ICRI 2024 - Conference Report

ICRI 2024 - Conference Report

hosted biennially, the International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI) is the major professional forum for the global research infrastructure (RI) community. It plays an important international role building the capacity, capability, collaboration and performance of research infrastructures around the world. 
ICRI 2024 was held in Brisbane, Australia, from 3 to 5 December 2024. It was the first time the conference has been held in the Asia Pacific.  
As was pointed out during some ICRI sessions there has, historically, been a lack of conversation between Northern and Southern Hemisphere nations around research infrastructure. Bringing ICRI to Brisbane enabled more nations from the Asia Pacific to engage with the global research infrastructure community.  
11 Southeast Asian and Pacific nations attended ICRI 2024. Representatives from some of those nations also took part in panels, introducing voices and viewpoints to ICRI previously absent.  
ICRI 2024 also successfully introduced other new perspectives, through a focus on Indigenous knowledge and engagement.  
As a hybrid event, ICRI 2024 was livestreamed around the world. Doing so ensured the greatest possible level of global involvement and benefit from the sessions held, and allowed the expertise and experiences discussed to disseminate in many countries not otherwise represented at the conference.  
ICRI 2024 was jointly hosted by the European Commission and the Australian Government Department of Education, and delivered by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO.