PROGRAM

Link to program (via Zenodo).

The Symposium will feature keynote presentations from Adrian Burton and Simon Hodson.  

Data Commons: Knowledge infrastructure to support impactful research. Speaker: Adrian  Burton, Australian Research Data Commons.

Adrian is Director, Data Policy and Services at Australian Research Data Commons (the ARDC) and has 20 years’ experience applying emerging information technology to research at national and international scale. With backgrounds in IT, academia, government and linguistics, Adrian addresses opportunities holistically. Policy, people, and governance frameworks work alongside systems, services and infrastructure.

 WorldFAIR and Making Data Work for Cross-Domain Grand Challenges, Speaker: Simon Hodson, Executive Director, CODATA

Simon is an expert on data policy issues and research data management.  Most recently, he chaired the European Commission’s Expert Group on FAIR Data which produced the report Turning FAIR into Reality. He was also vice-chair of the UNESCO Open Science Advisory Committee, with an influential role in drafting the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, which was adopted in November 2021.