Last week, I was at eResearch Australasia 2013 which is turning out to be the annual star event for eResearch in Australia. The conference had some interesting presentations made by researchers from various research organisations and I met an attendee who had traveled all the way from far flung Pakistan for this conference. While CSIRO staff had several presentations in the conference, I was involved in a couple for which we received a lot of positive feedback.Overall the conference was very interesting and it was great to showcase our applications and connect with other researchers who are working on solving big data and data management problems.