This event, hosted by the N8 Centre of Excellence in Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR) intended to support the development of soft skills amongst the research support community. It ran from 13th-17th January 2025 at the Pendulum Hotel and Conference Centre in Manchester. Attendees were DRI technology specialists, such as research software engineers, research infrastructure engineers, and research data managers, and the meeting allowed them to develop additional professional skills to support researchers and accelerate discovery. Both in-person and online attendees were welcome with 100 in-person attendees daily and 160 total registrants across the week.
Each day was broken into four sessions based on panel discussions with time for a Q&A in each session and one round table discussion session where attendees were encouraged to talk on a topic at their tables. Each attendee was allocated a table daily to foster greater interaction within the community.
The meeting was recorded and videos of all sessions will be available on our YouTube channel soon
DRI 2025 Programme