The DeckINVITATION ONLY

Thursday, 29 October 2026

To access conference session rooms please enter Gate 3, in the Olympic Stand. Take the escalators or lifts 9, 10 & 11 to level 2. Conference Registration is in the Betty Cuthbert Bar.

08:30 – 09:00	Registration \| Betty Cuthbert Bar Area
	Plenary Session Three
Room	Olympic Room
Chair	Luc Betbeder-Matibet & Rebecca Farrington
09:00 – 09:10	Welcome to Day Three Rebecca Farrington and Luc Betbeder-Matibet, 2026 Conference Co-Chairs
09:10 – 09:50	Keynote Presentation National Scale, Global Reach, Local Needs: The Tensions Shaping Australia’s Digital Research Future Professor Alan Duffy, Pro Vice Chancellor of Flagship Initiatives, Swinburne
09:50 – 10:30	Keynote Presentation The Gateway Loop: Building (Bio)Bridges Sarah Beecroft
10:30 – 11:00	Morning Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing \| Exhibition Precinct
	Concurrent Session Seven
Room	Olympic 1	Olympic 2	Dillbabiik	Lindsay Hasset	Keith Miller
Theme	Bioinformatics	Identifiers in Research + Lightning Talks	Institutional HPC	Sensitive Data in Health	Research Impact
Session Chair	Deanna Deveson Lucas	Liz Stokes	Vanessa Crosby	Noel Fuax	Jana Makar
11:00 – 11:20	ORAL Not Just Floating Around: Making Cloud Storage Work for Research Natalie Mudd, Cherie Joy	ORAL Celebrating 10 Years of ORCID adoption in Australia and building of foundations for a PID enabled future Julie Toohey	ORAL Looking back, looking forward. UoM Research Computing Services Sara Ogston	ORAL HeSANDA at Scale: Building the Social and Technical Infrastructure for Health Data Reuse Amany Gouda-Vossos	ORAL Revisiting the National Agenda for Research Software in the shadow of AI Tom Honeyman
11:20 – 11:40	ORAL GUARDIANS: an Australian digital research ecosystem built for the demanding requirements of human omics research Bernie Pope	ORAL RAiD updates on service, implementations, use cases Lyle Winton	ORAL AI & Research Execution Stack (ARES): A Discipline-Agnostic AI Workflow Platform for UNSW HPC and National Compute Patrick Tung	ORAL An Australian-first data partnership accelerating immune health research collaboration Maureen Turner Ashley Ng	ORAL What Makes a Dataset High Value? Testing an Assessment Framework in a National Research Institute David Medyckyj-Scott
11:40 – 12:00	ORAL From Policy to Practice: Lessons in Enabling Trusted Research Collaboration across GUARDIANS Ayana Menorca, Poornima Mani	Oral Discussion Time	ORAL Beyond a Single Stack: How Increasing Hardware Diversity Shapes Bunya’s Software Build Strategy Shelly Harris	BoF Beyond the Clinic: Linking Health and Social Science Data for Deeper Insights Alison Carver	BoF Enabling research impact: Connecting national infrastructure to institutional success Ellen Lyrtzis, Kathyrn Unsworth, Aidan Wilson, Meirian Lovelace-Tozer, Sara King, Darya Vanichkina, Masoud Rahimi
12:00 – 12:20	ORAL Infrastructure as an onramp: BioShell as a portable bioinformatics environment with open tools Mitchell John O’Brien	LIGHTNING TALK Product Ownership: Our Secret Weapon for Taming Research Infrastructure Chaos Lisa Phippard	ORAL Apollo: the first year of the University of Sydney’s GPU cluster Michael Lynch
		LIGHTNING TALK AI Anxiety Is Human, Not Technical: Why People-Centred Enterprise Architecture is Important Md Zaidul Alam
		LIGHTNING TALK One codebase, four front doors: a sustainability model for research software services Chao Sun
12:20 – 12:40	ORAL From Genomic Data to Breeding Decisions: A Web Platform for Visual Analytics and Decision Support in Barley Improvement Pravesh Kumar	LIGHTNING TALK ALA Pipelines Ingestion: Building a Scalable and Resilient Biodiversity Data Processing Platform Patricia Koh	ORAL Integrating Single System Image Cluster Provisioning in OpenCHAMI Jordi Blasco Pallares
		LIGHTNING TALK Beyond the Blank Page: A Configurable Website Template for Research Projects Pauline Lawrey
