SciDataCon 2025 | International Data Week 2025

SciDataCon 2025 is an International conference dedicated to advancing the frontiers of data in research and policy. Held as part of International Data Week 2025 (IDW 2025), the event brings together scientists, data professionals, policymakers, and technologists to discuss how open, interoperable, and well-managed data can drive discovery, innovation, and equitable development.

It is organized by the International Science Council (ISC)'s two data bodies: CODATA (the ISC's Committee on Data) and the World Data System (WDS).

Date

• October 13 - 16, 2025

Programme

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Dr. Gitanjali Yadav, Co-founder #semanticClimate and Scientist at NIPGR, New Delhi will be participating in the session entitled "An evolving role for Data Scientists in the Age of Intelligent Automation".

• Date : October 15, 2025
• Venue : P2 (Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre)

Speakers of the session:

• Matt Mayernik (Session co-Moderator) - NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA, Editor-in-Chief, Data Science Journal

  • Talk Title: Data Science Reporting: Beyond Automation and Toward Accountability

• Gitanjali Yadav (Session co-Moderator) - Scientist, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi India; Member, CODATA IDPC; Professor of Data Science, IISER Bhopal, India; Founder, #semanticClimate; Member Editorial Team, Data Science Journal

  • Talk Title: Semantic Data Science: FAIRification, AI-Readiness, and Climate Knowledge

• Debasisa Mohanty - Director, National Institute of Immunology, DBT, Govt of India; Member, CODATA India National Committee; Chairperson,Indian Biologica Data Center

  • Talk Title: Data Scientists and Bio-Infrastructure: Insights from India’s National Biological Data Mission

• Mark Parsons - Former Editor-in-Chief, Data Science Journal; Member, Arctic Data Committee for the International Arctic Science Committee(IASC) and the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) CODATA representative to the International Polar Year 2032-3 Planning Committee

  • Talk Title: What’s changed and what hasn’t in the last 30 years of data science

• Dimitris Symeonidis - University of Tartu, Institute of Computer Science Member, Digital Government Society

  • Talk Title: The Data Scientist in the Digital State: Ethical Automation in Government Systems

• Dr. Lili Zhang - Executive Director, GOSC IPO; member of CODATA IDPC Senior Research Scientist, CSTCloud, CNIC,CAS; Member Editorial Team, Data Science Journal

  • Talk Title: Toward a Global Data Science Commons: GOSC and the Infrastructure of Intelligence

Location

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

Australia/Brisbane