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The 34th CODATA General Assembly will take place on 17-18 October 2025 in Brisbane, Australia, and online. See the letter from CODATA President convening the General Assembly on the dates following the International Data Week 2025.   

Address of the venue to join the GA in-person: The University of Queensland, 308 Queen St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Australia.

  • Directions to the University of Queensland from the conference centre at Brisbane South Bank

CODATA General Assembly 2025 Indicative Agenda (subject to change)

Note that all times are indicated in AEST (Brisbane local time, UTC+10)

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 (Onsite and Online)
Time Session
09:00-09:10 Welcome, convene. Approval of agenda. (Mercè Crosas, President CODATA)
09:10-09:30 CODATA Strategy and priority activities in a nutshell (Simon Hodson, Executive Director CODATA)

  • Endorsement of CODATA Operational report (formal vote results – vote closing 17:00 AEST on 16 Oct)
  • Endorsement of CODATA Financial report (formal vote results – vote closing 17:00 AEST on 16 Oct)
09:30-11:00 Elections – hustings (Chaired by Daisy Selematsela, Vice-President CODATA)

  • Executive Committee Ordinary Member Candidates – Group 1 (30’)
    1. Francisca Oladipo, F, New (3’, pre-recorded)
    2. Burçak Basbug, F, New (3’, online)
    3. Audrey Masizana, F, Incumbent (3’, online)
    4. Yasuyuki Minamiyama, M, New (3’, pre-recorded)
    5. Lianglin HU, M, New (3’, onsite)
    6. Pam Maras, F, Incumbent (3’, onsite)
    7. Narinder Mehra, M, New (3’, onsite)
    8. Mark Musen, M, New (3’, onsite)
    9. Rodrigo Roa, M, New (3’, onsite)
    10. David Castle, M, New (no presentation)
  • Q&A with Candidates under Group 1 (15’)
  • Executive Committee Ordinary Member Candidates – Group 2 (30’)
    1. Agnes Kiragga, F, New (3’, pre-recorded)
    2. Jeremy Frey, M, New (3’, onsite)
    3. Donald Hobern, M, New (3’, onsite)
    4. Marc Nyssen, M, Incumbent (3’, onsite)
    5. Pankaj Kumar, M, New (3’, onsite)
    6. Leo Lahti, M, Incumbent (3’, onsite)
    7. Kuo-Fong Ma, F, New (3’, onsite)
    8. Lauren Maxwell, F, New (3’, onsite)
    9. Daphne Raban, F, New (3’, onsite)
    10. Cyrus Walther, M, Incumbent (3’, onsite)
  • Q&A with Candidates under Group 2 (15’)
11:00-11:05 Elections (Chaired by Richard Hartshorn, Vice-President CODATA)

  • Election of Secretary General and Treasurer 2025-29 (formal vote, closing 11:20 AEST)
  • Election of Executive Committee Members 2025-27 – 1st round (formal vote, closing 11:20 AEST)
11:05-11:35 Break
11:35-12:50 Elections (Chaired by Richard Hartshorn, Vice-President CODATA)

  • Report on voting results
  • Option: further rounds of Executive Committee elections
  • Option: Task Group lightning presentations (5’ + 2’ Q&A each)
  • Report on results after each round
12:50-13:00 Establishing a new Nominating Committee (approval by acclamation) (Simon Hodson)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Task Group lightning presentations continued (Chaired by Steven McEachern) (5’ + 2’ Q&A each)(Note: order likely to change)

  1. Research Data Quality Management Across the Data Lifecycle; Chris Schubert, onsite.
  2. DRUM – Digital Representation of Units of Measure; Jeremy Frey, onsite.
  3. Open Science Cloud Service XI Metadata TG (OSCs XI metadata TG); Lili Zhang, onsite.
  4. Big Data Curation and Curation Sustainability; Cyrus Walther, onsite.
  5. Citizen Science for the SDGs; Carolynne Hultquist, onsite.
  6. Open Tools and Visitation Frameworks for Global Research Assessment Reform (OT-ViRARe); Narinder Mehra, onsite.
  7. FAIR Data for Disaster Risk Research (FAIR-DRR); Bapon Fakhruddin, online.
  8. Data Ethics Task Group (DETG); Andrew Cox, online. 
  9. Geographical Indications Environment & Sustainability (GIES); LIU Chuang, online. 
  10. Agriculture Data, Knowledge for Learning and Innovation (CODATA ATG); Simon Mulwa, online. 
  • Selection of Task Groups 2025-27 (formal vote, closing 15:30 AEST)
15:00-16:00 Membership session (Chaired by Christine Kirkpatrick)

  • Signing of MoU between CODATA and APAN
  • Presentations by new members (5-7′ each)
    • APAN (Markus Buchhorn)
    • METÜ (Burçak Basbug)
    • Chile (Rodrigo Roa)
  • Discussion with members
  • Result of the vote on Task Groups 2025-27
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:45 Strategic panel (Chaired by Mercè Crosas): How can CODATA build collaborations and activities in the Asia-Pacific Region? How can we encourage inter-regional collaboration? What initiatives are there in the AP region from which other regions can learn? And conversely, what initiatives elsewhere are valuable for the AP region?

Speakers:

  1. Ronit Prawer, Director, ISC Regional Focal Point.
  2. Adrian Burton, Deputy CEO and Director, People Research Data Commons, chair of the National Committee on Data in Science.
  3. Cas Sedran-Price, Senior Research Fellow at the University Centre for Rural Health, University of Sydney, and Research Scholar at the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance
  4. Sa-Kwang Song, Principal Researcher, Data Platform Center, KISTI.
17:45-18:00 Closing remarks, votes of thanks and close of GA Day 1 (Mercè Crosas)
Sat, 18 Oct 2025 (Onsite only)
Time Session
09:00-12:00 Strategic Planning / Discussion: open session with New ExComm and CODATA Members participation onsite (both voting Delegates and Observers)

  • Breakouts along strategic topics.

 

Given the above outline of the CODATA GA agenda and the (live) votes planned on 17 October, we strongly encourage onsite participation of voting Delegates. In case onsite representation would not be feasible, exceptional participation online will be possible but the voting Delegates joining virtually need to be prepared to cope with the timezone difference.

Registration for the CODATA General Assembly (separate from the IDW 2025 registration) closed on 18 September for onsite attendance and on 15 October for virtual participation.

Pre-General Assembly Reporting and Briefing sessions on 2 October

Two virtual sessions to address CODATA reporting and necessary briefing ahead of the General Assembly were organised. More information about the sessions. 

The Call for Nominations of candidates for CODATA elections 2025, and related procedures, was published on 8 April 2025.  The call for Task Groups 2025-27, was published 17 April 2025. The deadline for the Nominations and Task Group proposals was 17 June 2025, in line with the terms set by the CODATA constitution. 

The following documentation, in support of the matters for voting has been circulated to the voting Delegates on 22 August 2025:

  • Electoral slate as endorsed by the Nominating Committee; the actual nomination forms and CVs of the candidates for the CODATA Officers and ExComm Ordinary Members open positions.
  • The Task Groups applications for 2025-2027; summary of these proposals; recommendation of the Executive Committee.

 

Page last updated: 2025-10-16

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