The ADBIS community believes that diversity and culture of support encourage retention and attraction of talent, promote diversity of thought and perspective, and help make the scientific community more flexible and responsive in times of change. As the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Co-chairs of the ADBIS 2025, we worked closely with the General and Program Co-Chairs to build an inclusive and equitable conference and guide researchers in our community to adopt a more inclusive mindset toward different individuals regardless of their age, sex, identity, race, cultural background, religion, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, parental and marital status, origin, etc.

ADBIS 2025 DEI Program

The ADBIS 2025 conference includes several DEII actions under the premise that the first step to promoting DEI is understanding the meaning and interpretation of DEI under a multi-perspective vision.

Guidelines for DEI aware communication

Utilise the materials generated by the DEI Database Interconference initiative to prepare guidelines and examples of inclusive and discriminatory behaviour and language.

• Inclusive communitation: encourage authors and participants to consider them when composing their papers and presentations.
• Pre-conference survey: collecting anonymous data that will be used to have a better understanding of our community so that we can develop more effective strategies to promote DEI.
• Support participation of scientists at the conference: we worked with the organisation committee to propose two honorary registration grants to support the DC and DEI programs.

DEI in the ADBIS 2025 Main Program

In the DEI session of the main program, we introduced the DEI DB initiative, its goals, and actions.

• Keynote: . 
• Panel: “Repositioning DEI: The Urgent Reimagining of DEI in an Era of Retrenchment”.

DEI in the Doctoral Consortium

We worked with the Doctoal Consortium School to organise the program for PhD students attending ADBIS 2025.