A national, interdisciplinary conversation on the data infrastructures foundational to trust, security, investment return, and discovery. Senior decision makers keen to engage in high-trust, knowledge-rich discussions are warmly welcomed from:

• Banking institutions

• National / large-scale research initiatives

• Cultural content custodians with heritage or commercial mandates (Indigenous, sport, broadcast)

• Digital infrastructure policy makers and peak bodies

• Industry infrastructure sponsors

Whether the challenge is tracking tens of billions of global financial transactions or orchestrating exabytes daily, data management must be robust, resilient, safeguarded, and sustainable. Data engineering and software solutions must work seamlessly in concert within environments of such extreme data velocity and volume. This cross-sector dialogue is expected to generate novel insights into:

• Scalable orchestration

• Data location awareness

• Achieving temporal, environmental and fiscal sustainability

• AI guardrails

• Cyber resilience and integrity

• Data sovereignty

Solid technical capabilities must underpin the creative and fully scalable solutions in this problem space. Drawing together a diverse corps of innovators and stakeholders, we will facilitate deep exploration of viable solutions and roadmaps to implementation.