foundingGIDE Community Event 2025 (GIDE2025)

The foundingGIDE Community Event 2025 is a key international forum dedicated to advancing a more connected and interoperable imaging data ecosystem.

Held between International Data Week and eResearch Australasia, this free hybrid event brings together the global imaging community to lay the foundation for seamless sharing, integration, and reuse of biological and preclinical imaging data across disciplines, platforms, and borders.

As part of the broader effort to establish a coordinated Global Image Data Ecosystem (GIDE), the event will focus on developing shared recommendations for metadata standards and ontologies. Through collaborative workshops and discussions, participants will address critical challenges in interoperability and standardisation to enable sustainable, cross-community solutions.

This year’s theme, “Imaging Data Ecosystem: Towards Shared Solutions,” underscores the collective commitment to harmonising metadata, aligning ontologies, and ensuring the long-term stewardship of imaging data.

Why Attend?

• Engage in expert-led discussions on imaging data standards and infrastructure.
• Participate in hands-on workshops addressing preclinical and bioimaging data harmonisation.
• Connect with a global network of researchers, developers, and data stewards.
• Contribute to the development of the Global Image Data Ecosystem (GIDE).

Who Should Attend?

• Imaging scientists and researchers
• Bioimage analysts and data stewards
• Data and informatics professionals
• Core facility and infrastructure staff
• Software developers and tool creators
• Policy makers, funders, and publishers

Key Dates

• In-person registration deadline: 30 September 2025
• Online registration deadline: 15 October 2025

Registration & COST

Participation is free, but registration is required. Visit the event page here.

Sponsors

This event is made possible by AARNet and QCIF.

• AARNet: We’re proud to have Australia’s Academic and Research Network as a silver sponsor of the foundingGIDE Community Event 2025, supporting connectivity and collaboration across Australia’s research and education sectors.
• QCIF: The Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation joins us as a silver sponsor, bringing expertise in data, digital infrastructure and training to help accelerate discoveries in imaging and beyond.

Co-located Events

This event is scheduled between International Data Week 2025 (13–16 October) and eResearch Australasia 2025 (20–24 October), offering a unique opportunity to engage with broader research data and infrastructure communities while in Brisbane.

foundingGIDE

Funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, The Global Image Data Ecosystem (GIDE) connects different biological and preclinical image data resources across the globe to allow metadata and data sharing. The foundingGIDE project is laying the foundations for GIDE by bringing together image data resource owners and research infrastructures from Europe, Australia and Japan to develop the basis of interoperable image data repositories.