TRE Communities Conference 2026

Key details

Date: Monday 16 – Wednesday 18 November 2026

Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Edinburgh City Centre, 34 Bread Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9AF

About the event

This annual event is the only time this community meets in person. It’s grown from an informal meeting of 30 people to an annual, multi-day conference with over 100 in-person attendees.

The event will run from midday on Monday to midday on Wednesday. DARE UK are generously funding the three-day conference (including all lunches and refreshments), and Research Data Scotland are pleased to sponsor a welcome reception on Monday evening.

Provisional programme

Plenary sessions:

• The DEA, UKSA and the accreditation of TREs

• DARE and TREvolution

• Earning trust, not assuming it (PIE session)

• Responsible AI in TREs

Parallel sessions:

• Non-technical problems: overcoming the practical challenges of data federation

• Governance in Practice for Sensitive Data Access: Lessons from Safe Text and Synthetic Data Communities

• Shapes and Patterns of Federation

• Writing, Agreeing and Living by a Rulebook in a Federated Ecosystem

• Harmonising policies on decision making on what can and cannot be used in a TRE.

• How do we FAIRify data that can’t be shared? Metadata approaches for TREs

• International Access – a case study of developing principles of safe access

• Building Capacity and Driving Impact in Administrative Data Research: Practical Lessons from Coordinated Support and Infrastructure

Please note that registration for this event is now closed.