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 2024, 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 2024 DEI Program
The ADBIS 2024 conference included several D&I actions under the premise that the first step to promoting D&I is understanding the meaning and interpretation of D&I 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 Doctoral Consortium
We worked with the Doctoral Consortium Chairs to organise the program for PhD students attending ADBIS 2024.
Data analytics activity: create awareness and work with PhD students on how to set equity-aware data-driven experiments.
DEI in the ADBIS 2024 Main Program
In the D&I session of the main program, we introduced the D&I DB initiative, its goals, and actions.