We have designed this event as a collaborative space for conversation: a place to share ongoing community projects, gather your feedback on our activities, and identify new opportunities for partnership and support. Whether you are looking for new project partners or simply want to stay updated on the latest data trends, we look forward to uniting the community – bridging the gap between researchers and practitioners while fostering new collaborations in research data and open science across the Business, Economics, and Related Data disciplines.

Our goal is to facilitate the development of open research practices explicitly geared to serve the public interest, which involves interrogating what may constitute that ‘public interest’ to different audiences and in different locations around the world. A central element for our discussions will be the development of a Munich Manifesto for Equitable Open Research, detailing ways to utilise open research to foster reliable, responsible, and equitable forms of inquiry. A draft text of the manifesto will be circulated two weeks before the conference to all participants, and one session of the conference will be dedicated to discussing and finalising the declaration and its possible signatories.