Each year ESDS International holds an annual conference bringing together speakers from international governmental organisations, the commerical sector and higher and further education and provides an opportunity for these users and providers of international data to meet and share their ideas on issues relating to international data research.

This year's conference will take place at the Institute of Materials in London on Monday 29th November 2010.

Previous conference themes, along with programmes, abstracts and slides can be seen below and papers presented at the conference are also available under Conference proceedings.

• 2010 Conference theme - t.b.c.
• 2009 Conference theme - 'Real Data - Real World'. Report | Programme, slides, videos and audio | Conference videos on YouTube.
• 2008 Conference theme - 'the changing world'. Report | Programme, slides, videos and audio | Conference videos on YouTube.
• 2007 Conference theme - 'data without borders'. Report | Programme.
• 2006 Conference theme - 'measuring the world around us'. Report | Programme.
• 2005 Conference theme - 'the use of international data in research and teaching'. Report | Programme.

We are always keen to hear from UK academics who would like to present research they have carried out using data from our international databank portfolio so please do contact us at international@esds.ac.uk if you would like more information on the criteria used for selecting papers to be presented at the event.