foundingGIDE Community Event 2025
Imaging Data Ecosystem: Towards Shared Solutions
We are thrilled to announce the foundingGIDE Community Event 2025, taking place in Brisbane, Australia, on October 17-18, 2025 at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. This event will address the standardisation challenge in biological and preclinical imaging data.
Location: Brisbane, Australia | Hybrid
Venue: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center | Hybrid
Date: 17-18 October 2025
Theme: Imaging Data Ecosystem: Towards Shared Solutions
Registration deadline for in-person attendance: 31 August 2025
Registration deadline for online attendance: 15 October 2025
Call for abstracts (presentation) deadline: 30 June 2025
Call for abstracts (posters) deadline: 31 August 2025
foundingGIDE aims to establish the basis of a coordinated Global Image Data Ecosystem (GIDE) and together with the global imaging community develop common recommendations for ontologies and metadata. Aiming to bring together researchers, infrastructure providers, and policymakers, the community event in Brisbane will address key challenges in interoperability and standardization of biological and preclinical imaging data to enable shared solutions across the imaging data ecosystem.
This year’s theme of Imaging Data Ecosystem: Towards Shared Solutions highlights foundingGIDE’s commitment to building a collaborative, interoperable ecosystem that enables the seamless sharing, integration, and reuse of biological and preclinical imaging data across disciplines, platforms, and borders. By bringing together diverse stakeholders—researchers, imaging facilities, data stewards, policy makers, and developers—foundingGIDE aims to coordinate practical solutions that address common challenges such as data standardization, ontology alignment, and long-term sustainability of imaging data resources.
The foundingGIDE Community Event 2025 will feature dynamic discussions and networking opportunities, designed to address critical challenges in biological and preclinical imaging data interoperability.
The foundingGIDE Community Event 2024, held in Okazaki, Japan is the first event in a series of three global community events planned during the lifespan of the project. Hosted online and in-person, the 2024 community event brought together more than 100 diverse range of stakeholders from around the world to tackle the pressing challenges of imaging interoperability. Here, speakers emphasized the importance of standardizing file formats, developing robust ontologies to make imaging data more accessible and reusable and other challenges in increasing image data interoperability. Read more on the 2024 community event here.
The Brisbane foundingGIDE Community Event 2025 will build on the past event success and continue the mission of enhancing imaging data interoperability.
Registration
Registration for the foundingGIDE 2025 Community Event is now open! Secure your place and join us in Brisbane on October 17–18, 2025. Click the button below to complete your registration. Participation is free, but spaces are limited — early registration is recommended.
We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting event full of collaboration and community building. Save the date and stay tuned for more updates on program highlights and registration details!
Call for abstracts
We invite researchers, developers, and practitioners working with imaging data to submit an abstract during the foundingGIDE Community Event 2025. This is a great opportunity to showcase your work, share challenges and solutions, and connect with others advancing data interoperability in imaging.
Deadlines to submit presentation and poster proposals:
- 31 August 2025 for submission of proposals for posters
- 30 June 2025 for submission of proposals for presentations (20 min including Q&A)
Visa
Before planning your trip, we recommend checking the current VISA requirements with your local embassy or consulate. You can find some information HERE.
Accommodation
The Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre is centrally situated in the South Brisbane CBD and adjacent to the vibrant South Bank. The precinct has an extensive array of hotels, short term stay apartments and restaurants and is only a short stroll from Brisbane’s City with similar facilities. We recommend that you enter “accommodation near Brisbane Convention Centre” into Google Maps, or your favourite short term accommodation app, and choose from there. Due to high demand, it is recommended that you secure your accommodation at least four weeks in advance.
Co-located events
The foundingGIDE Community Event is positioned between two major data-centric conferences and offers a unique opportunity for professionals engaged in research data management, imaging, and digital infrastructure to connect with the global data research community. FoundingGIDE Community event is following International Data Week 2025 (October 13–16) and preceding eResearch Australasia 2025 (October 20–24) all at the same location, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia. These three events bring together communities working toward the FAIR data principles and advancing practices in data sharing, stewardship, and interoperability across scientific domains..
With International Data Week, the foundingGIDE Community Event, and eResearch Australasia all taking place in October, this month marks a vibrant convergence of global data communities in Brisbane—making it a cornerstone moment for advancing open science, data infrastructure, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
International Data Week 2025 is the perfect stage to showcase your work to a global audience! Whether you’re tackling data science, open research, AI, health, climate, or social impact—this is your chance to share your research, grow your global profile, and connect with world-leading experts. Submit a poster and put your work on the international map! Find out more.
The 2025 eResearch Australasia Conference will be held from 20 – 24 October, at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. Hosted by Australasian eResearch Organisations (AeRO) Inc., the conference is the premiere event for those interested in eResearch and actively transforming research via information technology. The conference provides an exciting opportunity for delegates to engage, connect and share their ideas and exemplars concerning new information-centric research capabilities, and how ICT technologies can help researchers to collaborate, collect, manage, share, process, analyse, find, understand, and reuse information. Find out more.
Sponsors
Opportunities exist for vendors and external organisations to sponsor and to participate in the foundingGIDE 2025 event. More information will soon follow.
Contact
If you have any questions about the foundingGIDE Community Event 2025, please contact us at: admin@anif.org.au
If you have questions about the foundingGIDE project, please contact us as: foundingGIDE@eurobioimaging.eu
Event Organizers
Partners
