Applications for our Digital Research Infrastructure Retreat 2025 are now open! Please note that to ensure a fair representation of all fields, career stages, and backgrounds, all applications will be reviewed and signing up to the event is not a guarantee of a place.
The closing date for attendee registration is Friday 15th November. We will let you know if you have been awarded a place by Monday 18th November.
In response to the survey following the 2024 retreat, the programme committee has refreshed the schedule and confirmed sessions for the Digital Research Infrastructure Retreat 2025. We are now inviting all members of the DRI community, academics and industry professionals to express their interest in chairing a session or being a panel member. Following feedback from the 2024 meeting, it is intended that the sessions will be a combination of panels and round-table discussion, but we are asking for volunteer 'panellists' for simplicity.
Panellist/Chair Expression of Interest Survey
Please fill in our EOI SURVEY and let us know which session(s) you would like to be involved in. This is an expression of interest so please click as many/few as you like. We do not intend for anyone to be a member of more than 3 panels (unless they want to). An outline of panellist backgrounds that we are looking for can be found here.
The closing date for this survey is Friday 1st November. We will inform you of the panels that you are selected for before Friday 15th November. Please get in touch with us if you have any questions regarding the event. Thank-you.
Monday 13th January – Collaboration & Communication
- Linking all DRI Roles, how do we ensure collaboration across professions?
- Building trust and effective communication between DRI professionals and researchers from different disciplines
- Making connections as the ‘lone’ DRI professional in your workspace and hybrid working solutions
- Provision of training materials and digital support networks for academics
Tuesday 14th January – Finding Answers to your questions
- The funding landscape and making connections to align with UKRI calls
- Strategy development, business cases and securing funding
- Building relationships with industrial partners
- Data collection, sustainability and integrity
- Barriers encountered accessing HPC
Wednesday 15th January – Emerging Technologies and the future of DRI
- The impact of AI and machine learning on DRI workflows
- Security and compliance
- DRI beyond HPC and RSE
- The environmental impacts of infrastructure
- Preparing for the next generation of research computing infrastructure
Thursday 16th January – Leadership and Career Development
- Career progression pathways for DRI professionals
- Mentorship in DRI
- Accessible training and staying relevant in a rapidly changing environment
- Recruitment and diversity. How should it change?
- Developing leadership skills for DRI professionals
Friday 17th January – The way forward for DRI professionals
- Stories from the trenches: the good, the bad and the ugly
- The biggest thing that will improve my role as a DRI professional
- KEYNOTE SPEAKER
To allow for the childcare and work responsibilities of attendees, the daily schedule for this meeting has been altered compared with previous meetings. It will start at 09:30 and finish at 16:30 with a half-hour (15:00 - 15:30) refreshment break in the afternoon.
The first day will start with registration and refreshments from 09:00 with the first session will commencing at 10:45.