		Lightning Talk Discussion Time
12:40 – 13:40	Lunch and Exhibition \| Exhibition Precinct Poster Session 3: Visit the posters in Jim Stynes Grill to meet the authors
	Concurrent Session Eight
Room	Olympic 1	Olympic 2	Dillbabiik	Lindsay Hasset	Keith Miller
Theme	Imaging and Geochemical Data	Repositories in Earth and Environmental	Data Movement	Secure, Trusted Research Environments	Research Software and Infrastructure
Session Chair	Bryant Ware	Kelsey Druken	Nick May	Luc Betbeder-Matibet	Rowland Mosbergen
13:40 – 14:00	ORAL The PITSCHI Network: Navigating the Research Data Lifecycle Through Interconnected Research Outputs Rubbiya Ali	ORAL Developing A Shared Commons for Scaling and Sustaining Domain-Specific Data Repositories at the NCI Australia Andrew Robinson	ORAL Globus on the University of Sydney’s Research Data Store – the beginning of the journey Stephen Kolmann	ORAL Secure collaboration and workflows – The Secure Region Nectar Node Ai-Lin Soo, Nicole Haddon	From Models to Services: Software for Accessible AI Structural Biology Dr Thomas Litfin
14:00 – 14:20	ORAL Building an Open Science Geochemical Data Chain of Custody for a New Geoscience Atom Probe Bryant Ware	ORAL Working Towards a Sustainable and Resilient Repository Ecosystem for AuScope’s Earth Science Research Data Assets Lesley Wyborn	BoF Abstracting Data Movement: Improving Research User Experience with Globus Chris Myers	ORAL From Standard to Platform: Building A Standards‑Aligned Secure Research Environment Yvette Wharton	ORAL From User Portal to Research Computing Hub: Integrating EESSI and Grafana with Open OnDemand Evgeniia Golovina
14:20 – 14:40	ORAL Beyond Login: How AAF and NIF Are Building Federated Trust for Imaging Research Keith Brophy, Shaila Gomez, Anna Thomas	ORAL Domain Data Portals: Building a Connected Research Ecosystem Through FAIR Data and Persistent Identifiers. Aline De Souza Andrade		BoF Trusted Research Environments, federation and the nexus with data spaces: where are we heading? Roger Ward	BoF Is green computing possible? Mapping the environmental impact of computational research Natalia Bateman
14:40 – 15:00	ORAL When Your Data Is on Tape: A Plugin Pattern for HSM-Aware Imaging Archives in XNAT Chenxi Guo	ORAL Remastering Geophysical Datasets for Modern, FAIR/CARE Compliant, AI-ready Research Infrastructures: Technical and Governance Challenges Hannes Hollmann
15:00 – 15:20	ORAL Australian Imaging Service Reference Architecture Ryan Sullivan	ORAL Open Science for Geochemistry: Creating Resources for Capturing Methods, Techniques, and Protocols from Analytical Workflows Angus Nixon
15:20 – 15:50	Afternoon Tea, Exhibition, Poster Viewing \| Exhibition Precinct
	Closing Plenary Session
Room	Olympic Room
Chair	Luc Betbeder-Matibet & Rebecca Farrington
15:50 – 16:30	Closing Panel – Shaping our Future Luc Betbeder – AeRO Aditi Subramanya – AeRO Jake Carroll (UQ) Vanessa Crosby (CSIRO) Hamish Holewa (ARDC) Ai-Lin Soo (AARNet) Gin Tan (Monash)
16:30 – 16:35	Conference Close Rebecca Farrington and Luc Betbeder-Matibet, 2026 Conference Co-Chairs

Friday, 30 October 2026

To access conference session rooms please enter Gate 3, in the Olympic Stand. Take the escalators or lifts 9, 10 & 11 to level 2. Conference Registration is in the Betty Cuthbert Bar.

08:30 – 13:00	Registration \| Betty Cuthbert Bar Area
	Post-Conference Workshops
Room	Jim Stynes A	Jim Stynes B	Dillbabiik
09:00 – 10:30	From Research Desktop to University-Scale AI Nvidia Dell Hands on Workshop	Ceph Meetup – Melbourne This workshop has been cancelled	ARDC Nectar Research Cloud User Forum Miss Sonia Ramza
10:30 – 11:00	Morning Tea \| Betty Cuthbert Bar
Room	Jim Stynes A	Jim Stynes B	Dillbabiik
11:00 – 12:30	From Research Desktop to University-Scale AI Nvidia Dell Hands on Workshop		ARDC Nectar Research Cloud User Forum Miss Sonia Ramza

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