Festival of Digital Research, Innovation & Scholarship

Attendance Registration- Now Open

Call for Submissions - Now Open

Do you make use of tools and technologies for data-intensive and/or computational research in your work? Then this event is for you!

Hosted by ARC, this will be a full-day event and evening celebration of all aspects of digitally-enabled research and scholarship with a series of keynotes, panel sessions, demonstrations & workshops, and presentations from ARC staff, students and our researcher colleagues from across UCL.

We will also be gathering ideas for new Digital Research Communities - so if you're a lone-worker or part of a small group/team working with a specific toolkit/software package/programming language/data management approach in your lab or department we'd love to see and speak with you, and help connect you with others across UCL.

Join us on the 15^th July 2025 to celebrate all things digital research at UCL.  

If you make use of digital tools and technologies: software, data, sensors, AI, machine learning, big data, python, HPC, digital twins and much more, then come and share your research and help us celebrate!

Submission Deadline (for posters, workshop proposals, presentations):  1^st May 2025

For further details and to submit click here

This event is currently in the planning stages. We will provide updates and more details as soon as they become available. Keep an eye out for further announcements and sign up to our mailing list  for notifications

Register to Attend

Registration is now open! 

Walk-ins and passersby are more than welcome to join us and see what ARC and the UCL digital research community have to offer!

So, pop in to one of our presentation sessions, or drop-in to a workshop (see below)

Free Refreshments, Lunch and Evening Drinks 

Programme

More information regarding our workshops, including room location, pre-attendance requirements and support is coming soon. 

Workshops

We will be running a number of Workshops through out the Festival day - some of which have pre-workshop requirements such as bringing your own laptop, downloading software, etc

To help us better facilitate these requirements and provide attendees with all necessary support we asked people to register their attendance. Registration is now open please register to attend here!

Please bring your laptop and our workshop teams will endeavour to ensure you get the most from their expertise

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Attendance information

A couple of house-keeping items you should be aware of to make your arrival a smooth one

Main Campus Entry

The Festival will be hosted in the Roberts Building and surrounding rooms, located in UCL’s Main Campus Building - see below for map

All UCL staff and students will be expected to bring their ID cards, and ‘tap’ accordingly at the entrance point

If you are attending as a ‘visitor’ to UCL, please inform the security staff you are ‘attending the Festival for Digital Research’ when prompted. Please download your Pretix ticket as you may be asked to show it. If you are unable to locate your ticketing email, please contact us ASAP and we will resend this to you.

Event Photographer

As noted during the registration process, photos and/or videos will be taken throughout the event and may be published to our website, social media, or other material.

If you do not wish for images and/or videos of you to be used for marketing and/or promotional purposes, please ensure to collect a red-dot sticker upon arrival to the Festival and wear this throughout the day.

Whilst you may still be inadvertently captured in a photo/video, the red-dot will serve as an indication for us not use these photos.

Red-dot stickers can be collected from our Festival Support Team

Festival Support Team

Our team will be onsite all day to ensure you have an enjoyable Festival.

As well as fulfilling a range of ‘behind-the-scenes’ tasks, they will be able to answer your programme queries, direct you to the correct room/area, and more.

The Festival Support Team will be identifiable by wearing 'ARC' stickers

Additional information

Prizes will be awarded for best poster and presentation across the topics/themes, with the winners having been voted for by attendees

1st prize: £200 amazon gift voucher

2nd prize: £125 amazon gift voucher

See our Events page for all other ARC hosted and partnered events

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