About

The SDMX Global Conference is a biennial event for the official statistics community worldwide to share information on recent and upcoming developments in the field of national and international statistical data and metadata exchange.

The 9th Conference was held from 29th October to 2nd November 2023 in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

The event was co-organised by the SDMX Sponsors and the Bahrain Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) with the support of UN ESCWA and Banca d’Italia, and successfully brought together a broad range of stakeholders from national, regional and international agencies, academia and the private sector.

The theme of the 2023 programme was Empowering Data Communities and explored how SDMX tools and technologies can be leveraged to enhance collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Presentations

The Conference hosted a rich agenda of over 50 presentations and panel discussions organised into nine separate sessions:

• New techniques and technologies for SDMX
• Innovation in SDMX visualisation
• Integrating SDMX in the statistical value chain
• Using SDMX with other standards
• SDMX data governance and management
• SDMX partnerships and cooperation
• Implementation of SDMX and lessons learnt
• Current and future development of the SDMX standard
• SDMX capacity building initiatives

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Capacity building

Conference days four and five focused on SDMX capacity building with two alternative tracks for beginners and more advanced practitioners.

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Hackathon

The first ever SDMX Hackathon ran as a virtual event between July and September 2023 with the winners announced at the Conference. The challenge posed was to create a flexible open-source tool for generating data visualisation dashboards from SDMX REST API data sources and YAML specification files.

Five submissions were finally received for judging with two chosen as the joint winners.

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