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23-26 September 2025: DataSHIELD Conference, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
24-26 September 2024: DataSHIELD conference in Bonn, Germany
11-13 October 2023: DataSHIELD conference in Groningen, Netherlands
21 April 2023: First DataSHIELD Steering Committee meeting
10 February 2023: Extended deadline for nominations to Steering Committee
16 January 2023: Deadline for Themes to nominate Theme Leads
21 November 2022: Confirmation emails of acceptance sent out to founding Voting Members
16 November 2022: Deadline for registering to be a founding Voting Member
19-21 October 2022: DataSHIELD conference hosted by ISGlobal in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
April to August 2022: Series of governance workshops working on a community constitution
**17 March 2022: Governance workshop
10-11 November 2021: DataSHIELD Conference, held online
26 November 2020: First DataSHIELD Advisory Board (DAB) meeting held.
22 October 2020: Invitations sent out to become a member of the Advisory Board
October 2020: A series of meetings were held to decide Advisory Board membership.
30 September 2020: Deadline for Expressions of Interest sought for membership of the DataSHIELD Advisory Board
14 September 2020: Letter sent out asking seeking Expressions of Interest for membership of the DataSHIELD Advisory Board
Summer 2020: Paul Burton invited Andrei Morgan to set up and Chair an Advisory Board for DataSHIELD.
June 2020: DataSHIELD online workshops
11-13 September 2019: DataSHIELD Workshop, Newcastle University
6-8 November 2018: DataSHIELD Workshop, Newcastle University
Paul’s group moved to Newcastle in 2017 and wider community really started to develop around this time, particularly from the DataSHIELD workshops that were held where people got the opportunity to meet other users of the software.
Bristol University – maintained software but few staff to develop it. Horizon20/20 projects, InterConnect and Tom Bishop became involved. Tried to think of alternate uses outside academia, e.g. for commercially sensitive data.
12 May 2009: DataSHIELD was conceived by Paul Burton at a conference at McGill University in Canada that he attended with his team from Leicester University.