eResearch 2017 will offer delegates the opportunity to engage, connect, and share their ideas and exemplars concerning new information centric research capabilities, and how information and communication technologies help researchers to collaborate, collect, manage, share, process, analyse, store, find, understand and re-use information. We’re excited to announce this year’s conference will see the introduction of a new look social program and other initiatives aimed at further engaging members of the eResearch community both locally and internationally. Conference workshops will be held on Monday and Tuesday, with the main conference program running from Wednesday to Friday.