Six RCC staff will be involved in talks, panels, workshops, and more at the eResearch Australasia conference in Brisbane from 20–24 October 2025.
RCC Director Jake Carroll will lead the team as co-chair of eResAU2025’s Program Committee.
The head of RCC’s organisational unit at The University of Queensland, Prof. Paul Bonnington, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure), will officially open the conference on Tuesday, 21 October at 9am at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
During the opening talks, Jake Carroll will speak about the conference’s inaugural “Community Volunteers” program, a wellbeing initiative providing support to help make the conference more welcoming and inclusive for new delegates. Jake will be one of six Community Volunteers.
“I’m a father in a neurodiverse household and a leader of a neurodiverse workforce,” said Jake. “My persistent concern is for the wellbeing of our most important resource – our people.
“I have experience in bringing communities together, enabling innovation and helping people connect from dissimilar backgrounds to collectively do their best work – but also, lead fulfilling lives. I believe that safe spaces are a key to enabling people and that leadership begins with a sense of conscious vulnerability, which I will absolutely exemplify and offer to you [conference delegates], if and when you need me.”
Jake will also deliver a talk on Wednesday afternoon alongside Prof. David Abramson, his predecessor as RCC’s Director, about the IBM@UQ Centre of Excellence and Innovation.
Please see the full list further below of RCC activities at eResAU2025.
Hosted by Australasian eResearch Organisations (AeRO), eResAU2025 is for those interested in eResearch and actively transforming research via information technology.
The conference, featuring both national and international experts, provides an 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.
Pre- and post-conference workshops will be held on Monday and Friday, with the main program running from Tuesday to Thursday.
RCC/UQ activity at eResAU2025
Monday 20 October
9am (room: Plaza P8): RCC Director Jake Carroll presented at IBM’s Storage Scale User Group Meeting, showcasing cutting-edge research and various demonstrations of filesystem innovation happening at UQ.
Tuesday, 21 October
9am (room: Boulevard Auditorium): Prof. Paul Bonnington, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure), The University of Queensland, will officially open the conference.
11:40am (room: Boulevard Auditorium): RCC Software Engineer Dr Nishanthi Dasanayaka will present a talk titled: Image Processing Portal (IPP): Scalable web-based microscopy data analysis – Containerization, Orchestration, and HPC migration. (Nishanthi will be presenting work done in collaboration with others at UQ, including RCC Senior Principal Software Engineer/Developer Dr Mark Endrei.)
11:40am (room: Boulevard B2): RCC Policy and Liaison Manager Dr Marlies Hankel and RCC Research Facility and Operations Officer Shelly Harris will hold a Birds of a Feather session about:.Finding sustainable and user accepted solutions to the space and number of files needs of software environments.
12pm (room Boulevard B1): RCC collaborator Dr Rubbiya Ali, the Data Informatics Manager at UQ’s Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, will present the following talk (RCC co-created PITSCHI with CMM): PITSCHI: The Imaging Data Management System at CMM, UQ – Enabling FAIR and Persistent Identifier-Driven Research Data Management. (Rubbiya will be presenting work done in collaboration with others at UQ, including RCC’s Dr Mark Endrei, Dr Nishanthi Dasanayaka and Jake Carroll.)
4:20pm (room: Boulevard B2): Prof. Paul Bonnington, UQ Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure), and RCC Director Jake Carroll will present as part of Dianne Brown’s “AI-Ready Research Data in Australia” birds of a feather session.
Wednesday, 22 October
11am (room: Boulevard B3): RCC Policy and Liaison Manager Dr Marlies Hankel will join a panel session titled: Building a Data Discoverability Reference Architecture.
12:20pm (room: Boulevard B1): RCC’s former and current Directors, Prof. David Abramson and Jake Carroll, respectively, will present a talk about the IBM@UQ Centre of Excellence and Innovation.
4:30pm (room: Boulevard B2): RCC Policy and Liaison Manager Dr Marlies Hankel will be on the panel for the following Birds of a Feather session: Enabling Research Connectivity: The Strategic Role of Data Mobility in an Integrated National Research Infrastructure Ecosystem.
4:30pm (Boulevard Room): RCC Director Jake Carroll will appear on the Tier 1 and 2 sustainable HPC panel alongside Mark Gray (Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre), Daniel Rodwell (NCI) and Stephen Giugni (University of Melbourne) to discuss the ongoing challenges and opportunities that exist in running large scale Tier1 and Tier2 HPC/supercomputing infrastructures in Australia.
Thursday, 23 October
7:30am (room TBC—please see the conference registration desk): RCC Research Systems Projects and Delivery Manager Sarah Walters will be a panelist for the Women+ in HPC and HPC Systems Administrators joint breakfast. RCC Policy and Liaison Manager Dr Marlies Hankel and RCC Research Facility and Operations Officer Shelly Harris will also attend the breakfast. The breakfast is free to attend, but is for conference registrants only.
11am (Boulevard Room): RCC collaborator Aswin Narayanan, NIF Imaging Informatics Fellow at AIBN, will present a talk about SCIGET: Making Scientific Software Accessible – Everywhere for Everyone! (Aswin will be presenting work done in collaboration with others at UQ, including RCC Senior Principal Software Engineer/Developer Dr Mark Endrei.)
Friday, 24 October
9am (room: Boulevard B2): RCC Research Systems Projects and Delivery Manager Sarah Walters will help run the following workshop: Optimizing Scratch Filesystems for HPC and AI Workloads.
