Support for events

Australian BioCommons regularly supports community members to deliver events that align with our mission to uplift life sciences digital research. We welcome opportunities to enable events related to bioinformatics and/or research infrastructure for life sciences that benefit a national audience.

Co-hosting events

Our team works intensively with partners in all aspects of organisation to ensure the quality of every event associated with Australian BioCommons. To support individuals and groups to share their specialist knowledge with the national community we can:

  • Assist with content creation

  • Advise on bioinformatics training best practice

  • Source expert facilitators to help with delivery

  • Implement a framework for virtual or hybrid training

  • Collect and manage registration and evaluation data

  • Host and manage logistics of live online and in-person events

  • Provision computational resources e.g. Galaxy Australia, Nectar Research Cloud

  • Advertise via extensive networks to connect with an engaged audience

  • Capture and share events according to FAIR principles.

We deliver training and public events of a consistently high standard, in line with international best practice and our funding obligations. All Australian BioCommons events must:

  • Be available to all suitable Australian life science researchers

  • Service researchers who are affiliated with an Australian research organisation or university

  • Be publicly advertised for a minimum of one month before the event

  • Acknowledge Australian BioCommons support through the use of our logo (in line with our brand guidelines)

  • Collect detailed data on attendance (in line with our privacy statement)

  • Be presented by an expert practitioner and have clear learning outcomes

  • Be recorded and made public on the Australian BioCommons YouTube channel along with the artefacts shared via the public Documents or Training Materials repositories (subject to negotiation)

  • Adhere to the Australian BioCommons code of conduct to create an inclusive and respectful environment.

Read more about how we work in this case study of a successful training collaboration with researchers from the Genomics for Australian Plants consortium to deliver a series of high quality, live, hands-on learning opportunities.

Sponsorship

The goal of sponsorship is to support our peers to offer great bioinformatics or biodata-related events and activities. Rather than passive brand representation, we seek sponsorship opportunities that offer strategic interactions between BioCommons staff and delegates, to raise awareness of BioCommons fully subsidised services and explore avenues for collaboration.

Sponsorship may be available for events that:

  • Serve a national audience

  • Are held in different locations (if recurrent)

  • Directly relate to bioinformatics and/ or research infrastructure for life sciences

  • Be aligned to a topic of relevance to our Mission, and/or one of the domains we support

  • Offer a high quality opportunity to engage at a respected forum

  • Offer a meaningful opportunity to interact and/or raise awareness of BioCommons activities.

Given BioCommons is a federally (NCRIS) funded project that partners with many stakeholders to deliver activities and services requested by research communities, we often find that regular conference sponsorship arrangements that are tailored to for-profit companies don't align with our tax-payer funded model.

Representation at events should allow BioCommons to present the range of highly accessible, fully subsidised and well-resourced bioinformatics tools, platforms and services that are available for anyone to use, and/or and opportunities to engage directly with Australian researchers and bioinformaticians to discuss their needs and invite them to participate in our community consultations and roadmapping exercises. Alternatively, we welcome the opportunity to help improve accessibility of events for geographically-dispersed Australian researchers through supporting virtual participation, student scholarships or travel grants.

If you’d like to chat about potential sponsorship of your event please contact comms@biocommons.org.au.

An example we’re proud of… 

Australian BioCommons sponsorship of AMSI BioInfoSummer 2022

BioCommons was proud to support this excellent conference once again in 2022. It attracted 120 participants from 20 universities, 4 research institutes and 3 industry organisations ranging from undergraduate students through to academics and industry professionals. Our sponsorship provided travel and accommodation support for 14 interstate students (7 males and 7 females) from 7 universities to travel to Melbourne so they could maximise their conference experience by mingling with their peers and speakers to build their national networks. AMSI profiled each of the grant recipients here: http://rhed.amsi.org.au/grant-recipients/.

If you’d like to chat about potential support or sponsorship opportunities please contact comms@biocommons.org.au.