Events

Forthcoming events

2025

18-20 Feb 2025

4th IFC workshop on "Data science in central banking"
Rome, Bank of Italy, co-organised with the Bank of Italy

20-21 May 2025

Thematic workshop on "Securities statistics and DGI-3 recommendation 4 on climate finance"
Brasília, Brazil, co-organised by the Working Group on Securities Databases (WGSD) and the Central Bank of Brazil, with BIS/IFC support

4 Oct 2025

IFC Satellite Seminar on "Sustainability data issues and central banks' experience" 
co-organised with De Nederlandsche Bank in the Netherlands (Amsterdam, tbc)
(call for papers)

5-9 Oct 2025

IFC contributions at the 65th ISI World Statistics Congress, in The Hague, Netherlands, including all six Invited Paper Sessions (IPS):

  • IPS 956: Keep Your Data Providers Close, But Your Users Closer
  • IPS 959: Sharing and accessing granular administrative data
  • IPS 960: Carbon statistics, carbon disclosure and carbon accounting
  • IPS 964: New developments in seasonal adjustment
  • IPS 966: Data science and innovation: steering Central Banks statistics towards agile governance
  • IPS 968: Digitalisation in financial markets and new horizons for data and reporting

Past events

17 Oct 2024 Workshop on "New insights from financial statements", co-organised with the European Committee of Central Balance Sheet Data Offices (ECCBSO) and the Bank of Spain in Madrid, Spain
(agenda, presentations)
7-11 Oct 2024 12th SDMX Experts Workshop 
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Further information on SDMX website
25-27 Sep 2024 Symposium on "Strengthening Data Governance in the African Data Ecosystem", hosted by the African Development Bank in Kigali, Rwanda (websiteconcept note)
25 Sep 2024 Launch of the second online course on macroeconomic financial accounts, sponsored by the BIS/IFC, the ECB and the Bank of Italy and developed by the OECD/Sapienza University of Rome with the US-based massive open online course (MOOC) provider, Coursera. 
Launch webinar agenda
22-23 Aug 2024 12th biennial IFC Conference on "Statistics and beyond: new data for decision making in central banks", BIS Basel, (agenda, presentations) preceded by the IFC Committee (restricted) meeting on 21 August 2024
6-7 May 2024 IFC Workshop on "Addressing climate change data needs: the global debate and central banks' contribution", Izmir, organised by the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye with the support of the Bank of France and the Deutsche Bundesbank (workshop programme).
21-23 Feb 2024

"Carbon content measurement for products, organizations and aggregates: creating a sound basis for decision making" – an international workshop, Hamburg, Deutsche Bundesbank Regional Office, co-organised by the IMF, the IFC, Eurostat, the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Central Bank of Chile and the University of Oxford (agenda)

12-13 Feb 2024

Conference on "External statistics after the pandemic: addressing novel analytical challenges" (agenda with presentations)
Madrid, Spain, co-organised by the European Central Bank and the Bank of Spain.
The proceedings of the conference were published in the IFC Bulletin no 62 on External statistics in a fragmented and uncertain world

29 Oct-2 Nov 2023

9th SDMX Global Conference on "Empowering Data Communities" 
Manama, Bahrain, in collaboration with the Bahrain Information and eGovernment Authority
Further information on programme and SDMX website.

17-19 Oct 2023 3rd IFC workshop on "Data science in central banking" (agenda, presentations)
Rome, Bank of Italy, co-organised with the Bank of Italy
5-7 Oct 2023

WGSD DGI G20 Workshop on Securities Statistics
Cape Town, South Africa, co-organised with the Reserve Bank of South Africa and the Working Group on Securities Databases (WGSD) (agenda, summary)

16-20 Jul 2023

IFC contribution at the 64th ISI World Statistics Congress in Ottawa, Canada, including all presentations on eight Invited Paper Sessions (IPS):

  • IPS 205 - Sustainable finance statistics
  • IPS 224 - Evolving statistics in support of central bank policies
  • IPS 239 - Financial innovation and official statistics
  • IPS 240 - Central bank statistics re-branding and purpose-driven communication
  • IPS 241 - Rethinking data governance in official statistics: the central banks' experience
  • IPS 243 - Data science in official statistical production: insights from central banks
  • IPS 244 - Commercial real estate indicators: progress and challenges
  • IPS 245 - The present and future of access to granular administrative data
15 Jul 2023

IFC Satellite Seminar on "Granular data: new horizons and challenges for central banks" co-organised with the Bank of Canada in Ottawa
agenda, papers and presentations
The proceedings of the conference were published in the IFC Bulletin no 61 on Granular data: new horizons and challenges

4-6 Apr 2023 IAOS-ISI-Zambia Conference, Livingstone, Zambia
High level panel on "The Role of Data and Statistics in the Digital Transformation of State Services", co-organised by the IFC.

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