In October 2025, Dr Louise Saul was invited to present on CaSDaR at the UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) Congress 2025.
This was an in-person two-day event held at The Met Hotel in Leeds on the 22nd-23rd October 2025. The audience for this session were individuals involved in UKRI network+ groups who want to ensure that they are working collaboratively with other groups to prevent fragmentation of the research landscape.
The second DRI Congress was held with the aims of bringing together researchers and innovators from across the research ecosystem to foster dialogue, share challenges and success stories, and promote new connections. Over the course of these two days, workshops were offered on Human DRI, FAIR DRI, Interconnected DRI, and Sustainable DRI. These workshops were developed by key stakeholders to tackle diverse issues such as career pathways, connecting infrastructures for arts and humanities, NetZero DRIs, and the role of Trusted Research in DRIs. Alongside these workshops there were keynote sessions, presenting on subjects such as the role of AI in DRIs, with over-arching goals of connecting invested parties and promoting discussion.
Louise Saul presented alongside SHAREing and CHARTED for CaSDaR, describing the aims and deliverables of the project in the workshop ‘Knowledge Exchange is a Piece of CAKE!’ run by Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange (CAKE). The aim of the workshop was to promote knowledge exchange and to consider how to engage with diverse roles and stakeholders across our respective networks. The Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) NetworkPlus is a central hub for facilitating knowledge exchange and sustainable collaboration across the UK DRI communities. By bringing projects together, CAKE enables participants to share successes, highlight achievements, and explore how to work more effectively together. CaSDaR intends to work closely with CAKE across the course of the project to prevent fragmentation of the landscape
Louise’s slides can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17612962